Accident accused Chaurasia's bail plea rejected
Vadodara: The sessions court here on Thursday rejected the bail application of
Rakshit Chaurasia
, whose speeding car killed a woman and injured seven people in the city last month.
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The accident shocked the city as Chaurasia, a law student at
M S University
, rammed the car into three two-wheelers in Karelibaug area.
While opposing his bail, the police stated that Chaurasia was driving at a speed of 140km/hour when the accident occurred. Police sent the car's event data recorder (EDR) to the automobile company in Germany to ascertain the speed at which Chaurasia was driving before the crash. The EDR report revealed that the car's speed was 140km/hour, which was above the permissible limit of 40km to 50km per hour on the road.
"We argued that Chaurasia was high on drugs and knew he was passing through a residential area on a crowded road. Still, he drove rashly and caused the accident. The court accepted our arguments and rejected Chaurasia's bail application," said advocate Anil Desai, public prosecutor.
The prosecution also argued that Chaurasia is a native of Uttar Pradesh and hence would not turn up for the trial and would not cooperate with the police in the investigations.
Police opposed the bail application by arguing that Chaurasia might try to destroy the evidence and threaten the witnesses if released on bail.
Chaurasia killed a woman and injured seven people while driving his friend Pranshu Chauhan's car in the city on the night of March 13. Both Chaurasia and Chauhan, who was sitting next to him in the car, were high on drugs. After the accident, Chauhan fled the spot, but Chaurasia came out of the car and started yelling 'another round' along with a girl's name.
Passers-by caught hold of Chaurasia and thrashed him before handing him over to police. Mobile and CCTV footage of the accident went viral across the country, and many demanded strict action against Chaurasia.
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The Wire
6 days ago
- The Wire
Why a Special Session of the Parliament is Critical to Discuss the Disclosure Made by CDS Chauhan
Winston churchill once said that 'in wartime truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.' The reports appearing in national and international media that India lost several fighter jets at the aftermath of the Operation Sindoor – launched by Indian Army, Air Force and Navy against Pakistan following the terrorists killing 26 tourists Pahalgam in Kashmir – were not authenticated by the Modi regime. Attack on press freedom When The Hindu published a report concerning the loss of a Rafael fighter jet by India, the day the operation began on May 7, it was removed and the publication expressed regret. Similarly, removed a news report on CNN's coverage of the loss of Rafale after the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting informed The Wire at 9:41 pm on May 9 that its presence on their site was the reason for the government ordering to block access to it. While complying with the unreasonable demand so that its website could be unblocked, the Wire editors took a decision to pursue, among others, legal remedies against the infringement of press freedom. Revelation by CDS Chauhan Obviously the truth concerning shooting down of those aircrafts was so sensitive for Modi regime that it was not allowed to come to the public domain and, of course, bodyguards of obfuscation were deployed to hide it. Only when Chief of Defence Staff(CDS) General Anil Chauhan, on May 31, in an interview with Bloomberg TV at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore made a startling revelation that aircrafts were brought down without specifying the numbers, rest of the world got the credible information from the authoritative source. 'What is important is that, not the jet being down, but why they were being down. Numbers are not important,' General Chauhan candidly stated. Describing the claim of Pakistan that six Indian Air Force (IAF) jets were shot down as 'completely inaccurate,' General Chauhan stated, 'Why they were down, what mistakes were made – that are important. The number is not important.' More importantly, the CDS flagged that the IAF turned the searchlight inwards quickly after 'tactical mistakes' were made by the military during the 'initial stages' and those were 'remedied, rectified' and subsequently the Indian fighter jets could achieve the desired objectives by hitting deep inside Pakistan. 'So we' asserted General Chauhan, 'rectified tactics and then went back on [May] 7th, 8th and 10th in large numbers to hit air bases deep inside Pakistan, penetrated all their air de-fences with impunity, carried out precision strikes.' He proceeded to add very forcefully that the Indian air force 'flew all types of aircraft with all types of ordnance on the 10th.' Indication of loss in a combat What CDS Chauhan revealed was vaguely indicated earlier by Air Marshal Bharti on May 11, 2025. In a press conference in New Delhi while dealing with a question from the correspondent of the Hindu if the IAF had lost any fighter jets, he while saying that in a combat scenario, losses are a part of combat, he informed that our pilots returned safely. Additionally he claimed that objectives of the Operation Sindoor were achieved and comment on loss suffered would help the adversary. Demand of opposition parties In an article, 'India Breaks Silence: Confirms Fighter Jet Losses in High-Stakes Clash with Pakistan' published in Defence Security Asia on 31st May 20025 it was very strikingly noted, 'The initial air clash between the two rival air forces (of India and Pakistan) has been described by observers as 'the largest dogfight of the 21st century,' involving approximately 125 fighters from both sides and testing the limits of networked warfare, air-to-air missile envelopes, and tactical coordination.' All opposition parties including Congress supported Operation Sindoor. Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi wanted the Modi regime to let the country know the losses suffered by our air force after Minister for External Affairs Jaishankar told the Consultative Committee that just before the strike was conducted by our military on terrorist bases in Pakistan, India informed the Pakistani authorities about it and asked military of that country not to interfere; which they preferred to ignore. Later Jaishankar contradicted himself when he said in the Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs that Pakistan was informed half an hour after the operation commenced. Rahul Gandhi was accused by BJP leaders of speaking the language of Pakistan. Though there were reports in the international media that Pakistan had shot down Indian fighter planes, including the French made Rafale, but the Modi regime maintained studied silence on the issue. Claim by Subramanian Swamy On May 31, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy forcefully claimed that Pakistan shot down five of our aircrafts including Rafales using Chinese fighter jets. 'Their performance was commendable, whereas our French Rafale jets were underwhelming,' he said. He accused both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah for wilfully ignoring the calls for an inquiry into the downing of Indian jets and alleged that under Modi's leadership, there will be no accountability or debate in Parliament about what went wrong. Late defence minister Jaswant Singh's perceptive analysis The subject indicates the gravity and magnitude of the problem with huge implications for national security. Therefore, the disclosure made by the CDS assumes momentous significance. Jaswant Singh, the former defence minister of India, during the Kargil war, in his memoirs, 'A Call to Honour: In Service of Emergent India' very perceptively outlined the monumetal tragedy of losing a fighter plane compared to the losses suffered in the battle field. He wrote, 'The difficulty with air casualties, as against casualties on land, is principally of imagery. The sheer optical value of the Air Force is so much greater, particularly in a limited and contained conflict. That is why the loss of an aircraft becomes so instantly an issue that catches the public eye, as compared to the loss of even a platoon of infantry.' Past precedents The admission of loss of fighter aircrafts by General Chauhan has caught the public eye more intensely than the media reports that Pakistan shot down several military jets of India. It is tragic that Modi regime is maintaining deafening silence on it. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru convened the Parliament session when India was facing the Chinese invasion in 1962 and the country was caught in the midst of war. He did so after not so prominent Jan Sangh MP of that time, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, wrote to Nehru to summon the Parliament. A few days After the Kargil conflict was over Prime Minister Vajpayee appointed a Committee on July 29, 1999, headed by defence analyst K. Subrahmanyam, father of current Foreign Minister S Jaishankar, to examine the events of the war and make recommendations for the future. By January 2000 the committee submitted its report to Vajpayee. The Modi regime must come out and reveal more details about the disclosure made by CDS Chauhan. 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Hindustan Times
6 days ago
- Hindustan Times
Pak sought 48 hrs, we finished job in 8: CDS Chauhan
Pakistan's Operation Bunyan-um-Marsoos, which was mounted in response to India's Operation Sindoor, 'folded in eight hours' on May 10 belying Islamabad's ambitious target of bringing India to its knees in 48 hours, chief of defence staff General Anil Chauhan said on Tuesday, adding that losses suffered in a military conflict are not as important as the targeted outcome of an operation. 'On the 10th of May, at about 1am, its (Pakistan's) aim was to get India to its knees in 48 hours. Multiple attacks were launched and... They escalated this actually hit only terror targets, but (Pakistan) also (got) into the military domain. From their perspective it would have been rational, in the sense, they would have said you used military means to hit these (terror) targets. But it was also rational on their part that operations, which they thought would continue for 48 hours, folded up in about 8 they picked up the telephone and said they wanted to talk,' he said. Chauhan made the comments during a special lecture on Future Wars and Warfare, organised by the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies at Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU). HT was the first to report on May 24 that the May 10 Pakistani effort lasted just eight hours with Islamabad desperately calling the US to intervene on its behalf for a ceasefire, after four major air strikes by the Indian Air Force (IAF) pulverised airbases, air assets and air defences of the enemy. The decision to fold up operations in eight hours may have stemmed from two things, Chauhan said. 'One, they must have assumed that if they continued, they were likely to lose much more. Hence, they picked up the telephone. And the second thing is that since they had stuck us at multiple fronts, they still did not have the benefit of understanding what they had they must have thought that they must have struck and hence it's time to talk. If they didn't, they would lose more,' the CDS said. His comments on the losses during Operation Sindoor come days after his remarks at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, where he acknowledged that India had suffered some setbacks. India lost fighter jets on the opening day of the May 7-10 military confrontation with Pakistan due to tactical mistakes that were swiftly rectified before the IAF returned in big numbers and carried out precision strikes deep inside the neighbouring country, he said in Singapore on May 31. 'What is important is not the jet being down, but why they were being downed. What mistakes were made — those are important. Numbers are not important. The good part is that we were able to understand the tactical mistake which we made, remedy it, rectify it, and then implement it again after two days and flew our jets again, targeting at long range,' a Bloomberg report quoted the CDS as saying then. On Tuesday, he elaborated on the point. 'When I was asked about losses on our side, I said these are not important. The results and how you act is important. It would not be very correct to talk about you go in a cricket test match, and you win by innings defeat, then there's no question of how many wickets, how many balls and how many players,' he said. But given the curiosity around the matter, India will soon come out with numbers to show the damage it inflicted on Pakistan, he said. 'Based on technical parameters such as electronic intelligence and signal intelligence, we will take out this particular data and share it with you. We will tell you how many aircraft we destroyed and how many radars we destroyed. We'll make a rough assessment of that and come out with that shortly,' he added. The IAF shot down a few high-tech fighter jets of the Pakistan Air Force during Operation Sindoor. It is poring over the technical details to establish the hits, Air Marshal AK Bharti, director general air operations, said at a media briefing on May 11, a day after the two sides reached an understanding on stopping all military action. HT reported on May 24 that India's S-400 air defence system in Adampur went into action no less than 11 times and destroyed a Pakistani Saab-2000 Erieye airborne early warning system as far as 315 km deep inside Pakistan, and the IAF has proof of its missiles having downed at least one C-130 J aircraft, a JF-17 jet and two F-16 fighters on ground and in the air. On Tuesday, some media reports said an ongoing analysis of the damage caused indicates that Pakistan lost six fighter jets and other aerial assets mentioned in the HT report. Operation Sindoor was India's direct military response to the April 22 terror strike at Pahalgam in Kashmir that killed 26 civilians in what was the worst attack on civilians since the 26/11 Mumbai strikes. India launched the operation in the early hours of May 7, bombing nine terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The pre-dawn strikes --- which killed at least 100 terrorists --- sparked four days of strikes and counterstrikes with fighter jets, missiles, drones, long-range weapons and heavy artillery. Between the launch of the operation in the early hours of May 7 and the ceasefire on the evening of May 10, Indian forces bombed nine terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, killing at least 100 terrorists, and the IAF struck targets at 13 Pakistani air bases and military installations. On Tuesday, it emerged that India's targeting of locations within Pakistan during the four-day clash was more extensive than was previously known, with a Pakistani document acknowledging that Indian drones had struck locations ranging from Peshawar in the northwest to Hyderabad in the south. Chauhan also spoke about the broader nature of global conflict. 'Professional military forces are not affected by setbacks and losses in a war. What is important is that the morale needs to remain high even if there are setbacks.' 'Adaptability is an important constituent of a very professional force. You should be able to understand what went wrong, rectify your mistake, and go again. You cannot sit down in fear,' he said. On the swiftness and impact of India's precision strikes, he said the Indian armed forces have 'raised the bar' in the fight against terrorism. 'We have drawn a new line of military operations against terror. We've connected terrorism to critical resources — like water — and demonstrated that Pakistan's strategy to bleed India by a thousand cuts will no longer go unanswered,' he said. He accused Pakistan Army chief General Asim Munir of 'spewing venom against India,' days before the Pahalgam terror attack. Just days before the April 22 strike, Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir, recently promoted to field marshal, stirred controversy by reviving the two-nation theory, the ideological foundation of Pakistan's creation, and urging Pakistani citizens to teach their children that they are 'different from Hindus.' He also described the Kashmir issue as Pakistan's 'jugular vein.' During his lecture, CDS Chauhan added that the Pakistani mindset dates to 1965 when then Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto told the United Nations Security Council that his country would wage a 'thousand-year war' against India. 'Recent remarks made by General Asim Munir were reminiscent of those previously propagated against India by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto,' Chauhan added.
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First Post
6 days ago
- First Post
Operation Sindoor: Pakistan wanted India 'to its knees in 48 hours', but folded up in 8 hours, says CDS Chauhan
CDS Anil Chauhan has revealed that Pakistan planned to bring India 'to its knees' in 48 hours through its so-called Operation Bunyan al-Marsoos on May 10. But the attacks folded within 8 hours, forcing Pakistan to seek ceasefire, he said. read more Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan on Tuesday said Pakistan had planned to bring India 'to its knees in 48 hours' with its so-called Operation Bunyan al-Marsoos on May 10. However, the attacks collapsed within 8 hours, after which Pakistan reached out and said it wanted to talk. General Chauhan made the remarks during a lecture on 'Future Wars and Warfare' at Savitribai Phule Pune University. He said Pakistan launched the operation around 1 am on May 10, carrying out multiple attacks, but their plan failed quickly in response to further retaliation under India's Operation Sindoor. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD 'Then they picked up the phone and said they wanted to talk,' Gen Chauhan said. 'We didn't see each other. We saw it either through radar or at different ranges, except for what was happening on the LoC. It was a mixture of kinetic and non-kinetic war. When I say non-kinetic, that happened in the information domain and cyber domain. And, of course, there were kinetic operations where destruction was being caused. It was also nonlinear in nature. So there's something happening on the LoC and something happening as far back as Sargodha.' This is a developing story.
