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The estate of a 25-year-old dancer who died after eating a mislabeled cookie containing peanuts has filed a wrongful death lawsuit

TRP game zone, where a tragic fire last week killed 27 people, an official told PTI on May 28.Dhaval Thakkar, the proprietor of Dhaval Corporation, which operated the TRP game zone alongside five partners of Raceway Enterprises, was apprehended in Abu Road, Rajasthan.

High Court on Tuesday acquitted Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim in murder case of his ex-manager Ranjit. Division bench comprising Justice Sureshwar Thakur and Justice Lalit Batra of the HC has passed these orders while allowing an appeal filed by Dera chief against his conviction. The controversial preacher was convicted by special CBI court Panchkula in rape and two murder cases related to killing of journalist Ram Chander Chhatarpati and former Dera manager Ranjit Singh.

SpiceJet and its promoter Ajay Singh has refuted the claims made by KAL Airways and Kalanithi Maran regarding seeking damages of Rs.1323 crore. «These assertions are not only legally untenable but also a regurgitation of previously rejected claims by the Arbitral Tribunal and then the Delhi High Court, » the airline said. Sun Group and its chief Kalanithi Maran on Monday said they will seek over Rs 1,323 crore in damages from SpiceJet and its chief Ajay Singh. This will be in addition to challenging the recent Delhi High Court order, which was in the airline's favour.

Gujarat police have arrested one more partner of the Rajkot-based TRP game zone where a devastating fire last week killed 27 persons, an official said on Tuesday. Dhaval Thakkar, the proprietor of Dhaval Corporation, which ran the TRP game zone along with five partners of Raceway Enterprises, was arrested from Abu Road in neighbouring Rajasthan, Banaskantha Superintendent of Police Akshayraj Makwana said. With this, four persons have so far been arrested in connection with the fire incident at the game zone on Saturday. «Thakkar was arrested from Abu Road in a joint operation carried out by the Rajkot and Banaskantha police last night,» Makwana said.

Gujarat): The main accused in the Rajkot TRP game zone fire incident was arrested by Banaskantha Local Crime Branch police and Rajkot Police on Sunday, said police. The accused has been identified as Dhaval Thakkar, a resident of Abu Road. He had fled after the fire broke out in the game zone, which claimed 28 lives. Earlier, three men arrested in connection with the game zone fire were sent to a 14-day police remand by a court in the Rajkot district on Monday.

Remal'.The State Disaster Management Authority said that extremely heavy rainfall and squally wind with 40-50 kmph of speed, gusting to 60 kmph, is very likely to occur at isolated places over East Jaintia, East Khasi, South West Khasi, West Jaintia, West Khasi hills districts in next 24 hours, and hence citizens are requested to be cautious.Also Read: Cyclone Remal rips through Bengal: Storm floods farmlands, flattens homes; more rains expected today.

High Court has restrained Dubond Products India from manufacturing, distributing or selling its waterproofing product that allegedly has identical trade mark/dressing of Dr Fixit until further order. Mumbai-based Pidilite Industries, the maker of Fevicol and M-Seal adhesive brands, has approached the court to restrain Dubond Products from allegedly infringing its registered trademarks, copyright and passing off for its waterproofing brand Dr Fixit LW. Passing off in intellectual property rights (IPR) law means making a false representation that is likely to induce a person to believe that the goods or services are those of another. «The balance of convenience is overwhelmingly in favour of the plaintiff (Pidilite). Further, irreparable harm and loss will be caused to the plaintiff due to the defendant's continued use of the marks which are wrongful activities,» observed Justice RI Chagla in its order of May 21. «The defendant has various other products apart from the impugned product and therefore the defendant's business will not be affected upon the grant of injunction,» he said further in a 81-page order.

Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a BJP plea challenging a Calcutta High Court order restraining it from publishing any kind of derogatory advertisement against All India Trinamool Congress. The petition was dismissed as withdrawn as a bench of justices JK Maheshwari and KV Viswanathan said it was not inclined to interfere with the Calcutta High Court order. Significantly, the bench verbally observed that prima facie the advertisements issued were «disparaging».

Rajkot Gaming Zone fire tragedy, the Gujarat High Court came down heavily on the civic body on Monday and said that all the municipal commissioners, right from the time the TRP game zone was set up in 2021 till the time of the incident, should be held responsible for the incident. Saying that the HC could no longer trust the state machinery which reacts only after loss of innocent lives, the division bench comprising Justices Biren Vaishnav and Devan Desai asked the municipal commissioners to file individual affidavits. The court further asked the Chief Fire Officers of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat and Rajkot municipal corporations to file affidavits regarding fire safety measures within their respective areas.

Indigo Books & Music Inc. shareholders have voted to approve a deal that will see the retailer become a private company.

Click here to read more Mukesh Ambani is set to enter Africa with a telecoms venture, seeking to win mobile broadband customers in a high-growth market, Bloomberg reported.Radisys Corp., a unit of Ambani-controlled Reliance Industries Ltd., will provide key network infrastructure, applications and smartphones for Ghana-based Next-Gen InfraCo., according to Harkirit Singh, the executive director of NGIC. He described the plans ahead of NGIC’s launch announcement on Monday in Mumbai, India’s financial hub.

injunction was filed on Monday against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) leader and Prime Minister Modi Narendra Modi over defamatory remarks on the Indian corporate house, Adani Group. This comes amid heavy campaigning by both star leaders, who have time and again included Adani Group in their election campaign speeches. The plea in Delhi Court seeks to restrain alleged defamatory statements including when Rahul Gandhi accused the Centre of waiving loans worth Rs 15-16 lakh crore for industrialists, including Gautam Adani.

ownership battle of SpiceJet, Sun Group and its chief Kalanithi Maran on Monday said they will seek over Rs 1,323 crore in damages from SpiceJet and its chief Ajay Singh. This will be in addition to challenging the recent Delhi High Court order, which was in the airline's favour. The ownership dispute between SpiceJet and Maran dates back to January 2015 when KAL Airways offered a 58.46% stake in SpiceJet to Singh. On May 17, a division bench of the Delhi High Court had set aside its single judge order upholding an arbitral award that mandated SpiceJet and Ajay Singh to refund Rs579 crore with interest to Maran, bringing in relief for the cash-strapped carrier.

Pune car crash: A court here on Monday remanded two doctors and an employee of Sassoon General Hospital arrested in connection with the Porsche crash in police custody till May 30. The police produced the three in the court of Judicial Magistrate First Class (Small Causes) A A Pande and sought their custody for 10 days. Earlier in the day, the police arrested Dr Ajay Taware, head of the state-run hospital's Forensic Medicine department and Dr Shrihari Halnor, the chief medical officer for alleged manipulation of blood samples and destruction of evidence in the case, an official had said. The third arrested person, Atul Ghatkamble, works under Dr Tawre.

Gaza city of Rafah, officials said on Monday, prompting an outcry from global leaders who urged the implementation of a World Court ruling to halt Israel's assault. In scenes grimly familiar from a war in its eighth month, Palestinian families rushed to hospitals to prepare their dead for burial after the strike late on Sunday night set tents and rickety shelters ablaze.

Tis Hazari Court on Monday dismissed the bail application of Arvind Kejriwal's aide, Bibhav Kumar, accused of allegedly assaulting Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal at the residence of the CM on May 13. Last week, he was sent to four days' judicial custody on May 24. Earlier in the day, Additional Sessions Judge Sushil Anuj Tyagi had reserved the order after hearing submissions by senior advocate N Hariharan for the accused, and counsel for Swati Maliwal, additional public prosecutor Atul Srivastava and advocate Madhav Khurana.

killed 27 persons, including children. The game zone was operated without the fire NOC (no objection certificate), as per officials.The court reportedly pulled up the Rajkot Municipal Corporation on the Monday over the incident.

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PTI reported quoting a police official.According to PTI, the incident occurred at 1:20 a.m. on Monday, May 27, on Old Agra Road, where Malik was seated outside a shop."Two unidentified persons arrived on a motorbike and allegedly fired three rounds at him.