Mumbai: A special court on Thursday granted permission to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to record the statements of eight individuals currently held in judicial custody at Arthur Road Jail. This is in connection with an ongoing investigation into the Rs 122 crore New India Cooperative Bank scam.The order allowed an assistant director and two ED…
In a touching scene from the 1983 blockbuster Coolie, protagonist Iqbal (Amitabh Bachchan) plans to go for Haj and pray for the recovery of his seriously ill mother. However, just before boarding the passenger ship for Jeddah, he is stopped from travelling as he is suffering from a fever. Iqbal gives his ticket to a…
Thane: The Thane Crime Branch Unit-1 arrested four persons for illegal liquor smuggling and rebranding low-quality alcohol from Goa for sale across Maharashtra.The operation, conducted on Tuesday, uncovered a sophisticated racket where smugglers were removing original labels from cheap liquor bottles and replacing them with counterfeit labels resembling popular brands to deceive consumers, said DCP…
Thane: The Konkan divisional agriculture department has urged residents from Thane, Mumbai, and Navi Mumbai to verify the credentials of pest control agencies before hiring them. They warned that unlicensed operators offering services at cheap rates could pose serious health risks and potentially cause irreparable damage to properties.The issue of illegal operators working in the…
MUMBAI: Bombay high court on Friday quashed and set aside a resolution passed by the gram panchayat of a village that cancelled permission and stopped the work of installation of a mobile tower on the ground that radiation from it would cause health hazards to villagers.“In the modern age, the inescapable reality is that mobile…
Navi Mumbai: Sanpada police have arrested eight people from Bengaluru in a case of dacoity in which an angadia was abducted and robbed of Rs 32 lakh, when he had gone to deposit cash at an ATM in Juinagar on May 31. According to inspector Devidas Kathale, the victim, Mohammad Ramees Idavlath, was at a…
Mumbai: The Islamic festival of Eid ul’ Azha or Bakr Eid will be celebrated Saturday. Festivities span three days. Eid ul’ Zuha, as it is also called, is celebrated on the tenth day of the pious month of Zulhijjah, the final month of the Islamic calendar. The holy Hajj pilgrimage is under way at this…
Mumbai: A magistrate’s court on Thursday convicted and sentenced two men, Raza Naqvi (38) and Varun Rana (41), to five years of rigorous imprisonment for their involvement in a sophisticated financial fraud amounting to Rs 68.22 crore against Shinhan Bank in 2020. Naqvi and Rana were found guilty of flouting norms by sending Rs 68…
Mumbai: A special court on Thursday convicted and sentenced a 56-year-old dismissed Vidhan Bhavan cashier to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for committing criminal misconduct and amassing assets worth Rs 15.95 lakh — over 100% disproportionate to his known sources of income between 1991 and 2004. During this period, the accused, Manoj Gaonkar, earned a…
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Friday said whatever the people of Maharashtra wish will happen, comments coming amid speculation over the possibility of an alliance between his party and the MNS led by his cousin Raj.Talking to reporters, the former CM said there was no confusion in the minds of workers of…
