Pune: Minister of higher and technical education Chandrakant Patil has written to agriculture minister Dattatray Bharne telling him to compensate as per govt rules the family of the College of Agriculture (CoA) student who died on March 14 , while also ordering an inquiry and action against those responsible for his death.A month ago, agri-business…
Pune: The April 2 arrest of three individuals by the Chakan police for illegally refilling domestic LPG cylinders from a tanker in Bhose village has once again exposed a deep-rooted black market operating across Pune’s industrial belt.Investigators and industry experts say such a racket is neither new nor isolated, but part of a widespread, loosely…
Pune: The Chikhali police have registered a case against a resident of Rupinagar for extorting Rs 7 lakh from a shop owner since March last year.The shop owner approached the police on Monday, when the accused demanded Rs 1.70 lakh more from him.Assistant police inspector Sidhhanath Babar of the Chikhali police said that the shop…
Pune: Several students have begun approaching city-based ILS Law College seeking refund of what they described as “excess fees” charged under unapproved heads .This comes in the wake of the directorate of higher education (DHE) directing the college to refund Rs1.04 lakh to a student with 6% interest, stating that the amount was collected “illegally…
Pune: A few posters tom-toming about getting a police constable’s job, photos in khaki and posting one of these images as the display picture on a cellphone messaging application. A 26-year-old vegetable vendor in Narhe used these tricks to find a match and make his mother happy, prompting a case of impersonation against him.The Narhe…
Pune:Online fraudsters posed as officials of the Nashik city police and cheated a 68-year-old woman of Rs43 lakh between April 8 and 15 after threatening to arrest her in a money laundering case.The woman had tendered a complaint application to the Pune cyberpolice. After verification, a formal FIR was registered at the Sahakarnagar police station…
Pune: A fast-track court on Monday convicted and sentenced a casual worker (28) to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for repeated sexual assault on his 14-year-old cousin.Special Judge Aniruddha Gandhi held, “The survivor is a minor and the consent of a minor is no consent at all. Hence, though their sexual intercourse appears consensual, it…
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar/Pune: A 60-year-old farmer from Nilanga taluka in Latur district collapsed and died of suspected heatstroke on Monday, taking the total number of such fatalities across the state to four. Besides, the health department has recorded 39 suspected heatstroke cases between March 1 and April 20, officials said.The health department has launched a detailed…
Pune: Some parts of Chakan MIDC area lost electricity supply after a car rammed a few poles of a substation at 5pm on Tuesday. The repair works were partly completed and the remaining repairs were expected to be completed in two to three hours, said MSEDCL officials. The 22 KV Mahalunge switching device and the…
Pune: The Ravet police on Sunday arrested an employee of a placement agency in Hinjewadi for allegedly posting morphed photographs of an acquaintance’s fiancée and mother on multiple pornographic websites and attempting to extort Rs 5 lakh to remove the content.The accused has been booked under Section 308 (extortion) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS),…
