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RAJKOT: Amreli police busted an opium cultivation racket in three farms in Babra taluka on Saturday and seized contraband worth Rs 32 lakh.
The police raided three farms on the road from Shirvaniya to Limbadiya village and seized 260.98kg plants worth Rs 26 lakh from Vitthal Talvadiya’s farm; 23.6 kg plants worth Rs 2.36 lakh from Ramji Talvadiya and 39.26kg worth Rs 3.92 from Parshottam Talvadiya. Amreli SP Nirlipt Rai said, “We found 40kg empty capsules in which opium was sold. Stock is half of what they had cultivated and we booked them under NDPS Act.
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The accused Jayesh Parekh had allegedly cheated scores of people giving them data entry work after collecting deposit money and not paying them for the work done
RAJKOT: A software engineer wanted in 2003 Rs 39 lakh cheating case was arrested from Pune after 18 years by the Rajkot crime branch on Thursday. The accused Jayesh Parekh (40) had allegedly cheated scores of people giving them data entry work after collecting deposit money and not paying them for the work done.
Parekh was found working in a multi-national software firm in Pune, where he had forged papers to hide his original identity. Crime branch sub-inspector M V Rabari said that though Parekh had retained his name, he had changed all other identity documents to show that he was local from Pune city. He said that Parekh was caught using human and technical intelligence after getting specific leads of his whereabouts.
Meanwhile, 45 more people tested positive in Rajkot city on Thursday.
RAJKOT: Ten first-year MBBS students of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay (PDU) Medical College, Rajkot, have tested positive for coronavirus infection on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The college dean called an urgent meeting and suspended offline education for a week for the rest of 190 students.
The nine male students and one female found infected have been shifted to the Covid care hospital and are being treated by the senior doctors. Hospital sources claimed that they have mild symptoms.
Contact tracing has been done all other students who came in their contact have tested negative. The college administration also initiated the process to administer vaccines to the students.
Rajkot: Owners of re-rolling mills and ship breaking units in Bhavnagar are not finding the shipping container-making project a very lucrative busines.
Boricha was killed by 10 people who barged into his house and attacked him with sharp weapons on Tuesday. The murder was a fall-out of an eight-year-old dispute over settling the atrocity complaint he had lodged against some of them.
Arvind Makwana, district coordinator of Navsarjan Trust, a human rights organization said, “He was very active in Dalit movements and that’s why the family decided to perform his last rites with Buddhist rituals.”
A condolence meeting for Boricha is planned on March 14 in which victims of oppression by upper caste from all over the state are expected to join. “There are many people who wanted to come to express their condolences and we received several phone calls from other victims also. So, we decided to organize public tribute function on March 14 in which all these people will remain present,” said Mavji Sarvaiya, a local Dalit leader.