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Shocker : Push to reopen Dabo Club after Christmas Night double murder

Dabo club Nagpur Efforts to reopen the controversial Dabo Club, which was shut down for 45 days following the murder of two young men, have triggered strong anger and fear among the families of the victims. The incident took place in the early hours of December 26 last year during a Christmas party at Dabo Club. Pranav Ranavare (27) was allegedly killed after a minor dispute. His friend, Gaurav Karda (34), was badly injured in the same incident and later died during treatment.  The Sonegaon police arrested six accused - Soumya Deshmukh, Mehul alias Monu Rahate, Rajiv Chawla, Abhay Jhamtani, Gappu Sharma and Tushar Nankani. All the accused are currently lodged in jail. The club is owned by Directors Devyani Vijay Wadettiwar, Karan Vikram Thakkar and Mohd Hamza Rayeen. It may be mentioned here that Dabo Club has a long history of complaints related to harassment and assaults. Police sources said repeated warnings were ignored by the management. During the investigation, it was found...

Ayodhya verdict : City Police listing trouble mongers

Published on November 7, 2019

Ahead of Ayodhya verdict, the state Police has begin preparations for maintaining law and order situation in the state. The top brass of state Police has asked all unit commanders to make action plan for sensitive areas and trouble mongers. 
Sources informed that the unit commanders have conducted first phase of meetings with in-charge of Police Station and directed them to prepare list of trouble mongers. Two Policemen would be designated to keep watch on the these trouble mongers. If anyone create nuisance, the cops would immediately took him in custody. 
“In Nagpur, there are 14 localities have been identified as sensitive areas. We are making deployment plans for these areas,” said a top official on request on anonymity. 
Meanwhile, Director General of Police (DGP) Subodh Jaiswal had issued an wireless message on November 2nd cancelling leaves of Police personnel in the state till next order as a precautionary measure as the hearing in the Ayodhya land dispute case enters the final phase in the Supreme Court. 
The wireless message stated that leaves except medical leaves is banned from November 5 till further order. Jaiswal also asked for organising peace committee meetings immediately. “Unit commanders immediately conduct meetings of all officers and work out their deployment plan by November 4,” said DGP Jaiswal and asked to report compliance to Headquarters. 
While the wireless message stated that it was issued “in view of forthcoming Eid-E-Milad festival”, the unit commanders were orally directed to prepare for situation after announcement of Ayodhya verdict, said a top rank officer. Two companies of State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) would be deployed at Nagpur for next two weeks. 
Another official said that DGP Jaiswal had chaired a meeting of senior rank Police officials inclding ADG L&O recently. The officers in the meeting were reportedly directed to ensure proper law and order situation.
A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi has been hearing the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit for 39 days and had earlier set the deadline to finish arguments on October 18. This was later brought forward to October 17, but the CJI on Tuesday indicated that it would like to conclude all arguments by Wednesday.
The judgment will be reserved by the bench if the arguments conclude. The bench, also comprising justices SA Bobde, DY Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and SA Nazeer will have to pronounce the ruling by November 17 as the CJI will retire on that date. If the judgment is not delivered before his retirement, the entire matter would have to be heard afresh.

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