Mumbai News Live Updates, January 9, 2023: After former ICICI Bank MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar and husband Deepak Kochhar’s pleas seeking interim release were allowed this morning by the Bombay High Court, their lawyer has now approached the special CBI court to complete bail formalities. The court has accepted the cash surety and sent the documents to the registry for verification. A release memo is likely to be issued by 4 pm, following which it will be sent to Arthur Road jail where Deepak is lodged and Byculla jail, where Kochhar is lodged. They are likely to be released by Monday evening.
Meanwhile, Union minister Narayan Rane and Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday bitterly engaged in a verbal duel. However, this wasn’t the first time the two leaders took potshots at each other. Even in the past, whenever the two locked horns, the tone, and tenor of their language and choice of words were harsh. The insiders in both parties reveal that Raut’s ‘enmity’ with Rane has come into the public domain since the latter’s expulsion from the organisation by (late) Bal Thackeray in 2005.
In other news, between 2015 and 2021, nearly two-thirds of the MBBS graduates from Grant Medical College (GMC) or J J Hospital in Mumbai, Maharashtra’s biggest government medical college, opted out of their compulsory one-year rural posting. The hospital, during this period, received Rs 27 crore in penalties and many students are yet to pay the fine. The authorities now have tweaked the norms to ensure that the graduates no longer skip rural service by paying a fine.
Mumbai News Live Updates: PM Modi should treat all states like his children, says MNS chief; in Maharashtra’s biggest govt medical college, 2 in 3 graduates chose Rs 10 lakh fine over rural posting and more. Follow this space for the latest updates from Mumbai.
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