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Accused allegedly sent text messages to Dixit, threatening to kill her kids
By Zuber Ansari
According to the police, Madhuri Dixit's personal assistant, 23-year-old man has been ar- Meenakshi Jhangiani, had on Norested from Chattisgarh for vember 28 approached the Cyber allegedly harassing Bolly- Crime police station in Bandra allegwood actress Madhuri Dixit by ing that she had received four threatsending her text messages and ening text messages on her mobile threatening to kill her children in a phone from an unidentified person bid to extort money. at about 3 am on November 25. According to Bandra BKC Cyber “The messages were addressed to Crime sources, “The accused, iden- Madhuri Dixit and they threatened tified as Praveenkumar Pradhan, to kill the children of the actress,” was arrested yesterday and the mo- said another officer. bile phone he used to send mesThe PA again received some more sages was recovered.” messages in the next three days. “In “The accused was produced be- one of the messages, Pradhan fore a court on Thursday which re- claimed that he was associated with manded him to police custody till the gang of underworld don Chhota tomorrow,” said Sunil Ghosalkar, Rajan. The accused stated in the senior inspector with Cyber Crime message that he had trained a 15police station. year-old boy in handling weapons
Six Janata Parivar parties agree to merge
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and bombs and this teenager would barge into Dixit's home to extort money,” said the officer, who did not wish to be named. The leads collected during the probe pointed to the role of the accused, who was subsequently picked up. He was arrested after he confessed to the crime, police said. Pradhan told interrogators that he would have demanded the exact amount he needed if either Dixit or her PA would have made phone calls to him, police informed. Pradhan is a waiter by profession and police were verifying if he was actually associated with Rajan or any other gang. Pradhan claimed to have made phone calls to some more Bollywood personalities and a further probe is on.
Mulayam to oversee ‘modalities’; to hold dharna on Dec 22
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EW DELHI: In a move aimed at consolidation of Opposition forces, six constituents of the erstwhile 'Janata Parivar' will soon become one party as their leaders on Thursday authorised Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav to work out the 'modalities' in that direction. In their first joint action outside Parliament, SP, Janata Dal (Secular), Rashtriya Janata Dal, Janata Dal (United), Indian National Lok Dal and Samajwadi Janata Party (CS) will hold a 'dharna' here on December 22 against government's 'failure' to bring back black money stashed abroad, its alleged U-turn on farmers' issue and rising unem-
ployment. The leaders of the six parties yesterday 'authorised' Mulayam at a meeting at his official residence to 'work out modalities' for becoming one party through a merger, JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar told PTI. Seeking to dispel any ambiguity as to the proposed merger, Kumar said that all of them felt there should be "one party" as they have the same philosophy and principles. Asked whether the move to join forces was borne of a 'fear of Narendra Modi', Kumar said it that not the case but the aim was to form a platform in the current Second from left: Samajwadi Janata Party (CS) president Kamal Morarka, JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, JD(S) chief HD Deve Gowda, JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav during a meeting at the latter's Continued on pg 8 « Delhi residence for the formation of a new alliance against the government in New Delhi, on Thursday.