Mumbai: The Bombay High Court is likely to hear a plea on Monday seeking a CBI probe into the assault of sub inspector Sachin Suryavanshi. Suryavanshi was allegedly assaulted by a group of MLAs at the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on March 19, 2013.
Manhile, the committee of legislators probing the attack on Suryavanshi on April 18 held two MLAs, Kshitij Thakur and Ram Kadam, guilty. The committee in its report has given the benefit of the doubt to the other three MLAs citing inconclusive CCTV evidence and has recommended that the Speaker revokes their suspension.
The report also recommends that the suspension period of Thakur and Kadam be reduced and it be revoked in the first week of the monsoon session. The report is also critical of API Suryavanshi for his 'behaviour'.
Thakur and Kadam were arrested in connection with the incident and later released on bail by a local court. Suryavanshi, attached to the Worli police station, was beaten black and blue by the MLAs outside the visitors gallery at the legislature complex on March 19, a day after he had stopped Thakur's vehicle on Bandra-Worli Sea Link for speeding and slapped a fine....
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10:18 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Mumbai: The committee of legislators probing the attack on API Sachin Suryavanshi in the Maharashtra Assembly premises has held two MLAs, Kshitij Thakur and Ram Kadam, guilty. The committee in its report has given the benefit of the doubt to the other three MLAs citing inconclusive CCTV evidence and has recommended that the Speaker revokes their suspension. The report also recommends that the suspension period of Thakur and Kadam be...
01:59 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Mumbai: No conclusive CCTV evidence has been found against three of the five MLAs accused of beating up a policeman inside the Maharashtra Assembly. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the probe report, which is likely to be tabled in the Assembly on Thursday, finds two MLAs Kshitij Thakur and Ram Kadam guilty. But the report finds no evidence against the other three, who too were suspended by the Speaker. The...
02:59 PM, Apr 17, 2013
More than 12,000 villages in Maharashtra are battling acute drought. At such a time when they thought the state government will bring them some relief, the following statement of deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar has shocked all. Pawar said, "Somebody is there on a fast for 55 days now. His name is some Deshmukh. He is asking us to release water from dams. How could one do that? We don't...
08:05 PM, Apr 15, 2013
There was uproar in the Maharashtra Assembly for the third consecutive day, the Opposition is demanding deputy CM Ajit Pawar's resignation over his controversial 'urine' comment. ...
11:59 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Mumbai: There was an uproar in the Maharashtra Assembly for the third consecutive day as the Opposition demanded Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's resignation over his controversial 'urine' comment. The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena has hit the streets of Mumbai in protest urging Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan to sack Ajit Pawar. On Tuesday, the Maharashtra Speaker had rejected the Opposition's demand for a censure motion against Ajit Pawar. Meanwhile, a urinal...
02:57 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Mumbai: Both Houses of the Maharashtra Assembly were adjourned on Tuesday as the opposition created a ruckus over Ajit Pawar's urine remark. The Lower House was adjourned after censure motion against Ajit Pawar was not accepted. The Upper House was adjourned after the opposition demanded resignation of Ajit Pawar, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, post lunch session. Ajit Pawar, while referring to a farmer on a hunger fast demanding water...
03:58 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Mumbai: Maharshatra Assembly witnessed an uproar on Monday over last week's horrific building collapse in Thane. Shiv Sena MLAs demanded the arrest of Thane Municipal Commissioner RA Rajeev. Seventy four people have died and more than 60 were injured after a seven-storey building collapsed in Mumbra last week. Thane Police on Saturday arrested seven people including builders Jameel Qureshi and Saleem Shaikh, the Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Thane Municipal Corporation,...
02:08 PM, Apr 08, 2013
The police officer in Mumbai and the two MLAs who were part of the group of MLAs who allegedly assaulted him deposed before the Ganpatrao Deshmukh committee, which is probing the incident. Sources said all of them maintained their earlier positions. ...
09:17 AM, Apr 02, 2013
The Mumbai Police has withdrawn the security of suspended Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) MLA Ram Kadam, who was one of the MLAs who allegedly assaulted Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Suryavanshi. Ram Kadam had been provided four security guards before the attack on Suryavanshi. ...
02:39 PM, Mar 30, 2013
The MLAs accused of beating up a policeman inside the Maharashtra Assembly are likely to go scot-free despite footage available from 28 CCTV cameras. Crime branch sources claim the footage is unclear. There was a mobile video of an injured Sachin Suryavanshi, 28 CCTV cameras inside the Vidhan Bhavan and yet no conclusive proof against the MLAs who allegedly beat him up in the legislative assembly. ...
12:03 PM, Mar 30, 2013
The crucial CCTV footage of MLAs assaulting a police officer inside the Maharashtra Assembly was inconclusive, says Home Minister RR Patil, dampening hopes of police to nail all those involved in the attack. ...
03:48 AM, Mar 30, 2013
Home Ministry sources have indicated to CNN-IBN that the CCTV footage of the incident where Maharashtra legislators had beaten up API Sachin Suryavanshi is unclear and inconclusive. Crime Branch sources have further added that they have obtained two clippings of five minutes each. the footage has been gathered from the 28 cameras installed in the Vidhan Bhavan premises. ...
11:35 AM, Mar 29, 2013
After being clouted by some legislators a day after he fined one of them for speeding, a Maharashtra police officer was on Monday suspended for being 'rude' even as two arrested MLAs allegedly involved in the incident in the Assembly premises walked out of jail on bail. ...
11:25 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Relenting to political pressure, Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Suryavanshi, who was allegedly thrashed by five MLAs of the Maharashtra Assembly, has been suspended till the departmental inquiry in the incident is completed. Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil made the announcement of the suspension in the Assembly on Monday. ...
04:59 PM, Mar 25, 2013
As the clamour grows for pardoning actor Sanjay Dutt in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, the Shiv Sena has said that it will oppose any such move. Speaking in the Maharashtra Assembly, Sena leader Neelam Gorhe says pardoning Sanjay Dutt will send the wrong message. ...
01:35 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Two MLAs of the Maharashtra Assembly, who were arrested for thrashing a policeman inside the Assembly building, were granted bail on Monday. MLAs Ram Kadam and Kshitik Thakur were amog the five MLAs who had been suspended till the year end for assaulting Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Suryavanshi last week. ...
01:04 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Two of the five Maharashtra MLAs, who were suspended for thrashing Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Suryavanshi, have been sent to 14 days of judicial custody. While Vidhan Shabha has opposed the decision demanding that the suspension of Ramdas Kadam and Kshitij Thakuar be revoked, the court hearing the case has reserved its order on the bail plea of the MLAs till Monday. ...
05:10 PM, Mar 22, 2013
The Maharashtra Assembly was adjourned for the day on Friday after members from all parties disrupted proceedings while demanding action against the two police officers who had come to the Vidhan Bhawan without authorisation to arrest MLAs, accused of beating a policeman. ...
02:35 PM, Mar 22, 2013
Two Maharashtra legislators accused of beating a policeman inside the State Assembly will appear before court on Friday. MLAs Kshitij Thakur and Ram Kadam had surrendered on Thursday before the police. ...
09:38 AM, Mar 22, 2013
