Maharashtra News Live Updates: Three held, juvenile detained for raping 15-year-old girl in Thane district

Unseasonal rains and thunderstorms in Maharashtra's Nanded district this week left three persons dead and affected over 10,000 farmers, an official said on Friday. The revenue department on Thursday released a primary loss report after rains and thunderstorms hit the Marathwada region on April 25 and April 26, he said. According to the report, the Marathwada region, comprising Jalna, Aurangabad, Parbhani, Hingoli, Nanded, Latur, Osmanabad and Beed districts, received an average rainfall of 2.4 mm on April 25 and 4.6 mm on April 26.

One person was injured when a chemical-laden container truck overturned in Maharashtra's Thane city on Friday, a civic official said. The accident took place on Ghodbunder Road around 6.45 am, said Avinash Sawant, chief of the regional disaster management cell (RDMC). The truck, transporting 80 drums of benzyle chloride from Surat in neighbouring Gujarat, overturned causing the chemical to spill on the road, he said.

Three persons were arrested and a juvenile was detained on Thursday for allegedly gang-raping a 15-year-old girl in Maharashtra's Thane district, a police official said. The girl had gone missing from Kalyan and a rape and kidnapping case was registered under Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act after she was traced, the Kolsewadi police station official said.

If any person commits suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

The order in Jiah Khan suicide case has been kept on hold till 12 pm after judge tells Suraj Pancholi's lawyer that deceased's mother Rabia Khan wants to file some written submissions. Matter to be heard at 12pm again.

A 50-year-old man, who works as a company secretary in Thane city of Maharashtra, has lost nearly Rs 11 lakh after a cyber fraudster tricked him by offering a part-time online job, police said on Friday. The victim lodged a complaint against an unidentified woman, based on which a case under Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 420 (cheating) and also the Information and Technology (IT) Act was registered at Kapurbawdi police station, they said.

Former Maharashtra Minister and Uddhav Thackeray's son Aaditya Thackeray on Thursday said he will meet the protestors against the Barsu Refinery project in Ratnagiri, to stand in solidarity with them.The residents of Barsu village in Ratnagiri have been protesting against the setting up of the refinery. The Shiv Sena (UBT) leader urged the state government to hold talks with the residents of Barsu amid the protest over the refinery project in the village.

On Thursday, Maharashtra reported 754 new cases, a 4% drop from 784 fresh ca-ses reported on Wednesday. Mumbai reported 135 new cases, down by 27% from 185 cases reported a day prior.However, three deaths were reported in Maharashtra, including one each from Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur. The victim from the city was a 64-yearold man who had a history of chronic kidney disease and diabetes.

The BMC will start administering the intranasal vaccine against Covid-19 from Friday at selected centres across the 24 wards. The free vaccine doses will only be available to senior citizens who want to take precautionary shots, the BMC announced on Thursday.The civic officials issued a list of centres where Bharat Biotech’s intranasal vaccine iNCOVACC will be available and said it can also be accessed on social media. Each of the 24 wards will have one centre administering the vaccine. The registration will be on the spot and the vaccination centres will remain operational between 9am and 3pm. The intranasal vaccine is needleless, and one vial is administered to two individuals.

Anthony Paul, the baker who tried to falsely implicate at least five people, including actor Chrisann Pereira, in drugs cases in Sharjah, was so determined to incriminate them that he even went as far as to forge air tickets to frame them in police matters abroad.

Dayanand Kale, a 22-year-old student studying at RA Podar Ayurved Medical College in Worli, died after falling from a tree while trying to pluck mangoes on Wednesday night. Angry students alleged medical negligence by the college hospital and held protests.The Worli police have registered an accidental death case and are probing it.