On Monday, the court had remanded Sanjay Raut in the ED custody till August 4. (Express photo by Amit Chakravarty)Mumbai News Today Live (August 04): A special court extended till August 8 the Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody of Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut in a money laundering case. While extending the custody, the court noted that the ED has made “remarkable progress” in the investigation. The central agency had arrested Raut on Sunday midnight in connection with alleged financial irregularities in the redevelopment of Patra ‘Chawl’ (old row tenement) in suburban Goregaon and related financial property transactions involving his wife and alleged associates.
Mumbai police seized more than 700 kilograms of mephedrone worth Rs 1,400 crore following a raid at a drug manufacturing unit in Nalasopara of Palghar district, and arrested five persons, an official said. The Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of the Mumbai crime branch conducted the raid at the unit, he said.
Meanwhile, in a move that could have a bearing on BMC election outcome and hurt Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena which has been weakened by the recent split in his party and fall of the MVA government, the two-member state Cabinet of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday reversed the MVA government’s decision on delimitation of wards last year.
During the hearing by a special court, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said that there is no ventilation and no windows in the room where he's kept after interrogation, except one small fan. Raut said that he is a heart patient and was feeling suffocated in the room without ventilation. The ED said that the entire building is airconditioned and Raut is kept in an AC room.
ED is asked by court whether there are any other alternative arrangement where there is natural ventilation along with fan which can be made available for him. ED officials said they will provide Raut with it.
A Mumbai court ruled that Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut will remain in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate, which arrested him on Monday in connection with a money laundering case.
ED told the court that apart from the grounds given in his previous remand, a trail of further Rs 2.25 crore linked to Raut is being probed.
Devika Rotawan, the youngest survivor and an eyewitness to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, has moved the Bombay High Court seeking allotment of residential premises after the Maharashtra government rejected her plea for it.
This is the second time that Rotawan, now 23 years old, has approached the court. In 2020, she had filed a similar petition. In October 2020, the high court had directed the Maharashtra government to consider her plea and pass appropriate orders.
In her fresh plea filed last month, Rotawan said the government had rejected her representation, following which she was constrained to file a second petition in the high court.
On Thursday, when the petition came up for hearing before a division bench of Justices S V Gangapurwala and M S Karnik, additional government pleader Jyoti Chavan, who appeared for the Maharashtra government, said that pursuant to the October 2020 order, a compensation of Rs 13.26 lakh was handed over to Rotawan on compassionate grounds. (PTI)
The six laning of the Bhiwandi Kalyan Shil Fata road will get a big boost with the state government sanctioning additional works of Rs 561.85 crore. The decision was taken by the state Cabinet on Wednesday.
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde is a MLA from Thane and was the guardian minister of Thane, while his son Shrikant is a member of parliament from Kalyan area. Kalyan- Bhiwandi- Panvel are rapidly growing urban areas and the region will develop faster after the Mumbai Nagpur supercommunications highway is completed. People in the Kalyan Dombivali region greatly depend on the railway and the urban planners have insisted on wider roads.
The costs had increased due to construction of a Patri pool, two railway overbridge at Katai, and shifting of electric poles and water pipes.
The project has used Rs 105 crore grant from the state to the implementing agency Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation and the balance of 456.85 crore will be handed over soon.
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money-laundering case, will be produced before a special court on Thursday.
Raut's ED custody granted by the court on Monday, ends on Thursday.
The central agency had arrested Raut on Sunday midnight in connection with alleged financial irregularities in the redevelopment of Patra 'Chawl' (old row tenement) in suburban Goregaon and related financial property transactions involving his wife and alleged associates. (PTI)
In a move that could have a bearing on BMC election outcome and hurt Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena which has been weakened by the recent split in his party and fall of the MVA government, the two-member state Cabinet of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday reversed the MVA government’s decision on delimitation of wards last year.
The new government’s decision ahead of the BMC elections will not only bring the number of electoral wards in the BMC down to 227 instead of 236 (post the delimitation exercise during MVA), but according to sources, will also hurt the prospects of Shiv Sena in the elections. Read more
Mumbai police seized more than 700 kilograms of mephedrone worth Rs 1,400 crore following a raid at a drug manufacturing unit in Nalasopara of Palghar district, and arrested five persons, an official said.
The Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of the Mumbai crime branch conducted the raid at the unit, he said. "The action was carried out based on specific inputs. The ANC team raided the premises, during which it found that mephedrone, a banned drug, was being manufactured," he said.
"While four of the accused were arrested in Mumbai, one person was held in Nalasopara," the official said.
This is one of the biggest drug hauls by the city police in recent times, he added. (PTI)
In a relief for the Uddhav Thackeray-led camp of the Shiv Sena, the Supreme Court asked the Election Commission not to decide on the pleas submitted by the Eknath Shined-led faction as yet.
A bench led by Chief Justice of India NV Ramana said that the apex court would decide whether to refer the pleas to a five-judge constitution bench by Monday, August 8. The bench directed the Election Commission not to take precipitative action on the pleas filed by the Shinde camp until then. Read more