Updated Jan 25, 2021 | 11:32 IST
On most days, Ahmedabad district recorded the maximum number of deaths in Gujarat. On May 5, it had recorded around 40 deaths. No Covid deaths in Ahmedabad in more than 10 months, 92 fresh cases | Photo Credit: IANS
Ahmedabad: For the first time in over 10 months, the district did not record any death due to Covid. The last time this happened was on April 14.
On most days, the district recorded the maximum number of deaths in Gujarat. On May 5, it had recorded around 40 deaths, the highest ever single-day death toll for Ahmedabad district. Ahmedabad with 92 cases was followed by Surat with 85, Vadodara 87, Rajkot 59.
Vadodara: A sessions court here denied permission to the CID (crime) for conducting lie detection, brain mapping and narco-analysis tests of six cops accused of killing Sheikh Babu Nishar at Fatehgunj police station. The investigating agency had filed an appeal in the sessions court last month after a magisterial court denied them permission for the same tests.
The court of additional district judge Y A Bhavsar denied the permission as the accused cops did not give their consents for the tests. During the hearing before the trial court too, the six accused had submitted written statements to the court denying their consent. The sessions court took that into account while relying on the judgements of the Supreme Court and the Gujarat high court that for conducting such tests, the consent of the accused is necessary. The six accused cops including inspector D B Gohil, sub-inspector D M Rabari and lok rakshak dal (LRD) personnel Pankaj Rathod, Yogendrasinh Chauhan, Hitesh Bambhaniya a