A pre-New Year Eve rave party with drugs and liquor was busted by the Thane Police in a private plot on Ghodbunder Road near the Kasarvadavali Police Station on Sunday morning.
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Thane: Teen kidnapped four years ago now 20-year-old mother, say cops
By PTI
THANE: A teen girl who was allegedly abducted from Thane district in 2017 was traced recently and is now a 20-year-old married woman with a child, police said on Friday.
The girl, 16 at the time, had gone missing from Vithalwadi on June 21, 2017 and police were unable to trace her after making several attempts, an Anti Human Trafficking Cell official said.
“After the case was transferred to us in August this year, we got a tip off on September 15 and spotted the kidnapped person arrive at court naka here with a child in her arms. She told us she had failed Class X exams twice, so did not want to continue studies,” AHTC senior inspector Ashok Kadlag said.
As her parents were pestering her to continue studying, she ran away and married a boy she knew from Chembur when she turned 18, Kadlag said.
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Man planning to end life on railway tracks saved by cops in Thane
By PTI
THANE: A 31-year-old man who rushed to the railway tracks near Dombivali station in Thane district to allegedly commit suicide was rescued by police after the control room got an alert, an official said on Friday.
The incident took place around 10 pm on Wednesday, said Dombivali railway police station senior inspector Mukesh Dhage.
“The man’s kin were called to the police station and the domestic dispute was solved, after which he went back to his home in Kopar Road,” he added.
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Thane: Woman official loses three fingers, suffers head injury in attack during anti-encroachment drive
By PTI
THANE: The Thane civic administration has condemned the attack on a woman assistant municipal commissioner (AMC), who lost three of her fingers and received head injuries when a hawker stabbed her with a knife during an anti-encroachment drive here in Maharashtra.
While Kalpita Pimple, the AMC of Majiwada-Manpada area, was overseeing the removal of hawkers at Kasarvadavali junction in the city on Monday, a hawker attacked her with a knife.
Pimple lost three of her fingers and received severe head injuries in the attack.
Her security guard also lost one of his fingers while trying to save her, a police official said.
According to eyewitnesses, the accused, identified as Amar Yadav, later threatened to commit suicide but was caught by police.
A video showing the accused shouting and wielding the knife went viral on social media.
The Kasarwadavali police arrested Yadav and booked him under various Indian Penal Code Sections, including 307 (attempt to murder) and 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of duty), the official said.
Pimple was rushed to a private hospital where she underwent a surgery to reattach her fingers and was also provided medical treatment for her head injuries, a civic official said.
Mayor Naresh Mhaske later expressed concern over the attack on the civic official and told reporters that such incidents would not discourage the civic body and the drive against encroachments in the city would be intensified.
He also said that the civic body will bear the cost of treatment of the injured official and her security guard.
Other civic officials also condemned the attack on Pimple.
Thane Guardian Minister Eknath Shinde visited the hospital around Monday midnight to enquire about Pimple’s health.
Shinde said he had spoken to Thane Police Commissioner Jai Jeet Singh and asked the police to take stringent action in the case.
Thane Municipal Commissioner Dr Vipin Sharma said additional security force will be deployed during such anti-encroachment drives in future.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena’s (MNS) Thane-Palghar units head Avinash Jadhav also condemned the attack on the woman civic official and demanded strict action against the accused.
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Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau books Thane police constable for seeking bribe from gutka seller
By PTI
THANE: The Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has registered an offence against a police constable in Maharashtra’s Thane city for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs 1.20 lakh from a person in exchange of not taking any action against him for selling gutka, which is banned in the state, an official said.He said that the case against the constable, who is attached to the Mumbra police station in the city, was registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act by the ACB’s Thane unit on Wednesday. The constable, Uday Bhaskar Kirpan, had demanded Rs 1,20,000 from the complainant for not registering a case against him and his brother after they were found selling gutka illegally.
The constable later agreed to accept Rs 50,000 as the first instalment. However, the complainant approached the ACB, which registered a case against the policeman, the anti-graft agency said.
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FIR against Param Bir Singh: HC says former Mumbai top cop can move vacation bench
By PTI
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Thursday said former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh can approach the vacation bench of the HC in connection with his plea seeking to quash an FIR registered against him by Thane police in connection with an atrocities case.A division bench of Justices S S Shinde and Manish Pitale could not take up Singh’s plea for hearing on Thursday due to paucity of time.
“You (Singh) can move the vacation bench if there is any urgency,” the court said.
Senior counsel Darius Khambata, appearing for the government, said there was no urgency in thematter.
Singh’s counsel Mukul Rohatgi said the petitioner would decide if there was an urgency or not.
The HC then said it cannot hear the plea on Thursday and the petitioner has the liberty to move the vacation bench.
Singh in his petition had sought quashing of the FIR registered against him under the Prevention of Atrocities Act last month.
The FIR was based on a complaint by police inspector Bhimrao Ghadge posted at Akola in Maharashtra.
Ghadge in his complaint had made a series of allegations of corruption against Singh and other officers, in the period when Singh was posted with the Thane police.
The Akola police had registered a Zero FIR (mode of lodging FIR in any police station irrespective of the offence committed in that area or any other area) and it was later transferred to the Thane police for investigation.
Ghadge, who was posted in the Thane police commissionerate during 2015-2018, had alleged that Singh pressured him to drop the names of some persons from a case and when he refused to do so, Singh embroiled him in false cases.
The case has been lodged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code for criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence and sections of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
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Thane cops book teen for raping girl in train toilet
By PTI
THANE: A 19-year-old boy has been booked for allegedly raping a girl in the toilet of the Gorakhpur Express train, Thane police said on Saturday.As per the complaint, the incident took place around 7 am on Wednesday, an official said.
“The girl and boy were traveling together. He took her to the toilet and raped her. Kurar police in Mumbai registered a case on the basis of the victim’s complaint and it was then transferred to us,” the Thane railway police station official said.
No arrest has been made and further probe was underway, he added.
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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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