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Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh's son Hrishikesh moved to sessions court on Saturday and filed a petition for anticipatory bail. Earlier on Thursday, Enforcement Directorate (ED) had issued summons to Hrishikesh for questioning in an alleged money laundering case in which his father Anil Deshmukh has been arrested. ED had asked Hrishikesh to appear before it on Friday but he did not, said ED officials.

At least 10 patients admitted to the civil hospital in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar died after a major fire broke out on Saturday. According to officials, several patients were also injured in the blaze. "A total of 10 people died in a fire incident at Ahmednagar District hospital," said district collector Rajendra Bhosale. Full story here

A 53-year-old man was allegedly found murdered at a dyeing unit in Bhiwandi town of Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Saturday.The victim, Rajendra Singh Saryuram Singh, a resident of Kanheri, was found lying in a pool of blood in the dyeing unit, where he was employed, on Friday, Thane police PRO Jaimala Wasave said.The police suspect that the victim may have been attacked and killed by his roommate one Gulab, who has been missing since the incident, the official said.

Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil on Saturday hit out at the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) dispensation, saying that if the government does not have sufficient funds, it should take loan in order to pay to the employees of the state transport body.He also said that since the Centre has reduced the fuel prices, the Maharashtra government should also slash the rates to provide further relief to people.

The Income Tax Department carried out search and seizure operations at the headquarter and one of the branches of an Urban Credit Cooperative Bank located in Maharashtra and restrained Rs 53.72 crore, informed the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on Saturday.The search and seizure operation was carried out on October 27.According to CBDT, the residence of the chairman and one of its directors were also searched.

A man has been arrested at Valiv in Maharashtra's Palghar district for allegedly running a business of making fake PAN cards, police said on Saturday.The accused, Satya Prakash Hiralal Mourya, 29, was arrested on Thursday, following a raid at his photo studio in Sativali village, from where 18 fake Permanent Account Number (PAN) cards were recovered, they said.

Police have arrested a man at Nalasopara in Maharashtra's Palghar district and recovered from him ganja worth Rs 25,000, an official said on Saturday.The accused, Rizwan Abdul Khan, 24, was nabbed by a team of the crime detection unit of Mira Bhayandar-Vasai Virar police commissionerate on Thursday."Acting on a tip-off, the police kept a vigil behind a lodge in Pelhar Road area of Nalasopara and nabbed the accused. Over 2.4 kg ganja worth Rs 25,000 was recovered from him," a statement by the MBVV police said.

Former state home minister Anil Deshmukh’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody ends today, and he will be produced before the special holiday court. He was arrested on Tuesday in connection to a money laundering case.

Thane district of Maharashtra reported 82 new coronavirus positive cases, its lowest daily infection count since the pandemic broke out last year, an official said on Saturday.The death of two patients took the toll to 11,538.These cases and fatalities were recorded on Friday, he said.With 82 new cases, the district's caseload has reached 5,66,536.

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Three persons were arrested for alleged possession of mephedrone (MD) worth over Rs 21 lakh in Mira Road area of Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Friday. A patrolling team of the anti-narcotics cell intercepted a man near an eatery late on Thursday night and recovered 5 gm of the contraband from him, deputy commissioner of police (crime) MBVV Dr Mahesh Patil said. Full story here

Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officer Sameer Wankhede has been taken off the controversial cruise drugs case in which Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan was arrested, with the agency transferring the investigation in it and five others cases from the Mumbai unit to an SIT.The action has been taken on "administrative grounds". As these cases have "wider and inter-state ramifications", they have been transferred to the operations unit in Delhi, NCB Deputy Director General (north-west region) Mutha Ashok Jain told PTI on Friday.

At least 12 incidents of fire triggered by firecrackers were reported in different parts of Maharashtra's Thane city on Diwali night, and there were no casualties, a civic official said on Friday. None of the fires reported on Thursday were major and could be contained in minutes, said Santosh Kadam, the chief of the regional disaster management cell of the Thane Municipal Corporation. Full story here

Even as Mumbai’s single Covid-19 vaccine dose coverage is nearly 99% and double 60%, local ward offices are finding it difficult to walk the last mile. Ward officers said while they have been able to track the unvaccinated or partially vaccinated in large housing societies, slums are not that easy to monitor. Full report here

Maharashtra on Friday reported 802 new Covid-19 cases, the lowest daily count since May 2, 2020, and 17 fresh fatalities, a health department official said. With these additions, the tally of Covid-19 cases in the state increased to 66,16,101, while the death toll rose to 1,40,362, he said. Full report here