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  • Maharashtra: Gynaecologist booked for possessing abortion pills and prescribing them to patients

    By PTI

    PUNE: Police have registered a case against a woman gynaecologist for allegedly illegally possessing abortion pills and prescribing them to patients at Pimpri Chinchwad in Pune district, an official said on Thursday.

    The case was registered against her under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Medical Termination Of Pregnancy Act, 1971, he said.

    A complaint in this regard was lodged by Dr Pavan Salve, medical offficer of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC).

    The gynaecologist runs a clinic in the Bhosari area of Pimpri Chinchwad, he said.

    “Although the doctor did not have any permission from the government or the civic body to offer abortion services, she allegedly possessed pregnancy termination pills and prescribed them to patients illegally at her unregistered clinic,” the officer from Bhosari police station said.

  • Maharashtra: Body of man found stuffed in gunny bag; murder case registered

    By PTI

    THANE: The body of a man was found stuffed in a gunny bag at a village in Bhiwandi tehsil of Maharashtra’s Thane district, police said on Friday.

    The body was recovered in Kamba village on Thursday morning, they said.

    “A passerby noticed a suspicious gunny bag lying by the roadside in the village. After he alerted the police, their team rushed to the spot and opened the bag, in which the body was found. The deceased was later identified as 40-year-old Arman, who worked at a local peal manufacturing unit,” inspector Deep Bane of the Nizampura police station said.

    The body was then sent to a government hospital for post-mortem, he said.

    A case of murder has been registered and the police have launched a probe to nab the culprits, he added.

  • FIR against Nagpur woman for fraudulent withdrawal of over Rs 21 lakh from ailing father’s bank account

    By PTI

    NAGPUR: A case was registered against a woman, who with the help of her two neighbours, allegedly withdrew Rs 21.73 lakh from the bank account of her retired father without his knowledge in Nagpur district of Maharashtra, police said on Sunday.

    The accused persons are identified as Shashikala Gondane, Tony Thomas Joseph and Meena Ghose, an official said.

    The complainant Siddharth Gondane (62) had retired as a gangman from the Railways last year.

    He had received Rs 22 lakh as the retirement benefit.

    Due to a severe illness, he remained hospitalised from April to September last year, police said.

    “Shashikala and two others withdrew Rs 21.73 lakh from his bank account by using cheques with forged signatures of her father”, the official said.

    A case was registered under various sections of the Indian Penal Code against the trio for forgery and cheating.

    Nobody is arrested so far.

  • Man in Maharashtra tries to ‘hang’ girlfriend after break-up

    By PTI

    NAGPUR: A 23-year-old man allegedly tried to kill his estranged girlfriend by hanging her from the ceiling at her house, city police said on Saturday.

    The incident took place in Koradi area of the city on Friday.

    Aadesh Durgadas Tirpude (23), the accused, was absconding and a case of attempt to murder under IPC section 307 has been registered against him, police said.

    Tirpude’s girlfriend had stopped speaking to him after he was arrested in a theft case some time ago, said a police official.

    On Friday he allegedly barged into her house, slapped her and tried to hang her from a ceiling rod with a scarf, the official said.

    Luckily, the girl’s cousin came to her rescue and Tirpude fled from the spot, he said.

    Further probe is on.

  • Man arrested in Maharashtra for ‘killing’ former girlfriend in shopping mall

    By PTI

    NAGPUR: A 22-year-old man was arrested here on Wednesday for allegedly killing his former girlfriend as she was going to marry someone else, police said.

    The accused was identified as Muzahid Ansari (22), resident of Mominpura area.

    He was allegedly in a relationship with the victim, Farjana Ejaaz Qureshi (20), police said.

    Ansari decided to kill Farjana after learning that she was going to marry someone else, said a police official.

    On December 2, he asked her to meet him at Empress Mall in Ganeshpeth area to watch a film, and strangled her in an empty room on the fourth floor of the mall, the official said.

    After her parents lodged a missing person complaint, police grilled Ansari who confessed to the murder on Wednesday, the official said.

    He was booked under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code.

    Gittikhadan Police are conducting further probe.

  • FIR filed against doctor couple after death of patient in Maharashtra

    By PTI

    LAYUR: A doctor couple from Latur in Maharashtra was booked by the police on the orders of a local court for negligence after a 27-year-old woman allegedly died during surgery at their hospital in October last year, police said on Sunday.

    The accused are identified as Dr Vikrant Suryawanshi and his wife Dr Shweta Suryawanshi, police sub-inspector Sandip Karad told PTI.

    The deceased is identified as Revati Gavkare who was brought to the hospital run by the Suryawanshis in Latur after she fractured her shoulder bone, a complaint filed by the deceased’s father stated.

    As per the complaint, Gavkare was advised minor surgery.

    She was taken to the operation theatre on the night of October 6, 2020, and given anaesthesia.

    However, she never regained consciousness and the doctors announced that she had died.

    When the victim’s father approached the MIDC police station to register a case, the police registered only an accidental death case telling him that the FIR would be registered as per the report of the medical board, the complaint said.

    The complainant approached the court after police failed to register a case despite a report by the Medical Board.

    Following the order of the court of the judicial magistrate, MIDC police registered a case against the doctor couple on Friday under section 304 A (causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

  • Maharashtra: Five arrested for extorting money from wife of rape case accused

    By PTI

    THANE: Police have arrested three women and two men for allegedly extorting money from the wife of a man accused in a rape case in Navi Mumbai township here in Maharashtra, an official said on Thursday.

    A case was earlier this month registered at the NRI police station against the man from Ulve area in Navi Mumbai on charges of rape, senior police inspector Ravindra Patil said.

    A woman, claiming to be a social worker, approached the man’s wife and allegedly demanded Rs 14 lakh for withdrawing the complaint filed against him by another woman.

    Later, it was agreed that Rs 2.5 lakh would be paid to the complainant and out of it, Rs 50,000 would be given to the woman who had approached the man’s wife, the official said.

    The accused’s wife subsequently filed a complaint with the NRI police against the woman who demanded the money.

    The police laid a trap on Tuesday and nabbed the rape case complainant, her mother, the woman who had demanded the money and two men accompanying them in Seawoods area, the official said.

    A case was registered against them under Indian Penal Code Sections 388 (extortion) and 34 (common intention), he added.

  • Maharashtra: 15-year-old girl raped multiple times over eight months; 33 booked, 26 held

    By PTI

    THANE: A 15-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped multiple times over a period of eight months in Maharashtra’s Thane district and the police have arrested 24 persons and detained two minors in the case, an official said on Thursday.

    Based on the girl’s complaint, the Manpada police in Dombivli registered a case on Wednesday night against 33 persons under IPC sections 376 (rape), 376 (n) (repeated rape), 376 (d) (gang-rape), 376 (3) (rape on a woman under sixteen years of age) and provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he said.

    Additional Commissioner of Police (East region) Dattatray Karale told reporters that the alleged incidents took place between January 29 and September 22 this year.

    The girl told a relative about the ordeal on Wednesday following which the complaint was registered, he added.

    “It all started when the girl’s boyfriend allegedly raped her in January and made a video. He then started blackmailing her. Subsequently, his friends and acquaintances raped her on at least four or five occasions at different places in the district including Dombivli, Badlapur, Murbad and Rabale,” Karale said.

    A special investigation team (SIT) has been formed under Assistant Commissioner of Police Sonali Dhole to probe the case, he added.

    “The victim has named 33 persons. Of them, 24 persons have been arrested and two minors detained. The girl’s condition is said to be stable,” Karale said, adding that search is on for the remaining accused.

    The arrested men were produced before a court on Thursday and were remanded in police custody till September 29, said another police official.

    Speaking to reporters in Nagpur, BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis demanded that the Maharashtra government make special efforts to prevent such crimes.

    “An atmosphere of fear is prevailing in the state. The increase in the number of such incidents is worrisome,” the former chief minister said.

    “Such an incident taking place in Dombivli which is known as a peaceful city is very shocking. We demand that the government immediately intervene,” Fadnavis added.

    On the other hand, Shiv Sena leader and deputy chairperson of the Maharashtra Legislative Council Neelam Gorhe said the incident should not be politicized.

    The survivor should be protected, given counseling and rehabilitated, she said.

    Earlier this month, the Shiv Sena-led state government had come under fire when a 34-year-old woman died after being brutally raped and assaulted inside a stationary tempo in Mumbai’s Sakinaka area.

    One person was arrested in the case.

  • Maharashtra: FIR against pregnant woman for killing her two-year-old daughter

    By PTI

    PALGHAR: An FIR was registered on Monday against a pregnant woman for allegedly killing her two-year-old daughter in Virar in Palghar district of Maharashtra, police said.

    Police had initially registered a case of accidental death after the two-year-old girl was found dead at her residence on Saturday, an official said.

    Her mother had told the police that the girl died after she fell accidentally.

    Police, however, launched the investigation after neighbours of the woman told them that they suspected a foul play, the official said.

    He said the post-mortem report received on Monday stated the child had died due to injuries, following which a case of murder was registered against her mother, identified as Neha.

    The motive behind the alleged murder is not known yet, the official said but added that the couple already has a daughter.

    The husband of the accused works as an autorickshaw driver, the official said.

  • Two doctors in Maharashtra booked for molestation in separate incidents

    By PTI
    THANE: Two separate FIRs were registered against two doctors for allegedly molesting a nurse and a patient at Tulinj and Navghar in the Mumbai metropolitan region (MMR) in Maharashtra, police said on Sunday, adding one of the accused was arrested.

    In Tulinj, a doctor had allegedly inappropriately touched a 19-year-old nurse working in his hospital and also threatened her against disclosing the incident, an official said.

    An FIR was registered on Friday.

    The doctor is yet to be arrested, he said.

    In another incident which occurred in Navghar area, a doctor, 50, allegedly molested a woman during treatment, another oficial said, adding the accused doctor was arrested.

    Separate cases were registered against the accused doctors under various sections of the Indian Penal Code for outraging the modesty of a woman and criminal intimidation.