Thane Apr 26 PTI A 34-year-old man was crushed to death by a speeding dumper in Maharashtras Thane district on Tuesday police said The Kolsewadi police of Kalyan have arrested the 20-year-old driver of the dumper for the accident that took place in the morning an official said Milind Galde a resident of Dombivili was standing with his two-wheeler in Chinchpada locality where a speeding dumper dashed him killing him on the spot he said A case under relevant sections of the IPC and Motor Vehicles Act was registered against dumper driver Harishchandra Wagh who was drunk at the time of the accident the official added PTI COR ARU ARU

Mumbai Apr 26 PTI Many pockets in the financial capital and its adjoining suburbs witnessed a power outage on Tuesday morning Reasons for the outage which comes at a time when the state is reeling under power deficit which has led discoms to compulsorily cut power supply to some pockets were not immediately known Some parts of central Mumbai along with suburbs like Bhandup and Mulund within the municipal limits of Mumbai and the adjoining cities of Thane and Dombivili faced a power outage from around 10 am as per various reports A comment from any official in the power distribution or generation companies was still awaited The financial capital generally does not face any mandatory power cuts as part of load shedding but has faced troubles in the past including a disruption that lasted up to 18 hours in October 2020 PTI AA DRR

Thane Mar 24 PTI A 16-year-old girl from Bihar fell off a speeding express train near Dombivili in Thane district and died on the spot the Railway Police said on ThursdayThe victim travelling with her parents by Pawan Express complained of uneasiness nausea and went near the door of her bogie where she lost balance and fell from the train on Wednesday they saidShe hailed from Muzaffarnagar district of Bihar the police addedThe girls parents pulled the chain and when the train halted at Dombivili railway station they went to the accident spot where they found her lying in a pool of blood on the tracksThe Dombivili Railway Oolice rushed the girl to a hospital where doctors declared her brought dead the police said PTI COR RSY RSY

Thane Feb 18 PTI A pair of slippers led the police to the killer of a 33-year-old housewife whose body was concealed in a sofa bed at her apartment in Dombivili town of Maharashtras Thane district an official said on Friday The Thane police on Thursday arrested Navi Mumbai resident Vishal Dhawar 28 for the murder of Supriya Shinde who was found dead in her apartment on February 15 said Sachin Gunjal deputy commissioner of police Zone-III Kalyan One of the eye-witnesses had informed the police that he had seen a pair of slippers outside the victims apartment in the afternoon on the day of the murder he said Investigations revealed that a friend of the victims husband owned the same pair of footwear and a day before the crime he had visited the apartment to lend some books to the victim the official said During the visit Dhawar a friend of the victims husband found out that she would be alone at home as her son would be away at school and he returned to the house around 130 pm the next day he said The accused allegedly made sexual advances at the victim When she resisted and ran out of the apartment he dragged her in banged her head on the floor and strangled her with a nylon cable tie he said The accused then hid the body in the sofa bed and fled the scene the official said adding that a case under section 302 murder of the IPC has been registered in this regard PTI COR ARU ARU

Thane Jan 27 PTI A 28-year-old self-styled godman has been arrested for allegedly cheating a woman of Rs 32 lakh to drive away evil spirits in Maharashtras Thane district police said on Thursday The police apprehended Baban Baburao Patil from Jalgaon district of north Maharashtra last week he said The accused has been booked under sections 420 cheating and 406 criminal breach of trust of the IPC and The Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and other Inhuman Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act 2013 said the official from Ramnagar police station in Dombivili The complainant who is a resident of Kalwa has alleged that the accused had promised to drive away evil spirits in her family and had demanded money from her from time to time since December 2019 he said Patil had taken Rs 3160 lakh and some expensive objects from her during this period and did nothing to resolve her problems the official saidThe accused was presented before a local magistrate who remanded him to police custody for two days he added PTI COR ARU ARU

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

Thane Oct 21 PTI A key accused in the abduction and murder of a Thane-based jeweller in August has been arrested from Pune a police official said on ThursdayThe accused Harshad Waghmare 28 a resident of Dombivili in Thane district was arrested from the Chaturshrungi area of Pune on Wednesday by officials of the Thane polices Crime Branch Unit I he saidWith this five persons have been arrested so far in connection with the kidnapping and murder of the jeweller Bharat Jain 42 said senior inspector of the Crime Unit I Krishna KokniJain owner of a jewellery shop in Thane city was abducted by a group of persons more than two months ago he saidAs he went missing on August 14 his wife filed a complaint with the Naupada police the following day police have saidLater while going through CCTV footage it was found that the victim was dumped in a car and taken away by three persons following which charge of abduction was added on August 17 they saidOn August 20 local residents spotted a body floating in a creek in Kalwa town with its hands and legs tied and later it was identified as that of Jain the police saidFollowing the recovery of Jains body several other offences including of murder were added in the FIR they saidDuring investigation the police arrested four persons and cracked the case which started as robbery and ended in murder the police saidArmed robbers entered the shop with the motive of looting it but they kidnapped Jain after they could not open the chest of the jewellery store and later killed him the police said PTI COR RSY RSY