Indian Navy MARCOS commandos launch sanitisation operation aboard hijacked vessel after the vessel MV LILA NORFOLK - Photo - X@indiannavyIndian Navy MARCOS commandos launch sanitisation operation aboard hijacked vessel after the vessel MV LILA NORFOLK - Photo - X@indiannavy
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  • Underworld don and fugitive Dawood Ibrahim’s properties, including his ancestral home in Mumbake village in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri district, are being auctioned today. Reports say Shiv Sena member Ajay Srivastava is bidding for three of the four properties. 
  • In West Bengal, ED officials who went to raid TMC leader Sheikh Shajahan’s house in Sandeshkali were beaten up by more than a hundred locals. Reports say the attackers were carrying firearms and other lethal weapons. Officials and CRPF jawans accompanying them had to flee for life. 
  • ED on Friday raided Baramati Agro Private Limited, headed by NCP MLA and Sharad Pawar’s grand nephew, Rohit Pawar. The searches were linked to Kannad cooperative sugar factory acquisition by Baramati Agro at an undervalued price of ₹50 crore allegedly through a manipulated auction of Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank. 
  • Indian Navy’s elite commandos, MARCOS, have got on the Cargo ship ‘MV LILA NORFOLK’ hijacked by pirates near Somalia’s coast. The ship has 15 Indians onboard. Indian Navy has deployed its warship INS Chennai and a Navy aircraft to monitor and track the hijacked vessel. 
  • The rift between INDIA Bloc partners, Congress and TMC, in West Bengal over seat sharing seems to be widening with Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Choudhary’s remarks over the attack on ED officials. He said there is “no law and order in the state” and demanded President’s rule.
  • In Jammu and Kashmir, LeT terrorist Bilal Ahmed Bhat, who was involved in the murder of army personnel Umar Fayaz and other terror crimes, was killed in a joint operation by Police and Security forces in a village in Chotigam area of Shopian. 
  • According to the Union Health Ministry, India has recorded 761 new cases in the past 24 hours till Friday morning, bringing down the total number of active cases to 4,334–89 less than Thursday. Twelve people have died due to COVID-related illness, with five from Kerala, four from Karnataka, two from Maharashtra, and one from UP.