Maharashtra News Live Updates: Five builders booked in Thane for MahaRERA irregularities

The Anti-Narcotics Cell (Worli unit) of Mumbai Police arrested two drug peddlers and recovered MD drugs worth Rs 24 lakh from their possession in the Mahim area here in Maharashtra, police said on Friday. An official in the know of things said a case has been registered against both the accused under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) act and further investigation is underway.

Five builders were booked for alleged irregularities to obtain MahaRERA registration for their projects in Kalyan Dombivali in Maharashtra's Thane district, a police official said on Thursday. They are accused of forging documents and submitting bogus ones to obtain permission from MahaRERA and local bodies, the Khadakpada police station official said.

"The five were booked on Wednesday for forgery and other offences. This takes the total number of developers booked to 70. Earlier, 65 developers were booked for similar offences by Manpada and Ram Nagar police," he said.

A woman was attacked with a chopper allegedly by a man on Thursday in Maharashtra's Palghar district, a police official said. She was first rushed to Kasa rural hospital in Dahanu taluka in a critical condition and then shifted to a facility in Silvassa, where she is yet to regain consciousness, said police spokesperson Sachin Navadkar.

A 48-year-old woman was duped by her exdriver, his wife and friend of Rs52 lakh over three years by weaving an elaborate web of lies. The woman runs a travel agency and had given a car to the ex-driver, Sohel, under an agreement for work use. Sahil and his friend, Zahir, who posed as an RTO agent, scared the woman that she had been booked after narcotics were found in the vehicle. As they offered to make it all go away, the woman kept paying them. Charkop police registered an FIR against three persons.

A 49-year-old man’s dream of flying to attend his friend’s wedding in Patna landed him in jail in an alleged case of impersonation on Wednesday. Airport police at Mumbai’s domestic airport registered an FIR against Anil Shah after he was stopped at the boarding point by CISF official on suspicion after finding his face mismatched with the photo identity card he produced along with the flight ticket and also the age mismatched with the birth date mentioned in the driving licence.

Police are not taking any chances in keeping Mumbai safe during New Year celebrations. A total of 5,500 CCTV cameras and 20,000-plus cops will be keeping a watch on revellers and anti-social elements. Anti-sabotage teams, bomb squad and anti-eve teasing squads will monitor beaches and tourist spots. Police and special branch of CID are also collecting details of guests who have checked into hotels and lodges

The nine accused in the gangrape of a 16-year-old girl in Palghar have been sent to judicial custody by a local court on Wednesday. Police had sought two days’ custody extension as they are yet to establish if the gangrape was pre-planned by the accused. The minor was gangraped for over 15 hours by her 20-year-old male friend and eight others in a bungalow and at a nearby beach in Palghar on December 16 and 17.

A day after two factions of Shiv Sena clashed over the control of the party office, the civic chief on Thursday sealed the offices allocated to all political parties at the BMC HQ. Later, supporters of Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray visited their party office situated on the ground floor of the BMC headquarters and smeared red ink over Yashwant Jadhav's name board. Jadhav is a leader of CM Shinde-led Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena. Both parties claim rights over the party office in the BMC HQ.

A 37-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed to death in a fit of rage by her 17-year-old daughter and her 22-year-old boyfriend for objecting to their relationship in Mumbra on Wednesday afternoon, the police said on Thursday. The girl and her boyfriend who had fled after the crime were tracked late on Thursday to Haji Malang. The deceased, identified as Saba Hashmi, lived with her three daughters in the middle-income enclave of Amrut Nagar locality in Mumbra. The accused is her eldest daughter.

The medical fraternity has started discussing the need for a second booster or the fourth shot in light of new Covid waves in countries such as China and the US, but two surveys found people cold to even the third precautionary dose. This reluctance is apparent in the number of takers so far: In Mumbai, only 16% of those eligible for the booster shot have taken it while 90 lakh are still to take it. In Maharashtra, over six crore people haven't taken the booster so far. READ MORE