Maharashtra News Live Updates: Three held for stealing 20 two-wheelers in Navi Mumbai

Police have arrested two men for allegedly cheating 19 people in Maharashtra and Gujarat by posing as women on phone calls and seeking money from them, an official said on Wednesday. The accused used to target jewellers, sweet and medical shop owners as well as blood banks, Mira Bhayander-Vasai Virar (MBVV) police's senior inspector Aviraj Kurhade said.

The Narcotics control bureau (NCB) from Mumbai had nabbed an international flyer, Arsad Khan, at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar international airport in Nagpur on Monday on the suspicion of being a drug peddler but found 3.3 kg gold, worth Rs 1.5 crores, in his possession.

Mere allegations in a suicide note would not be sufficient to draw conclusion that the accused has committed the offence of abetment, a Mumbai court has said while granting bail to IIT Bombay student Arman Khatri, arrested in connection with fellow student Darshan Solanki's suicide.

The court in its order on Saturday also said there is nothing on record to show that Khatri was harassing Solanki on the ground of caste discrimination or instigated the latter to commit suicide.

Khatri was arrested on April 9. Additional Sessions Judge A P Kanade granted him bail on Saturday.The detailed order was available on Wednesday.

Police in Maharashtra's Navi Mumbai have solved thefts of 20 two-wheelers worth Rs 19.5 lakh with the arrest of three persons, including one from Satara district, an official said on Wednesday. According to Vivek Pansare, deputy commissioner of police – zone I, the arrests were made following complaints of many bike thefts in Navi Mumbai. A probe team worked on CCTV footage, and intelligence and technical inputs before zeroing on three men, two 21-year-olds and one aged 19, he said. The official said they have solved as many as 20 bike theft cases, including many registered in Nerul and Sanpada police stations.

As many as 120 undertrials have been ordered to be released from different jails in Maharashtra's Thane district since March following the launch of a scheme that aims at providing free legal services, an official said on Wednesday. These undertrials, aged between 18 years and 70 years, have been in jail since nearly seven years without bail due to reasons like lack of knowledge about the procedure, inability to pay for it or kin not showing any interest in their release, the official said.

According to Ishwar Suryavanshi, secretary of District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), bail for these undertrials, facing charges under NDPS Act, MCOCA and POCSO, was ordered at the last Lok Adalat with the help of a panel of advocates.

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Police in Maharashtra's Navi Mumbai have solved thefts of 20 two-wheelers worth Rs 19.5 lakh with the arrest of three persons, including one from Satara district, an official said on Wednesday. According to Vivek Pansare, deputy commissioner of police – zone I, the arrests were made following complaints of many bike thefts in Navi Mumbai. A probe team worked on CCTV footage, and intelligence and technical inputs before zeroing on three men, two 21-year-olds and one aged 19, he said. The official said they have solved as many as 20 bike theft cases, including many registered in Nerul and Sanpada police stations.

The Anti-Corruption Bureau has arrested a clerk working with the Mira Bhayander-Vasai Virar police for allegedly demanding bribe from another police department employee, the ACB said on Wednesday. The accused and another senior clerk had allegedly sought Rs 1,500 from the employee for forwarding his medical bills for payment, ACB's Palghar unit inspector Sapan Vishwas said. The employee lodged a complaint with the ACB which carried out a probe into the matter and arrested the clerk on Tuesday, the official said.

The Navi Mumbai police arrested a woman in connection with the killing of her 48-year-old husband whose body was found in a public park in Kalamboli area, an official said on Tuesday. The body of the man was found in the CIDCO garden on Monday morning. Prima facie, the woman hired killers for the crime, the official said, adding that the motive was being investigated.

A husband-wife duo received burn injuries in a fire caused due to leakage of gas in their eatery in Rabodi area of Thane city in Maharashtra on Tuesday, officials said. The incident occurred around 5:45 pm in the eatery operated from the ground floor of a seven-storey building. Fire Brigade personnel put out flames within 45 minutes. The duo was hospitalised, the civic officials said.

Nearly 30,000 teachers will be recruited in Maharashtra possibly by the beginning of the academic year next month, state Minister for School Education Deepak Kesarkar has said. The recruitment procedure will follow the existing reservation norms and there will be interviews as well, the minister told a regional news channel on Tuesday.

"The state school education department will recruit 30,000 teachers in the first stage. We are thinking of completing this process before the beginning of the new academic year in June this year," he said.

The state also plans to recruit another 20,000 teachers in the second stage, Kesarkar said.

BMC has floated a tender for fabricating and fixing barricades/railings on the divider at Marine Drive, from NCPA deadend up to Princess Street flyover. The civic body will spend around Rs82 lakh on it. BMC officials said this came following request letters from senior police inspector, Marine Drive traffic division and Federation of Churchgate Residents to fix barricades/railing to restrict pedestrians from unauthorized crossings and to increase the aesthetic value of the central median.

Two years after deciding to split the P-North civic ward into two, BMC has found a place to construct a ward office for the new P-East ward. BMC will acquire a private plot spread over 1,800 sq metres near Western Express Highway in Malad (east) and construct the new ward office there. Following a recommendation from BMC's P-North ward, BMC's Development Plan (DP) department has told the owner of the plot that BMC plans to acquire the plot for the new ward office as the plot is anyway reserved for a municipal chowky and is ideally located.

In a setback for builders, the Supreme Court on Monday stayed a January 2023 Bombay high court (HC) order which allowed recreation grounds (RG) on the podiums of their towers.

In the HC, the developers' association Naredco had sought a clarification to a September 2022 order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that said a developer cannot show any podium in a building as an RG. The NGT said a recreational ground should be open to the sky to enable the planting of trees.

A 45-year-old man working for a LPG agency was murdered by his co-worker with an exoblade over previous enmity at Satramdas Gases Pvt Ltd in Rabale MIDC on May 7 around 9am.