Adc 31 august 2013

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Regd. No. MH/MR/South-160/2012-14 RNI Regn. No. 43675/1985 MUMBAI SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 2013 24 PAGES `3 Website: www.afternoondc.in

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Rapists of photo-journalist pelted with eggs outside court

Angry women activists pelted the rapists with eggs at the Esplanade Court, yesterday.

By Philip Varghese

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lmost a week after the gangrape of a photojournalist in the defunct Shakti Mill Compound at Mahalaxmi, public outrage erupted on Friday when women protesters, reportedly be-

longing to a political party, pelted eggs at the accused in the case as they were being produced at the Esplanade Court in South Mumbai. Among the five accused only three - Shiraz Rehman Khan, Vijay Jadhav and Kasim Bengali, were being brought in police vans when

they were attacked right outside the court. Another accused could not be produced before the court after his family produced a certificate stating he was a minor. However, the police chose to remain silent on the issue of the certificate. The fifth accused, Salim Ansari, who was nabbed from Delhi, is already in police custody till September 5. The women protesters raised slogans as they pelted eggs at the vans. There were also some unconfirmed reports that the accused were attacked with an axe. The protesters, who were later detained by police, demanded that the rapists be hanged. The court remanded the trio to extended police custody till September 5, after the Crime Branch told the court that they are yet to recover some clothes of the accused and hence their remand was required. The minor accused was produced before a juvenile court, from where he was sent to the juvenile remand home in Dongri. In another development, Bengali Continued on pg 8 «

Development plans for Maharashtra By Khushboo Panjabi

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hief Minister Prithviraj Chavan yesterday announced a fivepoint programme for the development of Maharashtra. ”Chavan said that his govern-

ment would focus on quality education, make Maharashtra secure, have planned urbanisation and efficiency in agriculture. Chavan’s five point agenda is a clear indication of the ruling DF government exercise ahead of the 2014 general

Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan is flanked by Siddharth Birla Sr VP, FICCI and Naina Lal Kidwai, president-FICCI and country head of HSBC India, at a press conference.

and assembly elections. There are more than 5,000 MMRDA projects commissioned this year, including the Metro Railway, Monorail, the Eastern Freeway, while a new airport terminal is to be opened this year. The Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link project has got a coastal regulation zone clearance from the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). The Navi Mumbai International Airport, which will soon be set up, is facing problems due to the Karnala bird sanctuary, which is situated along the Mumbai- GoaKonkan National Highway No.17 and is 12.5 km south of the proposed project site, but falls outside the core area. The sanctuary is very rich in avifauna and harbours 147 species of resident and 37 species of migratory birds that visit during winter. The sanctuary is away from the landing and take-off funnel of Navi Mumbai International Airport. Moreover, the position of Continued on pg 8 «

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DNA NAILS RAPISTS

By Neel Shah

n a significant development in the gang rape case, the DNA samples found on the victim’s body matched with all the five accused’s DNA profiles. This confirmed their role in the ghastly committed crime, even though an accused in the case was found to be minor.

“We have received the forensic reports from Directorate of Forensic Sciences Laboratory at Kalina. The DNA samples found on the victim matched with the DNA samples of all the five accused. This is one of the strongest evidences to confirm that all the arrested accused were

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