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Mumbai: Maharashtra Sports Minister Manikrao Kokate moved the Bombay High Court on Wednesday, seeking the suspension of his conviction and sentence in an over three-decade-old cheating and forgery case. The minister has been sentenced to two years of imprisonment. He has also been fined Rs 50,000. The Bombay High Court has listed the matter for hearing on Friday. Earlier in the day, Kokate allegedly fell ill and was admitted to the Lilavati Hospital shortly after a court issued a non-bailable a ...Read More >
Mumbai, Dec 17 (PTI) Maharashtra Sports Minister and NCP leader Manikrao Kokate moved the Bombay High Court on Wednesday, challenging a sessions court order that upheld his conviction and two-year jail term in a 1995 cheating and forgery case. The move comes as Kokate faces the imminent threat of losing his cabinet post and his assembly seat. In mounting trouble for the minister, a court in Nashik district on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant against him in the case. Kokate's lawyer Aniket Ni ...Read More >
Mumbai, December 17: Shiv Sena-UBT (SS-UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday said that seat-sharing between the SS-UBT and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) for the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) polls will be announced in the next two days, adding that there is no discord or confusion between the two parties. Speaking to the press, Raut confirmed that discussions for key municipal corporations, including Thane, Kalyan-Dombivli, Pune, and Nashik, are nearly complete, with an official ann ...Read More >
Nashik, Dec 17 (PTI) In mounting trouble for Maharashtra Sports Minister Manikrao Kokate of the NCP, a court in Nashik district on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant against him in a cheating and forgery case dating back to 1995. The development comes a day after the district court upheld the two-year jail term handed to Kokate by the magistrate's court in February this year. Earlier on Wednesday, Kokate moved the Bombay High Court, challenging his conviction and the two-year jail term in the ...Read More >
Nasik: Maharashtra sports minister Manikrao Kokate is likely to be arrested unless he succeeds in obtaining bail from the Bombay High Court. The Nasik district sessions court, on Wednesday, issued an arrest warrant against the NCP MLA for alleged cheating and forgery to obtain two apartments under the chief minister's 10 per cent housing quota, as reported by The New Indian Express. The sessions court, on Tuesday, had upheld the order of the First Class Magistrate's court by confirming the two ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Upholding the junior court order, the Nasik District Session court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant against the Maharashtra sports minister and NCP MLA, Manikrao Kokate for cheating and forgery to obtain two apartments under the chief minister's 10 per cent housing quota. The Nasik session court on Tuesday upheld the order of the First Class court by confirming the two years' imprisonment and a fine of Rs 50,000 for falsifying the income proof documents to get apartments. Maharash ...Read More >
New Delhi, December 17: The Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday summoned the Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Riaz Hamidullah and apprised him of India's strong concerns at the deteriorating security environment in Bangladesh. According to an MEA statement, the Bangladesh High Commissioner's attention was drawn, in particular, to the activities of some extremist elements who have announced plans to create a security situation around the Indian Mission in Dhaka. The MEA said, "India c ...Read More >
Mumbai, Dec 17 (PTI) Maharashtra Sports Minister Manikrao Kokate "dishonestly induced" the state government to allot him a flat meant for the economically weaker section of society, a Nashik court has held, upholding his two-year jail term in a 1995 cheating and forgery case. The court noted that the minister was a "prosperous" farmer. However, the court granted him partial relief by setting aside the lower court's order to cancel the flat allotments, citing lack of jurisdiction for a criminal ...Read More >
A bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad noted that petitioner Nanasaheb Jadhav, a lawyer, failed to show any legal provision whereby a court, while exercising its civil jurisdiction, can pass a direction to the police to register a First Information Report. They would dismiss the public interest litigation, the judges said, but eventually reserved the judgment so that the lawyers of the petitioner and the NCP chief could submit case laws to support their respecti ...Read More >
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the Maharashtra government to take a decision within 10 days on former NCP MLA Zeeshan Siddique's application seeking restoration of his police security cover, which was scaled down earlier this year. The court also granted liberty to Mr. Zeeshan to approach it again if aggrieved by the decision. Mr. Zeeshan, son of former Maharashtra Minister Baba Siddique who was shot dead in October last year, alleged that his security cover was reduced soon after hi ...Read More >
Mumbai: With cousins Raj and Uddhav Thackeray set to announce an alliance for the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections, and Marathi identity expected to dominate the campaign, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ashish Shelar on Tuesday announced that a "Marathi manoos" will be the mayor if the party comes to power in India's richest civic body. This is the first time the BJP has made such a declaration, coming at a time when anonymous posters bearing the slogan "M ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the state government to decide within 10 days on former Bandra MLA Zeeshan Siddique's request for restoring his police security. Zeeshan, a leader of the Nationalist Congress Party and the son of former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique who was shot dead in October last year, claimed his security was reduced soon after his mother, Shehzeen Siddique, approached the high court seeking an independent, court-monitored probe into her husband's murder ...Read More >
THANE: After the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena, the local leadership of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has now also sought to contest the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) elections independently. NCP workers in Thane have communicated this demand to the party's senior leadership, according to Najeeb Mulla, president of the Thane unit of the NCP. Similar demands have previously been made by workers of the BJP and Shiv Sena, the NCP's allies in the Mahayuti government. Th ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday reserved its judgment on a petition seeking a CBI probe against NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar, his daughter and MP Supriya Sule, and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar for allegedly illegally granting permissions to construct a hill station at Lavasa in Pune district in 1994. The petition, filed by advocate and agriculturist Nanasaheb Vasantrao Jadhav, alleges that the private hill station project was sanctioned by the state government without due considerat ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Union government on Tuesday introduced a bill that seeks to guarantee 125 wage days of rural work a year and replace the two-decade old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in the Lok Sabha amid strong objections by the opposition to the removal of the father of the nation's name from the scheme. The House witnessed an uproar soon after Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan introduced the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Missi ...Read More >
By Amir Khan Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 17 (ANI): As political parties gear up to stake a claim to 29 municipal corporations across Maharashtra, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Waris Pathan warned that his party might contest the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections solo if no other party joins hands with them. This statement comes amid talks of possible alliances and the upcoming BMC polls. Pathan's statement, "Bihar toh sirf jhanki hai, pura Ma ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The NCP minister Manikrao Kokate is in trouble after the Nashik District Session court upheld the order of the First Class court on Tuesday, confirming the two years' imprisonment and fine of Rs 50,000 for falsifying the income proof documents. The minister falsified the documents to get two swanky apartments in the Chief Minister's 10 per cent housing quota. The verdict of the district court is a big setback for Minister Kokate. If Kokate did not get respite by the Bombay High Court i ...Read More >
Nashik, Dec 16 (PTI) A court in Nashik district on Tuesday upheld the two-year jail term handed to Maharashtra Sports Minister and NCP leader Manikrao Kokate in a cheating and forgery case dating back to 1995. A magistrate's court had on February 20 convicted the NCP leader and his brother Sunil Kokate and sentenced them to two-year imprisonment in the case pertaining to submitting fake documents to get flats under a government quota. On March 5, a sessions court stayed the conviction of the du ...Read More >
Mumbai, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) NCP received a major blow after the Nashik session court upheld the two-year sentence handed down to sports minister Manikrao Kokate in the case of illegally acquiring a government flat using forged documents. In the wake of the court's order, Kokate's ministership hangs in the balance. Those who filed an intervention petition opposing bail for Minister Kokate have submitted documents to the Bombay High Court. Minister Kokate had hogged the headlines after a vid ...Read More >
Mumbai, Dec 16: The Bombay High Court has said it is not inclined to entertain a petition seeking the filing of an FIR against NCP leaders Sharad Pawar, Ajit Pawar and Supriya Sule in connection with alleged irregularities in the development of Lavasa township. Bench Reserves Order On PIL Seeking CBI Probe A bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad reserved its ruling on a PIL seeking a CBI probe against Sharad Pawar and his family members. Court Questions Legal B ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict after concluding the hearing on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) demanding that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) be ordered to take action against the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) chief Sharad Pawar and his family in the Lavasa case. Nanasaheb Jadhav, a journalist and a lawyer from Nashik, has filed a petition in the Bombay High Court. The petition includes the names of Sharad Pawar, Maharashtra Deputy ...Read More >
Mumbai, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ajit Pawar-led NCP said on Tuesday that it is in favour of contesting the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections in the MahaYuti alliance by staking claim to over 50 seats. However, NCP also hinted that NCP is prepared to fight all 227 seats going solo as it has already received applications from 180 aspirants. NCP's move is important, especially after it was not invited for the meeting held between BJP and Shiv Sena over poll strategy and s ...Read More >
Mumbai, Dec 16 (PTI) The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) stepped up preparations for polls to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and on Tuesday held a review meeting of its election management committee under the leadership of former minister Nawab Malik. The party led by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar held discussion on contesting around 50 seats in the 227-member BMC. Mumbai and 28 other municipal corporations will go to polls on January 15 and results will be declar ...Read More >
Guwahati: Voices in Bangladesh spewing hatred for India were heard again, drawing a sharp response from Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. Hasnat Abdullah, a senior leader of newly-formed National Citizen Party (NCP), warned on Monday that Dhaka could offer refuge to forces hostile to India, including separatist groups, potentially threatening to split India's 'seven sisters' of the Northeast. "I want to make it clear to India that if you provide shelter to forces that do not respect Ba ...Read More >
Mumbai, Dec 16 (PTI) The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra has set an ambitious target of winning more than 150 seats in the January 15 elections to the 227-member Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), party leaders said on Tuesday. Mumbai BJP president Ameet Satam stressed the ruling alliance was working with a clear focus on crossing the 150-seat mark in India's largest civic body. "Our discussions are aimed at ensuring Mahayuti candidates win across all 227 wards, with a clear ob ...Read More >
Guwahati, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday strongly condemned repeated remarks emanating from Bangladesh suggesting that India's northeastern states should be separated and merged with the neighbouring country, terming them "irresponsible and dangerous" and asserting that India would not remain silent on the issue. Reacting to comments made by Hasnat Abdullah, a senior leader of Bangladesh's newly formed National Citizen Party (NCP), Sarma said a secti ...Read More >
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], December 16 (ANI): Telangana BJP President N. Ramchander Rao lashed out at the Congress party, demanding that they should apologise to the people of the country and to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for their "digging his grave" comments. Rao also stated that the Congress party's allegations of vote rigging are baseless and manufactured, aimed at diverting people's attention. Also Read | Amritsar: Husband Installs GPS Tracker on Wife's Scooter, Catches Her With Ano ...Read More >
Mumbai, Dec 16 (PTI) The BJP-led Mahayuti has set an ambitious target of winning more than 150 seats in the January 15 elections to the 227-member Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Maharashtra minister Ashish Shelar declared on Tuesday. Talking to reporters here, the senior BJP leader asserted Mumbai would have a Marathi mayor post-polls, which are being held after a delay of nearly four years. "We have finalised the Mahayuti formula and even the numbers. Our target is to win 150-plus ...Read More >
Telangana BJP's N. Ramchander Rao slammed Congress, demanding an apology for its 'digging his grave' comment on PM Modi. He dismissed vote rigging claims, noting even INDIA ally Omar Abdullah distanced the bloc from the 'vote chori' campaign. Telangana BJP President N. Ramchander Rao lashed out at the Congress party, demanding that they should apologise to the people of the country and to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for their "digging his grave" comments. Rao also stated that the Congress part ...Read More >
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], December 16 (ANI): Telangana BJP President N. Ramchander Rao lashed out at the Congress party, demanding that they should apologise to the people of the country and to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for their "digging his grave" comments. Rao also stated that the Congress party's allegations of vote rigging are baseless and manufactured, aimed at diverting people's attention. The statement came after Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, on Tuesday, dista ...Read More >
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