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e runs out for Bharatmata and Bhopatkar family
The family that runs Bharatmata Theatre,where it has tried to preserve the dying interest in Marathi cinema by screening only such movies since 1941,received a setback Thursday when a city court upheld an eviction notice. The National Textile Corporation,which owns the land in Lalbaug,served an eviction notice in 2002 and the Bhopatkar family appealed,but the court dismissed it today. NTC had leased the land to the theatre and now wants to build residential and commercial properties. We will move higher court, said family lawyer Nimesh Mehta. A disappointed kapil Bhopatkar said,The NTC should have considered that the theatre is one of the only cultural hubs in the city.
Six charged with TISS student gangrape
Eight months after an American student at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) alleged gangrape,a fast-track court on Thursday framed charges against the six accused. Vinamra Soni,Harshvardhan Yadav,Jashkaran Bhullar,Anish Borkataki,Dev Colabawala and Kundanraj Borgohain will now face trial under Section 376 (g) of the IPC for gangrape,and Section 34 for committing a crime with common intent. After the charges were read out,they all pleaded not guilty before sessions judge S D Jagmalani. According to the prosecution,in April 2008,the student,23,had met the accused at a pub,was taken to Borgohains flat in Andheri and raped by all six.
BARC fire: forensic tests on laptops
The hard disks of the laptops used by Umang Singh and Partha Pratim Bag,the research scientists killed in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre fire,have been sent to the Directorate of Forensic Science Laboratories,Kalina. We thought it necessary to have the laptops checked for information, said a Trombay police official.
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