HIGHLIGHTS WESTERN REGION AT 2220 HRS

Following are the news highlights from the western region at 2220 hrs.

BOM 13 MP-DALITS-2NDLD PROTEST

Bhopal: The Dalit protests today turn violent in Madhya Pradesh, leaving four persons dead and several people, including a sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) and policemen, injured.

BOM 15 GJ-BANDH-LD PROTESTS

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Ahmedabad: Normal life disrupts in various parts of Gujarat as protests by Dalits against alleged dilution of the SC/ST Act turned violent and police resort to teargas-shelling and lathicharge at some places.

BOM 17 MH-DALITS-LD PROTEST

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Nagpur/Nandurbar: Stray incidents of violence in parts of Maharashtra mar the "Bharat bandh" called by Dalit outfits against the alleged dilution of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

 

BOM 16 MP-HOTEL-LD-COLLAPSE-OWNER

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Indore: Police arrest the owner of the hotel, which collapsed here last week killing 10 people.

BES 5 GJ-EX-MLA-ARREST

Rajkot: Police arrests ex-MLA Mahipatsinh Jadeja for assaulting a group of group of probationary officers of the Indian Forest Service (IFS) here last month.

BES 20 MH-VAIDYA

Pune: Freedom fighter and veteran socialist leader Bhai Vaidya dies in a private hospital here.

LGB 1 MH-HC-RAPE-TRUSTEE-BAIL

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court sets aside a sessions court order granting bail to a city-based international school's trustee in a case of alleged sexual assault of a three-year-old girl student.

LGB 2 MH-HC-FIRE-PROBE

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government informs the Bombay High Court that retired chief justice of the court A V Savant was appointed as the chairperson of a three-member committee to probe the Kamala Mills Compound fire incident that claimed 14 lives in December last.

LGB 6 MH-COURT-SOHRABUDDIN

Mumbai: Another witness turns hostile in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh alleged fake encounter case, taking the number of such witnesses to 45.

LGB 5 MH-COURT-PNB-REMAND

Mumbai: A special CBI court remands Vipul Ambani and others, arrested in connection with the multi-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case, in judicial custody till April 11.