Pune: The city witnessed a sharp rise in violent crimes in 2024 compared to the previous two years, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data released on Wednesday.Though Pune’s case figures remained lower than some major metro cities, the increase has raised concerns over growing incidents of serious crime. The data showed that…
Pune: Faraskhana police have arrested a shopkeeper (49) on charges of molesting a 10-year-old girl residing in his neighbourhood at Ganeshnagar after offering her a chocolate on Thursday afternoon.Deputy commissioner of police (zone I) Krushikesh Rawale said, “The girl ran from the shop as soon as he molested her. She then narrated the incident to…
Pune: The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data for 2024 has revealed that the city recorded 973 cases of sexual assault on minor girls in the said year, even as Pune police said the number decreased to 596 in 2025.According to NCRB data, two or more girls reported sexual assault to the police every day….
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: IAS officer and Beed’s former district collector Avinash Prabhakar Pathak (55) was arrested on Thursday from his Latur residence in an alleged Rs310 crore scam involving fabricated backdated orders, forged files and documents to facilitate enhanced compensation in land acquisition for the Dhule-Solapur National Highway project passing through Beed district.Pathak is the fourth…
Pune: An original theatre production, Pahinjo Kirdaar, offers a poignant exploration of Sindhi identity built from memory, research, and lived experience. Conceived by Saaz Aggarwal, a biographer and oral historian of Sindhi culture, and developed with director Nikhil Katara, the project is the culmination of 15 years of research into the community’s history.The title, which…
Pune: The preliminary work of the drinking water supply project in all merged areas in the Pune civic limits is likely to start by August.Pune municipal commissioner Naval Kishore Ram on Wednesday said the work had started in some areas like Wagholi and Sus-Bavdhan. The work is expected to begin by August in the remaining…
Pune: Police took 65-year-old Bhimrao Kamble — arrested in the alleged rape and murder of a three-year-old girl in Nasrapur on May 1 — to the crime scene around 3.30am on Wednesday to reconstruct the sequence of events in a bid to file a strong chargesheet in the case within a fortnight.Pune superintendent of police…
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…
