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Mumbai police interrogate Chennai-based hotelier, Vikram Aggarwal, who brought Vindoo and Guru together
By Kainaz Choksey
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hennai based hotelier Vikram Aggarwal was interrogated by the Mumbai police on Friday afternoon over his suspected involvement in the Indian Premier League or IPL betting scam. Aggarwal, referred to as Victor, was asked to surrender before the Tamil Nadu Police on Thursday but he missed the deadline. His plea for anticipatory bail was rejected by the Madras High Court. The hotelier is reported to have introduced actor Vindoo Dara Singh to Gurunath Meiyappan, the disgraced son-in-law of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president, N. Srinivasan. According to the police, an ICC official had ‘warned’ Chennai Super Kings (CSK) team
owner Gurunath Meiyappan to be ‘careful’ about his association with bookies, weeks before he was arrested in connection with the IPL betting scandal. The Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) had also reportedly approached Meiyappan regarding his association with bookies. According to Himanshu Roy, Jt.Commissioner of Police (crime) “Through phone conversations, it has been found that Gurunath Meiyappan had informed jailed actor Vindoo Dara Singh about the warning issued to him by the International Cricket Council (ICC) who had got in touch with the Board Of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to warn them that Meiyappan has been keeping company with bookies. We are still in the process of interrogating
Aggarwal. He will be produced face-to-face during an interrogation with Gurunath Meiyappan and Vindoo Dara Singh and then questioned separately.” Aggarwal heads VVA Hotels Private Limited, which owns two franchise properties in Chennai, the swank 129-room business hotel Fortune Select Palms and the five-star Hotel Radisson Blu. The Fortune property is located along the high-profile IT corridor in suburban Chennai and is a member of the ITC Hotel Group. Vindoo Dara Singh and Gurunath Meiyappan will remain in custody till June 3. Bookie Ashwin Aggarwal alias Tinku Mandey, who was in contact with Ramesh Vyas and other bookies in Pakistan, will be produced in court tomorrow.
KEM celebrates Aruna’s 65th b’day Hapless victim of brutal rape has spent 40 years bound to a bed in this hospital By Shwetha Kannan
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n June 1 every year, nurses at the BMCrun KEM Hospital come together like a family to celebrate the feeling of oneness, unity, care and compassion for the most loved nurse of the hospital, Aruna Shanbaug. Aruna will complete 65 years of age today (June 1, 2013). Of these 65 years, she has spent 40 years bound to a bed after being brutally raped by a ward-boy of the hospital in 1973, making her one of the saddest cases of Continued on pg 8 «
RESIDENT DOCTOR ASSAULTED, UNTRACEABLE SION HOSPITAL MEDICOS TO OBSERVE ‘BLACK DAY’
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atient Ramesh Dumre was suffering from liver disease and was brought to Sion Hospital at around 9 a.m. on Friday. At around 4.30 p.m. his relatives said that the doctors weren’t paying attention to him and beat up resident doctor Swapnil Shinde. Since then the assaulted doctor is untraceable,” said Dr. Santosh Wakchaure, president, central-MARD. “Medicine Department first year student, Dr. Swapnil Shinde, was beaten up by patients’ relatives in Sion Hospital. He is untraceable since the incident. Said Dr. Avinash Supe. “We don’t even know the nature of Dr. Shinde’s injuries as he has been untraceable since the incident took place. We are lodging a complaint and observing black day tomorrow (June 1) as a mark of protest against this incident,” said Dr. Wakchaure.