Hansel and Gretel (opera) Hansel and Gretel (opera) Hansel and Gretel (German: ) is an opera by nineteenth-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck, who described it as a "" (fairy-tale opera). The libretto was written by Humperdinck's sister, Adelheid Wette, based on the Grimm brothers' fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel". It is much admired for its folk music-inspired themes, one of the most famous being the "" ("Evening Benediction") from act 2. The idea for the opera was proposed to Humperdinck by his sister, who approached him about writing music for songs that she had written for her children for Christmas based on "Hansel and Gretel".
NSEL case to the applicant (Jignesh Shah), or for that matter, to NSEL. The Enforcement Directorate arrested him on 12 July 2016 for assisting NSEL defaulters in money laundering. A special PMLA court granted bail to Shah terming the arrest by ED was ‘illegal’. After hearing both sides, Hon. Judge P.R. Bhavake, Special PMLA Court, Mumbai, ruled: “The learned counsel for the ED failed to satisfy me that this arrest is for a separate crime… I do not find any force in the contention that the ED wanted to file a supplementary complaint against the applicant (Shah) in respect of the investigation