Dawood Ibrahim. (File photo)Mumbai News: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Tuesday is searching 10 premises in Mumbai in connection with a money laundering case against gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his aides. The agency is also probing a property deal of a senior politician in this case, sources told Indian Express
Meanwhile, after Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut announced that the party will fight the Lok Sabha polls in the country under Aaditya Thackeray’s leadership, Sena leaders said party chief Uddhav Thackeray will continue to have a final word in the party though Aaditya will lead its expansion outside Maharashtra to establish a national footprint.
On the Covid-19 front, Maharashtra on Monday reported 1,966 fresh cases, over 1,500 less than the day before, and 12 related deaths, the state health department said. The daily Covid-19 count in Mumbai dropped below 200, for the first time in two months.
A health worker administering Covid booster dose to a beneficiary at the Rajawadi Hospital in Ghatkopar on Monday. (Express photo by Amit Chakravarty)
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Tuesday visited the residence of Dawood Ibrahim's sister Haseena Parkar in Mumbai. This comes as ED searched at least 10 premises in connection with a money laundering probe against people and entities allegedly linked to gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his aides.
Rajya Sabha MP Chhatrapati Sambhajiraje on Monday said he will sit on "fast unto death" from February 26 over the issue of Maratha quota. Sambhajiraje, a direct descendant of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, said he was taking this step to give justice to the Maratha community.
The Supreme Court had last May struck down the Maharashtra law granting reservation to the Maratha community in admissions and government jobs in the state. Sambhajiraje alleged that there is no clarity on the status of the review petition filed by the Maharashtra government after the Supreme Court rejected the quota.
At least 70 officers of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) are searching 10 premises in Mumbai in connection with a money laundering probe against people and entities allegedly linked to gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his aides, sources told The Indian Express.
The sources said the ED has found several hawala transactions linked to money illegally obtained through extortion, real estate sale and other unlawful activities. The agency has established the money trail linking these transactions to Dawood and his aides, they said.
The ED case is based on a fresh case filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) earlier this month against D-Company under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). Dawood and several of his associates have been named by the NIA along with their roles in terror activities against India, including hawala transactions.
Dawood, the mastermind of the 1993 bomb blasts in Mumbai, is India’s most wanted fugitive.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Tuesday is searching several premises in Mumbai in connection with a money laundering case against gangster Dawood Ibrahim. The agency is also probing a property deal of a senior politician in this case.
A court at Palghar in Maharashtra on Monday sentenced local Shiv Sena MP Rajendra Gavit to one-year imprisonment after convicting him in a cheque bouncing case and directed him to pay the compensation of Rs 1.75 crore. The court of Judicial Magistrate First Class, VP Khandare, stayed the execution of the order for one month to allow Gavit to file an appeal and obtain orders from the appellate court. (With PTI)
With the flattening of the pandemic curve, the daily Covid-19 count in Mumbai dropped below 200, for the first time in two months.
The Covid-19 cases flared up from December 14, 2021 with the gradual spread of the new variant Omicron which is more transmissible than its predecessor Delta variants. But now with the downward spring, on Monday, the city recorded only 192 cases — the lowest one-day count since December 13, 2021 when 174 patients were detected with Covid-19.
Despite a drop in testing to 28,599 on Monday from 39,938 conducted on Sunday, the test positivity rate—the number of positive cases out of the total tests conducted–dropped from 0.72% to 0.67% on Monday.
Maharashtra on Monday reported 1,966 fresh coronavirus positive cases, over 1,500 less than the day before, and 12 fatalities due to the viral infection, the state health department said. With the latest additions, the overall tally of infections rose to 78,44,915 in the state and the COVID-19 death toll mounted to 1,43,416, the department said in a report. On Sunday, Maharashtra had recorded 3,502 cases and 17 fatalities.