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Blast accused allowed to visit London Tada Court judge P D Kode on Wednesday granted bomb blast accused Hanif Birya alias Chuah permission...

Blast accused allowed to visit London

Tada Court judge P D Kode on Wednesday granted bomb blast accused Hanif Birya alias Chuah permission to visit London for consulting doctors about heart transplantation. Birya, against whom charges of heinous crimes have been levelled produced a certificate from a leading city doctor which suggested heart transplantation by leading London surgeon Dr Yakub Magdhi. Kode, while signing a nine-day leave application ordered the accused to observe strict court condition of not leaving or arriving in the country via Dubai, the headquarters of Dawood Ibrahim, the financier and the main brian behind the 1993 serial bomb blasts. Birya is the second bomb accused to get permission to leave the country.

Majeed handed over to CBI

Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Shivajirao Dhumal on Wednesday ordered to hand over the serial bomb blasts accused Mohammad Aziz Akbar Mohammad Abdul Majeed to the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI to be produced before the designated court, Ajmer, before June 11. The Ajmer court had issued a production warrant against the accused with five separate cases registered against Kota, Valsad, Kanpur, Allahabad and Malkajgiri.

Bail for two in Dadar bank case

Metropolitan magistrate Sharadrao Madke on Wednesday released eight persons on bail of Rs 50,000 each who were arrested in connection with the Rs 12.24 crore Dadar Janata Sahakari Bank fraud. However, two accused Balasaheb Thakur, ex-chairman of the bank and Shivaji More, ex-general manager of the bank have been remanded to police custody up to June two. The persons who were released on Wednesday on bail were Narayan Bhoite, Chandrakant Jagtap, Jaysingh Patil, Mahadeo Wadkar, Madhavrao Wagh, Bapusaheb Phadtare, Tukaram Udar and Dayanand Mhatre.

Ghandat8217;s arrest stayed by HC

The Bombay High Court stayed the arrest of the chairperson of the Abhyudaya Co-operative Bank Sitaram Ghandat and seven other directors. They had filed for fresh anticipatory bail in the HC after the Sessions court rejected their pleas last Saturday.

Justice D K Deshmukh will hear the bail petitions on May 30. The other seven accused are Bhiva Shivdikar, Achyut Kandpillay, Stanlus Saldhana, Mahatraba Kane, Yashwant Shinde, J C D8217;Silva and Ratnamala Korde.

DOT approval for Max Touch

Max Touch received the Department of Telecom DOT approval for a fresh numbering plan under which the company will be allotting numbers to new subscribers under the 98 20 1 series. Currently, Max Touch allots numbers to subscribers in the 98 20 0 series, wherein 98 stands for cellular code and 20 stands for the Max Touch code. The last six digits of the cellular number say 018600 stand for the subscriber8217;s cellular number, according to a release.