Gujarat legislator sent to two-day police remand

September 5th, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh police ordered a probe Saturday into an extortion demand by suspected Maoists from a ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator. "We have begun a probe into a letter allegedly sent by some Maoist rebels to BJP legislator Renuka Singh seeking money," Inspector General of Police (Surguja) R.C.

July 17th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Crime Branch of the Gujarat Police arrested Vinod Dargi, the key accused in the Gujarat hooch tragedy, here on Friday. Police also arrested two other associates of Dargi, Ajay Thakkar and Sunil along with him.

June 29th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Gujarat's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Fatehsinh Chauhan was arrested Monday for his alleged involvement in the 2002 riots in the state's Rajgarh town. The arrest was ordered by the Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT).

June 8th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - A city court Monday allowed police to interrogate till Thursday Maanbai Rathod, an aunt of conman Ashok Jadeja who is accused of duping thousands of people across India of millions of rupees by posing as a godman. Maanbai was first detained for questioning by the Gujarat police after she was picked up from her Naroda home Sunday afternoon.

May 9th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - A court sent Ashish Ravindranathan, an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) student, to a 14-day police remand here Saturday after he was nabbed for allegedly duping 50 credit card holders. Ashish, a second semester student at IIT-Bombay's extension centre in Gandhinagar, was arrested by the city crime branch officials Friday night for allegedly duping credit card holders of Rs.650,000.

April 25th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Gujarat Police has formed 86 Quick Response Teams (QRTs) to be deployed as a security measure at various polling centres across the state on election day April 30, a senior official said Saturday. The QRTs have been formed to act immediately in case of any untoward incident on the polling day in the state, Gujarat Director General of Police (DGP) S.S.

April 23rd, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Gujarat Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi on Thursday invited Congress President Sonia Gandhi to Gujarat. "Sonia Gandhi is coming to Gujarat for campaigning.

April 13th, 2009 BHOPAL - A Congress party legislator was shot at by unidentified assailants in Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh Monday evening, police said. Makhan Singh Jatav is a legislator from Gohad assembly constituency in the state.

April 9th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani was ordered jailed by a court after her remand period with the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) in a case of 2002 communal violence ended Thursday. The court refused to grant any further remand to the SIT, which is probing major cases of communal violence, and asked her to be sent to Sabarmati Jail here.

April 9th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Rejecting an application of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) for extending the police remand of former Gujarat Minister Maya Kodnani, a local court sent her to judicial custody on Thursday. Kodnani, an accused in 2002 riot case, was produced before the court by the SIT after the expiry of her four-day police remand.

April 1st, 2009 AHMEDABAD - A local court here on Wednesday extended the police custody of former Gujarat Minister of State for Women's Welfare, Mayaben Kodnani, and Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader, Jaideep Patel, till April 4. Metropolitan Magistrate G M Patel extended their police custody after the Special Investigation Team (SIT), appointed by the Supreme Court to probe some of the riot cases afresh, asked for further remand.

March 28th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Jaydeep Patel were Saturday sent to four-day police remand for their alleged involvement in a massacre during communal violence in 2002. Kodnani and Patel spent the night in the office of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) at the Old Secretariat in Gandhinagar after they surrendered Friday afternoon following the cancellation of their anticipatory bail by the Gujarat High Court.

March 20th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Gujarat unit of the Congress has come out with a CD showing its former legislator Bhavsinh Rathod distributing money to villagers in Patan district of the state. 'Rathod had been distributing money in Dhinaj village in Patan.

March 17th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Miffed over not being given a ticket for the parliamentary polls, a Congress legislator in Gujarat resigned from the party Monday and sought to join the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Sami Haji legislator Bhavsinh Rathod wanted to contest the Patan Lok Sabha seat in North Gujarat but he was not considered by the party leadership.

January 5th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Yogendra Dohre alias Bhatia, a former functionary of Uttar Pradesh's ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and prime accused in the murder of an engineer, Tuesday surrendered before a court after evading arrest for nearly two weeks. The court remanded him in police custody till Jan 19.