Pune: A day after a disturbed man (24) hailing from Pauri Garhwal in Uttarakhand dangerously drove a PMPML bus from Dengle Bridge to Goodluck Chowk before being overpowered, the Shivajinagar police said that they will act against the bus driver, who left the keys unattended in the ignition socket, only if PMPML lodges a complaint.The…
Pune: Bharati Vidyapeeth police have arrested four men from the Katraj area for hacking to death Tejas Dattatray Pilane (24), a resident of Dhankawadi, on the service road of the Katraj-Dehu Road bypass around 1.30 am on Friday over a dispute related to dancing at a wedding ceremony.The assailants fled the crime scene and were…
Pune: PMPML buses are potentially exposed to vandalism and theft as nearly 125 buses from the overall fleet are consistently scrambling for parking across the city. This is despite the authorities setting up 17 bus depots, and with the Charholi depot established just last year.On Saturday, a visibly ‘disturbed’ youth, as per the police, hailing…
Pune: The city on Sunday continued to reel under scorching heat with the maximum temperature in various areas hovering over 40° C again marking the season’s highest, so far. Koregaon Park area was the hottest neighbourhood at 42.9° C, followed closely by Lohegaon at 42.7° C, Shivajinagar at 41.8° C, Chinchwad at 41.2° C, Magarpatta…
Pune: Three workers died of suffocation caused by toxic gases while cleaning a wastewater tank on the premises of a mushroom-producing company in Belsar village near Jejuri, around 4.30pm on Sunday.Jejuri police identified the deceased as Pintu Rajesh Prasad (23), Vyas Soham Kumar (22), and Gautam Ramsharan Kushwaha (36), all three hailing from Deoria in…
Pune: The Warje police have arrested Sahil Raut (21) and Pritam Thombre (20) and detained two minor accomplices for allegedly opening fire at a murder accused inside a salon in Warje on Friday night.In the shooting, a Warje-resident Nehal Shinde (26) suffered injuries. A stray bullet also hit a salon customer, Amol Adhav, on his…
Pune: Shivajinagar police have detained three men, all residents of Senapati Bapat road, for stealing iron lids of the drainage chambers from the Shimla Office chowk on Ganeshkhind road at around 10am on Saturday.Police constable Sheshrao Bhalerao, who was on duty in the chowk, noticed them stealing the lids and immediately stopped the autorickshaw in…
The Talegaon-Dabhade police on Saturday arrested a 40-year-old brick-kiln worker on the charge of bludgeoning his son-in-law, 30, to death. The murder happened on Friday at Parandwadi in Maval taluka, when the victim, Laxman Mukane, was quarrelling with his wife. The accused, Santosh Waghmare, initially tried to intervene between the couple, but when Mukane would…
Pune: The Deccan Gymkhana police are investigating a complaint filed by a 35-year-old second-year law student, who has accused five classmates at ILS Law College in Pune of ragging him in the boys’ hostel of the college between Oct and Dec 2024. The complainant hails from Dharashiv district while the five students he has named…
Pune: The South Mahalunge MIDC police have arrested a 38-year-old housewife from Talegaon Dabhade for allegedly stealing gold jewellery worth Rs 13.87 lakh from the house of her daughter’s friend in Mahalunge on April 22.A resident of Khed taluka lodged a complaint after discovering the theft. A police team led by senior inspector Vijay Dhamal…
