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MOLESTATION BID BY DRIVER, 2 GIRLS JUMP OFF MOVING AUTO
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Earlier, the Thane police released a sketch of the accused, later the culprit was nabbed on Monday.
By Priyanka Dhomse
to Jupiter Hospital by a passing couple. Police say that wo teenaged girls were both women hail from Ratnainjured when they were giri district and had come to forced to jump off from Thane for a programme ora moving auto to save them- ganized by the Akhil selves from a rogue auto Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad driver who was leering and (ABVP), since both are acmaking vulgar gestures at tivists of this organization. them, near Cadbury junction The incident took place on in Thane, Naupada police Sunday and a FIR against unsaid on Monday. known accused has been regThe duo were later shifted istered by the Naupada police
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station under sections 354, 509, 386, 366 of the IPC. The accused was later arrested. It is pertinent to note here that this is the second case within six months in Thane. On August 1, last year, a female TCS employee, Swapnali Lad (24), had jumped off from an auto near Kapurbawdi and was severely Continued on pg 12 ÂŤ
BAN ON COW SLAUGHTER President’s nod for Maharashtra Animal Preservation Bill after 14 years
By Prashant Hamine
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ourteen years after the previous Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led government had passed the law that sought to ban cow slaughter in Maharashtra, President of India Pranab Mukherjee gave his presidential assent to the Sudhir Mungantiwar original Maharashtra Animal Preservation Bill, 1995. A noti- had passed a law in both the fication to this effect was is- houses of the state legislature sued here yesterday by the that sought to ban cow Union Home Ministry follow- slaughter. The bill then was ing persistent follow up by the sent for Presidential assent. original architect of the law But in 1999 the government BJP MLA and current Minister changed and the Congressfor Finance and Planning Sud- Nationalist Congress Party hir Mungantiwar. In a state- (NCP) led government came ment issued here yesterday to power. The President of Mungantiwar remarked that India had then sought the the 14 year exile for the law view of the state government on the law. Mungantiwar rehad ended. It may be recalled that after marked that the previous coming to power in 1995 the Congress-NCP government then Sena-BJP government out of political prejudice
against the law passed by the previous Sena-BJP government kept on delaying sending its reply to the Rashtrapati Bhavan. In the intervening years Mungantiwar kept on pursuing the matter raising the issue in the state legislature through various legislative devices. But the government constantly gave evasive replies stating that a committee had been set up under the chairmanship of Commissione,r Animal Husbandry department. After taking oath on October 31, 2014 Mungantiwar once again began his follow up and on November 13, 2014 secretary, Animal Husbandry Mahesh Pathak wrote a letter to the Union Home Ministry stating that the state was prepared to implement the original legislation passed in 1995.