Mumbai news live updates: Petrol price in city touches Rs 116 per litre

Day 2 of resumption of daily local train tickets saw their sales touch nearly 3 lakh at the booking counters of both Western and Central railways. The number of tickets sold totalled over 2.8 lakh on Monday, 30% more than on Sunday, officials said.

The income tax department has provisionally attached properties worth over Rs 1,000 crore allegedly belonging to Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and his close relatives under the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act. Read more

Ahead of BMC elections next year, there was a hue and cry at the civic standing committee meeting on Tuesday over water shortage. Corporators said lakes were full but no one knows where the water is going. Read more

A few hours after the post-midnight arrest of former state home minister Anil Deshmukh (72), the Enforcement Directorate produced him before a special holiday court on Tuesday, stating he was the key person in the Rs 100 crore money laundering case and the agency needed to investigate a “foreign angle” in the case apart from establishing the money trail. Read more

After a day of record lows, the state’s tally of Covid cases and deaths jumped on Tuesday. Read more

Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray has set November 30 as the deadline for all people to be vaccinated at least with a single dose. Read more

Environment minister Aaditya Thackeray on Tuesday conducted the bhoomi poojan of three electric vehicle charging stations in South Mumbai. The charring stations will come up at Hutatma Chowk, Kalaghoda Chowk and Rampart Road in the A ward. Full story here

He is known as a fiery spokesperson and an ace editor, but with the Shiv Sena’s win in the Dadra & Nagar Haveli Lok Sabha byelections, Sanjay Raut is now one of Sena’s master poll strategists too. According to Sena insiders, it was Raut who scripted this win right from getting the Delkars into the Sena and planning the campaign. Full story here

Mumbai reported 228 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, and three fresh fatalities, taking the tally of Covid-19 cases to 7,56,442 and the death toll to 16,254. The city is left with 3,439 active Covid-19 cases after 474 patients were discharged from hospitals, taking the number of recovered cases to 7,34,212.

While diesel price remained unchanged on Tuesday, petrol price was hiked at all pumps across Mumbai and rest of state. The price of petrol in Thane and Navi Mumbai has now touched an all time high of Rs 116 per litre while the diesel price remains unchanged at Rs 106.76 per litre. The price of petrol in Mumbai was revised to Rs 115.85 per litre on Tuesday. Full story here

A special holiday court today remanded former state home minister Anil Deshmukh in Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) custody till November 6. Full story here

A special holiday court today remanded former state home minister Anil Deshmukh in Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) custody till November 6.

Income Tax attached properties worth over Rs 1,000 crore of deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and his close relatives, it includes Jarandeshwar sugar factory, a flat in Delhi, South Mumbai office of Parth Pawar, a resort in Goa and land parcels at different locations in Maharashtra.

Former home minister Anil Deshmukh appeared before the ED on Monday to record his statement. The ED said Deshmukh, through his PA Kundan Shinde, had collected Rs 4.7 crore from (now-dismissed) assistant police inspector Sachin Waze in cash. Waze was then heading the CIU branch of Mumbai police and had collected the money from orchestra bar owners of Mumbai illegally for Deshmukh. From that money, Rs 4.18 crore was transferred to Deshmukh’s Nagpur-based educational trust through shell companies with the help of Delhi-based hawala operators Surendra Jain and Virendra Jain, showing it as donation.