It’s mango season already and the King of Fruits is everyone’s favourite. However, given the inflation Alphonso mangoes fail to become a staple during summer. A fruit seller in Pune started an initiative and is selling Alphonso on EMIs.

The fruit seller, Gaurav Sanas, works with Gurukripa Traders and Fruis Products and aims to ensure that common people who cannot afford to buy Alphonso can have it this year. Also known as Hapus, Alphonso mangoes are popular across the globe for their taste, quality, and high price as well.

Gaurav Sanas started the scheme of selling mangoes on EMI after common people lost interest in the fruit due to high prices after Covid. Sanas said people can buy it on EMI through both debit and credit cards.

He further claimed his family outlet is the first in India to sell mangoes on EMI.

In February, the Navi Mumbai market received as many as 125 boxes of Devgad and Raigad Alphonso. Reports said mango prices in Maharashtra will be cheaper this year as the Alphonso mangoes supply to Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC), Vashi has increased three-fold compared to March 2022 with the fruit from Devgad, Ratnagiri and Raigad in Konkan belt flooding the market.

Reports said the APMC receives 55,000 to 60,000 mango boxes every day which are lifted by local traders and they sell them at wholesale prices or at 20 per cent higher rates in markets or malls.

APMC director Sanjay Pamsare said the coronavirus pandemic affected the sell of mangoes for the last two years and this year the production is good and will increase by March end.

Chaos ensued at a bar in Mumbai’s Dahisar on Friday evening as the staff and customers came to blows and threw punches and hurled furniture at each other leading to the arrest of ten people allegedly involved in the incident, reports said.

The Friday night bar fight was captured on camera and the video of the incident has gone viral on social media platforms. The viral clip shows men throwing punches at each other as the fight spills outside the bar. A man is seen lifting up a chair as he attempts to hit another person with the piece of furniture as onlookers watch the chaos unfold.

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According to reports, the incident happened at around 7 pm on Friday evening at Ashish Bar and Restaurant in Dahisar area of Mumbai.

A senior police official said that ten people, including seven staffers and three customers, have been arrested in connection with the incident.

The official said that the Mumbai Police received information about an ongoing brawl at the Ashish Bar and Restaurant in Dahisar and arrived at the scene to quell the violence and detain the miscreants.

He said that the police have registered a case in this regard under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and further investigation is underway to determine the exact cause of the fight and why it escalated to such violent levels, adding that further details are awaited.

In a similar incident, a video went viral on the internet in February this year, where a fight between two boys outside a residential society turned awry after one boy punched and knocked out the other.

In the video, a brawl can be seen breaking out between two boys outside a residential colony as the fight turns into a fierce fistfight between the two. The people around can be seen stepping away in bid to save themself from being collateral damage in the fight.

A girl who was sitting on a scooter near the fight can be seen stepping off and securing herself from being affected by the fight. Right after she stepped off the vehicle, one boy can be seen knocking out the other with a right hook.

The boy who got knocked out can be seen collecting himself up again, however, the other one continues the onslaught and doesn’t show mercy.

In a shocking incident, a mob of at least 60 people brazenly stormed a police station in Burhanpur district of Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, thrashed the cops with sticks and freed three people, including a dacoit, from the police lockup.

As per reports, a violent mob of 50-60 people forced their way inside the Nepanagar Police Station on late Thursday night, vandalized the premises and also beat up the policemen on duty with sticks and freed a dacoit identified as Hema Meghwal along with his two other associates from the station.

A senior police official said that two police officials were injured in the attack and are currently admitted at the district hospital.

Burhanpur Superintendent of Police (SP) Rahul Kumar Lodha said that Hema Meghwal, who is accused in the looting of guns at Bakdi outpost, was arrested on Thursday and lodged in the lockup at Nepanagar police station.

The senior officer said the dacoit’s companion, Sudiya, accompanied by around 50 other forest encroachers stormed the police station, vandalized the premises and freed Meghwal and two others from lockup.

The SP informed that five policemen were on duty at the time of the incident and two of them sustained injuries in the attack.

He said that a case under sections 307 (attempt to murder), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) and other relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, has been registered in this regard and further investigation is underway, adding that the police is scanning CCTV footage to identify the attackers.

Earlier, in a similar incident in the district, last month a mob had stormed a forest range office in which at least six people were injured.

Reports at the time said that forest encroachers attacked the team that had went to remove them from Ghaghrala forests in the district last month. Six persons, including a forest staff member, had sustained injuries in the attack.