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The police have posted online a video of the woman apologising for beating the boy who lived in the same block as her. A woman was arrested for allegedly slapping and dragging a minor boy along the floor of the parking area of her apartment building after claiming that he pressed the doorbell of her flat and ran away multiple times on Saturday evening, the Surat police said on Monday. A video in which the woman is purportedly seen dragging the boy surfaced online and his father later registered a police complaint. According to sources, the accused resides on the first floor of her apartment building. On Sunday evening, she was alone in her flat and busy with household work when she heard the doorbell. When she opened the door, she found nobody outside. After a few minutes, again somebody pressed her flat’s doorbell and again she opened the door but found nobody. This happened five times and she then remained at the door and saw a minor boy pressing the doorbell and rushing to the parking area. She allegedly caught hold of the boy in the parking area playing with other boys, the sources said. She allegedly dragged the boy on the parking area floor and slapped him multiple times and later warned all the kids playing there not to ring the doorbell. On Sunday late night, the boy’s father returned home and learnt about the incident. He checked the CCTV footage of the parking area and confronted the woman over the issue. Her also took his son to a nearby hospital for treatment.On Sunday, the boy’s father filed a police complaint. A senior police officer said, “The condition of the boy is stable… He has bruises on his body.” He added, “The woman apologised before us and we have uploaded a video on social media platforms. In it, she appealed to the people not to do such things, and said that she would not repeat such mistakes.”

The policeman, Sahdev Solanki, suffered injuries and was discharged from a hospital after treatment. A HEAD constable with the Valsad Police was beaten up allegedly by a vendor of banned synthetic thread and his family members during a police raid at the latter’s residence in the Mograwadi area on Monday evening, police said on Wednesday. The vendor and four members of his family have been arrested in connection with the case, police said.  The policeman, Sahdev Solanki, suffered injuries and was discharged from a hospital after treatment. On a tip-off, Solanki reached Hanuman Street in the Mograwadi area on Monday and found two youths travelling on a two-wheeler. On checking the vehicle, three reels of synthetic thread were recovered. During questioning, the duo disclosed that they had come to return such threads to one Yash Nikam, a resident of the same area from whom they purchased it earlier. Meanwhile, Yash stepped out of his house and had a heated argument with Solanki. After a while, his wife Dimple, his father Dipak, his elder brother Sandeep and his wife Reena came out of the house and they allegedly assaulted the policeman, who soon managed to flee. He was later taken to the Valsad Civil Hospital. Solanki later lodged a complaint against the accused with Valsad town police station. All five have been booked under BNS 121 (Voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt to deter a public servant from their duty) The two youths who came with synthetic thread, identified as Amrut Aulakh and Raj Tiwari, both residents of Valsad town, escaped after witnessing the scuffle.

The accident occurred while the man on a two-wheeler was crossing the Jilani bridge in Surat. A man and his seven-year-old daughter on a motorcycle died in Gujarat after they allegedly got entangled in a nylon kite string and fell from a flyover in Surat on Wednesday evening, the police said. According to the police, the accident occurred when the man identified as Rehan Shaikh, 35, a resident of Saiyedpura in Surat, was crossing the Chandra Shekhar Azad bridge (also known as Jilani bridge), while on his way to Subhash Garden at Morabhagal, on his bike along with his wife Rehana, 30, and their daughter Alisha. The Rander police said that when Rehan came into contact with the kite string, he used one hand to remove the string, while controlling his bike with the other. During the process, he lost control of the vehicle that was moving at a high speed, and the bike hit the bridge’s outer railing, throwing him and his daughter 70 feet off to the ground. Rehan and Alisha died on the spot, while Rehana, who fell on a parked auto-rickshaw, is in a critical condition, the police said.

Councillors of Ward No. 7 in the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) are jointly opposing the change of site after officials shifted the construction site at the request of BJP’s Katargam MLA Veenu Moradiya. A change in the construction site of Suman High School from Katargam to Ved Road in Surat has ruffled feathers in both the BJP and Aam Aadmi Party. Councillors of Ward No. 7 in the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) are jointly opposing the change of site after officials shifted the construction site at the request of BJP’s Katargam MLA Veenu Moradiya. AAP corporators have been on a dharna at the SMC headquarters since Thursday evening, demanding the construction of the new school at the  site, as proposed earlier. The foundation stone of the school was laid by former state BJP president and Union Jal Shakti Minister CR Patil on 17 September 2025 at the Katargam site. A few days ago, BJP’s Ward No. 7 corporator Narendra Pandav learnt about the development. He along with his colleagues — including BJP’s councillor Diptiben Katariya — made a representation to Surat Mayor Daxesh Mavani and the standing committee chairman Rajan Patel. Ward No. 7 has four corporators — two are from BJP (Narendra Pandav, Dipti Sakariya) and two are from AAP (Dr. Kishor Rupareliya and Jyotiben Patel). SMC is run by BJP. On Thursday, Pandav and Sakariya made another representation, this time to SMC commissioner Shalini Agrawal, demanding to stop construction. Talking to The Indian Express, Pandav said, “I have checked with SMC records and learnt there was no record or permission taken for the construction of a school in Ward No. 8. No such proposal has come before the standing committee or the general board meeting for approval till date. We requested that such ongoing construction of the school at the new site should be stopped, and it should be constructed in ward No. 7.” AAP’s SMC corporators — including the Leader of Opposition, Payal Sakariya — Thursday made representations to Rajan Patel and urged him to stop the construction of the school in Ward No. 8. AAP corporator  Kishor Rupareliya said, “We have sat on dharna outside the standing committee chairman’s office. We will sit on a dharna till Friday afternoon, when the standing committee meeting is scheduled to be held. If our demands are not met, we will continue the dharna.” When The Indian Express tried to contact Moradiya, he did not answer the call despite repeated attempts. Two years ago, BJP corporators of Ward No. 7 (Katargam) submitted a proposal to help students from middle-and-low income backgrounds. The proposal was approved in SMC’s standing committee and general board meetings. In July 2025, the contract was approved through a tender process, and on August 6, 2025, the work order was allotted to a  firm. On October 7, BJP MLA Moradiya wrote a letter to Shalini Agrawal, requesting her to change the site of construction of the school from Katargam (Ward No. 7) to Ved road (Ward No. 8).  His reason was that more students from “lower income groups and middle class” can benefit if the school is constructed at Ved road.

A total of ten boats participated in the competition organised by the National Fighter Club of the coastal area in Surat. It has been held every year for the past 50 years, under Mahajan Samarak Samudra Hodi Spardha (Mahajan Memorial Sea boat competition). FOUR MANUAL boats overturned during a boat race at Dumas in Surat on Sunday owing to high-speed winds. No casualties were reported and all those on board were safely rescued, officials said on Monday. A total of ten boats participated in the competition organised by the National Fighter Club of the coastal area in Surat. It has been held every year for the past 50 years, under Mahajan Samarak Samudra Hodi Spardha (Mahajan Memorial Sea boat competition). A total of 10 participants competed in the manual boat race, which started at Hazira jetty and ended at Magdalla port, covering a distance of 21 km. As many as 50 other boats also sailed with them to cheer them on and attend to emergencies.

SURAT: In an alarming incident of unruly behaviour by a woman passenger in the Surat BRTS bus service, a bus driver was allegedly assaulted on duty on Saturday for not stopping the bus midway the day before.The incident occurred on a BRTS bus travelling on the Someshwara to Surat Railway Station route. The entire incident was captured on the CCTV cameras installed inside the bus, clearly showing the woman’s aggressive conduct.According to details, when the bus reached a stop near J H Ambani School, a burqa-clad woman approached the driver’s cabin. She allegedly grabbed the driver by the collar and questioned him for not stopping the bus the day before at a location.During the altercation, she reportedly struck the driver on the head with the mobile phone she was holding.According to the details shared with police, the driver alleged that on Friday the woman passenger asked the driver to stop the bus midway.The driver reportedly informed her that there was no designated stop at that point and that the bus could not be halted there. This response allegedly enraged the woman, and she returned the next day to attack the driver.The driver sustained a head injury and began bleeding.

Ahmedabad: Western Railway has proposed a major safety upgrade to implement the indigenous KAVACH train collision avoidance system on the Udhna–Jalgaon section and across its locomotive fleet under Indian Railways’ Umbrella Work Programme for 2024–25. The total proposed investment is Rs 483.65 crore.Of this, Rs 109.83 crore has been earmarked to install KAVACH on the 307-km Udhna–Jalgaon section, a key corridor for both passenger and freight trains, to enhance operational safety. An additional Rs 373.82 crore is proposed for modification, upgradation and programming of 436 locomotives of Western Railway to ensure full compatibility with the KAVACH system.The project is part of the larger national initiative, “Provision of KAVACH with communication backbone of Long-Term Evolution (LTE) on balance routes of Indian Railways (Umbrella Work 2024–25),” approved under the Works, Machinery & Rolling Stock Programme 2024–25 at an overall cost of Rs 27,693 crore (PH-33).

Surat: Navsari local crime branch (LCB) police have arrested two thieves who travelled from Mumbai to Gujarat to carry out daylight apartment thefts before fleeing the state. The accused, Montu Chaudhari alias Vibhuti Chaudhari (36) and Shavez Khan (39), had a total of 31 thefts registered against them in Gujarat and Maharashtra.During the arrests, police recovered gold worth Rs 2.34 lakh and Rs 75,000 in cash. With these arrests, the Navsari LCB has solved nine theft cases registered across Navsari, Surat, Bharuch, and Anand districts, including cases under Navsari Rural, Jalalpore, Billimora, Navsari Town, Rander, Bhestan, Anand, and Ankleshwar police stations. Police said the duo would arrive in Gujarat by train, retrieve motorcycles they had parked in advance, and replace the number plates with fake ones. They would then randomly target apartments, steal cash and valuables during the daytime, and immediately leave the premises. To evade detection, they often travelled without mobile phones, spent time at random locations to break CCTV trails, and sometimes even rerouted to Maharashtra to mislead authorities.Chaudhari is a serial offender, with 14 theft cases registered in Maharashtra across Nalasopara, Vakola, Kamothe, Tulinj, APMC, and NRI Sagari police stations since 2010. This was his first arrest in Gujarat. Khan, meanwhile, has eight registered cases across Pardi, Vapi, Malad, and Navghar police jurisdictions in Gujarat and Maharashtra.The two were reportedly accompanied by two other associates, Sajid Shaikh and Jatin Patil, prompting a police hunt for them.

In a joint operation, the Dhoraji police and Amreli Local Crime Branch (LCB) rescued a 44-year-old man who was kidnapped on Jan 18 and arrested six people including the brother of a woman with whom the victim’s son had reportedly eloped.The kidnapped man has been identified as Vimal Hariyani (44). Following the incident, Hariyani’s daughter Krupali alias Krupa Chitara, lodged a complaint at Dhoraji police station naming Pradyumansinh alias Kano and five unidentified persons.Krupali stated that on Jan 15, she came to know that her younger brother, Dikshit alias Dishu, had eloped with a girl named Hetu from Amreli. The next day, she received a call from an unknown person asking whether her brother was at home. When she replied in the negative, the caller disconnected immediately.Later, her mother informed her that Hetu’s brother, Kano, along with a few other men, had come to their house and threatened that if Hetu was not found within 24 hours, they would kill Dikshit.On Jan 18, Kano and his associates came to their house again and took her father along with them. When the family tried to contact him later, his phone was switched off.

Surat: The state govt on Tuesday suspended three officers of the Gujarat Water Supply and Sewerage Board (GWSSB) posted in Surat after a newly constructed overhead water tank collapsed during a testing process at Tadkeshwar village in Areth taluka of Surat district on Monday.According to sources, the suspended officials include superintending engineer Ankit Garasiya, executive engineer Rajnikant Chaudhary, and deputy engineer Jay Chaudhary. The state govt has also ordered the stoppage of all pending payments to the construction contractor and directed officials to initiate criminal proceedings in connection with the incident.Police have begun the process of registering an FIR at Mandvi police station against the owners of Mehsana-based Jayanti Super Construction, which was awarded the contract to build the tank.The tank, constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 20 crore under the Gay Pagla Juth Yojna, was meant to supply drinking water to 14 villages in the region. The 15-m-high structure had a storage capacity of 11 lakh litres.Officials said that around 9 lakh litres of water had been filled into the tank over the past two days as part of the testing process before it collapsed.Three women workers who were working nearby sustained injuries in the incident. The construction of the tank had been underway for the past three years.