PUNE: Pune Rural Police on Wednesday brought accused Chetan Chaudhary to Lohagad Fort and conducted a crime scene recreation and gait analysis of Chetan as part of the investigation into the murder of Ketan Agrawal, officials said.The exercise, which lasted around two to three hours, was carried out to reconstruct the sequence of events related…
A video showing Pune realtor Ketan Agarwal joyfully celebrating with his fiancée Siya Goyal and her parents has gone viral, garnering millions of views. A video showing Pune realtor Ketan Agarwal joyfully celebrating with his fiancée Siya Goyal and her parents has gone viral, garnering millions of views. A video showing Pune realtor Ketan Agarwal…
PUNE: In the ongoing investigation into the death of Ketan Agarwal, defence counsel for accused Chetan Chaudhary, lawyer Radhikesh Uttarwar, has told the court that Chetan’s name appears only twice across the FIR and all remand reports, and that no specific role has been attributed to him in the investigation records.Advocate Radhikesh Uttarwar, appearing for…
Pune: As June ends with minimal monsoon rainfall, the state irrigation department has warned Pune Municipal Corporation to prepare for stricter water rationing, citing just 3.65 TMC (about 12.5% of capacity) storage across the four Khadakwasla-circle dams. This is nearly 11 TMC lower than last year’s 14.5 TMC (50% of capacity) stock recorded on the…
Pune: The Pune Rural police investigation into the murder of realtor Ketan Agarwal on Tuesday revealed that accused Siya Goyal and Chetan Chaudhary allegedly rehearsed the crime on a hill near Market Yard before carrying pushing Agarwal off a cliff at Lohagad Fort on June 18.A Pune Rural police officer said the duo confessed during…
Repair works on at MSETCL transformer in Bhosari Pune: Five housing societies and seven individual consumers in Baner and Balewadi on Tuesday approached the Consumer Grievance Redressal Forum (CGRF), alleging that the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL) had failed to respond to their written power complaints.Residents in the two areas have reported prolonged…
Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said activities of the gangs linked to Lawrence Bishnoi and Rohit Godara were largely confined to Mumbai, Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad in Maharashtra, and a special police team would be constituted to crack down on the organised crime networks behind a series of…
Devendra Fadnavis said Android-12 specification did not mandate compulsory purchases, as the system was designed to be flexible and supported by a manual override via the CMMS portal when necessary Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday dismissed allegations in the state assembly that census officials were forced to purchase new smartphones due to an…
Pune: When booth level officer (BLO) Sunita Parate knocked on the door of a family in Parvati’s Janata Vasahat on Tuesday afternoon, it marked more than just another house visit. Within minutes, the anganwadi worker-turned-BLO had verified the details of all five family members, helped them fill their enumeration forms and submitted them to the…
Pune: The Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) raided a chemical-producing company at Kurkumbh MIDC in the early hours of Monday, on the Pune-Solapur highway.“We have seized the chemicals and are probing whether these were drugs. Samples have been sent for forensic examination,” said a senior ANTF officer.“We received information that the company was illegally producing synthetic…
