Thane Jan 28 PTI A man on the run since November 2020 after allegedly cheating investors has been arrested a Thane police official said on Friday Economic Offences Wing assistant inspector Sameer Shaikh said Aditya Rediz director of a firm that had duped some 10000 people to the tune of around Rs 22 crore including Rs 3538 lakh from a 57-year-old woman was held on a tip off from Badlapur on Wednesday He said the chairperson of the company identified as Arun Gandhi was held earlier and efforts are on to nab Adityas parents Hemant and Manasi who are also directors PTI COR BNM BNM BNM

Thane Jan 28 PTI Thane collector Rajesh Narvekar on Friday asked the municipal corporations in the district to ensure that youngsters who lost one or both parents to COVID-19 are not deprived of educationPresiding over a meeting of the District Task Force he said civic corporations should reserve some funds for such youngsters who are in the age group of 18 to 23Their property rights too should be protected the collector saidNo orphaned child should have to discontinue education for want of funds he saidNarvekar also asked the civic bodies to make available shelter homes for street children PTI COR KRK KRK

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 Jan 28 PTI Timely assistance by a policeman helped a woman reunite with her four children in the age group of six to eleven after the minors boarded a local train at a railway station in Mumbai although their mother could not do so due to a huge rush police have said The incident occurred on January 26 an official release by the Mira Bhayandar-Vasai Virar police commissionerate which has jurisdiction over parts of Thane and Palghar districts said on Thursday Police sub-inspector PSI Ujjwal Arke was part of a group of officers from the MBVV police who had gone on a cycling ride on the occasion of the Republic Day from Mira Road to the Gateway of India in Mumbai On their return journey they took a suburban train from Churchgate station to Mira Road At Andheri station two women boarded the local The women were in a disturbed state and crying When the PSI asked them why they were crying the woman Soni Singh said she had gone out with her mother-in-law and four children - three sons and a daughter She told them that they wanted to catch a Virar-bound local train at Andheri station When a local arrived the woman made her children get into it first as it was crowded However before she and her mother-in-law could embark the train started moving She said she and her mother-in-law were clueless about how to find the children On hearing her problem the PSI immediately contacted the railway control room and the Government Railway Police from his mobile and alerted them about the incident The police at all the railway stations on the local trains route were informed and a search was launched A police team later found the children travelling without any guardian at the Borivali station the release said The police personnel then took the minors with them and waited for their mother at the station who soon arrived along with her mother-in-law The children were then handed over to them Senior officers of the MBVV police commissionerate appreciated the help provided by the police officer in helping the family members get reunited PTI COR NP NP

Thane Jan 28 PTI With the addition of 1245 coronavirus positive cases the infection count in Thane district of Maharashtra grew to 698882 and the death of eight patients took the toll to 11751 an official said on Friday These new cases and fatalities were reported on Thursday he said Thanes COVID-19 mortality rate is 168 per cent In neighbouring Palghar district the caseload is now 161360 while the death toll stood at 3364 another official said PTI COR NP NP