Under SC glare, Haji Ali Dargah Trust offers to remove squatters Ahmednagar cops start probe into Charkop murder
THE MURDER CAME TO LIGHT AFTER CHARKOP POLICE CRACKED THE PRAKASH’S MURDER
Prodded by the Supreme Court, the Haji Ali Dargah Trust volunteered to remove large-scale encroachments around the historic mosque in Mumbai by May 8.
The trust represented by senior advocate Gopal Subramanium, offered to remove and demolish encroachments came after a bench headed by Chief Justice JS Khehar made it clear that only the mosque area that was around 171 square metres as specified in the official documents would remain. Rest of the 908 square metres of the encroached land would have to be free, the bench told the trust in unequivocal words.
“Believers of religion would never support encroachment,” the bench observed, telling Subramanium that it would help the trust to develop the “most-beautiful sacred place.”
“Remove the squatters and beautify the approach to the main shrine. Right now its black and slush,” said Justice Khehar who had recently visited the dargah.
Subramaniam gave in to the bench after speaking to the trustees present in the court. Appreciating his stand, the bench allowed the trust to complete the task on or before May 8, subject to the satisfaction of two authorities indicated in February 10 order of the Bombay HC.
The bench also gave liberty to the Trust to place before it a beautification and architecture plan for maintaining the access and surroundings of the area. The trust had approached the SC against the HC order constituting a joint task force comprising the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and the Collector to remove illegal encroachments on the approach road leading to the Haji Ali Dargah.
In its order SC noted that in view of the undertaking, it was restraining the joint task force from removing the encroachments as per the HC order. No other court shall entertain any petition relating to the removal shrine, the order said.
The HC order came on a a petition filed by Sahayak a forum which sought immediate removal of the encroachments on the approach road to Haji Ali
The Ahmednagar police started a probe into the murder of retired banker Prakash Wankhede and have taken the custody of the three accused -- including Wankhede’s wife Asha, her sister Vandana Thorve and the latter’s boyfriend Nilesh Supale.
The police confirmed on Thursday, that Thorve killed her husband Ashok in November 2012 and dumped his body in Beed district. Three days after the police arrested former banker Prakash Wankhede’s wife, her sister and her boyfriend for murdering Prakash, the police has found that the his sister-in-law Vandana Thorve had also killed her husband.
According to the Parner police, Thorve killed her husband Ashok in November 2012 and dumped his body in Beed district. The Ambora police in Beed had found a body in 2012 which has now been identified as Ashok’s. A police source said that during interrogation Thorve revealed that she had — with her boyfriend Nilesh Supale — got Ashok drunk on the intervening night of November 11 and 12, and after he passed out, they killed him. The police also recorded statements of Ashok’s family; none of them claim to have seen him in the past five years. “We are recreating the crime scene to chalk down the exact sequence of events. We are trying to figure out exactly how they carried out the murder and then dumped the body,” said inspector Hanumantrao Gade o Parner police station.
The murder came to light after Charkop police cracked the mur der case. He had gone missing last year in April. His wife Asha had approached the police with a missing complaint but the inves tigation revealed that she had killed him and was helped by her sisiter Thorve and her boyfriend Supale. The police have also found that it was in Thorve’s rented apartment where the trio fed ‘kheer’ laced with sedatives to Prakash and then killed him by hitting him on the head.