Mumbai: The Bombay high court recently transferred to CBI a probe into a 2010 accidental death case of a 13-year-old schoolgirl, saying police did not consider the post-mortem examination report that said that in the last 24 hours before her death, she was subjected to sexual intercourse. Police relied on an incomplete video recording and…
MUMBAI/PUNE: NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar on Wednesday demanded that civil aviation minister K Rammohan Naidu step down from his post until the probe into the Baramati air crash that killed Ajit Pawar is completed.Rohit, the nephew of late Ajit Pawar, alleged VSR Ventures, the charter company that operated the Learjet aircraft involved in the…
Mumbai: Bombay high court on Wednesday said it would pass an interim order on the petition filed Indian Navy’s Local Military Authority challenging as “illegal and unauthorised” the construction of an over 20-storey building near INS Shikra, a highly sensitive naval air station and VVIP heliport at Colaba, on Friday. A division bench of Justices…
Mumbai: A child raised exclusively by her mother cannot be compelled to carry her father’s name, surname, and caste merely because the format once demanded it, the Bombay high court said in response to a 12-year-old girl’s plea for correction of her name in school records and of the caste entry from ‘Maratha’ to ‘Scheduled…
Mumbai: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday arrested senior inspector Sanjeev Tawde and sub-inspector Dyaneshwar Jutre of Kurar police station while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from an advocate.According to the 35-year-old complainant, an applicant had filed a financial fraud complaint against him, while his transgender brother had lodged a complaint alleging…
Mumbai: The number of women who received the last payout of the Mahayuti govt’s flagship Mukhya Mantri Majhi Laadki Bahin Yojana fell by 86 lakh since the introduction of e-KYC verification, officials said.Maharashtra listed over 2.4 crore beneficiaries under the scheme until last year. However, only nearly 1.6 crore beneficiaries received the last payout for…
Mumbai: A special trial court on Wednesday stayed, until Feb 23, an open-dated warrant issued against Kumar Pillai, who was arrested from Singapore, as police sought clarification on whether to repatriate him to Singapore or Hong Kong.The designated Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court Judge Satyanarayan R Navander earlier this week directed the…
Mumbai: Observingthat evidence of victim and her mother were not cogent, trustworthy and reliable, a special Pocso court on Tuesday acquitted four men charged with the gangrape of a 16-year-old girl in 2014, citing a lack of medical evidence, discrepancies regarding the girl’s age, and unreliable testimony. A fifth accused was discharged from the case…
Mumbai: The next wave of sustainability reforms and global decarbonisation will be even more politically and socially fraught, as cleaner alternatives may no longer be cheaper than the fossil fuels they are meant to replace, sustainability leaders warned at the Mumbai Climate Week.Subranshu Patnaik, Partner (Govt and Public Sector) at Deloitte India, and Will Symons,…
Mumbai: The BMC imposed a fine of Rs 50 lakh on the contractor for delays in the construction of a flyover between Dindoshi Court and Dadasaheb Film City, which is part of the Goregaon-Mulund Link Road (GMLR) project.BMC additional commissioner Abhijit Bangar, who reviewed the project on Wednesday, directed that the contractor be fined Rs…
