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Ahmedabad:A local court in Kalol, Gand-hinagar, has ordered the Kalol Panjarapol(cattle pound) to pay Rs 8 lakh to an animaltrader as compensation for the loss of near-ly 700 goats and sheep. The animals hadbeen sent to the cattle pound after policeseized them from some trucks.

The court had conducted an inquiry onthe Gujarat high courts order. The HC hadfined the panjarapol Rs 50,000 for not re-turning the animals to their owner despiterepeated court orders. The pound was alsorapped for its carelessness that led to thedisappearance of the animals. The owneralleged that the panjarapol authoritieswere not stating the truth about the missinganimals.

The trucks of the city-based animaltrader, Janu Habib, were seized for over-

loading and 705 animals were sent to thepound. Habib moved court for the animalscustody. Before the HC, the panjarapol su-pervisors said that only 16 of these animalssurvived and the rest had perished becauseof food poisoning. However, during the in-quiry, the panjarapol authorities and a vet-erinarian came up with a different reasonthe animals died of various diseases andnot due to eating poisonous fodder as theyhad earlier claimed in the HC. Habibs law-

yer Shamshad Pathan said that they sus-pected foul play because only the goats andsheep, and not cows, had supposedly died offood poisoning.

The animals had been sent to the cattle pound

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Missing animals mystery:Panjarapol fined 8 lakh

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Ahmedabad: The JuvenileJustice Board on Tuesday pun-ished a juvenile accused with15 months stay in special homefor gangraping a three-and-half-year-old girl in Danilimdaarea in January. Five youngboys raped her and four ofthem are undergoing the sen-tence after their confession atdifferent stage.

Prosecutor V V Parmarsaid that the 15-year-old boywould be sent to Rajkots asy-lum for the sentence. It has alsoasked the convicted juvenile topay Rs 10,000 to the victim to-

wards compensation. For thefirst time, the Board orderedthe state social welfare depart-ment to pay compensation tothe victim child. During thedeposition of the girl, the courtsaw to it that the victim did notsee the accused. This is a spe-cial provision made in the Pro-tection of Children from Sex-ual Offences Act (Pocso).

On January 13 last year, fiveboys aging between 12 and 14took the child to a roomnearthe house of the girl andraped and sodomised her. Thejuvenile accused were arrestedthe same evening and cops be-gan inquiry into this issue.

Fifth juvenile convicted forgang-raping 3-yr-old girl

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Ahmedabad: An Air Indiaflight from Bhuj to Mumbaicarrying 38 passengers madean emergency landing at Ah-medabad airport on Tuesdaymorning after its landinggear developed technical is-sue. The flight landed safelyat 9.40am and was groundedfor further technical check.

AI-9626 departed fromBhuj airport at 8.40am and assoon as it took off, the air-crafts wheels failed to wrapinside. The pilot received awarning and decided to landat Ahmedabad.

Due to frictional heat,the wheels failed to fold upinside. There was nothingdangerous as flight landedsafely, said an ATC official.TNN

Emergencylanding at airport

Ahmedabad: A 42-year-old woman wasstrangulated to death at herresidence in Vatva on Monday.While her husband has report-ed robbery of her gold orna-ments, police suspect it to bean insiders job and have start-ed search for the killer on thebasis of the evidence found

from the spot.According to Vatva police, Mahendra

Rangwani, 54, a resident of Dhanlakshmi So-ciety in Deriyapara, takes clothes to variouslocalities for sale. He had left for work in themorning. His son was present at home till 4.30pm. When he came back at 9.30 pm, he foundthe main door ajar. He entered the room andwas shocked to find his wife lying on the floorwith injuries on head and neck.

Post-mortem revealed that she died afterstrangulation. The marks on her foreheadmight have been caused by the scuffle with

the assailant. According to her husbandscomplaint, the gold ornaments, including anecklace and earrings, worth Rs 26,000 werereported missing. We suspect that it might bea handiwork of an insider. Otherwise, whywould the victim let the person in? We donthave any witnesses who could point at themovement but we are working on various fac-tors to reach to the killer, said J H Sarvaiya,inspector of Vatva police station.

Woman found murdered in Vatva

Police suspect it to be an insiders job

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Ahmedabad:A man who was on run frompolice for a murder that took place in 2001, gotcaught for a prohibition case by Ellisbridgepolice on Monday night. Police said that theman had started a new life. It was only whenhe stated his name, police searched for hisrecord and found about his past.Raju alias Billa, was named as an accused in amurder of a watermelon seller nearNehrunagar. After he was convicted in thecase, he had appealed in the state high courtbut the court had held the sentence.Meanwhile, Raju, out on a parole, vanished adecade ago and could not be traced despiteseveral attempts. A team was on patrol nearPritamnagar when they spotted an inebriatedman in an auto rickshaw. The man was heldfor violation of prohibition law, said N K Vyas,inspector of Ellisbridge police station. TNN

Man on run for a decade nabbed

Ahmedabad: A team of Vas-trapur police caught a youth forstealing 19 bikes from Ahmeda-bad and Gandhinagar in thepast one year. Police have reco-vered 16 bikes and 11 mobilephones from Kishan Prajapati,22, a resident of Thaltej and na-tive of Jhalor, Rajasthan.

According to Vastrapur po-lice, the team got informationabout a stolen bike and kept awatch near Jeevandeep Circleat 3.30 pm on Monday. Theystopped a bike matching thementioned number and askeddocuments from the rider, lateridentified as Prajapati, a histo-ry-sheeter in vehicle theftcases.

He confessed that even af-ter getting arrested by police inAhmedabad, Gandhinagar, Su-rat and Vadodara, he had con-tinued the practice of stealingbikes to fund his drug addic-tion. As on Tuesday, we have re-covered 16 bikes worth Rs 3.36lakh that he had sold and aban-doned in Ahmedabad, Gandhi-nagar and Kheralu. During theinvestigation, we also got toknow that various police agen-cies had seized three aban-doned bikes, said a Vastrapurpolice official.

Investigators said that hehad stolen bikes with duplicatekey or by hotwiring from Vas-trapur, Ghatlodia, Naranpura,Sola, Sarkhej, Bopal and Gand-hinagar.

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Youth caught for vehicleand mobile thefts

Ahmedabad: A Vastrapurresident has filed a complaintwith Gujarat University (GU)police for an extortion SMS hereceived on Sunday. His com-plaint said a man demandedRs 10 lakh and threatened toharm his family if he failed topay. The caller also gave refer-ence of a firing case regis-tered earlier this year withKalol police.

According to GU police,Somnath Maiti, an employeeof a city-based textile firm,registered a complaint onMonday about an SMS he hadgot from a number. TNN

Man getsextortion SMS

A car rammed into a trucknear Jindhar Patiya on Dhol-era-Dhandhuka road early onTuesday morning. Accordingto EMRI 108 officials, theyshifted four persons, includinga woman, from the spot toDhandhuka government hos-pital whereas a man died onthe spot whose identificationcould not be done as on Tues-day afternoon. Police in-vestigators said that theyhave recorded statements ofthe injured to ascertain howthe incident took place.

Cash, valuables stolen:Cash and valuables worth Rs2.05 lakh were reported stolenfrom a residence in Jamalpur.According to a complaint byRafiq Farjajiwala, a resident ofPiplawali Gully, somebody en-tered his residence between7.30 pm and 9.30 pm on Sun-day after breaking lock on themain door and stole gold or-naments worth Rs 1 lakh andRs 1.05 lakh cash from a safe.

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One dead, 4 hurtin road accident

Ahmedabad: Probe into the 60-kg-gold smuggling case, detected bycrime branch at the city airport lastweek, seems to be lost in lettersamong various agencies. In the pastone week, only letters have been ex-changed among three agencies whilethe accused were in remand. Sincethe seizure was made right outsidethe airport and the value of gold ismore than Rs 1 crore, Directorate ofRevenue Intelligence (DRI) and Cus-toms have written to crime branchasking for the details of the case forfurther investigation.

Initially, the Customs departmentwrote to crime branch asking for in-formation. Later, the crime branchwrote to DRI saying that it wishes tohand over the case details and theseized gold to the intelligence agency.DRI replied saying that it needed to

question the accused to get the trailof gold and how it was smuggled.

As the officials were busy in de-ciding which agency should investi-gate the case, the accused filed bailapplication in the special court onTuesday.

The case is mired in lot of confu-sion. It is not yet clear how the ac-cused were able to bring in the gold.

Gold-smuggling probefalls in agencies mine Officials Exchange Letters As Accused Seek Bail

60 kg gold haul recovered from smugglers

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In 2012, a city-based animal protectiongroup Geetaben Rambhia Smruti AhimsaTrust was told to pay Rs 3.22 lakh ascompensation to an animal trader, IqbalPathan, for causing the disappearance of 137goats and sheep after they were taken awaybefore Bakr Eid, in 2010. In April 2012, the Supreme Court slapped apenalty of Rs 50 lakh on the state governmentand an animal rights activist, Rajesh Shah, forintercepting meat containers belonging toRoyal Exports and Al Quresh Exports in Valsaddistrict, on the pretext of stopping illegaltransport of beef.

Vanishing tales

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