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  • Sex racket busted at spa in Thane; one held

    By PTI

    THANE: The police have busted a sex racket operating from a spa and arrested the manager of the establishment in Maharashtra’s Thane city, an official said on Thursday.

    Acting on a tip-off, teams from the Anti-Human Trafficking Cell (AHTC) raided the spa located in the mall, where women were being used for sex trade, the official said.

    The police arrested the lady manager of the establishment and rescued two women, he said, adding that a hunt has been launched for the owners of the establishment.

    An offence has been registered in the regard under relevant sections of the IPC and PITA Act at Kasarwadavali police station, and further probe is underway, the official said.

  • Thane tribal woman in labour pain made to sit on hospital steps for hours, alleges activist

    By PTI

    THANE: A 28-year-old tribal woman, who was in labour pain, was made to sit on the footsteps of a government-run hospital at Bhiwandi in Maharashtra’s Thane district by its staff for nearly 11 hours, who asked her relatives to get her medical tests done first, a social activist alleged on Sunday.

    The incident occurred at Indira Gandhi Memorial (IGM) Hospital on Saturday, activist Pramod Pawar said.

    The medical superintendent of the hospital, however, said that he was not aware that the pregnant woman was made to sit outside the facility for hours, and that when he was informed about it, he immediately arranged for her admission.

    “The woman, Rohini Maruti Mukne, a resident of a village near Bhiwandi, developed labour pain and was brought to the hospital around 1 pm yesterday. However, the hospital staff refused to admit her and made her wait on the footsteps till midnight. The staff asked her relatives to get her blood and other tests done first and also make arrangements for the blood supply,” he said.

    When the activist and other members of his organisation came to know about it, they raised the issue with the hospital management.

    Finally, its medical superintendent intervened and the woman was finally admitted to the facility, he said.

    When contacted, Rajesh More, medical superintendent of IGM Hospital, said, he was not aware that the woman was made to sit outside the hospital.

    “When I came to know about it around 10 pm, I immediately made arrangement to get her admitted,” he said. 

  • Hundreds protest in Thane against Islamic scholar’s arrest in Uttar Pradesh, eviction drive in Assam

    By PTI

    THANE: Hundreds of people, led by a Muslim organisation, held a protest at Mumbra in Maharashtra’s Thane against the BJP governments in Uttar Pradesh and Assam over the arrest of an Islamic scholar and the eviction drive in those states respectively.

    The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) recently arrested Islamic scholar Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui from Meerut for allegedly running the “biggest conversion syndicate”, while the Assam government carried out an eviction drive in Darrang district against alleged encroachers, largely drawn from the Bengali Muslim community.

    The Ulama Committee Mumbra-Kausa held the protest on Friday against the arrest of Maulana in UP and the eviction drive in Assam, terming both these actions as “illegal”. A large number of women were also took part in the protest carrying placards, banners and shouting slogans.

    After the agitation, the protesters submitted a memorandum to senior inspector of Mumbra police station, Madhukar Kad, over their demands.

  • Maharashtra: Teenaged girl becomes pregnant after being raped; relative held

    By PTI

    THANE: A 17-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her cousin on several occasions in Maharashtra’s Thane district following which she became pregnant, police said on Wednesday.

    The 24-year-old accused was arrested from a village in Bhiwandi taluka on Tuesday, an official from the district rural police control room said.

    The girl and the accused, who is her cousin, resided in the same house and the latter allegedly raped her on several occasions, the official said.

    The minor girl became pregnant and delivered a child in a hospital here on Sunday, following which her mother lodged a police complaint against the man, he said.

    The accused was subsequently arrested and booked under Indian Penal Code Section 376 (rape) and provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he added.

  • Maharashtra: 8,000 kg of beef seized, two arrested in Thane

    By PTI

    THANE: Police have seized 8,000 kg of beef and arrested two persons for allegedly smuggling the banned animal meat in Maharashtra’s Thane city, police said on Monday.

    Based on a tip-off, the police on Saturday intercepted a tempo at Kharegaon toll naka on the Nashik-Mumbai highway, an official from Kalwa police station said.

    The police found beef in the vehicle and during enquiry, they learnt that the meat was being transported from Malegaon in neighbouring Nashik district to Kurla in adjoining Mumbai, he said.

    The meat was worth about Rs 8 lakh, he said, adding that the tempo was also seized.

    Two persons, identified as Rais Ahmed Salam Qureshi and Abdul Ahmed Naseem Khan, were arrested and booked under relevant provisions, he said.

    Cow slaughter and beef transport are banned in the state.

    Over the last three-four days, the police have seized 14 tonnes of beef in the city and arrested five people in this connection.

    A delegation of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bhartiya Govansh Rakshan Sanwardhan Parishad met Thane Police Commissioner Jai Jeet Singh on Sunday and brought to his notice the increasing cases of beef smuggling into Thane and Mumbai.

  • Oil tanker collides with four vehicles after hitting road divider in Thane; three people injured

    By PTI

    THANE: An oil tanker hit a road divider and then collided with four vehicles, injuring three occupants of a car and disrupting traffic movement on an busy road in Maharashtra’s Thane city, a civic official said on Monday.

    The accident took place around 10.30 pm on Sunday near Gaimukh on Ghodbunder Road, the city’s main arterial road, Thane Municipal Corporation’s regional disaster management cell (RDMC) chief Santosh Kadam said.

    The tanker driver apparently lost control over the wheels, following which the vehicle first crashed into a road divider and then jumped on to the opposite lane where it collided with three cars and a truck, he said.

    The impact of the collision was so severe that the tanker driver’s cabin got ripped off from the vehicle and came crashing down on the roof one of the cars, trapping its occupants, the official said.

    After being alerted firemen, local police and RDMC teams rushed to the spot.

    They managed to pull out those trapped in the car after about an hour, he said.

    Three car occupants, aged 18, 30 and 45, were injured and admitted to a private hospital in Mira Road area, the official said.

    The other vehicles involved in the accident were also badly damaged, he said.

    The accident and bad condition of the road resulted in heavy traffic jam in the area, he added.

  • 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.

  • 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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  • Two dead, one injured after slab of building collapses in Maharashtra’s Thane

    By PTI

    THANE: Two people were killed and another person was injured after the slab of a 25-year-old four-storey residential building collapsed in Maharashtra’s Thane city on Sunday morning, civic officials said.

    The slab of a flat on the third floor of ‘C-wing’ of the Khatri Apartments, located in Rabodi area, came crashing down on its ground floor at around 6 am, Thane Municipal Corporation’s (TMC) deputy commissioner Ashok Burpulle said.

    After being alerted, a team of local firemen, police and the TMC’s regional disaster management cell (RDMC) rushed to the spot and pulled out three people from the debris, two of whom died in hospital, he said.

    An official from the TMC’s disaster control room said that the deceased were identified as Rameez Shaikh (32) and Goss Tamboli (38), while the third person was under treatment. The Rabodi-based housing complex collectively has 73 flats, Burpulle said, adding that after the incident, occupants of all 24 houses in its C-wing were shifted to a safer place as a precautionary measure.

    The civic body’s RDMC chief Santosh Kadam said that following the incident, “the ‘C-wing’ of the 25-year-old building was sealed”. Meanwhile, Thane guardian minister Eknath Shinde, who visited the site later in the day, said cluster development of dangerous and dilapidated buildings was the only solution to such incidents.

    The building had been declared dangerous but occupants were reluctant to move, Shinde said, adding that compensation would be given as per government norms to the kin of the deceased. “The only permanent solution to this problem of dilapidated and dangerous buildings is cluster development, which has been approved for Thane city. Elected representatives, civic officials and residents must meet to finalise development works,” the state minister and senior Shiv Sena leader said.

    TMC Assistant Commissioner Mahesh Aher told PTI that the entire building, comprising three wings with 73 flats, has been sealed and an audit of the structure would be conducted by engineers.

    Meanwhile, the TMC, in a release issued in the evening, said occupants had been given repeated instructions to vacate the building, as it had been declared dangerous post an inspection in 2013, and notices were also issued, all of which were ignored.

    The release said Rabodi police was asked to get the building vacated, while the water supply, electricity and drainage departments had been told to disconnect supply.

    An audit had suggested immediate repairs and the TMC had given three reminders to the owners of the building to get it repaired, the release said, adding that some 85 per cent repair work had been completed while 15 per cent was pending.

  • MNS activists held over ‘Dahi Handi’ protest in Maharashtra’s Thane

    By PTI

    THANE: Some 20 Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) activists were arrested on Monday in Thane for sitting on a ‘dharna’ demanding permission from authorities for traditional ‘Dahi Handi’ celebrations which have been banned in view of the coronavirus pandemic, police said. They were released later.

    The activists, led by the party’s Thane-Palghar unit chief Avinash Jadhav, said they would, irrespective of the police ban, celebrate the festival, which involves formation of human pyramids by youngsters to break curd-filled pots kept at a height.

    The popular festival organized during Gokulashtami, which attracts a lot of crowds, is to be celebrated on Tuesday. The protest was held on a makeshift stage on the Bhagwati School grounds near the Nagpada police station.

    The group was taken to the Nagpada police station and released later, after all of them were issued notices warning them of prohibitory orders in place and the punishment they could face if these were violated, officials said.

    MNS leader Amey Khopkar tweeted, “Hindu festivals will be celebrated with tradition and culture in Thane.”