Mumbai: A sessions court on Saturday rejected the second successive bail plea of a 54-year-old woman allegedly caught red-handed in 2023 while attempting to sell a newborn baby for Rs 5 lakh. The court held that the gravity of human trafficking charges and the accused’s direct involvement outweighed her plea for parity with co-accused individuals…
Navi Mumbai: Thieves stole imported goods worth over Rs 70 lakh from a custom bonded warehouse in Uran. They decamped with items such as branded shoes, bracelets, stitching machines, coffee cups among other things. The incident was reported after many such thefts occurred repeatedly at the warehouses in Panvel. An FIR has been registered. Source…
Kalyan: A 42-year-old police constable attached to Mumbai Police allegedly died by suicide in the Titwala area on Sunday morning, officials said.The deceased has been identified as Bhaurao Dagdu Dhage, a native of Katalapur village in Akole taluka of Ahmednagar district. He was currently residing in the Panchvati area of Titwala, in Geetanjali building.Dhage was…
Thane: A 61-year-old woman from Thane, who had worked as a nanny in Dubai, was allegedly cheated of Rs 16 lakh under the pretext of receiving a parcel containing valuables from abroad, police said. An FIR has been registered under the BNS. Follow the latest election results 2026, live updates, winner lists, constituency-wise results, party-wise…
Mumbai: Powai police detained a 19-year-old from Kharghar for rash and negligent driving after a hit-and-run near Mahatma Phule Nagar on Sunday evening. Police said the driver was speeding towards the Eastern Express Highway.Police said the driver first hit a motorcycle and then struck four pedestrians—Manisha Sawant (45), Natha Sopan Pargaonkar (40), Ammachar Pande (40)…
Mumbai: Charkop police arrested a woman, Shraddha Vitthal Gadekar, who was wanted since five months after she fled, in connection with a fraud case involving a Kandivli-based firm.The firm cheated students on the pretext of facilitating higher education abroad. The firm’s owner, Stella Rakesh Mehta, and her husband, Rakesh Mehta, were named co-accused. Police said…
Navi Mumbai: Panvel city police have found a woman’s body dumped on an isolated road near Bambaipada village on the Uran-Panvel road in Panvel taluka on Sunday morning. Prima facie, the Panvel city police have registered a murder case as the woman was strangled using a cloth.Nitin Thakare, senior inspector of Panvel city police station…
Mumbai: The Customs department on May 1 and 2, has seized electronic items, cosmetics, cigarettes and crude gold cumulatively worth more than Rs 1.8 crore from passengers arriving at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport from Dubai, resulting in the arrest of one person, an official said on Sunday. “Two separate cases were registered against two…
Mumbai: Mulund police arrested a 42-year-old vegetable vendor for allegedly stabbing a 31-year-old hawker to death after he suspected the deceased was defaming his wife’s character in public on Saturday.The deceased, identified as Santosh Kumar Bind, was in the market area of JN Road at 9.30 pm when the accused, Rakesh Dhiver, confronted Bind and…
Mumbai: After 41 years, a sessions court on Saturday acquitted a 58-year-old man from Mumbra, Mohammad Shaikh, in communal rioting and murder case, citing a complete lack of evidence to link the accused to the violence. The incident involved a clash between the Bohra and Sunni Muslim communities in the Dongri locality. The case involved…
