Pune: Several city residents on Tuesday night protested outside the Parvati and Swargate police stations against an incident at 6pm wherein a 50-year-old man allegedly tried to rape his granddaughter (9) in a hutment.The sexual assault was foiled by alert local residents, who beat up the suspect and called the police. Officers of the Parvati…
Pune: Ravet police are searching for a woman from Chinchwad who duped two acquaintances of Rs 7.50 lakh by promising to secure govt jobs for them.A woman from Kiwale has lodged a complaint with the police. The Ravet police have registered a case under Sections 318 (cheating) and 316 (criminal breach of trust) of the…
Pune: A set of twins and a 16-year-old boy drowned in separate incidents in the district on Tuesday.In the first incident, twin brother and sister Ganesh and Shravani Sable (both 11) had gone to a lake in Taleraon village of Junnar taluka, around 124km from Pune city. The children had reached the spot around 11…
Pune: A survey of govt land leased on a long-term basis in the district has detected 240 violations across 2,161 parcels, with the administration initiating action to reclaim leased lands for violation of norms after hearings, Pune collector Jitendra Dudi said on Tuesday.“Orders to reclaim land from lease holders have already been issued for 15…
Pune: With land acquisition for the proposed Purandar airport set to begin on Thursday, the district administration is moving to put safeguards in place to ensure that villagers receiving large compensation payouts do not squander their windfall.District officials said the administration is finalising an MoU with Gokhale Institute of Economics and Politics to guide beneficiaries…
Pune: A 25-year-old man, who was accused of sexually assaulting his four-year-old stepdaughter, was acquitted by a sessions court on Monday.The court said that the key witnesses like the girl’s teacher, who was the complainant, mother and the girl herself did not support the prosecution’s case. The medico-legal report too was not proved.On Jan 27,…
Kolhapur: After 36 years in jail, Ronald Alvares (65), a rape and murder convict, finally walked out of Kolhapur’s Kalamba central jail on May 3 following the Kolhapur bench of the Bombay high court’s direction for his “immediate release” as the state failed to comply with the HC’s earlier order of March 7 directing his…
PUNE: Police said on Tuesday that the autopsy report has identified “asphyxia” as the cause of death of a four-year-old girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted and murdered in Pune last week.The 65-year-old accused allegedly gagged the victim by stuffing a cloth in her mouth, which led to suffocation, they said.The accused, a labourer by…
Pune: Cabbies using the Uber platform may face the heat because of the aggregator’s non-compliance with the Regional Transport Authority’s directive to charge fares as per its approved rates.Pune’s regional transport officer Archana Gaikwad told TOI that a letter was sent to Uber seeking the reason for the non-compliance and warning that its application would…
BEED: A man allegedly poured diesel on his two minor daughters and tried to set them on fire following a family dispute in Maharashtra’s Beed district, police said on Tuesday. A case has been registered against the accused, identified as Mahesh Vishnu Somase, in connection with the incident that took place on May 2 in…
