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'Gun-toting' former MP Vitthal Radadiya is BJP's candidate from Porbandar for Lok Sabha by-polls

Edited by Mala Das (with inputs from PTI) | Tuesday May 14, 2013

Former Gujarat MP Vitthal Radadiya, infamous for pulling a gun at a toll booth attendant, has been chosen as the BJP's nominee from Porbandar for the Lok Sabha bypolls slated for June 2.

Vitthal Radadiya, the MP who brandished gun at toll booth, joins Narendra Modi's BJP

Edited by Mala Das | Friday March 8, 2013

The canny Narendra Modi would have done a detailed SWOT analysis on this one. Vitthal Radadiya, famously known as the "gun-toting MP", has joined Mr Modi's party, the BJP today. He quit the Congress in a huff last month.

Gujarat leader Vitthal Radadiya, who pulled gun at toll attendant, resigns from Congress

Reported by Rohit Bhan; Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Tuesday February 26, 2013

Vitthal Radadiya - the former Gujarat MP who was caught on camera last year brandishing a gun and allegedly threatening a toll booth attendant - has resigned from the Congress and has indicated his new political preference by praising the BJP's Naren...

MP, who pulled out gun at toll plaza, won't apologise; refused bail

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Wednesday October 17, 2012

When he pulled out a large rifle at a toll booth plaza in Gujarat, Congress MP Vitthalbhai Radadiya said that he had acted in self-defence. He repeated the same explanation today as he applied for anticipatory bail in a court in Vadodara today, which...

MP who pulled out gun at toll plaza refuses to apologise

Reported by Rohit Bhan, Edited by Sabyasachi Dasgupta | Wednesday October 17, 2012

When he pulled out a large rifle at a toll booth plaza in Gujarat, Congress MP Vitthalbhai Radadiya said that he had acted in self-defence. He repeated the same explanation today as he applied for anticipatory bail in a court in Vadodara today. A cas...

BJP youth leader allegedly shoots waiter in Kanpur

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Saturday October 13, 2012

A day after NDTV first revealed a shocking video of a Congress MP from Porbandar in Gujarat threatening toll booth staff with a gun, another instance of political arrogance has emerged. Virat Bhadauria, who is the vice-president of the Uttar Pradesh ...

Who is MP with a gun, Vitthalbhai Radadiya?

Reported by Rohit Bhan; Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Friday October 12, 2012

Vitthalbhai Hansrajbhai Radadiya will be famous for some time as the gun-toting MP from Gujarat. He has a number of criminal cases against him. Ironically, he represents Porbandar in Lok Sabha.

Punjab's brave women toll booth operators

Vikram Chowdhary | Friday August 24, 2012

In a country where tempers on the highway run high a toll attendant's job is a dangerous one. And in such a scenario, if women take up this job, it is bound to make headlines.

Blog: The Yamuna Expressway experience

Siddharth Vinayak Patankar | Friday August 10, 2012

I decided to drive from the Greater Noida end to Agra, and back again. On the way up, we stopped frequently to film certain sections of the road, the toll booths, etc. But on the return leg, I got scientific, put the car onto cruise control (at a 100...

Seamless transit at all highway toll plazas by 2014

Press Trust of India | Tuesday June 19, 2012

The Government is working on a plan which would bring an end to long vehicular traffic at the national highways' toll plazas with the help of electronic collection system, a move that will save Rs 87,000 crore a year. "Within two years we intend to b...

Raj Thackeray's party attacks toll posts across Maharashtra

Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday June 13, 2012

A day after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Chief Raj Thackeray questioned the toll collection policy of the state government, hundreds of MNS activists on Wednesday attacked and damaged toll posts in various parts of the state, police said. The act...

Viewers donate Rs 19.81 lakh for Gurgaon toll collector's family

Arvind Sharma & Siddharth Ranjan Das | Sunday October 9, 2011

Ram Rati Devi and her family are still in shock.Her youngest son, the family's sole bread winner, Umeshkant Pandey, a Gurgaon toll plaza employee, was shot dead inside a toll booth in Gurgaon on September 25. He was allegedly shot by Vijay Veer Yadav...

Police say toll plaza murder solved; suspected killer arrested

NDTV Correspondent | Monday September 26, 2011

Police have arrested two suspects in connection with the murder of Umesh Kumar Pandey, a toll booth attendant who was shot dead at the toll plaza in Kheri Daula in Gurgaon on Friday. The murder was caught on camera.

Four toll plaza attendants thrashed in Ghaziabad

Indo-Asian News Service | Sunday September 25, 2011

Barely a day after a toll plaza attendant was shot dead in Gurgaon, five armed men in a mini-truck refused to pay toll fee of Rs.150 at a toll collection centre in Ghaziabad and thrashed four attendants, police said on Saturday. The men also escaped ...

Massive manhunt on for killers of Gurgaon toll booth attendant

NDTV Correspondent | Saturday September 24, 2011

A day after the horrific murder of Umesh Kumar Pandey, a toll booth attendant at the toll plaza in Kheri Daula in Gurgaon, was caught on camera, the police have launched a massive manhunt to track down the killers.