Mumbai Beat

Police Inspector Rolfie Pereira of Kalachowky police station said Satyanarayan Mohanlal Lahoti 56, Principal of English High School at Senapati Bapat Marg, Dadar, had submitted admission forms of SSC students involved in impersonation to the board office and also obtained admissions to the University of Mumbai for students by furnishing bogus documents. Lahoti was arrested on Saturday.

On Friday, three students were arrested for impersonation at the SSC examinations held in March 1999. They are: Ganesh Avahad 19, Dayanand Dupte 21 and Vinod Katkar 22. On June 30, police had registered an offence of forgery and cheating after raiding the residences of Maruti Baburao Naik 59 at Byculla and Abhimanyu Manjrekar 24 at Parel. Naik runs an educational consultancy service at Byculla. Investigations led to the arrest of nine persons including asenior clerk of the university, Hemant Vasantrao Gangurde.

2 arrested for gold smuggling

Two persons were arrested by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence DRI on Saturday for smuggling gold bars worth Rs 10.38 lakh.

Ravindra Bhagwat Pagare and Yakub Miya Sayed were produced before the holiday magistrate at the Esplanade Court today and remanded to judicial custody The DRI had been tipped off that a member of the cleaning staff of Linewell Aviation Services would attempt to smuggle gold out of an Oman Airways aircraft after going aboard to clean it.

On Saturday, an hour after the Oman Airways flight arrived, Pagare, a supervisor with Linewell Aviation, and other cleaning staff alighted. The subsequent search of the staff revealed two packets of 22 gold bars weighing 2566.7 grams, which were concealed in Pagare8217;s shoes.

Finance co promoter held

The promoter of a Kalyan-based finance company has been arrested by the Bazar Peth police for misappropriating deposits and charged underSection 420 cheating of the IPC. Tushar Raje, who was arrested on Saturday, had floated a finance company, Shivainagar Finance, and appointed 15 agents. Raje had however, frequently defaulted on payments to small investors. Following complaints, police found that Raje had misappropriated approximately Rs 75,000.