A massive fire broke out in the Oshiwara furniture market in Mumbai on Monday morning. A fire erupted in a furniture godown at the relief road in the city’s Jogeshwari west area, resulting in over 100 shops being gutted.

According to the reports, a fire was caused at a furniture godown at around 11 am. Ten fire engines and six jumbo tankers, along with an ambulance, ward-level officers and a police squad rushed to the spot to douse the fire. No casualties or injuries have been reported so far.

A video of the mishap is going viral on social media. Normal life was affected after thick plumes of black smoke billowing from the godown of a furniture market engulfed the area.

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Reportedly, a total of three small lines of 12 motor pumps are in operation.

A firefighting operation is underway. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained, however, the BMC Disaster Control team is investigating the matter.

Earlier, more than 100 shops were gutted in a massive fire in the wholesale market of the Bhagirath Palace area in Chandni Chowk. Five major buildings were also affected during the fire-fighting operations, out of which three collapsed.

The incident happened in the last week of November at around 9 pm. Soon after, 40 fire tenders were rushed to the spot to extinguish the fire.

In yet another case of a grisly murder, a man in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur was arrested for allegedly killing his elderly father by smashing his head with a hammer over a property dispute and chopping the body into pieces to dispose it off, officials said on Sunday.

A senior official said the accused, identified as 30-year-old Santosh Kumar Gupta alias Prince, assaulted his father, Murli Dhar Gupta (62), killing him on the spot and then chopped up his body into pieces to fit it into a suitcase and dispose it off. The horrific incident took place in Suraj Kund colony under Tiwaripur police station limits late on Saturday night.

Prashant Gupta, another son of the victim, filed a complaint against his brother, following which an FIR was lodged under relevant sections of the IPC and the accused was arrested, the official said.

Giving details, the official said that Santosh hit his father over the head with a hammer when they were alone at home, instantly killing him. He then chopped the victim’s body into several pieces, stored them in a suitcase he took from his brother’s room and hid it in the street behind the house.

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However, the suitcase was discovered by his brother who then informed the police, leading to the culprit’s arrest, he said, adding that initial investigation suggests that fallout from a family property dispute seems to be the motive behind the gruesome murder.

Earlier, a similar case of a grisly murder was reported from a village in Budgam district in Jammu and Kashmir where a 30-year-old woman was reportedly murdered and chopped to pieces.

The pieces of the victim’s body were dumped by the accused, who has been arrested, across various areas in the district.

According to the police, the victim’s brother Tanveer Ahmad Khan had filed a missing report on March 7, wherein he said that his sister had left for computer coaching classes the previous day (March 7) but hasn’t returned home in Soibugh area of Budgam district in central Kashmir.

They said that after initial investigation, several suspects including the accused, Shabir Ahmad Wani, son of Abdul Aziz Wani of Mohanpora, Budgam—a carpenter by profession—was taken in custody and confessed to the crime after being interrogated.

Giving details about the grisly murder, a senior official said that the 45-year-old accused—a father of two—killed the woman, chopped her into pieces and buried them at different locations, including near a railway bridge at Budgam Railway Station.

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An FIR has been registered against BJP MLA Kirtikumar alias Bunty Bhangdiya for allegedly accusing and molesting a woman. Bhangdiya is an MLA from Chimur Assembly constituency in Chhandrapur district of Maharashtra.

According to the reports, a woman has accused Bhangdiya of beating her husband. She said Bhangdiya and a group of at least 15 to 20 people reached her house late Saturday night and started abusing her husband. They dragged her husband from the house and thrashed him, she added.

The complainant in an FIR also alleged that Bhangdiya and his supporters molested and beat her when she tried to save her husband. She also alleged that her family members, including two children, were beaten up along with a Congress worker from Chimur tehsil who is the brother of the victim’s husband, the official said.

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On the basis of the woman’s complaint, an FIR has been registered against Bhangdiya under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for rioting, and unlawful assembly, including section 354 (Assault or criminal force to a woman with intent to outrage her modesty), said Ayush Nopani, Sub-Divisional Police Officer of Varora.

The MLA has also filed a counter-complaint against the complainant’s husband for allegedly posting objectionable messages on social media against his mother.

Based on MLA’s complaint, Police have also filed an FIR under sections 294 (punishment for obscene acts or words in public) and 509 (Word, gesture, or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) against the woman’s husband, said Nopani.

However, no arrest has been made so far. Police are currently investigating the matter.

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