In an announcement by the All India Football Federation, Bhatkal's football sensation, Ibrahim Gulrez, secured a position in the three-member Indian team for the highly anticipated E-Football Asian Cup 2023, hosted in Qatar.
Gulrez, celebrated as the national champion, will join skilled teammates Hemant Krishna Kom and Charanjot Singh after winning the qualifying rounds. The trio is now geared up to showcase their talents on the international stage against e-football champions from various nations. The Virtuosity Arena, Festival City Mall, Doha, will be the host for the competition.
The grand opening ceremony on February 1st will kick off the group matches, with the knockout rounds and quarterfinals scheduled for February 4th. The pinnacle of the competition, the semi-finals and finals, is set to unfold on February 5th.

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New Delhi (PTI): A Delhi court has sentenced two CBI officers to three months' imprisonment for assaulting and trespassing into the residence of an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer during a raid over two decades ago.
Judicial Magistrate Shashank Nandan Bhatt was hearing the arguments on the sentence against the convicted retired police officer V K Pandey and Ramneesh, who was serving as a superintendent of police when the raid was conducted in 2000.
Ramneesh is at present a joint director at the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The court also fined Rs 50,000 each to both the accused.
Both were accused under IPC sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 427 (mischief) and 448 (criminal trespass) in a complaint filed by IRS officer Ashok Kumar Aggarwal.
The case pertained to an incident on October 19, 2000, when a CBI team carried out a search and arrest operation at Aggarwal's residence in Paschim Vihar.
Aggarwal alleged that the officials forcibly entered his house in the early hours, assaulted him and violated legal procedures during the arrest.
#WATCH | Delhi | Former IRS officer assault case. | Tis Hazari Court sentenced CBI joint director Ramneesh and Retired ACP Vivek Pandey to 3 months sentence in an assault case filed by former IRS officer Ashok Agarwal. The court has granted them bail to challenge the judgment.… https://t.co/RwAxjMrWDK pic.twitter.com/2FlkG4rDs0
— ANI (@ANI) April 28, 2026
