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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...

Familicide : Man set himself afire along with wife and son in car

A man set himself afire along with wife and son in a moving car on Tuesday afternoon, reportedly due to  financial crisis. While the man was charred to death, his wife and son sustained serious burns in the familicide pact.  The incident took place near Khapri Punarvasan area under jurisdiction of Beltarodi police station area, said the officials who attended the spot. The deceased was identified as Ramraj Gopalkrishna Bhat (58), a resident of Jaitala. His wife Sangita (55) and son Nandan (30) have sustained around 50 per cent burn injuries. Ramraj was owner of a factory in the MIDC Hingna area and Nandan was an engineering graduate, according to police.  A police official said, it seems to well-planned murder-cum-suicide case. Ramraj was under sever financial  stress while Nandan too was unemployed. The worrisome financial situation led to regular arguments between the father and the son and the tension finally seems to have driven Ramraj to the ghastly idea, he sai...

‘Nai Talim’ taught me to become self-reliant’

Adv Prashant Kumar Sathianathan  IN THE year 1937, Mahatma Gandhi had introduced a revolutionary education concept ‘Nai Talim’ in India which was aimed to make every person self-reliant vis-à-vis villages. The education system was based on the principle that knowledge and work are not separate. Its resonance is now found in the New Education Policy (NEP) which has brought notable changes in education. City’s eminent lawyer Prashant Kumar Sathianathan is one of the pass-outs of ‘Nai Talim’ which made him passionately follow the idea of being a perfect professional. ‘The Hitavada’ spoke to him on the education system, its flexibility, and its utility in his legal career. Being a special public prosecutor for Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and Anti-Naxal Operations (ANO), Adv Sathianathan, during his career, has proved guilt of dreaded criminals, naxals and terrorists in the courts and put them behind bars. Naxal ideologue G N Saibaba was one of them. While representing the State in the c...