After Modi, former Maharashtra CM Uddhav meets Dawoodi Bohra community leader
Mumbai, Feb 14: Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, who heads a faction of the Shiv Sena, on Tuesday called on Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, the religious head of Dawoodi Bohras, in Mumbai, three days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated an education centre of the minority community here.
During the meeting, the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) president conveyed his congratulations to the Syedna on the opening of the new campus in Marol in suburban Andheri.
"Uddhav Thackeray today (Tuesday) visited the Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah Arabic Academy in Marol to meet with Dawoodi Bohra leader His Holiness Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin and convey congratulations on the opening of the new campus," a functionary of the community said.
The meeting is being seen as Thackeray's outreach to the influential community which has several thousands members in Mumbai.
Prime Minister Modi, who met Syedna Saifuddin during his visit to Mumbai last Friday, recalled his decades-old bond with the Dawoodi Bohra community.
"I am here as a family member, not as Prime Minister," Modi had said after inaugurating the fourth campus of the Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah, the foremost educational institute of the Dawoodi Bohra community.
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Body of Bihar Police personnel found hanging in barracks in Patna
Patna (PTI): The body of a Bihar Police personnel was found hanging from the ceiling of a room in his barracks here, a senior officer said on Sunday.
Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Kartikeya Sharma said a havildar with Bihar State Armed Police-1, popularly known as "Gorkha battalion", died allegedly by suicide as he had been suffering from some ailment.
The deceased left behind "two suicide notes", one in Hindi and the other in his native language Nepali.
"From the suicide notes, it appears that Navraj Sunar, the deceased havildar, had been suffering from some ailment which had caused him much mental anguish and may have driven him to take the extreme step," the SSP said.
The body was being sent to the native village of the deceased in Nepal after a post-mortem examination, while further investigations were on, with forensic experts inspecting the site of the incident.
