Thane Apr 24 PTI A woman in the water supply business was cheated of Rs 7115 lakh by a man who allegedly promised to get her a contract to maintain Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation-run crematoria a police official said on Sunday The accused hails from Mumbra and took this money from the 54-year-old victim between July 2017 and May 2019 but then vanished without fulfilling his promise the Bazarpeth police station official said No arrest has been made and further probe was underway he added PTI COR BNM BNM

Thane Jan 28 PTI Police have registered a case against five former municipal commissioners of the Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation KDMC in Maharashtras Thane district along with 13 others for allegedly allowing development of a property in contravention of rules an official said on Friday The case was filed at Bazarpeth police station in Kalyan division late night on Thursday based on the directions given on January 18 by a local court he said The court in Kalyan had said that prima facie a case is made out against the 18 persons on a complaint lodged by a former independent corporator of the KDMC - Arun Geeth The order was passed by the judicial magistrate first class JMFC Sonali Sashikant Raul In his complaint submitted to the court the former corporator alleged that the civic officials and the town planners of the KDMC and other staff had connived with the developer and allowed the development of the property in contravention of rules starting January 2004 The property developer was made undue favour in granting the floor space index FSI and he indulged in several irregularities The construction of the 23-storey high-rise is completely against the regulations the complaint said Geeth alleged that he had approached the local police with the complaint but they did not give any heed and hence he had to knock on the courts doors The case was registered against developer Harakchand Jain architect Anil Nirgude five former KDMC municipal commissioners - Govind Rathod Ramnath Sonawane S S Bhise E Ravinderan and Govind Bodke - and 11 other civic employees the official at Bazarpeth police station said The 18 accused have been booked under IPC sections 420 418 415 all related to cheating 460 house-trespass or house-breaking 448 house trespass 120B criminal conspiracy and under the Prevention of Corruption Act he said adding that nobody was arrested in this connection so far PTI COR NP NP

Thane Dec 23 PTI Police have arrested a newly-married man along with five others at Manpada in Thane district for allegedly stealing motorcycles so that he could fund the expenses for taking his wife for outings and recovered some of the stolen vehicles collectively worth over Rs five lakh an official said on Thursday The accused had stolen at least 17 motorcycles he said In the recent past there were several complaints of motorcycle thefts in and around Manpada following which the police had formed special teams to trace the accused DCP zone-III Kalyan S B Gunjal told reporters in the morning The team worked on several inputs including the CCTV footage and also enquired with the local scrap dealers and garages Police kept a watch on the suspects During the probe one Deepak Salgare of Ambarnath was detained During his interrogation he admitted that he was involved in the theft of motorcycles in Manpada Kolsewadi Vitthalwadi Ambernath Narpoli Central and Bazarpeth police station limits he said Salagare who was later placed under arrest told the police that he was stealing the vehicles to get money for taking his wife to different places for outing He would use the money that he received from the sale of the stolen bikes to meet such expenses Gunjal added He had sold some of the stolen bikes through one Rahul Bhagwat Dabre telling the buyers that they would get the vehicle documents later he said He had sold some other vehicles to scrap dealer Chinmun Chouhan alias Bablu who in turn sold them as scrap to Dharmadev Chouhan Samsher Shabbir Khan and Bhairavsingh Premsingh Kharvad all residents of Dombivli With the arrest of the six accused the police seized some of the stolen motorcycles and other material collectively valued at Rs 824 lakh the official said PTI COR NP NP

Thane Nov 30 PTI A BJP corporator was arrested on Tuesday in a molestation case after being on the run for the last three months in Maharashtras Thane district police said Sandeep Gaikar a corporator in the Kalyan Dombivili Municipal Corporation KDMC was produced before a local magistrate who remanded him to police custody for three days an official said An offence was registered against Gaikar at Bazarpeth police station in September after a woman from Dombivili accused him of allegedly molesting and stalking her he said The woman had alleged that Gaikar a former chairman of the KDMCs standing committee had stalked and harassed her over a period of two years the police said PTI COR ARU ARU