Mumbai news live: In the 24 hours ending at 8:30 am on Tuesday, Mumbai recorded 8.1 mm rainfall. (Express photo by Amit Chakravarty) Mumbai, Maharashtra News Live Updates (August 16): Mumbai is likely to see a generally cloudy sky Tuesday, with moderate to intense spells of rain in the city and suburbs. In the 24 hours ending at 8.30 am Tuesday, Mumbai recorded 8.1 mm rainfall. Due to the rains, there were reports of waterlogging in several parts of the city, causing traffic disruptions.
Two senior citizens were killed on Monday when the first floor roof of a ground and two-storey building collapsed in Nanepada in Mulund East at 7.46 pm. The incident was reported to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) disaster control room helpline by local residents.
In other news, Shiv Sena scion and MLA Aaditya Thackeray will be touring parts of Raigad district on August 17, the day the monsoon session of the Assembly begins, on the third leg of his Shiv Sanvaad Yaatra, an outreach programme for party workers. For the first time since the Eknath Shinde-led rebellion, Aaditya toured Nashik, Aurangabad, and Ahemadnagar in July. In the next leg, he toured Konkan and Pune.
A 10 ml vial of Corbevax is meant for 20 children. Once opened, the vial has to be used within four hours.(Express Photo)
A 17-year-old girl was allegedly raped repeatedly by five men and a minor boy in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district, police said on Tuesday.
One of the accused allegedly raped the girl, a resident of Kannad taluka, at a farm in a village on Friday following which the crime came to light, a senior official said.
On Saturday, the girl's parents approached local police who arrested the five men, in the age group of 19 to 33 years, and detained the juvenile the same day, he said.
The accused were booked under Indian Penal Code Section 376 (rape) and provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he said.
After arrest, the five men were produced before a court which sent them in police custody till August 17. The minor accused was sent to a juvenile home, the official said. (PTI)
In a special hearing held on the Independence Day on Monday, the Bombay High Court's Aurangabad bench directed the Badminton Association of India (BAI) to include national player Prathamesh Kulkarni's name for wild card entry in an international tournament to be held in Pune.
The name of 18-year-old Kulkarni was not included in the list due to a clerical error on part of the BAI.
A division bench of Justices Ravindra Ghuge and Arun Pednekar in its order, which was made available on Tuesday, said Kulkrani cannot be faulted as he had submitted his application form online with correct details well before the deadline.
The bench also noted that there was “bungling” and “error" committed by the BAI while handling Kulkarni's form.
The HC said if Kulkarni misses the Pune tournament, then his entry shall be forwarded for participation in an upcoming tournament in Nagpur.
The court heard the petition filed by Kulkarni seeking to be included in the list of participants in the India Junior International Grand Prix-2022, to be held in Pune from August 30 to September 4, and the India Maharashtra International Challenge, to be held in Nagpur from September 13 to 18.
As per the plea, Kulkarni's name was already included in the list of eligible candidates but due to a clerical error on the BAI's part, his name was put in the female category and also there was an error in his date of birth.
When Kulkarni sought for the same to be rectified and his name to be deleted from the female category and included in the male category, a BAI official acknowledged and deleted his name from the female category but did not include his name in the male category.
Since the date of form submission had passed, Kulkarni later sought to be included in the wild card quota. When there was no response, he moved the HC. (PTI)
Andheri Subway is closed for vehicular traffic due to 1.5 feet water logging.
Traffic is diverted to SV Road via Gokhale Bridge Junction.
A Mumbai police team will go to actor Ranveer Singh’s house Tuesday to issue him a summons to appear before the police in connection with the FIR registered against him for posting his nude photographs on his social media accounts, said officials.
The team had gone to Ranveer Singh’s house on August 12, but the actor was not there and informed the police that he would be back on August 16.
An officer said the team will go on Tuesday to issue him a summons to appear before them on August 22 to record his statement. “We will be recording his statement in connection with the FIR registered by the Chembur police station as part of our probe in the case,” said a senior police officer. Read the full report here
Waterlogging at Mahalaxmi Junction, Tardeo, and Hindamata Junction, South bound has slowed down traffic in these areas.
In separate cases, two women from Mumbai were allegedly duped of Rs 23.28 lakh by cyber fraudsters who posed as United States nationals and befriended them on social media.
The fraudsters promised to send the women costly gifts or parcels while other gang members tricked them into paying money as processing fees, customs clearance and other charges to get the gift/parcel, said the police. The crime branch’s cyber police station last week registered the first information reports (FIR) in both cases. Read more here
A personal assistant of Rajhans Singh, a Member of Legislative Council (MLC) from the BJP, has filed a complaint alleging his Facebook account was hacked to post derogatory and abusive comments on the social media page of Ashish Shelar, the party’s new Mumbai unit chief.
Dinesh Dahiwalkar approached the Kurar police station on August 14 with a complaint.
Dahiwalkar said after Ashish Shelar was made the Mumbai chief of BJP, the party workers had organised a function in Dadar on Sunday evening where all senior party leaders including Singh were present. Shelar had also informed people about the development on his Facebook account. Read more here
Vishnu Bhaumik, who was arrested on Monday for allegedly giving death threats to industrialist Mukesh Ambani, will be produced in holiday court around 12 noon.
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BMC said action will be initiated against the Mulund building that collapsed, killing two senior citizens on Monday evening, for unauthorised violations.
A notice had already been issued to the building under section 351 of MMC act 1888 for unauthorised construction on July 2.
BMC has sealed the building with danger signboards. It was vacated on Monday evening after the first floor roof of the 3-storey building partially collapsed.
Generally cloudy sky is expected, with moderate rain likely in Mumbai and suburbs today. There is also a possibility of occasional intense spells of rain.
In the 24 hours ending at 8:30 am on Tuesday, Mumbai recorded 8.1 mm rainfall.
Tide Table
Today’s High Tide:1457 hrs- 4.39 mtr
Low Tide : 2105 hrs – 0.91 mtr
Next High Tide dt 17.08.2022: 0328 hrs- 3.99 mtr
Next Low Tide dt. 17.08.2022: 0857 hrs- 1.56 mtr
As many as 186 new cases of coronavirus have been detected in Maharashtra's Thane district, taking its tally of infections to 7,37,080, a health official said on Tuesday.
With the addition of the latest cases on Monday, the active Covid-19 tally in the district has gone up to 1,604 as compared to 1,446 the previous day, he said.
The death toll in the district remained unchanged at 11,938, the official said, adding that the recovery count has reached 7,24,207. (PTI)
The bite marks on a man's face helped the Thane police trace and nab him for allegedly molesting a 17-year-old girl in a public place, police said.
The incident took place on August 11 when the girl was going on a sky walk on Ghodbunder Road in Maharashtra's Thane.
Resisting the man's move, the girl bit his face and managed to free herself from his clutches. She then rushed to a police station nearby and filed a complaint, based on which the police registered an FIR against the then unidentified culprit.
Various police teams later launched a search for the accused and examined CCTV footage of the area. The only clue with the police was that the culprit would have bite marks on the face, he said.
Late Sunday night, the police zeroed-in on the accused, Dinesh Gaud (33), a resident of Manorama Nagar in Manpada area, based on intelligence inputs. They identified him with the help of the bite marks on his face and arrested him, the official said.
The accused was booked under Indian Penal Code Section 354-A (sexual harassment) and provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the police added. (PTI)
A 55-year-old man allegedly killed his wife after frequent fights with her in Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said on Tuesday.
Vasant Gavit allegedly doubted the character of his wife, Shevanti Gavit (52), and the couple used to have quarrels quite often, Vikramgad's assistant police inspector Pradip Gite said.
On Monday, while the couple was at a farm near their house in Kudet area of Vikramgad, the man allegedly attacked his wife with an axe and killed her, Gite said.
Some people later spotted the body lying in a pool of blood at the farm and alerted police, the official said.
The police sent the body to a government hospital for postmortem. They registered a case against the man based on a complaint by the victim's family members.
The man was subsequently arrested and booked under Indian Penal Code Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence), the official said. (PTI)
The Central Railway of Mumbai division on Monday announced 10 more air conditioned (AC) local train services on its main line between Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, Thane Badlapur, and Kalyan. These will be run by replacing the existing non-AC locals.
Central Railway General Manager Anil Kumar Lahoti said, “We are soon going to run 10 more AC local trains on CSMT-Thane,Kalyan and Badlapur route. The response to AC services has been overwhelming with passenger number rising by six times.”
According to the officials, the decision was taken in view of the sharp rise in the number of passengers since May 5 when the Ministry of Railways slashed prices of tickets of AC local trains by almost 50 per cent. While four services will run on Thane- CSMT-Thane (2 UP, 2 Down), four will run on Badlapur-CSMT-Badlapur (2 UP, 2 Down), and two on Kalyan-CSMT -Kalyan (1UP, 1 Down). Currently, a total of 56 AC train services run on the Central Railway. Read more here
Observing that the “situation was critical” during the national lockdown with “prevalence of fear psychosis”, the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal (MAT) last week set aside the dismissal of an SRPF official who had been dismissed from service for not turning up for duty during the pandemic.
Mayur Vadje, a police naik with the State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) posted at Goregaon, had gone on a sanctioned leave to his native place Indapur in Pune from March 16, 2020 to March 31, 2020. However, he did not turn up for work on April 1, 2020 and claimed it was on account of “non-availability of government vehicles or public vehicles to go back to Mumbai during the pandemic.”
The applicant claimed that even though he sent his application to SRPF seeking concession, his service was terminated on June 5, 2020 on the ground that his was an “emergency service” that he did not join on time. He further alleged that while others who were dismissed by the same order were reinstated, he was not. Read more here
Rebel Shiv Sena MLA Santosh Bangar, who had joined CM Eknath Shinde-led camp just a few hours before the Maharashtra assembly floor test took place last month, allegedly abused and assaulted a private catering manager on Monday alleging that substandard quality midday meal was being served to labourers in Hingoli – the constituency he represents.
A video of Bangar questioning the quality of the food and later, slapping the manager of catering service has gone viral on social media.
Later, the manager claimed the food in question is part of wastage which was going to be disposed of but the MLA “did not listen” to him and slapped him. Read more here
Claiming that an absconding accused, named in Mumbai 2006 serial train blasts case alleged to have brought Pakistani men to the city to plant bombs, was in prison between 2005 and 2007, death row convict Ehtesham Siddiqui has approached various government authorities and the special court seeking further investigation into this.
In another plea last month, Siddiqui, who along with four others was sentenced to death in 2015 by a special court for the train blasts, had also sought a reinvestigation into the case on various grounds claiming that the probe was based on fabricated evidence.
In his communication to authorities including the Union Home Ministry and the special court, Siddiqui has referred to a purported report filed by the Hyderabad police into the suicidal death of Abdul Razzak alias Masood. Razzak had committed suicide in Hyderabad on October 10, 2012.
Siddiqui has cited the police inquiry report submitted before a local court in 2013. The report said that Razzak was booked in the Sai Baba temple trust blast case in 2002 and was arrested in 2005. He was subsequently granted bail in 2007. In a letter in Urdu found in his pocket, the report said, Razzak had written that he was fed up with the police cases against him and felt that there was no possibility to come out of them. He was also told that his name was listed as an absconding accused in the Mumbai train blasts case, the report said. It concluded in the final report that he had committed suicide due to mental stress and that there was no foul play in the death. Read the full report here
Two senior citizens were killed on Monday when the first floor roof of a ground and two-storey building collapsed in Nanepada in Mulund East at 7.46 pm. The incident was reported to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) disaster control room helpline by local residents.
The deceased have been identified as Devshankar Shukla, 93, and Arkhiben Shukla, 87. They were rushed to Ashirwad Critical Care Hospital in Mulund but were declared brought dead.
The building, Moti Chhaya, is an unauthorised structure constructed without the requisite permissions from BMC, according to information from civic officials. Read more here
Lack of funds in scam-hit Sahityaratna Lokshahir Anna Bhau Sathe Development Corporation, set up to assist the Matang community — who are Scheduled Castes (SC) — in Maharashtra, has not only led to rejection of a number of applicants seeking financial assistance but even the number of beneficiaries has gone down in the last five years.
A query filed under Right to Information (RTI) Act by Kuldeep Ambekar – president of Student Helping Hand, an organisation working for the welfare of marginalised students – has revealed that out of the 21,312 applications seeking grants from 2017-18 to 2021-22, only 5,094 received the benefits. For the corporation’s seed capital plan, 20,031 applications were received between 2015-16 and 2021-22 but only 2,707 applicants benefited.
Under the National Schedule Caste Financial Development Corporation (NSFDC) scheme, only 76 applications were received from 2015-16 and all received the benefits. The RTI reply shows that while the corporation did not receive funds for the grant scheme from 2017-18, no funds have been released for the seed capital scheme and the NSFDC scheme since 2015-16.
“The corporation was sidelined in terms of granting funds. It led to rejection of applications filed by individuals and ultimately, the number of applicants has gone down,” said Ambekar. Read the full report here
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Monday flagged off Azadi Express, a new train which will be added to the fleet on Metro 2A and 7 route, on the occasion of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.
The Azadi Express is a special initiative by Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and Maha Mumbai Metro Operation Corporation Limited (MMMOCL). “With its 18 trips, the Azadi Express will take the total number of trips to 172. This will reduce the time interval between trips from 12 to about 10 minutes,” said S V R Srinivas, Metropolitan Commissioner, MMRDA. Read more here