MUMBAI: Bombay high court has adjourned to 2046 a Rs 20cr defamation suit filed by a woman, who is almost 90, and her daughter against the managing committee members of a south Mumbai CHS. “I do not wish to state anything except that this matter should not be taken up for the next 20 years,”…
Mumbai: In a glaring slip-up, many MCom students from Mumbai University’s Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE) were marked “absent” for semester 1 exams they had appeared for in Feb, triggering confusion and protests on campus.The anomaly surfaced on Monday when results were declared. By Tuesday morning, a steady stream of students reached the…
Mumbai: A special POCSO court on Tuesday convicted and sentenced a 28-year-old man to 20 years rigorous imprisonment for the sexual assault of a four-year-old girl in his neighbourhood during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020. Among the witnesses cited by special public prosecutor Geeta Malankar were the child and her mother. The victim’s mother deposed…
Mumbai: In a shocking incident, a 39-year-old man was beaten to death with a bamboo stick on suspicion of mobile phone theft near Mahim Causeway on Sunday morning.Mahim police have arrested Naresh Singh a native of Samastipur in Bihar on the charges of murder.The deceased has been identified as Mohammed Jayabul Shah alias Anil (39),…
Mumbai: Bombay HC on Tuesday orally upbraided the state govt and civic authorities over their failure to act against illegal hawkers and dubbed as an “eyewash” attempts to show that Street Vendors Act, 2014, was being implemented.Justices A S Gadkari and Kamal Khata said there is “no will” displayed by the authorities to implement HC’s…
Mumbai: Rejecting a plea by the former chairman and the former vice-chairman of the fraud-hit New India Cooperative Bank to allow them to appear through video conferencing from the UK, a magistrate court held that “such kind of abysmal entitlement shown by the accused cannot be entertained”. It said were such pleas to be allowed,…
Pune: Former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar‘s elder son Parth, a Rajya Sabha MP, on Tuesday travelled from Mumbai to Pune in an aircraft operated by VSR Ventures, the same aviation firm responsible for the fatal crash that claimed his father’s life on Jan 28 this year.Parth boarded the aircraft, along with four others, to…
Mumbai: Almost 18 years after being granted ‘deemed-to-be university’ status, the reputed Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) in Matunga is keen on shedding the tag. Though the premier institute benefits from greater academic autonomy as a deemed entity, it is concerned that this very status is increasingly restricting its access to big-ticket state and central…
Navi Mumbai: A major fire broke out at Sanjeevan Deep shelter home for paraplagics in sector 18, Airoli on Tuesday early morning around 3 am. However, there were no casualities reported, as around 13 inmates accomodated at the shelter home were evacuated before the fire spread to the premises. The fire breakout caused severe damage…
Thane: A court in Thane district has acquitted a man accused of forcibly establishing a sexual relationship with his sister-in-law and impregnating her, citing that the prosecution had failed to prove the charges as the key witnesses had turned hostile.Additional sessions judge Premal S Vithalani held the 34-year-old accused, a resident of Kalwa, not guilty…
