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Selfie row: Prithvi Shaw was drunk, begged him to stop, claims influencer Sapna Gill seeking FIR against cricketer for alleged molestation
Sapna Gill, an accused in last week’s alleged attack on Prithvi Shaw’s car, has accused the cricketer of molesting her while he was allegedly intoxicated. She has also accused Shaw of assaulting her friend who merely asked for a selfie with the cricketer.
Sapna Gill, an accused in last week’s alleged attack on Prithvi Shaw’s car, has accused the cricketer of molesting her while he was allegedly intoxicated. She has also accused Shaw of assaulting her friend who merely asked for a selfie with the cricketer.
Sapna Gill, a social media influencer, was arrested last week along with other accused in the alleged attack on Prithvi Shaw’s car following an argument over clicking selfies at a hotel.
Gill, who was granted bail by a Magistrate court on Monday, has filed a complaint through her Advocate Kaashif Ali Khan at Airport police station seeking an FIR against Prithvi Shaw, his friend Ashish Yadav and others for allegedly molesting her and outraging of modesty.
In her complaint, Gill said that she and her Shobhit Thakur, spotted Shaw partying at an upmarket club which she and her friends often frequent. She said that Thakur—an avid cricket fan—approached Shaw for a selfie, however, the cricketer who was allegedly drunk, responded with hostility forcing her to intervene.
She claimed that Shaw and his friends assaulted Thakur and she had to intervene to stop them from harming the teenager… “Thakur, who is just a teenager, was unaware of the brutality of the drunken mob. “
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Gill further claimed that Prithvi Shaw and his friend, who were allegedly, intoxicated, molested her and outraged her even as she pleaded and begged Shaw to stop.
The cricketer was reportedly manhandled and his car attacked with a baseball bat after a row that was triggered over clicking selfies at a party in Mumbai upmarket Sahara Star Hotel’s Mansion Club during the early hours of February 15.
Sapna Gill was arrested the next day while 19-year-old Sobhit Thakur was put behind bars on February 18. Police have charged eight people with rioting, assault, putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt in order to commit extortion, criminal intimidation and other offences by Oshiwara police in connection with the incident on the complaint of Shaw’s friend Ashish Yadav.
According to police, Gill and Thakur had approached Shaw for selfies, which led to an argument as the cricketer refused to oblige after a couple of mobile phone photographs. Gill, Thakur as well as their six friends had waited for Shaw and his friend outside the hotel and allegedly chased them and also broke their car’s windscreen with a baseball bat.
Shaw had reportedly shifted to another while his friend Yadav approached the Oshiwara police station along with the attacked vehicle to file a complaint.
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Asian Games 2023: Indian Men’s Hockey team thrash Uzbekistan 16-0 in opener
The Indian team completely trashed their opponent Uzbekistan. Mandeep Singh snatched the limelight with a hat-trick while Lalit Upadhyay and Varun Kumar scored 4 goals each in the Asian Games.
In the Asian Games 2023, the Indian Men’s Hockey team won the match against Uzbekistan with 16-0 in their opener on Sunday.
The Indian team completely trashed their opponent Uzbekistan. Mandeep Singh snatched the limelight with a hat-trick while Lalit Upadhyay and Varun Kumar scored 4 goals each in the Asian Games.
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Vande Bharat: PM Modi to inaugurate 9 new trains in 11 states today
Ashwini Vaishnaw, the minister of the railways, will also attend the inaugural ceremony. The 11 states will have faster connectivity thanks to these trains.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today, nine Vande Bharat trains that connect tourist and religious sites in 11 states. There will be elections in three of the following states: Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Bihar, West Bengal, Kerala, Odisha, Jharkhand, and Gujarat.
The trains will be signalled off by the prime minister via video conference. Ashwini Vaishnaw, the minister of the railways, will also attend the inaugural ceremony. The 11 states will have faster connectivity thanks to these trains.
These trains are a step towards achieving the prime minister’s aim of enhancing connectivity throughout the nation and offering top-notch amenities to rail passengers, according to a statement from the government.
The Vande Bharat trains will be the fastest train along the routes of their operation, it continued, and will help save the passengers significant time.
Compared to the fastest train as of now on the routes, Vande Bharat trains will cut travel time between destinations by three hours in the Rourkela-Bhubaneswar-Puri and Kasaragod-Thiruvananthapuram routes; more than two and a half hours for Hyderabad-Bengaluru; more than two hours for Tirunelveli-Madurai-Chennai; about one hour for Ranchi-Howrah, Patna-Howrah and Jamnagar-Ahmedabad; about half an hour for between Udaipur and Jaipur.
The important religious towns of Puri and Madurai would be connected by the trains Rourkela-Bhubaneswar-Puri and Tirunelveli-Madurai-Chennai.
The Renigunta route will be used by the Vijayawada-Chennai Vande Bharat train, which would offer connectivity to Tirupati.
As the festival season approaches, it is anticipated that the new trains will offer a comfortable travel experience.
Before this fiscal year concludes the following year, Indian Railways also intends to introduce a sleeper version of the Vande Bharat and Vande Metro. According to railway authorities, the non-air conditioned push-pull variant of the semi-high speed train series, which will be introduced in October 2024, would feature 22 coaches and a locomotive.
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Video: PM Modi, CM Yogi attend cultural event at Rudraksh International Cooperation and Convention Centre in Varanasi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath attended a cultural event at Rudraksh International Cooperation and Convention Centre in Varanasi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday evening attended a cultural event at Rudraksh International Cooperation and Convention Centre in Varanasi.
After laying the foundation stone of the International Cricket Stadium in Varanasi’s Ganjari, PM Modi and CM Yogi attended the cultural event where the artists were performing to celebrate the evening.
At the occasion of the International Cricket Stadium, the cricket fraternities were also witnessed including big names like Sachin Tendulkar, Kapil Dev, Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Madan Lal, Gundappa Viswanath, and Gopal Sharma.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UP CM Yogi Adityanath also interacted with school students after inaugurating the 16 Atal Awasiya Vidyalaya in Varanasi.
To provide the best quality education, 16 Atal Awasiya Vidyalaya, which is basically built for the children of labourers, construction workers and those orphaned due to the Covid-19 pandemic, was also inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today. The project has been developed at the cost of Rs 1,100 crore with an aim to make quality education accessible for these children and support their holistic development.
Every school under this scheme has been constructed in an area of 10-15 acres with a classroom, recreational area, sports grounds, mess, a mini auditorium, hotel complex, and residential flats for the staff members. Such facilities will help children get quality education.
Addressing the event in Varanasi, PM Modi said that the portal of ‘Kashi Sansad Khel Pratiyogita’ was also launched. This is the beginning of new legacies in Kashi, he added.
PM Modi further added by saying even today, people from across the world come to Kashi to learn Sanskrit. Keeping that in mind, we inaugurated ‘Atal Awasiya Vidyalayas’ today, built at a cost of about Rs 1,100 crore, the Prime Minister said.
He also interacted with the people who helped in making the G20 Summit successful. PM Modi was listening to the concerns of people who served to achieve the successful completion of the G20 Summit.
