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  • Pune Porsche Accident Probe: 2 Yerawada Police Station Cops Suspended Over ‘Late reporting, Dereliction Of Duty’ |

    Pune Car Crash: Two Yerawada police officers were suspended on Friday for alleged dereliction of duty in connection with an accident involving a 17-year-old juvenile, whose Porsche knocked down and killed two people in the early hours of May 19. Inspector Rahul Jagdale and assistant police inspector Vishwanath Todkari were suspended, according to additional commissioner of police Manoj Patil, for “late reporting” and “dereliction of duty”.

    Following a car crash in the city’s Kalyani Nagar area, the accident was reported to the Yerwada police station. Amitesh Kumar, the Pune police commissioner, said earlier in the day that an internal investigation revealed lapses on the part of police officials in registering the case.

    He admitted that there was a delay in collecting blood samples from the juvenile who allegedly drank alcohol at two pubs prior to the accident. The accident occurred around 3 a.m. on Sunday, but blood samples were collected at 11 p.m., according to the commissioner. Furthermore, Kumar stated that the offence was initially registered under section 304 (A) (death caused by negligence) of the IPC, but later section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) was added.

    A Porsche, allegedly driven by the 17-year-old, who the police claim was drunk at the time, fatally knocked down two motorbike-borne software engineers in the city in the early hours of Sunday. The teenager was then produced before the Juvenile Justice Board which granted him bail while asking him to write a 300-word essay.

    Following an outcry over quick bail and the police’s review plea, the JJB on Wednesday remanded the teen, son of real estate developer Vishal Agarwal, to the observation home till June 5. The police have also arrested the teenager’s father.

  • Pune Police Detain Father Of Teen Porsche Driver After Crash Killed 2

    The police on Tuesday detained the father of the 17-year-old boy, whose speeding Porche killed two IT professionals in Kalyani Nagar area in Pune. As per the local police the teenager’s father was held in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and he is being brought to Pune. As per reports the boy was drunk at the time when the Porche fatally hit two motorbike riders in the early hours of Sunday. Now, the investigation of these cases has been handed over to the crime branch. 

    Police said, “We have detained the teenager’s father from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and he is being brought to Pune and will be arrested in the case registered against him,” reported PTI quoting Commissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar. 

    The police had registered a case against the teenage boy’s dad, who works in real estate, for breaking laws under the Juvenile Justice Act (sections 75 and 77). They also charged the bar’s owners and employees for serving alcohol to someone under 18. Section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act relates to “willful neglect of a child, or exposing a child to mental or physical illnesses,” while section 77 is about providing alcohol or drugs to a minor. 

    The man gave his child the car despite knowing that he did not have a valid driving license, thus putting his son’s life at risk. He also allowed his son to attend parties, even though he was fully aware that his son drinks alcohol, reported PTI citing the FIR. 

    Following the accident, the minor was apprehended but was granted bail within 15 hours by the Juvenile Justice Board. As a condition of the bail, the board instructed him to compose a “300-word essay” on the topic of road accidents. The board mandated that he undergo counselling at an alcohol de-addiction center, collaborate with the Yerawada traffic police for 15 days, receive treatment for alcohol cessation, and participate in psychiatric counselling, as outlined by defense lawyer Prashant Patil. 

    #WATCH | Maharashtra: Visuals of the Porsche car and bike currently at Yerwada Police Station in Pune.

    Two people were killed when a speeding Porsche car hit them from behind on 19th May. The accused has been granted bail by the Juvenile Justice Board and his father was… https://t.co/HKj8uK4d9q pic.twitter.com/91SeqwfTeN
    — ANI (@ANI) May 21, 2024

    Around 3:15 on Sunday morning the group of friends were riding motorcycles after attending a party. At the Kalyani Nagar junction, a speeding Porsche collided with the motorcycles, tragically killing the two riders, identified as Anis Awadhiya and Ashwini Costa, both 24-year-old IT professionals from Madhya Pradesh. 

  • Pune court sends Narcotics Control Bureau witness Kiran Gosavi to judicial custody in cheating case

    By ANI

    PUNE: Narcotics Control Bureau’s (NCB) independent witness in the Mumbai cruise raid case Kiran Gosavi has been sent to judicial custody by a Pune court on Tuesday in a cheating case registered against him at Faraskhana police station. Gosavi, till now, was in police custody.

    On October 28, Gosavi, a key witness in the Mumbai cruise drugs case in which Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was arrested, was held by Pune City Police in connection with a cheating case of Rs 18 lakh in the year 2018.

    He had allegedly duped one Chinmay Deshmukh, promising to get him a job in Malaysia and collected Rs 18 lakh. Deshmukh filed a complaint against Gosavi in 2018 and a chargesheet was filed in the case. Since then, he has been on the run.

    On October 31, the Pune Police had lodged one more case against Gosavi at Wanowarie Police Station for threatening a victim and on conspiracy related sections. The Pune City Police informed that Gosavi has been booked under sections 420, 409, 506(2), 120(b) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and arms act 3(b) for threatening victim and conspiracy related sections.

  • Drugs case: Pune Police issues lookout notice for man in viral selfie with Aryan Khan at NCB office

    By ANI

    NEW DELHI: Pune City Police has issued a lookout notice for Kiran Gosavi, the man who made headlines after he was seen accosting Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan at Narcotics Control Bureau’s (NCB) office in a viral selfie.

    City police commissioner Amitabh Gupta said that the lookout notice was issued on Wednesday and bars him from going outside the country. Police informed that Gosavi is wanted in a case registered with Pune city police in 2018, wherein a chargesheet has been submitted to the court.

    Gosavi was the witness in the NCB raid on the cruise ship off the Mumbai coast on October 2. Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik had raised objections to Gosavi’s presence at the NCB office after the arrest of Aryan Khan in the drugs case.

    Meanwhile, the NCB had clarified that Gosavi was not an officer or employee of the agency. A case was registered against Gosavi with Faraskhana police station of Pune city on May 19, 2018 for allegedly committing fraud by promising a person a job in Malaysia by taking money.

    However, he neither returned the money nor offered the job to the complainant. The accused was booked under sections 419, 420 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) along with relevant sections of the Intellectual Technology (IT) Act. Chargesheet was filed in the court as the accused was not found. He is still wanted in the case.

  • Pune doctor arrested for cutting wife’s hair, assaulting her

    By PTI

    PUNE: A 38-year-old doctor has been arrested for allegedly cutting his wife’s hair with a knife and assaulting her with it after a heated argument in Maharashtra’s Pune city, police said on Tuesday.

    The incident took place late on Sunday, when the doctor couple entered into an argument at their home in Dhanori area of the city, an official from Vishrantwadi police station said.

    The accused had come home in an inebriated condition and picked a quarrel with his wife after she told him that she would be attending her sister’s wedding, he said.

    The accused picked up a knife in a fit of rage and cut her hair, before assaulting her on the back with it, the official said.

    The woman approached the police on Monday and lodged a complaint, following which the accused was arrested under section 326 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons) of the IPC, the official said, adding that further probe is underway.

  • Pune cops book organizers of NCP event for COVID-19 norm violations

    By PTI
    PUNE: An offence was registered for alleged COVID-19 norm violations on Sunday after NCP workers gathered a day earlier in Pune for the inauguration of a new party office, police said.

    The inauguration event took place in the presence of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and other party leaders, an official said.

    “While the organizers sought police permission claiming 100 to 150 people would attend, the actual crowd numbered close to 500, most of whom did not wear masks or maintain social distancing. We have booked NCP city unit president Prashant Jagtap and others under IPC, Disaster Management Act and other provisions,” a Shivajinagar police station official said.

    Jagtap on Sunday apologised and said the plan was to keep the event simple but party workers continued coming in and the crowd swelled.

    Incidentally, the violation took place on a day when Pawar, after a review meeting, had warned people against lowering their guard as it could bring about a third wave of the infection.

     

  • Pune sanitiser plant fire: Search operations resume; firm owner summoned

    By PTI
    PUNE: Authorities resumed search operation to look for any more victims at a chemical plant here on Tuesday, a day after a massive fire broke out in the premises, and also summoned the firm’s owner to ascertain what kind of materials were being used there, officials said.

    Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse-Patil is expected to visit the site later in the day and take stock of the situation.

    While sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) Sandesh Shirke on Monday said 18 bodies were recovered from the firm’s premises, Superintendent of Police Abhinav Deshmukh on Tuesday said 17 completely charred bodies and one body part were recovered so far during the search operation.

    “We suspect the recovered body part could be of one of the 17 victims. That is why we are as of now considering 17 casualties,” Deshmukh said.

    The fire broke out on Monday afternoon at SVS Aqua Technologies, which manufactures chlorine dioxide among other chemicals and is located in the Pirangut MIDC area of Mulshi tehsil on the outskirts of Pune city.

    The search operation was stopped late Monday night due to darkness and heat caused due to the blaze.

    On Tuesday morning, fire brigade officials resumed the search operation to find out any more victims at the fire- ravaged plant.

    “We have resumed the search operation inside the firm on Tuesday morning to find if anyone is still under the gutted wreckages,” a fire brigadeofficial said.

    Besides, the police have summoned the firm’s owner for questioning to gather information on what kind of chemicals and materials were being used at the plant, Deshmukh said.

    Meanwhile, SDM Shirke said they have started a probe into the incident.

    A committee, led by the SDM, was formed to conduct a probe into the incident.

    Shirke earlier said all the bodies, which were completely charred, were sent to the government-run Sassoon General Hospital for autopsy.

    The bodies were burned beyond recognition and their identify will have to be ascertained by conducting DNA testing, he said.

    A fire official earlier said as per the company authorities, the blaze started during packing of plastic materials in the premises.

    “Due to some spark at the (packaging) section, the fire broke out and as there was plastic around, it spread rapidly,” he had said.

    Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar had said an inquiry was ordered to find out the exact cause of the fire and a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each will be given to the next of the kin of the deceased.

    The firm, located near Uravade village, around 40 km from the city, is into manufacturing of chemicals, including chlorine dioxide, which are used in water purification.

  • Plea in Bombay HC seeks Z-plus security for Serum Institute CEO Adar Poonawalla, his family

    By ANI
    MUMBAI: A writ petition on Wednesday has been filed in the Bombay High Court seeking Z plus security for Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla and his family. The petitioner has said Poonawalla should be given Z plus security for himself and his family, and his assets should be protected keeping the threats which were made to Poonawallah as per media reports.

    The plea requested the court to give order to Maharashtra government and Pune Police Commissioner to file an FIR in the matter based on the petitioner’s complaint which he has already submitted.

    He also requested that by the time the order on his petition comes, Poonawalla and his family should be given ample police protection and there should be police deployment at Serum institute and other properties of Poonawalla.

    On May 2, in an interview to a London newspaper, Poonawalla had complained of receiving threats from politicians and “powerful men” demanding quick delivery of the COVID-19 vaccine that his firm has been producing.

    Poonawalla had also complained of being “vilified and blamed”, and hinted at starting a new vaccine production unit in the United Kingdom. He had said he had received calls from “some of the most powerful men in India”, including “Chief Ministers, heads of business conglomerates and others”.

  • Pune police book at least 50 traders for violating COVID-19 norms during protest 

    By ANI
    PUNE: Pune police have registered a case against at least 50 traders at Vishrambaug Police station for violating COVID-19 guidelines during their protest on Thursday against restrictions imposed by the state government in view of rising COVID-19 cases.

    The traders association yesterday held a protest at Laxmi road in Pune against the restrictions imposed by the state government in view of the rising cases of COVID-19.

    The traders demanded to allow the opening of their shops and they also threatened to open them defying the state orders if not allowed officially.

    In order to control the new infections, the State government has imposed night curfew and weekend lockdown until further orders. The Pune Municipal Corporation had ordered for the closing of all establishments and markets except the essential services shops till April 30.

    Pune district registered 12,090 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, taking its tally to 6,16,127.

    Meanwhile, Maharashtra reported 56,286 new COVID-19 cases, 36,130 recoveries, and 376 deaths in the last 24 hours, the state health department informed on Thursday.

    According to the state government’s data, the active number of COVID-19 cases in the state stands at 5,21,317.  

  • Elgar Parishad speech: ‘Appear before Pune police on Wednesday’, Bombay HC tells Sharjeel Usmani

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday asked activist Sharjeel Usmani to appear before Pune police for questioning in connection with an FIR lodged against him for hate speech at the Elgar Parishad conclave held this year.

    A division bench of Justices SS Shinde and Manish Pitale asked the police not to take any coercive action against Usmani till March 16 when the court will hear his plea seeking to quash the case. Usmani’s counsel Mihir Desai on Tuesday told the court his client had been summoned by the police on Wednesday. “He is willing to appear for questioning but he should not be arrested,” Desai said.

    The court then asked Usmani to appear before police on Wednesday and asked Additional Public Prosecutor JP Yagnik to inform police to not take any coercive action against Usmani till March 16. The HC also directed Usmani to implead the complainant in the case as a respondent to the petition.

    An FIR was registered on February 2, 2021, against Usmani (23), an alumnus of the Aligarh Muslim University, by the Swargate police station in Pune under section 153(A) of the Indian Penal Code (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race and so on.

    The FIR was lodged based on a complaint by one Pradeep Gawade against Usmani for alleged offensive statements against the ‘Hindu community’, ‘Indian Judiciary’ and ‘Parliament’ during the Elgar Parishad conclave held in Pune on January 30, 2021.

    Usmani has sought for the FIR to be quashed, claiming there was no disharmony or violence at the conclave before or after his speech. “The FIR is frivolous, baseless and was registered on the basis of certain select statements taken out of context from the speech of the petitioner. The petitioner in his speech has only identified a problem in the social construct of this day and has concluded with a solution to that problem,” the plea said.

    It added that the speech in totality appeals for a combat against the hatred in the society without any ill will or enmity against any religion, caste or community.