Mumbai Apr 19 PTI The Mumbai police on Tuesday arrested a person in connection with the attack on NCP chief Sharad Pawars residence during a protest by MSRTC workers here an official said The accused Manoj Mudaliar was apprehended at Pune by a team from Gamdevi police station an official said With this the total number of persons arrested in the case has reached 118 he said Mudaliar had conducted a recce of Pawars residence Silver Oak with an accomplice ahead of the attack that took place on April 8 he said The accused also took part in the meeting which was allegedly held at the main accused lawyer Gunratna Sadavartes residence on April 7 the official said adding that he also has knowledge of some financial transactions Earlier this morning a team of Kolhapur police had reached Mumbai to take custody of Sadavarte in a case registered against him at Shahupuri police station the official said PTI DC ARU ARU

Mumbai Feb 25 PTI A senior official of a bank allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the 16th floor of a building in Parel in central Mumbai on Friday morning police said Shlok Shashikant Kapoor 42 was senior vice president of Sumitomo Mitsui Bank and the incident took place at around 1030am in D Wing of Ashoka Towers a Bhoiwada police station official said A diary found at his residence had a suicide note It seems he was under pressure due to the workload for the past two to three months He was also being treated for depression by a prominent doctor based in Gamdevi he said An accidental death case was registered and further probe into the incident is underway the Bhoiwada police station official added PTI DC BNM BNM BNM

Mumbai Jan 23 PTI Mumbai police have registered six accidental death reports ADRs in connection with the fire that broke out in a residential building in Tardeo area of central Mumbai which claimed six lives and left 23 others injured an official said on Sunday The blaze had erupted on Saturday around 730 am at Sachinam Heights a ground-plus-20-storey building located opposite Bhatia Hospital at Gowalia Tank As the fire claimed the lives of six persons separate accidental death reports were registered at the Gamdevi police station on Saturday night the police official said The police are waiting for a report by the fire department as well as the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transports BEST electricity wing to know the exact cause of fire although preliminary investigation has revealed that it broke out due to a power short circuit he said Officials had said that the fire was extinguished nearly five hours after it broke out Deputy Commissioner of Police Sourabh Tripathi had said that primary information indicated that the fire started on the 15th floor and spread upward to the 19th floor which was affected the most Following the incident the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC set up an inquiry committee PTI ZA NP NP