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RAJKOT:Bhavnagar police recovered two mobile phones from an undertrial of rioting incident in Nani Dhari village of Amreli and another in an abandoned condition during two separate search operations in the district jail in Bhavnagar on Friday.
Bhavnagar police said the jail authorities conducted the first surprise checking around 8 pm on Thursday and recovered two mobile phones from Satish Joshi lodged in barrack no. 4. While one of the phones was operational,the other did not work, police said.
Incidentally,Joshi is among 17 persons arrested in connection with the incident of rioting in Nani Dhari village of Khambha taluka of Amreli district on July 29. Groups of two communities had clashed that day after a girl of the village was allegedly murder two days ago. One person had died in the clashes,while several others were injured even as cross complaints were filed.
Sources said that Joshi himself was injured in the violence and that he had hidden the phones under dressing on his wounds.
However,the jail authorities conducted another raid at around 3 am on Friday and recovered another unclaimed mobile phone with a SIM card from the same barrack, A Division Police Sub-Inspector (PSI) Khimji Parmar,who is investigating the case,said.
Sources said that all the 17 persons of Nani Dhari case have been lodged in barrack no. 4 with bail applications of many of them pending.
The state police chief has transferred the probe in all the three related cases to Criminal Investigation Department (CID) after Amreli police had claimed that the girl was killed by her younger brother. The teenager boy had earlier lodged an FIR alleging two men from their village raped and murdered her sister.
A Division police have booked Joshi and unidentified persons for keeping prohibited articles in jail and have registered two separate case.
*Gujarat Gas hikes CNG prices by Rs 2
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat Gas Company Limited (GGCL) on Friday hiked the prices of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) to Rs 63 from the earlier Rs 61 per kg.
The revision is required due to the rising cost of services including the capital expenditure and increase in cost of gas caused mainly by the depreciating Indian Rupee, said an official release from the GGCL that was recently taken over by state-owned Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC). GGCL currently operates about 56 CNG stations in Surat and Bharuch districts in south Gujarat.
Other CNG gas suppliers like Adani Gas and the GSPC Gas had effected a similar hike in prices in June.
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