Modi joint leader after eight rounds

MUMBAI, August 14: Sanjay Modi emerged joint leader with Vivek Thoopal and Chaitanya Vaidya of Abhinav Vidyala by outwitting overnight leader Nitin Nawar of Mumbai Police. After the eighth and penultimate round of the Entrant’s Division Chess Tournament at the Zhandu Pharmaceutical Works Canteen today, the top three have seven points each.

Results (8th round): Nitin Nawar (6.5) lost to Sanjay Modi (7), Vivek Thoopal (7) beat Omprakash V (6), Munish Kapoor (6) lost to C Vaidya (7), Shavir Aga (6.5) beat Ashish Thatte (5.5), J Rodrigues (6.5) beat M Srinath (5.5), Sagar Talekar (6.5) beat D Barodiya (5.5), Saurabh Barve (5.5) lost to Alam Parvez (6.5), Pradeep Sawant (5) lost to C Reddy (6), Mangesh Warghade (5) lost to Abhijit Bhurke (6), Nikhil Kamat (6) beat Dhiraj Vegda (5), Nilesh Khedekar (6) lost to M Wakhare (6), Vikrant Seth (5) lost to Rajesh Kamath (6), Atul Singh (5) lost to Raja Gajangi (6), Vinod More (5) lost to Niraj Dube (6) Bengle, Monaz win titles: UNSEEDED Jagan Bengle of Punjab National Bank defeated third seed Mahendra Tambe of Bank of Maharashtra in the mens’ singles final in the Pratapchandra Gupta Memorial District Ranking carrom tournament at the Nagindas Khandwala College, yesterday.

Bengle won 25-2, 25-23. Second seed Monaz Cooper tamed top-seed and former national champion Anupama Kedar 25-14, 25-18 to win the women’s title.Mahindras, Customs in final: Mahindras and MVHA Select II will clash in the finals of the Freedom 50 Independence Cup at St. Andrews, Bandra.

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Mahindras ovecame Navy 4-2 in the semifinals. John Fernandes and Dhanraj Pillay scored a brace each for the winners. Customs IV (Sureh Perreira 2, Errol D’Silva 1, Stanley Fernandes 1) defeated MVHA Select II 4-2.

¬Ut›´>¼Tt›f the DCP does not inspire confidence because he did not take the precaution of keeping the accused, during the time of reflection, in the custody of an officer not concerned with the investigation,” he said. He also opined that this created doubts on the credibility of voluntary confession. "There is practically no evidence against the accused,” said Justice Chavare. While Rohini Salian was special public prosecutor, a battery of lawyers led by advocates Sudeep Pasbola, Avinash Rasal, Devanand Manerikal and Santosh Deshpande defended the accused.