The public prosecutor on Saturday informed Bombay high court that “51 pornographic films were seized” from two apps by Mumbai crime branch and businessman Raj Kundra and Ryan Thorpe were arrested as they had “started deleting WhatsApp group and chats’’ and hence “destroying evidence”.
A day after his application was rejected, Justice K U Chandiwal has called former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh, former home minister Anil Deshmukh, his then private secretary Sanjeev Palande, dismissed assistant police inspector Sachin Waze, and ACPs Sanjay Patil and Raju Bhujbal for recording statements on August 6.
An 80-year-old man who spent over a year in jail after being accused by the neighbour of sexually assaulting her 13-year-old was acquitted by a special POCSO Act court last week after both the woman and her child turned hostile in court.
Maharashtra officially confirmed its first case of Zika virus a mosquito-borne viral infection on Saturday. A blood sample of the 50-year-old resident of Belsar village (Purandar taluka) in Pune district tested positive for Zika-chikungunya co-infection at Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Virology (ICMR-NIV) in Pune late on Friday.
So far this year, July appears to have been the best month as far as the Covid-19 pandemic is concerned — and, as the statistics show, more so for Mumbai than Maharashtra.
An elderly couple traveling by an MSRTC bus from Boisar to Wada were pushed, dragged and assaulted by a lady conductor and driver, after being told to slow down on the potholed Manor-Wada road during their hour-long journey on Friday.
Bringing to book a builder for delayed possession of a redeveloped 720 sqft Mulund (E) flat that caused severe hardship to a couple for almost a decade, the state consumer commission has directed him to pay them around Rs 19.50 lakh compensation.
Ruling that holding a minor's hand once and professing love by itself does not amount to sexual harassment, a special Pocso court acquitted a 28-year-old man who had been booked and arrested after he proposed to a 17-year-old girl in the city in 2017.
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As asked by the caller, the victim deposited Rs 1.38 lakh towards "service charge" and other fees from April 12 to 22, he said.
Police 'found obscene and bold videos' and information on a number of subscribers, payments received.
With a slight rise in Covid cases in South Mumbai’s upscale D ward, the BMC plans to check if those infected had been vaccinated or not. Officials said most infections in the recent past have turned out to be high–risk contacts (HRC) of Covid patients.
Shailesh Jejurikar has become the first Indian to be appointed global COO of the consumer products MNC Procter & Gamble (P&G). The Mumbai-born 54-year-old Jejurikar is an alumni of the Hyderabad Public School and counts among his classmates another famous global CEO - Satya Nadella of Microsoft.
In a rare instance, a magistrate court recently sent a BMC employee to one month in prison for failing to pay Rs 2.64 lakh in maintenance to his estranged wife. The court said the accused be released after he pays up.
Central Railway and Western Railway plan to cover their entire workforce in Mumbai division with the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine before August 15, provided there is adequate stock.
Bombay high court on Friday directed the Centre to decide within a week on a civic proposal for de-registration from Cowin app of “unfortunate” victims of fake Covid vaccination in camps held in Mumbai, so that BMC could then properly vaccinate them.
The Bombay high court on Friday granted interim bail to Elgar Parishad case accused Surendra Gadling (51) from August 13 to 21 to go to Nagpur and complete the last rituals of his mother on the occasion of her first death anniversary on August 15, “on humanitarian grounds”.
For the second day in a row, the daily detection of Covid cases in the city was under 400 and the daily positivity rate dropped to 1% on Friday.
An 83-year-old Meera Barve broke into a smile when the nurse injected her with the vaccine on Friday. Since the pandemic broke out in 2020, the octogenarian has met her daughter, who lives 200kms away in Dapoli, just twice. The last time a few months ago, she sat at arm’s length wearing a mask.
Merging two first dose certificates of Covid-19 vaccine is turning out to be an impossible task for several beneficiaries, with CoWin not accepting such requests due to differences in spelling of names or errors in other parameters on either of the two certificates, a central official with the portal management team said on Friday.
Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned former state home minister Anil Deshmukh and his son Hrishikesh for the fourth time on Monday, few hours after Supreme Court on Friday posted his petition for hearing on August 3. The court told ED to file its reply.
The twin cities of Kalyan and Dombivli in Maharashtra's Thane district have been witnessing a steady graph of Covid-19 cases for the past few weeks.
Mumbai University has received 25 applications from trusts and managements that have evinced interest in starting new colleges. While 19 applications are for starting traditional arts, science and commerce colleges, four are for law programmes, and two others are night colleges.
The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) recently stopped the power supply to the Thane mental hospital over pending bills worth lakhs, leading to complete chaos.
Police have arrested a woman and three others in Thane city of Maharashtra for allegedly threatening and molesting a female artist by promising to give a role to her in a Hindi film, an official said on Friday.
The Bombay high court on Thursday directed the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education to consider a plea for refund of fees taken from students for the SSC and HSC exams, which were eventually cancelled.
The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation has incurred a loss of over Rs 10 crore due to flooding of its depots, offices and loss in bus transport business in the past one week.
Juhu police registered an FIR on Thursday after Sunanda Shetty, the mother of Bollywood actors Shilpa and Shamita Shetty, complained of being defrauded of Rs 1.6 crore in a property deal. The mother had first approached a court, but was directed to the Juhu police.
The BMC has finally abandoned its plan to buy Sputnik V vaccines for the city. After rejecting all nine bids for its global Expression of Interest (EOI) and closing it in June without any success, the BMC had reached out to Dr Reddy’s Laboratories to buy Sputnik V vaccines on an experimental basis.
The senior citizen hanged himself inside his room in suburban Malwani, the official said. The deceased, identified as Janardan Kumble, was locked in a bitter property dispute with his sister back in their hometown and was apparently depressed over the issue, he said.
Two police officers from Navi Mumbai including a senior inspector were arrested by the Thane Anti Corruption Bureau in a bribery case on Thursday, an official release said.
A manager of an ICICI Bank branch in Virar (east) was killed and a cashier seriously wounded when they were slashed in the neck while resisting two robbers who were trying to escape with cash and gold from the lockers on Thursday evening.from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines, Coronavirus News, BMC Elections 2022 Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/1...
