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Time of India
10 hours ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Surat CP invokes PASA against 28 ahead of Rath Yatra
Surat: To maintain law and order in Surat before Rath Yatra, the Surat police commissioner has invoked the Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act (PASA) against 28 history-sheeters in the city. These include the alleged extortionist Avdesh Tiwari and textile cheat Arvind Vaghasiya. All these persons have been sent to jails in Ahmedabad, Bhuj and Rajkot. Tiwari faces three FIRs for extortion , lodged at Udhna and Pandesara police stations. He would allegedly make applications to the SMC and threaten people with demolishing their constructions if they did not pay him protection money. Tiwari was sent to Bhuj jail. Another notorious history-sheeter, Arvind Vaghasiya alias Atul Vaghasiya, is accused of several crimes including failing to make payments to textile traders after taking delivery of grey textile goods. Cheating FIRs have been lodged against him with Udhna and Khatodara police. He has been sent to Ahmedabad jail. Others accused in cases of loot, extortion, attempt to murder, cybercrime, cheating and bootlegging were also sent to jails under PASA. These are Niki Yadav, Chandan Swain, Ashish Saroj, Suraj Survade, Ravinder Singh, Sohel Khan, Mahendra Rana, Safruddin Shaikh, Sunny Nayak, Samir Shaikh, Dinesh Patil, Hardik Parmar, Shivam Mahanto, Ajay Patel, Hasan Pathan and Jayna Rana, among others. The Surat police commissioner has invoked PASA against 450 individuals so far this year. In 2024, 704 persons were sent to jail under PASA.
Time of India
10-06-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Surat CP invokes PASA against 14, including ex-councillor
Surat: Surat police commissioner Anupam Singh Gahlaut has invoked the Gujarat Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act (PASA) against 14 persons, including three-term Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) councillor Prakash Desai. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now The former councillor, who was accused in three FIRs filed by Udhna police for , was shifted to the Rajkot jail after the PASA order. Desai was first arrested by Surat special operations group (SOG) police for allegedly accepting extortion money at his house. The complainant reportedly recorded a video of Desai in the act. According to police, Desai would 'misuse' the Right to Information (RTI) Act and would lodge complaints with the SMC to extort money from businessmen, traders and school owners, threatening them with the demolition of their properties. Desai previously served three terms as an independent councillor from the Udhna ward. In addition to Desai, the history-sheeter Sajid Kothari, alias Sajju Kothari, was also booked under PASA and sent to Bhuj jail. Kothari has a criminal history involving 35 cases, including attempted murder, extortion, abduction, rioting, Arms Act violations, prohibition offences and gambling. This is the seventh time Kothari has been jailed under PASA. He has also been charged under the Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime (GujCTOC) Act twice and was previously externed from Surat due to his alleged criminal activities. The others booked under PASA are history-sheeters Rajuram Bishnoi, Shravan Bishnoi, Dipak Yadav, Sunil Sadashiv, Shana Parveen Shaikh, Mehul Parmar, Durgesh Sinh, Alpesh Lashkari, Jitu Tank, Dilip Rathod, Mahesh Nayka and Rizwan Khan. These persons have been shifted to jails in Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Bhuj and Mehsana.
Time of India
01-06-2025
- Time of India
Police beat repeat offender in public, video goes viral
Ahmedabad: A video showing two policemen assaulting a man with lathis in the city went viral on social media on Sunday, raising questions over police conduct. The incident took place on Thursday on Diwan Ballubhai Road near Hirabhai Market, where two police personnel were seen beating a man brutally with sticks and kicking him in the abdomen after he fell to the ground. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now A PCR van is visible in the background during the incident. According to police, the man seen being beaten is Bhavesh alias Mango Natwarlal Vadher, a repeat offender from the Kagdapith area. PI S A Gohil of Kagdapith police station said the video is around three days old. Vadher was booked in 12 criminal cases, including assault, extortion, loot, and attacks on police. He was also detained under the Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act (PASA) three times. Gohil stated that Vadher was released on bail a week ago and resumed threatening and extorting locals. A PCR van was dispatched after the police control room received a complaint about him. During his detention, Vadher reportedly got into a verbal argument with the two constables, leading to the physical altercation. Justifying the use of force, Gohil said that Vadher resisted arrest and police had to use necessary force to control him. An internal inquiry into the incident is underway, and further action will be taken based on the findings.
Time of India
12-05-2025
- Time of India
Bootleggers held under GujCTOC sent to police custody for 7 days
Vadodara: The two bootleggers booked under the Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime (GujCTOC) Act by the state monitoring cell were remanded in police custody for seven days by a court in the city on Monday. The two are Chhabinathsinh Rajput, a resident of Ahmedabad, and Ravi Maachi, a resident of Vadodara. Both have dozens of cases registered against them. Rajput has 12 prohibition cases registered against him and was detained under the Prevention of Anti-Social Act (PASA) twice. Maachi was booked in eight prohibition cases and was detained under PASA once. Police said both are linked to organized gangs that smuggle liquor into the state. "Police sought their custody to trace the assets they acquired using the ill-gotten gains and to find the godowns where they stored liquor. The investigation will also focus on tracing the other accused involved in the smuggling," said Raghuveer Pandya, the public prosecutor, adding that this is the third such case in the state against notorious bootleggers.
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Astronomers Have Found a Prime Candidate for the Elusive Planet 9
Scientists examined infrared space surveys to narrow down candidates for Planet 9. Planet 9 would be so far from the Sun that it is just not illuminated by much sunlight. The two space surveys, conducted 23 years apart, could show how a secret planet orbits. Since the demotion of Pluto to dwarf planet, there's been a ninth-planet-shaped hole in the hearts of many Earthlings. How will we remember what My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us now?Well, if we're lucky, we may soon be able to fill that gap. For some time now, scientists have wondered if a regular planet—not a dwarf planet—could explain some of the clustering of objects in the Kuiper Belt that starts at Neptune and extends outward from our Solar System. (Pluto is considered a Kuiper Belt object.) This hypothetical Planet 9 has never been directly observed and remains theoretical, but in new research uploaded to the preprint site arXiV, scientists share a very educated guess about the location of the long-theorized celestial body. (This study is not yet peer reviewed, but it follows a presentation from a 2024 conference and is listed as 'Accepted for publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA).') To search for Planet 9, the scientists 'search[ed] for objects that moved slowly between IRAS and AKARI detections.' IRAS and AKARI are far-infrared, all-sky surveys completed 23 years apart. Though Planet 9 has never been confirmed, we know a lot about what a planet in its suspected area could be like. The team used qualities like this—such as a very long orbit around the Sun, feasible temperatures, and probable masses—to narrow down the IRAS dataset and the AKARI dataset separately. They then highlighted 13 total bodies that fit the criteria and showed up in both datasets, accounting for changes in epochs and positions in orbit. From there, they inspected the surveys' images and found one eligible bachelor... er, planet. The scientists are careful to explain that the criteria they chose would not necessarily identify the only possible candidates for Planet 9. For instance, if Planet 9 is over the size constraints they placed on their study, it's still likely to be picked up at some point by infrared surveys like this. It could also be a gas giant-type planet on par with or larger than Neptune. But if it's smaller, it's likely below the threshold of observability at such a long range. And long range is, honestly, underselling it—top theories for the positioning of Planet 9 place it around 400 astronomical units (AU). The furthest known planet, Neptune, is only about 31 AU. That's already 31 times further than Earth is from the Sun, creating an orbit that lasts about 165 years. Planet 9 would also have an irregular orbit, scientists believe, so it would spent part of its cycle even further away. This is why two surveys conducted 23 years apart may just be the perfect way to observe Planet 9. In that amount of time, the planet itself will have completed just a tiny fraction of its overall orbit—enough to travel from one spot into the adjacent spot on the subsequent survey. But a lot of other factors would need to line up exactly in order for this candidate to be the real Planet 9, and the scientists are transparent about that. 'The finalist of our Planet Nine candidate pair strongly depends on how the characteristics of Planet Nine are defined. [I]f the actual mass of Planet Nine is not sufficient to make its flux above the detection limits of two surveys, there is no chance of finding Planet Nine in this work.' This group took a stab at observing Planet 9 using the IRAS and AKARI infrared surveys, which can 'see' further than telescopes using the visible spectrum. And indeed, while the odds of actually finding the elusive planet here may be more like the odds of buying a winning lottery ticket, the work opens several next steps for other teams investigating Planet 9. The data may also help narrow down parameters for those using other tools. 'If the existence of Planet Nine can be confirmed by observations in the near future, it will improve our understanding of the history and structure of the entire Solar System in early stages,' the team concludes. And it would get Pluto yet another big sibling. You Might Also Like The Do's and Don'ts of Using Painter's Tape The Best Portable BBQ Grills for Cooking Anywhere Can a Smart Watch Prolong Your Life?
