India's oldest Test cricketer Dattajirao Gaekwad passes away
New Delhi, Feb 13: India's oldest Test cricketer and former captain Dattajirao Gaekwad died on Tuesday due to age-related ailments.
Gaekwad, who was the father of former India opener and national coach Aunshuman Gaekwad, was 95.
He breathed his last early this morning after battling for life in the ICU of a Baroda hospital for the past 12 days, a source in the family told PTI.
He played 11 Tests for India between 1952 and 1961, captaining the national team in 1959 when it toured England.
The right-hander made his debut against England at Leeds in 1952 and his final international game was against Pakistan in Chennai in 1961.
In the Ranji Trophy, Gaekwad represented Baroda from 1947 to 1961. He scored 3139 runs at an average of 47.56, including 14 hundreds.
His highest was a 249 not out against Maharashtra in the 1959-60 season.
He became India's oldest living Test cricketer in 2016 after the death of former batter Deepak Shodhan at the age of 87 in Ahmedabad.
The BCCI expresses its profound grief at the passing away of Dattajirao Gaekwad, former India captain and India’s oldest Test cricketer. He played in 11 Tests and led the team during India’s Tour of England in 1959. Under his captaincy, Baroda also won the Ranji Trophy in the… pic.twitter.com/HSUArGrjDF
— BCCI (@BCCI) February 13, 2024
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National Herald PMLA case: Delhi court issues notice to Sonia Gandhi, Rahul
New Delhi (PTI): A Delhi court on Friday issued notices to Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in National Herald money laundering case.
Special judge Vishal Gogne said their "right to be heard" was available at the time of cognisance of the chargesheet.
"Right to be heard at any stage breaths life into fair trial," the judge said, posting the matter on May 8.
The ED, which filed its chargesheet recently, began its probe in 2021 after a magistrate court took cognisance of a private complaint filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on June 26, 2014.
The complaint, the ED said, highlighted a "criminal conspiracy" by several prominent political figures, including the first family of the Congress party led by Sonia, her MP son Rahul, late Congress leaders Motilal Vora and Oscar Fernandes aside from Dubey, Pitroda and a private company Young Indian for their alleged involvement in money laundering in relation to the fraudulent takeover of properties valued over Rs 2,000 crore belonging to the Associated Journals Limited (AJL).
Congress leaders Sonia and Rahul are majority shareholders of Young Indian with 38 per cent shares held by each one of them. They were questioned for hours by the ED in this case a few years ago.
