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Vasai in News This April 2010

1. Rash driving kills two minor boys
2. 33 arrested for sand dredging in Vaitarna
3. Thane fishermen want to stop fishing in the Pomfret breeding season to protect depleting population but government has bigger fish to fry
4. Sand mafia ignore HC order, continue dredging
5. Duo allegedly led customers to believe old water filters were replaced. All they did was cover the indicator of faulty filters with paper
6. Errors in hall tickets cost students a year
7. An ex-office bearer of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) from Nalla Sopara was arrested by the Kalyan police for running a chain-snatching racket in Thane district.
8. Sense of fulfilling contribution
9. 5 vehicles damaged during shutdown in Vasai
10. Who’s afraid of Rly police?
11. Vasai GRP want to wash hands of unclaimed bodies
12. Woman accused of killing her mom-in-law
13. MMRDA’s low rent housing a faraway dream for city’s poor
14. Daughter-in-law broke my finger, barred me from my home: 80-year-old widow ‘

Gen. Dyer Award’

Gen. Dyer Award’
Mumbai, March 7 (IANS) Over 5,000 villagers from around Maharashtra’s Vasai town Sunday gathered to witness a solemn ceremony — presentation of the ‘General Reginald Dyer Award’ to Thane Deputy Superintendent of Police Deepak Devraj.
“The award was to acknowledge Deepak Devraj’s brutality against the people of Vasai, women, children, tribals, poor villagers and others who were peacefully protesting in Gandhian traditions,” Shramjeevi Kamgar Sanghatna (SKS) vice-president Sanjay Shirodkar told IANS.
Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer was the British Army officer responsible for the massacre of over 1,500 innocent Sikhs — men, women and children — at the Jallianwala Bagh of Amritsar, Punjab, during Baisakhi Day celebiration April 13, 1919.
Justifying the “award” at a huge public meeting held near the police headquarters here, SKS president and Vasai legislator Vivek Pandit said that the actions of Devraj would shame even “the British Army officer, Gen. Reginald Dyer, who ordered the brutal massacre of innocents in Punjab during the country’s freedom struggle
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