Coconut thrown from local train kills pedestrian
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Palghar (PTI): A 31-year-old pedestrian died after he was struck by a coconut thrown carelessly from a local train passing the Bhayandar creek bridge in Palghar district of Maharashtra, officials said on Sunday.
The coconut was apparently part of 'Nirmalya' (sacred floral offerings) thrown in the direction of the creek on Saturday morning.
The victim, Sanjay Dattaram Bhoir, was walking along the railway bridge, reportedly to go to work. Prima facie, he was using the railway bridge as an alternative route to reach Naigaon from Panju island, as boat service had been suspended due to inclement weather, officials said.
A passenger on a local train, presumably immersing Nirmalya in the creek, threw a coconut, which struck Bhoir directly between his ear and eye. Bhoir was immediately rushed to a private hospital in Vasai after the incident. However, due to the severity of his head injury, his condition deteriorated, and he was subsequently transferred to JJ Hospital in Mumbai for advanced treatment.
Despite medical efforts, he died during the course of his treatment, officials added.
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21 hours raid fetch nothing for ED, claims Karnataka Cong MLA’s son
Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Congress MLA N A Haris' son Mohammed Haris Nalapad on Tuesday claimed that the 21 hours of search by the ED in his house and other locations did not fetch anything.
The Enforcement Directorate on Monday raided the premises of the two sons of Haris (Mohammed Haris Nalapad and Omar Farook Nalapad), Aqeeb Khan, grandson of ex-Union cabinet minister K Rahman Khan and an alleged crypto hacker named Srikrishna Ramesh alias Sriki in a crypto currency-linked money laundering case.
More than a dozen premises in the city have been covered as part of the action executed under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
"My grandfather is 89-year-old. There is not a single bad mark. My father (N A Haris) is a four-time MLA. There is not a single accusation against him. Their only intention was to target myself and my brother. As simple as that," Mohammed Nalapad, who is a former Karnataka Youth Congress president, told reporters.
According to him, the ED officials carried out raids for 21 hours.
"After 21 hours of search, they took away only two mobile phones from our house. They did not get a single paisa. The ED will testify it," the Congress leader said.
Exuding faith in the law, he said he is ready to fight the case in court.
"Me and my father have opted for politics and we are in public life. You can call me whatever you want but I have not done anything wrong," Mohammed Nalapad said.
Regarding his relationship with Sriki, he said he knew him but had no clue what he was doing.
"I have never said that either me or my brother do not know Sriki. But how will I know what he does in his house? Can his crimes be linked to us," he asked.
The money laundering case stems from some Karnataka Police FIRs and chargesheets filed in a 2017 case of hacking of national and international websites, stealing of bitcoins and sale of these 'stolen' virtual digital assets (VDA) through crypto platforms by the alleged hacker Sriki and his associates.
The Nalapad brothers and Aqeeb Khan are alleged to be the beneficiaries of the proceeds of crime generated through this alleged crypto-linked crime, the ED said.
