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  • Maharashtra government extends protection from arrest to Param Bir Singh till June 22

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government will not arrest former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh till June 22 in a case registered against him under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the Bombay High Court was told on Monday.

    Senior counsel Darius Khambata, who appeared for the Maharashtra government, told the high court that his previous statement on protecting the senior IPS officer from any “coercive action” in the case will be extended till June 22.

    Following Khambata’s statement, a bench of Justices PB Varale and SP Tavade adjourned the hearing till June 22 on the pleas filed by Singh seeking quashing of an FIR registered against him by the Thane Police under the Atrocities Act and challenging preliminary inquiries initiated against him by the state government.

    The FIR was registered against Singh under the Prevention of Atrocities Act in April this year on a complaint lodged by Akola police inspector BR Ghadge.

    Ghadge, who belongs to the Scheduled Caste community, had alleged that Singh had conspired with others to implicate him in some cases of extortion after he refused to follow Singh’s illegal orders to benefit some accused persons in a criminal case.

    In his other plea in the HC, Singh had challenged two inquiries initiated against him by the state government on charges of misconduct and corruption. The first inquiry order was passed on April 1 this year by then state home minister Anil Deshmukh for alleged violation of some All India Services (Conduct) Rules.

    The second order was passed on April 20 by Deshmukh’s successor Dilip Walse Patil over allegations of corruption levelled against Singh.

  • Five cops suspended for beating up BJP worker in Maharashtra’s Jalna

    By PTI
    JALNA: Five police personnel were suspended in Maharashtra’s Jalna district on Friday for allegedly beating up a BJP worker more than a month ago, an official said.

    A video of the incident went viral this week, following which an inquiry was ordered.

    District Superintendent of Police Vinayak Deshmukh on Friday suspended a sub-inspector and four police constables allegedly involved in the incident.

    Additional Superintendent of Police Vikrant Deshmukh was probing the matter further, Deshmukh told reporters.

    Asked about the two police officers including a Sub- Divisional Police Officer seen in the video, the SP said a decision regarding them will be taken at a higher level.

    The video showed the policemen beating BJP worker Shivraj Nariyalwale with batons.

    The incident took place at Deepak Hospital here on April 9 when some people attacked doctors and went on a rampage in the ICU of the hospital after the death of a youth injured in a road accident.

    Police rushed to the hospital.

    While others fled, Nariyalwale was caught and allegedly beaten up.

    State BJP leaders had demanded action against the policemen.

  • One held for selling remdesivir at higher price than MRP in Maharashtra

    By PTI
    AURANGABAD: The owner of a medical store was arrested for allegedly selling remdesivir injections at a higher price than the MRP in Maharashtra’s Parbhani district, an official said on Thursday.

    Based on a complaint, a trap was laid at the medical store on Wednesday night and the accused Vijay Hake was caught red handed while selling a vial of remdesivir for Rs 6,000 as opposed to the actual price of Rs 4,800, deputy collector Sanjay Kudetkar said.

    The Parbhani district administration acted on a phone call received by the collector, the official said.

    An offence was registered against the accused, who has been remanded to police custody till April 15, a police official said.

    Officials from the district administration and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also raided a medical store in Shivaji Nagar area of Parbhani, where they found that some vials of the injection had been sold without receipts, the deputy collector said.

    The license of the medical store has been cancelled, he added.

  • Four cops injured in Maharashtra after Sikhs wielding swords attack them

    By PTI
    NANDED: A mob of sword-wielding Sikhs on Monday attacked policemen, injuring at least four of them, after being denied permission to hold a public procession in Nanded due to the coronavirus pandemic, an official said.

    A viral video showed the sword-wielding mob barging out of the gurdwara, breaking the barricades put up by police and attacking the policemen.

    Several vehicles were also damaged in the violence.

    “Permission for the Hola Mohalla public procession was not granted due to the pandemic. The gurdwara committee was informed and they had assured us that they would abide by our directives and hold the event inside the gurdwara premises,” Nanded Range DIG Nisar Tamboli told PTI.

    “However, when the Nishan Sahib was brought at the gate around 4 pm, several participants started arguing and over 300 youth stormed out of the gate, broke the barricades and began attacking the policeman,” he said.

    Tamboli said the condition of one of the four constables was serious.

    He said six vehicles of police were damaged by the mob.

    Tamboli said an FIR will be registered against at least 200 people under sections 307 (attempt to murder), 324 (voluntary causing hurt with dangerous weapons), 188 (Disobeying the order of public servant), 269 (Negligent act likely to spread infection) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and for rioting.

    “Those involved in violence will be arrested,” he added.

    Nishan Sahib is a triangular saffron-coloured flag furling outside a gurdwara on a steel pole covered with a saffron-coloured cloth.

    The flag also has an insignia called Khanda in the middle, which includes two swords and a chakra.

    Hola Mohalla (Hola) is a Sikh festival that comes a day after Holi.

    Unlike Holi, when people sprinkle the coloured powder on each other, Hola Mohalla is an occasion for Sikhs to demonstrate their martial skills.

    Nanded is an important Sikh pilgrimage centre as it is home to a sacred shrine, the Takht Sachkhand Sri Hazur Abchal Nagar Sahib.

    It was here that the 10th and last Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh (1666-1708), anointed the holy book Guru Granth Sahib as the eternal Guru of Sikhism and spent the last 14 months of his life.

  • 56 ‘missing’ young women reunited with kin in Maharashtra’s Raigad

    By PTI
    RAIGAD: Fifty-six young women, who had gone missing in separate incidents in Maharashtra’s Raigad district in 2020, have been reunited with their families, police said on Saturday.

    Apart from them, 14 boys from this coastal district, who had run away from home, were found and reunited with their kin, the Raigad police said.

    “A total of 57 young women had run away from their homes in different parts of the district in 2020. Since all of them were above 18 years of age, missing person’s reports had been filed,” the police said in a statement.

    Majority of them had eloped with their boyfriends, they said.

    During the investigation, police found 56 of them and handed them over their families.

    But one young woman is yet to be traced, they added.

    In the last three years, as many as 230 young women had gone missing in the district, the statement said.

  • Ward boy held for molesting pregnant woman in Thane’s COVID-19 centre

    By PTI
    THANE: A ward boy of a Kalyan Dombivali Municipal Corporation-run COVID care centre was arrested for allegedly molesting a pregnant patient there, police said on Monday.

    The ward boy, identified as Shrikant Mohite (34), entered the room where the victim was resting and molested her, but was caught by others at the centre after she raised an alarm, a Bazarpeth police station official said.

    He was charged under section 354 (physical contact and advances involving unwelcome and explicit sexual overtures), he added.

    KDMC medical officer Dr Ashwini Patil said the civic body was also conducting a probe into the incident.

  • Banned gutka worth Rs 11.43 lakh seized from truck in Maharashtra

    By PTI
    PALGHAR: Police have seized banned gutka worth Rs 11.43 lakh from a truck in Virar area here in Maharashtra, an official said on Thursday.

    Acting on a tip-off, the police intercepted the truck on Wednesday on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway here while it was coming from Gujarat, he said.

    The police found 22 gunny bags containing gukta hidden beneath boxes of clothes kept in the vehicle, he said.

    A case was registered against the goods transporter under relevant sections, the official said, adding that no arrest has been made so far.

    The sale and consumption of gutka, scented and flavoured tobacco has been banned in Maharashtra since 2012.

    In 2018, the state government made sale of gutka a non-bailable offence and enhanced the punishment for it from six months to three years.

  • Two booked for assaulting traffic cop in Maharashtra

    By PTI
    THANE: The police have filed an FIR against two persons for allegedly abusing and manhandling a traffic constable in Bhiwandi town of Maharashtra’s Thane district, an official said on Friday.

    A case under sections 353 (assaulting a public servant) and other relevant provisions of the IPC have been registered against Sunil alias Mohammed (35) and Sofia Ashraf Shaikh (42) at Kongaon police station, deputy commissioner of police – Traffic Balasaheb Patil said.

    According to the police, the traffic constable was travelling on his two-wheeler on Kalyan-Bhiwandi road, when the accused’s car came from the opposite direction in a high speed.

    The constable’s hand hit the side mirror of the car, which broke and fell, following which he approached the vehicle to enquire about the rash driving, the official said.

    When the constable took a picture of the offending vehicle and asked the accused to pull over by the side of the road, the woman abused and manhandled him, he said.

    The complainant sustained scratches and bruises in the assault, the official said, adding that no arrests have been made so far.

  • Cops save two women from committing suicide in Thane

    By PTI
    THANE: Police have saved lives of two women who tried to commit suicide at separate places here in Maharashtra, officials said on Wednesday.

    Both the incidents took place on Tuesday and the women were found to be depressed due to domestic and other issues, they said.

    An assistant police inspector from Titwala police station said he was passing by the Raita river bridge when he saw a woman, later identified as a 60-year-old resident of Kalyan town, trying to jump from it into the water body.

    As she attempted to jump, her saree got entangled in a rod of a bridge pillar.

    While she was trying to pull away her dress from the rod, the policeman rushed there and rescued her, the official said.

    The woman later told the police that she wanted to commit suicide as she was fed up of her life, he said.

    In another incident, a 45-year-old woman jumped into the Versova creek from a bridge here on Tuesday afternoon, a release from the Mira-Bhayander Vasai-Virar (MBVV) police commissionerate said.

    A constable from the MBVV police, who saw the woman trying to take the extreme step, immediately jumped into the creek and brought her out of the water, it said.

    The woman was upset due to some domestic issues, the police added.

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  • Runaway Bengal woman reunited with kin by Maharashtra police

    By PTI
    THANE: A 27-year-old woman, who ran away from her home in West Bengal following some differences with her family members, has been reunited with her parents by police here in Maharashtra, an official said on Monday.

    A police patrol team spotted the woman loitering at Vashi railway station in Navi Mumbai on December 26, 2020.

    When enquired, the woman told the police that she had left her home in North 24 Parganas district and was living at the Vashi railway station since three-four days, senior police inspector Sanjeev Dhumal said.

    The woman requested the police to arrange a temporary accommodation for her, he said.

    She was then taken to the women’s cell of the police station where she was provided food and temporary shelter.

    The next day, the police lodged her at a care centre and contacted her relatives, the official said.

    The care centre’s trustee also got in touch with the woman’s relatives and came to know that she had abruptly left her home on account of some differences with her family members, he said.

    Her relatives had also lodged a missing person’s complaint at Barasat police station.

    After the Vashi police contacted her parents, they arrived in Navi Mumbai and the woman was handed over to them on Sunday, the official said.

    “The police went the extra mile to ensure the woman’s safety. We are happy the police could do their bit for the society,” he said.