Mumbhai: The oil mafia in Maharasthra attacked a Network18 reporter and cameraman on Friday. A reporter and cameraman belonging to IBN Lokmat team was attacked by supporters of the oil mafia in the remote village of Murud in Maharashtra' Raigad district. The reporter Alka and video journalist Sandeep were beaten up by a mob, but were later rescued. While there were no serious injuries, their camera was taken away and...
05:54 PM, Mar 12, 2011
Islamabad: Washington has turned down Pakistan's proposal to swap US official Raymond Davis, who shot dead two men in Lahore, with Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist who is serving a prison term in US for killing marines in Afghanistan, it was reported in Islamabad. Diplomatic Sources told the Dawn in Washington that Islamabad had taken up the proposal at "the highest level" in the Obama administration but was informed that...
11:40 AM, Mar 01, 2011
Lahore: Pakistani prosecutors on Thursday withdrew a petition they had filed in the Lahore High Court to declare Ajmal Kasab and Fahim Ansari as "proclaimed offenders" or fugitives in connection with the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks case. Prosecutors representing the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) withdrew the review petition on the orders of a High Court bench comprising Justices Sheikh Rauf and Ijazul Hasan. The bench observed that Kasab had been...
08:15 PM, Feb 24, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan government will seek assistance from law enforcement agencies in Britain to extradite former President Pervez Musharraf to ensure his appearance in court in connection with a case related to former premier Benazir Bhutto's assassination. The Federal Investigation Agency will submit the extradition request through the Pakistani High Commission in London and not Interpol as is customary though the matter is expected to be complicated as there is no...
06:09 PM, Feb 22, 2011
Mumbai: The murder of additional collector Yashwant Sonawane's and the crackdown on adulteration rackets in Maharashtra has failed to reign in the state mafia cartels. After the oil cartel, now the sand mafia strikes terror in Maharashtra. Newspaper reporter Sachin Kale was threatened with murder by a NCP member Ramsheth Kale, allegedly a part of Pune's sand mafia, for calling up a mining officer to check about permissions for sand...
10:20 PM, Feb 17, 2011
Mumbai: Maharashtra BJP on Wednesday demanded CBI probe into the murder of additional collector Yashwant Sonawane at the hands of adulteration mafia. A delegation of BJP leaders led by Eknath Khadse met the Governor K Sankaranarayanan on Wednesday and put forward the demand. Khadse also demanded a white paper on externment cases in recent years. "The local police and bureaucrats are hand in gloves with mafia. It is difficult to...
09:13 PM, Feb 02, 2011
Nagpur: The oil adulteration mafia has attacked policemen yet again in Maharashtra. A kerosene seller along with his men attacked policemen during a search operation in Umred tehsil of Nagpur district of the state on Tuesday morning. The incident happened at Rajurwadi, which is a stronghold of the Pardhi community, under the jurisdiction of Umred police station. A police team under Umred Deputy Superintendent of Police Sudhakar Paladurkar went to...
11:58 AM, Feb 01, 2011
Mumbai: Some of the accused in Yashwant Sonawane murder case have alleged in statements to police that the slain officer had demanded a 'bribe' to settle the matter when he spotted oil adulteration near Manmad on January 25. The police, however, said such counter-accusations are common. The investigating officers have recorded statements of the ten accused who are in police lock-up, while the main accused Popat Shinde's statement is yet...
03:47 PM, Jan 30, 2011
Mumbai: First it was Yashwant Sonawane who was doused with Kerosene and now just days after its the turn of another officer who has been attacked but lucky to have survived. Srinivas Patil was attacked while chasing the notorious sand mafia. Srinivas Patil said, "I tried to stop them but they threatened to kill me." The government in a massive crackdown against oil and sand mafias has arrested close to...
07:38 AM, Jan 30, 2011
Ahmednagar: Parched land, desiccated wells - signs of a severe drought but it's craters like these on riverbeds across Maharashtra that are telling the tale of a man-made ecological disaster in the making. The law prohibits sand mining below three feet, but illegal sand excavators dredge as deep as 30 feet and at most places until the riverbed is bereft of sand. The result is rocky and lifeless rivers which...
11:05 AM, Jan 29, 2011
Sangli: There is no respite for honest government officials in Maharashtra who have been facing threats from different mafias operating in the state. Just days after Malegaon Additional District Collector Yashwant Sonawane was brutally burnt alive, another government servant has been allegedly attacked by the sand mafia in Maharashtra. The official, Srinivas Patil, was attacked for trying to stop sand mining in Sangli. Srinivas alleges that while chasing a truck...
10:12 AM, Jan 29, 2011
Mumbai: In the biggest seizure during the ongoing raids against oil mafia after the brutal killing of an Additional Collector, state officials have seized chemicals worth Rs one crore in Solapur district of Maharashtra. District supply officials seized four tankers along with the chemicals near the temple town of Pandharpur late on Friday night, sources said. With this seizure, officials have busted a major racket involving adulteration of chemicals transported...
09:21 AM, Jan 29, 2011
New Delhi: The new Petroleum Minister Jaipal Reddy is mulling the roll out of a fuel marker system to check kerosene adulteration. His ministry, sources say, is falling on the marker supplied by Authentix, a UK based company, the same marker that was at the center of a raging controversy a year back. The Authentix marker, used a year ago, was supposed to be the government’s weapon against the oil...
09:52 PM, Jan 28, 2011
New Delhi/Mumbai: A day after CNN-IBN aired the video allegedly shot by late Additional Collector of Malegaon Yashwant Sonawane in which he documented the operations of the kerosene mafia, Maharshtra's Home minister RR Patil says it is crucial evidence and will be submitted to the court. “The video will be fully examined and based on that next investigation will take place. It can be submitted as evidence in the court,”...
08:08 PM, Jan 28, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan has again decided to ask India for access to the witnesses of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack to record their statements. A formal request is going to be filed soon, officials said. This would be the second time that Pakistan would be making such a request, interior ministry officials told The Express Tribune on Friday. Over four months back, Interior Minister Rehman Malik had requested Indian Home Minister...
12:04 PM, Jan 28, 2011
Nasik: Fuel mafias went underground to avoid arrests after the crackdown on mafia networks began on Thursday in Maharashtra. However, raids on other consumer product (milk/fuel/illegal sand mining etc) adulterators are to be continued on Friday by local police teams of various districts. Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil had ordered the crackdown and asked the police to provide assistance to raiding parties on priority following the murder incident of Malegaon...
10:17 AM, Jan 28, 2011
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On Republic Day eve, the five top news headlines perhaps reflected the state of the nation. The first was the tragic story of the Malegaon ...
11:54 PM, Jan 27, 2011
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11:42 PM, Jan 27, 2011
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10:50 PM, Jan 27, 2011
Nashik: A few days after Yashwant Sonawane sacrificed his life gathering evidence against the oil Mafia in Maharashtra, CNN-IBN learns the chain of racketeers runs deep across the state with oil being pilfered at the very first level of its coming into the market. Sonawane was burnt alive in a dingy looking and seemingly insignificant dhabba in Manmad, Maharashtra. Locations such as these are safe heaven for the fuel mafia...
10:02 PM, Jan 27, 2011
