Mumbai: A sessions court on Monday granted anticipatory bail to Sheetal Garje Andhale and Ajay Garje, siblings of Anant Garje, personal assistant of state environment minister Pankaja Munde. Anant was recently arrested on the charge of abetment to suicide after his wife, Gauri (28), a dental surgeon at KEM Hospital, allegedly hanged herself at their…
Mumbai: A woman, on behalf of her seven-year-old autistic twins, has moved the Bombay high court challenging the refusal by an Andheri West school to admit them under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act.Rita Joshi, an advocate practising in the HC, has challenged the school’s “unlawful and discriminatory” refusal to…
Mumbai: A survey of 36 poor air quality index (AQI) sites across Mumbai and Navi Mumbai largely showed “absolute non-compliance” with existing pollution control guidelines. The BMC’s 29-point standard operating procedure (SOP), though technically comprehensive, has not translated into effective on-ground implementation across areas inspected, said a fresh panel set up by the Bombay high…
Mumbai: Just hours before the model code of conduct kicked in, deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde on Monday announced a slew of big-ticket civic projects alongside municipal commissioner Bhushan Gagrani.Addressing the media, Shinde announced that plans for an almost 300-acre central park—integrating open spaces from the Mahalaxmi Racecourse and the Coastal Road—will be fast-tracked.A Rs…
Thane: A Thane court has granted bail to a woman and her brother arrested on charges of sexually assaulting her 10-year-old son. The case was registered based on information provided by the father of the victim, who lived with his mother at Lokmanya Nagar in Maharashtra’s Thane city following his parents’ separation. The child was…
Mumbai: Against the backdrop of a recent Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report flagging rising debt and fiscal stress due to populist schemes, Maharashtra’s power distribution utility, Mahavitaran, has moved swiftly to shore up its finances. The state-run firm has repaid a massive Rs 12,800 crore loan in a single instalment — an unprecedented move…
Mumbai: Malad police arrested five men for stealing MTNL cables. Senior inspector Dushyant Chavan was passing by a Charkop road when he noticed about 25 people on the footpath, behind a tempo. He went over to enquire. The men started to flee, prompting police to chase and nab them. Inside the tempo, police found 80-90…
Mira-Bhayander: Mira-Bhayander Vasai-Virar (MBVV) police busted a drugs manufacturing factory operating under the guise of a poultry shed in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu on Sunday and arrested its owner. They found 10kg of mephedrone and equipment. The owner, Anil Sihag, is the 11th suspect to be arrested in this inter-state drugs racket that was exposed after a…
Vasai: The MBVV crime branch unit 4 has arrested gangster Subhash Singh Thakur in connection with a Feb 2022 Virar builder murder case. Thakur was taken into , on a production warrant, from the Fattehgarh jail in Uttar Pradesh on December 15, on the Thane MCOCA court order regarding the Feb 2022 murder of Samay…
Mumbai: An FIR was lodged by Bangur Nagar police after TV actor Anuj Sachdeva (40) complained of being assaulted on Sunday by a neighbour over a parking dispute at his residential complex in Goregaon West.According to the complaint, Sachdeva took his dog out for a walk after dinner around 10.30pm and noticed that a car…
