In a horrifying incident, a woman killed her son to be with her lover in Gujarat’s Surat. After killing her son, the woman lodged a complaint about her child’s absence. She then joined the police in search for her missing child for three consecutive days. However, the child could not be traced. Meanwhile, as the police investigated the matter further, the woman became a suspect and was subsequently arrested. 

Reportedly, the woman watched ‘Drishyam’ to avert the arrest. In the aforementioned film, there is a crime scene where the body is disposed of after a murder and the case remains unsolved with no arrest made. The women believed that by following the film’s method, the police would not be able to apprehend her and she could join her lover in Jharkhand. According to reports, the woman is identified as Nayana Mandavi. She worked as a labourer at a construction site in Surat’s Dindoli area. The victim is identified as Veer Mandavi. 

Reports claim that the police examined the CCTV footage from the construction site where the woman was employed but did not see the child leaving the premises. Considering this, the police team concluded that the child had not left the construction site. Subsequently, the police interrogated the woman extensively about the disappearance of the child. However, the woman did not provide any satisfactory replies. Later, the police also used a dog squad to search for the missing child, but they did not gather any evidence that the child had left the construction site alive.

As the interrogation proceeded, the woman blamed her lover for kidnapping her child. Her lover reportedly hails from Jharkhand. The police contacted him, however they could not trace his location near Surat. He informed the police that he had never been to Surat. According to reports, the police team faced a significant challenge in finding the whereabouts of the child since he did not leave the construction site and there was also no evidence of abduction. The team strengthened their questioning thereafter. Upon extensive interrogation, the woman confessed about killing her son but did not provide the correct information. 

The woman asserted that she had buried the body in a pit, nonetheless, when the location was excavated, nothing was found. Later again, she told the police that she had thrown the body into a pond, but the police did not find anything there either. The woman, when put under rigorous questioning, revealed that she had thrown the body into a pit which was intended for the construction site’s toilet. The child’s body was recovered from the construction site. 

When enquired about her motive behind killing her son and hiding the body, the woman said that she was originally from Jharkhand and had a lover there. He told her that he would not accept her if she arrived with her child. In an effort to gain acceptance from her lover, the woman killed her son. Following the murder, she watched the film ‘Drishyam’ to escape and learn how to hide the body.

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Gujarat BJP worker and vice president of Valsad Shailesh Patel on Monday was shot dead allegedly by unidentified motorbike-borne assailants while waiting for his wife in his Sports Utility Vehcile (SUV).

The incident took place at around 7.30 am when he was waiting for his wife to return from a temple near Vapi town in Valsad district.

While expressing grief over the incident, BJP’s Vapi Taluka unit president Suresh Patel said the. motorbike-borne assailants came near the SUV of Shailesh Patel in Kocharva village and fired three-four rounds at him.

Dungara police station officials said Patel went with his wife to temple to offer prayers. After praying, he came out and was waiting in his SUV for his wife. He also claimed there were four assailants who arrived at the spot on two motorbikes.

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When Patel’s wife heard the noise, she rushed to the spot and found him lying in a pool of blood and screamed for help. He was immediately rushed to a private hosoital in Vapi where doctors declared him brought dead.

Local BJP leaders expressed shock and grief and demanded a probe into the incident. The police are investigating the matter and are also examining the CCTV footage of the area.

Last month, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Surendra Matiala was shot dead at his office in the national capital’s Dwarka area by two unidentified assailants. Reports state two assailants with their faces covered had reached Matiala’s office and opened fire at the BJP leader.

They fired 10 rounds at Matiala before fleeing. The BJP leader was declared brought dead at the hospital where he was rushed.

Matiala, a resident of the Uttam Nagar area, was also the co-in-charge of the Najafgarh Kisan Morcha. He had also contested the MCD elections on a BJP ticket.

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A Gujarat diamond broker was arrested for allegedly conning a Surat-based diamond trader of Rs 32 lakh by replacing diamonds with packets of gutka (chewing tobbaco).

According to the police, the victim, Rushab Vora, a diamond trader by profession, filed a police complaint in which he claimed that a broker, identified as Raheel Manjani, approached him and convinced Vora to hand him polished, round and natural quality diamonds worth Rs 32,04,442 from his office under the pretext of selling them to another trader on a profit.

As per Vora’s complaint filed at the Mahidharpara police station , Manjani collected the diamonds in three sealed packets between February 13 and 21, 2023, and paid Rs 2 lakh to Vora as token amount while promising to pay the rest of the amount within the next three-four days.

However, when the broker did not pay Vora the owed amount in the given time, the trader asked him to return the diamonds.

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Manjani returned the “sealed” parcels to Vora but the trader felt something fishy was going on and asked the broker to open the packets and to his utter shock, Vora found that instead of diamonds, the parcels contained packets of gutka inside them.

The diamond trader in his complaint has alleged that the accused took him into confidence and conspired with another trader to rob Vora of the said diamonds by replacing them with gutka packets.

A senior police official said that based on the diamond trader’s complaint, the broker was arrested and a case was registered against him under sections 420 (cheating) and 409 (criminal breach of trust) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

The official said that its being investigated whether the broker acted alone or is in cahoots with other diamond traders in the conspiracy to con Vora of his diamonds.

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A senior official of the Gujarat government was suspended by higher authorities after he was reportedly caught napping at an event attended by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, reports said.

According to reports, Jigar Patel, who is posted as the Chief Officer of Bhuj municipality in Gujarat’s Kutch district, was placed under suspension with immediate effect by the state’s Urban Development and Urban Housing Department on Saturday evening after he was allegedly caught dozing off on security cameras at a function in Bhuj.

A senior official said on Sunday that security camera footage showed Jigar Patel sleeping at the chief minister’s event, following which disciplinary action was initiated against him for “gross negligence.”

He said that Patel was suspended with immediate effect for “gross negligence and lack of devotion to duty” under Rule 5(1)(a) of Gujarat Civil Service (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1971”, adding that disciplinary action was taken against him due to his misconduct and lapse.

CM Bhupendra Patel attended a function in Gujarat’s Bhuj and distributed documents of ownership (property cards) of residential housing for the rehabilitation of around 14,000 earthquake-affected people in Kutch.

In a tweet, Bhupendra Patel said: “After the (2001) earthquake, rehabilitation of the affected people was done on a very large scale. Hon’ble Shri Narendrabhai Modi also had a unique love for Kutch. Under his leadership and guidance, Kutch has come out of many difficulties and has become a pioneer in the development path.”

Meanwhile, the Bhupendra Patel-led BJP government in Gujarat completed its 100 days in office at the end of last month.

At an event held at Gujarat secretariat to mark the occasion, CM Patel had said his government will fulfill all the promises it made and work towards making Gujarat more prosperous in the near future.

Bhupendra Patel said that Gujarat has become India’s growth engine thanks to the leadership and efforts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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In a bizarre and macabre incident fueled by superstition, a middle-aged couple in a village of Rajkot district in Gujarat reportedly decapitated themselves using a home-made guillotine to offer their heads in a human sacrifice ritual.

According to the police, the deceased couple, identified as 38-year-old Hemubhai Makwana and his 35-year-old wife Hansaben, made a guillotine at home and used it behead themselves at a sacrificial altar.

Vinchhiya police station Sub-Inspector Indrajeetsingh Jadeja said the couple beheaded themselves at a sacrificial altar and planned the beheading in a such a way that their severed heads rolled into the altar fire after decapitation.

Giving details, the officer said the couple prepared a fire altar for sacrifice and later put their heads under a home-made guillotine held by a rope. The couple then released the rope, making the iron blade come down upon them and decapitating the husband and wife with their severed heads rolling into the fire.

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Sub-Inspector Jadeja said the police found a suicide note from the scene written by the deceased couple wherein they urged their relatives to take care of their parents and children.

The couple is survived by two children, parents, and other extended family living in the same village and adjacent areas.

A report quoting the couple’s family members said the husband and wife had been offering prayers in the hut every day since last year.

Officer Jadeja said the bodies have been sent for post-mortem examination and the police has registered case of accidental death by suicide in this regard, adding the further investigation is underway.

In a similar incident, last month, a 10-year-old boy was found murdered with his throat slit open in a field, allegedly slain as a human sacrifice, in a village of Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district.

A senior police official said the minor boy, identified as Vivek Verma, was reported missing by his father Krishna Verma—a resident of Parsa village— following which the police launched a search to locate the boy and found his body in a field on the same night with his throat slit open.

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The Gujarat government will press for the death sentence to 11 Godhra train burning case convicts in whose capital punishments were reduced to life terms by the state’s high court, the counsel for the BJP-led state government told the Supreme Court on Monday.

Appearing for the Gujarat government, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told a supreme court bench comprised of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala that the Bhupendrabhai Patel-led government will be “seriously pressing” for handing the death penalty to convicts whose sentences were commuted to life imprisonment.

Solicitor Mehta stressed that this is rarest of rare case where 59 people, including women and children, were burnt alive and it’s been proved consistently that the bogey was locked from the outside so the victims could not escape.

He said that 11 convicts were sentenced to death by the trial court and 20 others were granted life terms in the case with the Gujarat High Court upholding 31 convictions and commuting the capital punishments of 11 convicts to a life sentence.

Mehta said that the Gujarat government has come with an appeal challenging the commuting of the death penalty of the said convicts while several accused have filed pleas against the high court upholding their convictions in the case.

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Two convicts have been granted bail by the apex court so far while seven other bail pleas are pending adjudication.

The Supreme Court bench noted that a large number of bail pleas have been filed before the top court in the case and directed the advocates of the applicants and Gujarat standing counsel, Advocate Swati Ghildiyal to prepare a comprehensive chart with all relevant details. The matter is scheduled for listing after three weeks.

The apex court had on January 30, sought the Gujarat government’s response on the bail pleas of convicts Abdul Raheman Dhantia alias Kankatto, Abdul Sattar Ibrahim Gaddi Asla and others. All of them are serving life term in the case.

In its response, the Gujarat government said it wasn’t merely a case of stone pelting as the convicts had bolted a bogey of the Sabarmati Express and set it ablaze, leading to the death of several passengers on the train.

At least 59 people were killed when a coach of the Sabarmati Express was torched in Gujarat’s Godhra on February 27, 2002. The incident had trigged the infamous Godhra communal riots.

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A 15-year-old girl died in a fire that broke out in a flat on the 7th floor of an 11-storey building in Shahibagh area of Ahmedabad on Saturday.

She was stuck in the balcony for 25 minutes and kept pleading to people to save her, but she could not be saved. Videos of this incident have also surfaced.

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At the same time, four people of the family were saved, they are undergoing treatment. Officials say that the cause of the fire is not yet known.

Incident took place at 7:28 am

According to police reports, the Ahmedabad Fire Brigade received a call at 7:28 am. The eyewitnesses informed the fire brigade that a fire broke out in the 7th floor of Orchid Green Flats located near Girdhar Nagar Circle, Shahibagh. After receiving the information, 15 fire tenders including ambulance rushed to the spot and started the work of extinguishing the fire.

Girl got trapped in the balcony, others were inside the flat

There were five people in the flat at the time when fire broke out. The four managed to get out, while the girl, Pranjal, got trapped in the room, then went towards the balcony and started pleading to save her life.

Girl had sustained 100 per cent burn injuries, succumbs in hospital

According to eyewitnesses, the rescue operation started around 8 am. A team of fire brigade personnel reached the 8th floor. From there, two people reached that balcony by tying a rope. They took the girl out. She was unconscious but was responsive when she was rescused. After which she was taken to the civil hospital. According to the doctors, she had 100 per cent burn injuries, because of this she died.

As many as 15 firefighting vehicles were in the rescue operation that lasted for around 35-40 minutes. The fire is under control.

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In a disgraceful incident, 7 members of a  15-year-old boy thrashed and axed a 46-year-old Border Security Force (BSF) jawan to death in Chaklasi town of Nadiad in Gujarat.

The BSH jawan had gone to the boy’s house to complain about the obscene video of his daughter that the boy had uploaded on social media. The jawan’s wife, their two sons and a nephew had gone to the house of the accused to complain about the issue.

The FIR filed by the late BSF jawan’s wife reads that their 15-year-old daughter’s obscene video was uploaded on social media by the boy. The boy was too visible in the video. The boy is said to have disseminated the video, and the BSF jawan went to the boy’s house to speak to his family.

The FIR also reads that the BSF jawan visited the boy’s home on Saturday night with his family. The BSF jawan and his family members started receiving abuse from the boy’s father and five other family members, including two women. According to the FIR that the BSF jawan’s wife filed, the jawan objected to the harsh statements after which those seven individuals attacked him and his family.

The BSF jawan suffered major injuries as a result of the accused individuals hitting him with sticks and attacking him with axes. When his sons stepped in to save him, the accused also attacked them.

The accused escaped the scene after the BSF jawan passed out. His wife dialled 108 ambulance, which arrived with their son and drove them to Nadiad Civil Hospital, where the jawan was later pronounced dead.

According to Chaklasi police, the jawan’s wife also sustained serious wounds. According to the police officer, one of the BSF jawan’s sons, who was about 17 years old, also sustained head injuries in the incident and was unresponsive. According to police sub-inspector Jitendrasinh Champawat, all seven accused parties have been detained and charged with murder, attempted murder, causing bodily harm, and unlawful assembly.

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A 54-year-old woman was struck and killed by the Mumbai-bound Vande Bharat Express train close to Anand railway station in Gujarat on Tuesday.

According to news agency PTI, the victim has been identified as Beatrice Archibald Peter. According to the report, which also cited an official, she was crossing the track at the time of the accident at 4:37 p.m.

The train was travelling from Gandhinagar Capital station to Mumbai Central. The train does not have a halt at Anand station. The report further stated that investigation has been initiated in the matter.

The incident happened the day after it was reported that stones were allegedly thrown at a Vande Bharat train carrying Asaduddin Owaisi, President of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) in Gujarat, a state where elections are ensuing. Police, however, refuted the assertion and stated that they were still looking into the Monday incident.

In the past month, there have been at least three instances of animals dying on the track after being struck by Vande Bharat train.

In Gujarat’s Valsad, at 8:30 am on October 29, a cow was struck by a Mumbai-Gandhinagar Vande Bharat Superfast Express train, causing damage to the engine’s nose cover.

Since the semi-high speed train was introduced on September 30 and was built and manufactured locally, there had been three instances of train-cattle collisions. The train’s first journey was signalled off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Two similar occurrences involving cattle being run over by the newly launched Vande Bharat Express happened in the first week of October. On October 6, a train travelling from Mumbai to Gandhinagar killed four buffaloes between the Vatva and Maninagar in Gujarat railway stations. The damage required an overnight replacement of its nose panel.

The second incident happened the following day, on October 7, when the train hit a cow while travelling to Mumbai through Gujarat’s Anand region.

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As many as 140 people have died after almost 400 people fell into the Machchhu river when a cable suspension bridge in Gujarat’s Morbi at around 6:30 pm on Sunday.

At least 70 people were injured in the mishap. There are 25 children among the deceased. 170 people have been rescued.

This 143-year-old bridge was closed for 6 months. Recently it was repaired and was opened to the general public on October 25. As it was a Sunday, there was a huge crowd on the bridge. This is being said to be the reason for the accident.

The Morbi district administration has issued a helpline number (02822243300). Emergency wards have been set up at Morbi and Rajkot hospitals for the treatment of the injured. The NDRF officer engaged in the rescue said that he has seen so many deaths for the first time and that it was difficult for him and his team to find people in the muddy waters of the river. He feared that the bodies could be trapped under the bridge as well.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kevadiya said that though he was in Ekta Nagar but his mind was with the victims of Morbi. “Rarely in my life, would I have experienced such pain. On one hand, there is a pain-riddled heart and on the other hand, there is the path to duty,” Modi said.

Some videos related to the accident are viral in social media. A video that broke many hearts showed people clinging on to the broken bridge, pleading for help.

After the accident, some survived by swimming to the shore and some were saved by the people present there. In a video some people were seen running with a dead body.

Video of boys shaking the bridge goes viral

The video, which is said to be of about hours before the accident, has gone viral on social media. In this, a large number of people are seen walking on the bridge. Some of them are seen shaking the cable bridge for fun. A few hours later, the bridge reportedly broke down.

It is being said that due to Sunday being a holiday, more people had gathered on the suspension bridge than the capacity. The crowd was also high due to Diwali holiday and being a Sunday. Why were people not stopped from going on the bridge, as their number was more than the capacity? This will be known only after the investigation of the accident. The cause of the accident is said to be due to overloading of the bridge. 

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