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  • Nagpur cops arrest four for Rs 40 crore cryptocurrency fraud

    By PTI

    NAGPUR: Four people have been arrested from Pune for allegedly duping 2,000 investors to the tune of Rs 40 crore in a cryptocurrency fraud, Nagpur police said on Saturday.

    Nishid Wasnik, his wife Pragati, Gajanan Mungune and Sandesh Lanjewar were arrested after being on the run for over a year, an official said.

    “We have seized a pistol, seven live cartridges, four luxury cars worth Rs one crore, Rs 18,91,210 cash, eight cellphones and a laptop. They were held from Pangoli near Lonavala in Pune. Nishid, Sandesh and Gajanan are also accused of gunning down a person in Washim after abducting him from Nagpur last year,” he said.

  • Aadhaar cards found by Nagpur ragpicker were out for delivery, trying to identify postman: Police

    The police officer said that the scrap dealer was questioned on Tuesday. 'We have recovered envelopes of the Aadhaar cards bearing the postal stamp,' he said.

  • 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.

  • Recce of vital installations in Nagpur serious issue: Former Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis

    By PTI

    NAGPUR: BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said that recce of vital installations in Maharashtra’s Nagpur is a serious issue.

    He hoped that the Maharashtra police and Central agencies will take the necessary steps to thwart any incident.

    Fadnavis’ reaction came after a case was registered on Thursday against unidentified members of the terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed for conducting recce of “vital installations” in Nagpur.

    Notably, the RSS headquarters falls under the jurisdiction of the Kotwali police station where the case was registered.

    “I think this is a very serious issue. This kind of recce should be taken very seriously. I am confident that Central agencies and the state police will together take steps to avoid any incident,” the Leader of Opposition told reporters at the Nagpur airport.

  • SpiceJet flight makes emergency landing at Nagpur airport after medical emergency

    By PTI

    NAGPUR: A Gorakhpur-Mumbai flight of SpiceJet made an emergency landing at Nagpur airport in Maharashtra due to a medical emergency involving a pregnant passenger, a senior official said.

    Air India Airport Services Ltd’s senior manager Sunil Sangole told PTI that a SpiceJet flight heading to Mumbai from Gorakhpur with 182 passengers and crew members on board made an emergency landing at the Nagpur airport at 12.32 PM after a passenger, who was three-month pregnant, had a medical emergency.

    The woman passenger was rushed to a private hospital by 12.42 PM.

    The flight flew to Mumbai at 5.17 PM.

    All the agencies like Nagpur ATC, Mihan India Ltd and the airport ground handling staff handled the passengers and medical emergency nicely, Sangole said.

    A doctor of the private hospital, who attended to the woman passenger, said she was fine now.

    Nearly one hour after the flight took off from Gorakhpur, she developed altered sensorium (a medical condition characterised by the inability to think clearly or concentrate), giddiness, shortness of breath, vomiting, he said.

    “These are the symptoms of sleeping into shock. We treated her after the flight landed with Oxygen support and other drugs. She was then treated by a gynaecologist,” he said.

    He said the woman left the hospital at 5.20 PM with a relative who lives in Nagpur.

  • Minor kills friend in Nagpur after latter refuses to give him phone

    By PTI

    NAGPUR: A 23-year-old man was killed allegedly by his minor friend for not giving the latter his mobile phone, police in Parseoni area of Nagpur said on Saturday.

    The incident took place late Friday night and the deceased has been identified as Pritam Kamade, an official said.

    “The minor asked Kamade for his mobile phone but the latter refused by claiming its charge had drained out. The two had an argument during which the accused hit Kamade with an iron rod. He died in a hospital some time later,” he said.

    A murder case has been registered, the Parseoni police station official said.

  • Girder of under-construction flyover collapses in Nagpur; no injuries reported

    By PTI

    NAGAR: The girder of an under-construction flyover collapsed in Bharat Nagar in Kalamna area of Nagpur on Tuesday, an official said, adding that no injury was reported due to the incident.

    The incident occurred at 9.15 pm on a bridge that will connect MB town to Kalamna market, he said.

    “The girder suddenly caved in and collapsed on to the road from the pillar.

    The bridge is being constructed by National Highway Authority of India (NHAI),” he added.

  • After recovery of man’s body, Nagpur cops arrest wife for giving his murder contract

    By PTI

    NAGPUR: A day after a man’s decomposed body was found in Khapa area near Nagpur city, police have arrested his wife for allegedly giving a contract to kill him, an official said on Wednesday.

    His two killers, including a teenage boy, have been taken into custody, he said.

    The woman had allegedly hired the duo to eliminate her husband.

    She had promised to pay Rs three lakh to the duo, who worked in the victim’s car washing centre, along with a residential plot, police said.

    The victim, Pradip Bagde (47), a resident of Ajni in Nagpur city, had gone missing on September 16 and his decomposed body was recovered on Tuesday.

    The body was found dumped under a bridge near Khekra Nala after some stray dogs pulled it out.

    Police arrested his wife Seema Bagde (40) and his killer Pawan Pandurang Choudhary (21), a resident of Thadipaoni, while the juvenile offender was detained, the police official said.

    “As per the information, Pradip used fight with Seema over minor issues. Fed up with it, she decided to eliminate him. She roped in Choudhary and the juvenile to execute the murder and promised Rs three lakh to them along with a residential plot. She had paid Rs 50,000 to them,” he added.

    “On September 16, on the pretext of showing a residential plot, Choudhary and the juvenile took Bagde. After reaching Thadipaoni area, Choudhary got down from the car on the pretext of attending to a nature’s call. When Bagde also got down, Choudhary stabbed him with a sharp weapon, while the juvenile attacked him with a rod,” he added.

    They later dumped the body in a large pipe beneath the bridge, the official said.

    After the recovery of the body, police launched a probe and checked the CCTV footage, in which they spotted Choudhary and the boy.

    Both of them confessed to their involvement in the crime and said that they acted as per the woman’s instructions, he said.

    An offence under IPC section 302 (murder) and others was registered against them at Khapa police station.

  • Nagpur woman loses consciousness, falls off motorcycle, dies

    By PTI

    NAGPUR: A woman died after losing consciousness and falling off a motorcycle at Amravati Bypass in Nagpur, police said on Sunday.

    Sheela Singh (53) was riding pillion with her husband Rajesh when the incident took place on Saturday morning, a Hingna police station official said.

    “She suddenly lost consciousness and fell off the motorcycle, sustaining severe head injuries.

    She died after being rushed to the government medical college and hospital here,” he said.

  • Maharashtra: Gadkari launches AI-powered road safety initiative in Nagpur

    By PTI

    NAGPUR: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday launched ‘iRASTE’, an Artificial Intelligence-powered project, on a pilot basis in Nagpur in Maharashtra with the aim of reducing accidents by 50 per cent in Vidarbha’s biggest city.

    A collaborative effort between the government, Intel, INAI, IIIT-Hyderabad, CSIR-CRRI (Central Road Research Institute), Mahindra & Mahindra and Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), the project will focus on vehicle safety, mobility analysis and road infrastructure safety to move towards a ‘Vision Zero’ accident scenario, a release said.

    Vehicles belonging to NMC will be equipped with collision avoidance technology that can reduce accidents and near misses by up to 60 percent, while sensors will help map the dynamic risk of the entire road network, which can be used by agencies to prevent and rectify accident-prone zones, also called black spots, the release added.

    Gadkari said 1,500 accidents, which cause 250 deaths, take place in Nagpur every year and the use of AI to map accident spots, which will be repaired by his ministry, will also help collect data on road surface condition, signage, marking, signal details, type of vehicles, models in use and utility assets.

    “The crash severity index (which is found by calculating fatalities and serious injuries in an accident) in Nagpur was 21.22 in 2018, 24.83 in 2019, and 70.17 in 2020, this increase coming during the COVID-19 pandemic (when most areas were under lockdown), which is not a good thing at all,” he said.

    Nagpur was witnessing an average of eight road accident deaths for every one lakh people in the last three years, which was four times that of a much bigger city like Mumbai, and this situation needed to be addressed quickly, Gadkari added.

    Intel India Country Head Nivruti Rai and IITH Director Professor PJ Narayan, who spoke on the occasion, said the ‘iRASTE’ project would go a long way in creating a blueprint for the country in order to bring accidents to zero.