Pune: In Maharashtra, one child is sexually abused every hour, according to the 2023 crime data in the state. This is just the reported numbers. Then begin marches, protests and ministerial statements advocating fast track court and death penalty which the public steeped in fury also demands. Unfortunately, the noise fades quickly, people forget and…
Pune: The court of additional sessions judge DP Ragit in the city on Wednesday convicted and sentenced an industrial firm employee to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping his 13-year-old daughter in their house in the Hadapsar area on May 13, 2018.The court also imposed a Rs 50,000 fine on the convict, which shall…
Pune: Several students of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, protested on Monday and Tuesday after multiple first-year examinees were allegedly “subject to non-consensual body contact, including frisking, pat-downs, and even a harrowing strip-search”.According to an email sent by the general secretary of the IISER Student Council, a first-year girl student was called…
Pune: Investors are showing early interest in the land acquisition process for the proposed Purandar airport from Thursday, but primary landowners are not in a hurry.Several farmers are disappointed over the state govt’s Rs1.61 crore per acre compensation package. Many from Pargaon and neighbouring villages said the offered rate fell short of expectations.“We were expecting…
Pune: The Mundhwa police late on Tuesday night recovered body of a 27-year-old woman from a spot located near the garbage depot in Keshavnagar.Police said the exact cause of death will be clear after the post-mortem report is received.The deceased has been identified as a married woman who resided in Wadgaonsheri. According to the police,…
Pune:Following the protests by the villagers and relatives of a three-year-old girl, who was raped and murdered by a 65-year-old man Bhimrao Kamble on Friday, the Pune city police on Tuesday issued orders banning protest and agitations at the Wadgaon Bridge on the Katraj – Dehu road bypass.On Saturday, the villagers and family members of…
Pune: Pimpri Chinchwad municipal commissioner Vijay Suryawanshi has said the inquiry into alleged irregularities worth Rs 60 crore in the civic body’s accounts department has been expanded to include scrutiny of the quality and execution of the works for which payments were cleared.Suryawanshi told the PCMC general body on Tuesday that the scope of the…
Pune: Members of NCP on Tuesday staged a protest at Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation following another deferment of a decision to approve its co-opted members. Sloganeering by the protesters prompted the mayor to briefly adjourn the general body meeting.The deferment was ostensibly caused by BJP’s delay in submitting its list of nominees — based on…
Water parks see a surge in visitors this summer Pune: With temperatures crossing 40 degrees and with the onset of summer vacations, residents are making a beeline to water parks in and around Pune. “There are limited outdoor activities for children owing to the ongoing heat wave. We have decided to go to close by…
A father in Pune brutally murdered his nine-year-old daughter with a chainsaw after she altered her exam marks to prank her brother. (Representative AI image) PUNE: A nine-year-old girl stood second in Std III and her elder brother first in Std IV. She altered her rank with that of the latter, after he teased her.Little…
