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BREAKING: Mumbai Police summons Devendra Fadnavis in phone tapping case
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Mumbai Police, on Saturday, summoned former Chief Minister of Maharashtra and current Leader of Opposition (LoP) Devendra Fadnavis vis-à-vis an allegedly illegal phone tapping case when he was the Home Minister of the state.
Fadnavis said he would appear before police at the given date and record his statement. He further said, “Mumbai Police has sent me a notice under Section 160 CrPC, asking me to appear before them at BKC Cyber Police Station at 11 am tomorrow (Sunday). I will go there and record my statement.”
He added, “As the LoP, I have the privilege to not reveal where I got the information from, but I was a home minister at one point and I understand my responsibility. If an offence was falsely registered and if the city police want some help, I will respond.”
He concluded by saying, “Had the government caught the scamsters and those who are being probed by the CBI on time and not brushed the matter under the carpet for six months, then I need not have exposed it. The government wants to protect them and somebody who exposed this is being called to the police station.”
The state government had earlier told a court that Fadnavis was a witness in the case registered over illegal phone tapping that allegedly took place when IPS officer Rashmi Shukla was heading the state’s intelligence department.
An FIR was lodged against Shukla by senior police officer Rajiv Jain who accusing her of having put the phone numbers of Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut and NCP leader Eknath Khadse under surveillance.
Crime
SHOCKER: 4 gang rape monitor lizard in Maharashtra, record act on phone; get arrested

Monitor Lizard (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
In the most unbelievable incident ever, four men were arrested for allegedly raping a Bengal monitor lizard in Sahyadri Tiger Reserve (STR). The reserve is spread over four districts of Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur and Ratnagiri in Maharashtra.
The gruesome incident took place at Gothane village in Ratnagiri district on March 31 when the four accused illegally entered Chandoli National Park (part of the reserve). One of the four was also carrying a gun for hunting.
The Maharashtra Forest Department checked the mobile phone of one of the accused and that’s when he learnt about the incident. The officials found the recording of the act, which showed the accused allegedly gang-raping the monitor lizard.
A forest official said the four accused were identified as Sandeep Tukaram Pawar, Mangesh Kamtekar, Akshay Kamtekar and Ramesh Ghag.
The official said, “During the investigation, the forest officials found that the accused had allegedly raped a Bengal monitor lizard. Their act was also recorded in a mobile phone of one of the accused persons. We have recovered all the related evidence from the accused and they were granted forest department custody initially, but are out on bail now. They have been asked to mark their presence before the forest officer, who is probing the case, every Monday.”
“The four accused have been booked under various sections of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972,” said field director of Sahyadri Tiger Reserve (STR), Nanasaheb Ladkat.
Crime
ED attaches Sanjay Raut’s properties in ₹1034 crore Patra Chawl land scam case; Raut tweets ‘Asatyamev Jayate’
Sanjay Raut
Enforcement Directorate (ED), on Tuesday, under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), attached Shiv Sena leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut’s property in ₹1034 crore Patra Chawl land scam case. The ED, in February, had also arrested his close friend Pravin Raut.
The ED attached Raut’s plot in Alibaug and one flat in Mumbai’s Dadar area.
After ED attached Raut’s properties, the latter tweeted, “Asatyamev Jayate (the lies win)”
The attachment is linked to a money laundering probe linked to an alleged scam related to the re-development of a chawl in Mumbai.
More details are awaited.
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Wheelchair-bound Anil Deshmukh hospitalised at JJ Hospital after suffering shoulder injury
Anil Deshmukh
Wheelchair-bound former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, who is currently lodged at Arthur Road Jail, was hospitalised at JJ Hospital in Mumbai on Saturday after suffering a shoulder injury. The senior leader would undergo a surgery according to ANI.

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