Regd. No. MH/MR/South-160/2012-14 RNI Regn. No. 43675/1985 MUMBAI THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2013 32 PAGES `3 Website: www.afternoondc.in
Aft er oo
Woman’s World Pg13-20
RAPISTS BROUGHT TO CRIME SPOT
Jt CP (Crime) Himanshu Roy at the Shakti Mills, yesterday.
S
By Neel Shah
By Philip Varghese
“T
he state government is sitting on a time bomb which may explode anytime,” observed the Bombay High Court on Wednesday, while hearing a petition filed by a private software firm seeking directions to the Mumbai police’s cyber crime cell to
investigate a case of an alleged data theft against one of its employees. The petition filed by HRMantra.com, which provides software solutions to other companies, through their lawyer advocate Ramprakash Pandey, stated, “One of their employees, Sneha Sahu, had allegedly misused data regarding quotations and clients’ list and provided
it to a rival company, Synergy Software. A complaint was lodged with the Charkop police on September 17 last year. However, after one month they asked us to approach the cyber crime cell located in Bandra-Kurla Complex. In November, we forwarded the complaint Continued on pg 6 «
GIMME MORE! A marked increase in the dollar rate has prompted colleges to increase sponsorships rates for their festivals
By Yatin Ingle
A
ugust marks the season for most college festivals and students are going all out to make their own college festivals a success. Since most of these festivals
are crowd pullers, students have been busy marketing and looking for sponsors. However, a comparison between the sponsorship rates last year and this year Continued on pg 6 «
even days after the gang rape of a 22-yearold photo-journalist, Mumbai’s crime branch on Wednesday re-created the entire crime episode by taking all the five accused to the crime spot. Investigators from UnitIII and forensic experts, along with the joint commissioner of police (Crime) Himanshu Roy, visited the secluded eight acre area of Shakti Mills in Mahalakshmi, where the crime was committed. Apart from this, the investigators would take a supplementary statement
of the victim, who was discharged on Tuesday from Jaslok Hospital. “This becomes of utmost importance, as the victim can now give more details than earlier. On the day of the incident the girl was traumatized and not in a position to give us all the details.” The cops have recovered the clothes of the accused and a dupatta from the crime spot. The dupatta does not belong to the victim girl, but was lying there and all the accused made the victim to clear the spot by wiping it with the dupatta.
neel.shah@afternoondc.in
Hospital discharges survivor
T
By A Staff Reporter
he 22-year-old gang-rape survivor has been discharged, said a medical bulletin released by Jaslok Hospital where the girl was undergoing treatment. It read, “The patient had steadily improved and our team of doctors assigned for this patient declared the patient medically fit for discharge yesterday evening (August 27). She was thus discharged late last night.” The bulletin also stated that the patient has been briefed about the care that she needs to take in order to ensure good health and fitness.
Vishwanath Salian | ADC
DESPATCH & COURIER
Gold: `33,430 Silver: `59,470 US Dollar: `68.80 Temperature: 290C/250C Humidity: 70%