Shop owner shot at
Two unidentified persons shot at a computer shop owner in Bhandup this evening. At around 5.30 pm two scooterists approached the shop at Niketan Arunoday Tower, Konkan Nagar, Bhandup W and asked Prakash Jeevanlal Asher 51 to come out. While he stepped out the pillion rider fired a round on Asher8217;s right leg, said the police. The assailants then fled. A wounded Asher limped to nearby Bhandup police station, under whose jurisdiction the incident took place, and lodged a complaint.
Key Dawood aide nabbed
A key associate of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, Mohammed Ali Mohammed Sheikh alias Anna, was arrested by sleuths attached to unit VII of the Crime Branch from a hideout in Dongri this morning. Anna was involved in the murder of advocate Ram Shahani near Satsang at Khar on May 25 this year, the police said. He had also made several trips to the Gulf and was believed to be handling Dawood8217;s finances in the city. Meanwhile, in another raid, two members ofChhota Rajan gang were held by a squad of unit IX of the Crime Branch early this morning.
Pleas against Sena chief rejected
The Bombay High Court today rejected two petitions which sought contempt action against Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray for allegedly making derogatory remarks against the judiciary. After hearing arguments at length, Justice V P Tipnis and Justice S S Parkar turned down the petitions filed by Arvind Shridhar Ghatpande, a Pune resident who argued in person. The second petitioner had argued that the Nagpur bench of the high court had convicted Thackeray on the same ground for his derogatory remarks against judiciary in a 1996 public meeting. However, Thackeray had moved the Supreme Court and obtained a stay. Hence, another petition on the same ground should not be entertained, she submitted.
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