Mumbai Apr 23 PTI A man allegedly shot and injured the personal secretary of Shiv Sena MLA Shankarrao Gadakh in Maharashtras Ahmednagar district police said on Saturday The incident took place at Sonai around 10 pm on Friday when two shots were fired at Rahul Rajale 37 from a country-made pistol an official said The bullets hit Rajales leg and below the waist he said The accused Nitin Shirsat who is a contractor was in a dispute with Rajale for getting a labour contract the official said The victim who is the personal assistant of Sena MLA Shankarrao Gadakh is undergoing treatment at a private hospital he said A case has been registered in this regard and a hunt has been launched for the absconding accused the official added PTI DC ARU ARU
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 Mar 31 PTI Two employees sustained injuries in a fire that broke out at the state-run oil and gas giant ONGCs plant at Uran in neighbouring Navi Mumbai on Thursday evening police saidThe fire started around 535 pm in a sump where raw oil was stored but it was brought under control within an hour said an official adding that the exact cause of the fire was yet to be ascertainedAt least seven fire brigade vehicles were pressed into action to douse the flames he saidContractual employees Banarasi Bhoiya 28 and Babuni Bhaiya 40 were injured in the fire One of them was rushed to the National Burns Center at Airoli for further treatment the official said PTI DC KRK KRK
Mumbai Mar 31 PTI An engineer with the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited MSEDCL has been caught by the Anti-Corruption Bureau ACB while accepting a bribe of Rs 50000 from a contractor an official said on Thursday The incident took place at the MSEDCL office at Airoli in Navi Mumbai on Wednesday The complainant who is an electric contractor had bagged a contract from MSEDCL and sought a recommendation from Additional Executive Engineer Varsha Deshmukh for further sanctionsDeshmukh allegedly sought a bribe from herAfter the contractor approached the ACB a trap was laid and Deshmukh was allegedly caught red-handed said the officer Further probe is underway PTI DC KRK KRK
Mumbai Mar 31 PTI Two employees sustained injuries in a fire at ONGCs gas plant at Uran at neighbouring Navi Mumbai on Thursday evening police said The fire started around 615 pm but it was brought under control within half an hour said an official adding that the exact cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained At least seven fire brigade vehicles were pressed into action to douse the flames he said Two employees who were injured were rushed to hospital PTI DC KRK KRK
Mumbai Mar 26 PTI A four-year-old boy was killed and five others including an infant were injured when a house collapsed in suburban Kandivali West on Saturday afternoon a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC official saidThe incident took place at K D Compound in Lalji Pada area around 4 pm when the BMCs maintenance department was carrying out minor road work in R-South Ward he saidNaushad Ali 4 was declared dead on arrival at Shatabdi HospitalHasina Shaha 22 Shahidunnisa Rain 30 Prema Yadav 38 Mohammad Ansar 16 and three-month-old Dilshad Shaha were injuredThe condition of all of them including infant Dilshad was said to be stable the official said PTI DC KRK KRK KRK
Mumbai Mar 26 PTI A four-year-old boy was killed and two women were injured when a house collapsed in suburban Kandivali on Saturday afternoon a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC official saidThe incident took place at K D Compound in Lalji Pada area around 4 pmDrainage work was going on in the area and it could be the reason for the collapse of the ground-plus-one storey house the official saidWhile Naushad Ali 4 died on the spot two members of his family namely Hasina Shaha 22 and Shahidunnisa 30 sustained serious injuriesBoth the women were admitted to the Shatabdi Hospital for treatment the BMC official added PTI DC KRK KRK
Mumbai Mar 25 PTI A man was held in south Mumbai allegedly with 3110 kilograms of mephedrone valued at Rs 466 crore an official from the Anti Narcotics Cell said on Friday Acting on a tip-off a team of the Azad Maidan unit of Mumbai Crime Branchs ANC laid a trap on Thursday evening and apprehended Dongri-resident Ashik Ali Feroz Poisarwala 33 from Clare Road in Byculla he said We found 705 grams of mephedrone on him at the time A raid in his house revealed another consignment of 2405 kilograms all cumulatively valued at Rs 466 crore He was placed under arrest under NDPS Act provisions on Friday the official informed The accused was out on bail in a stalking case registered in Dongri police station he added Deputy Police Commissioner Datta Nalawade said efforts were on to bust the peddling network the accused was part of and to arrest others involved PTI DC BNM case he said PTI DC BNM BNM BNM
Mumbai Mar 25 PTI Two children were killed and their parents injured when a speeding vehicle hit their auto-rickshaw in suburban Mumbai police said on FridayThe accident occurred on Thursday evening at Borivali East when one Pravendra Kumar Gupta 35 was driving his auto-rickshaw in which his wife and two children were travelling an official saidAs the auto-rickshaw was approaching a flyover a speeding heavy vehicle crashed into the three-wheeler killing Guptas son and daughter he saidThe couple was injured in the accident the official saidThe heavy vehicles driver has been arrested he said adding an FIR has been registered at the Dahisar police station in connection with the accident PTI DC RSY RSY
Mumbai Mar 24 PTI Mumbai Police is geared up to ensure full security for the Indian Premier League IPL which will kick off this weekend an official release said here on Thursday There have been no intelligence inputs about any terror threat to the cricket extravaganza that will begin at the Wankhede stadium in South Mumbai from March 26 it added Adequate security arrangements will be made at the two stadiums in the city Wankhede and Brabourne where matches will be played as well as the hotels where the players and support staff will be staying police said Some unverified viral messages on social media had said that terrorists had conducted recce at Hotel Trident the Wankhede Stadium and along the bus route between these two locations but the police release said they had not received any such information PTI DC KRK KRK
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