Pune: A 62-year-old daily wage worker was arrested in the early hours of Wednesday on the charge of attempting to rape his granddaughter, a Std III student, around 8.30pm on Tuesday in his hutment.The Parvati police on Wednesday afternoon produced him before a city court and he was remanded him in police custody till May…
Pune: A constable posted at the Koregaon Park police station bit a businessman before pushing and hitting three personnel of the state Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Pune, during a trap operation at a housing society on Boat Club Road on Wednesday afternoon.The ACB personnel later arrested the constable for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs…
Pune: The court of additional sessions judge, Sumit G Joshi, on Tuesday sentenced a 73-year-old watchman to life imprisonment for murdering his wife and walking on a road with her severed head in 2015, holding that the prosecution proved the charge beyond reasonable doubt through consistent eyewitness accounts and forensic evidence.Holding that the prosecution had…
Pune:Taking a plunge into a water body to beat the heat is not always a good idea, especially to perform stunts to impress peers or followers on social media without proven swimming skills.Over 10 drowning deaths have been reported across the state in the past 20 days. Most of the victims were youngsters and children….
Pune: The city Command Hospital, Southern Command, on May 5 conducted a successful multi-organ donation procedure on a brain dead serving infantry soldier (38), who met with an accident in Nashik on May 3. Three lives were saved as a result.Doctors retrieved the organs under established medical protocols and coordinated the transport through a special…
Pune: The Paud police on Tuesday arrested an ice cream vendor on the charge of molesting a 14-year-old girl in a village in Mulshi taluka on Monday.The suspect, Pintu Shivkumar (28), currently resides at Sus. He is originally from Kannauj district in Uttar Pradesh. The police arrested him under Section 74 (assault or criminal force…
Pune: A team of Pimpri Chinchwad cyber police recovered Rs 56 lakh after a Bhosari-based valve manufacturing firm lost it to an email spoofing fraud on April 6.The cybercrooks had hacked the email address of a China-based firm, which was a vendor for the firm that had been duped. The crooks created a new email…
Pune: PMRDA officials told TOI on Wednesday that funds for the Rs636.84 crore road connectivity project for the proposed Chhatrapati Sambhaji Raje International Airport at Purandar had already been sanctioned in last year’s budget and no separate budgetary allocation was made for the same this financial year.“If any additional requirement arises or work needs to…
Pune: The Indian Army has initiated a court of inquiry into the theft of six trophies from the mess of the Army Institute of Physical Training (AIPT) between Feb 13 and March 15.The incident came to light late in March during a routine cleaning of the mess, when the mess secretary opened the display cabinet…
Pune: City mayor Manjusha Nagpure has directed the PMC to conduct a detailed audit of CCTV surveillance system in the city in the backdrop of recent incidents of crimes against girls in Nasarapur, Mhalunge and other areas.She emphasised that all faulty units must be repaired or replaced on a priority basis to ensure round-the-clock monitoring…
