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Control room at Cafe NaazThe Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation will set up a central control room in the building where Cafe Naaz at Mal...

Control room at Cafe Naaz

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation will set up a central control room in the building where Cafe Naaz at Malabar Hill was run till it was acquired on Saturday. According to a spokesperson, the BMC will spend Rs 30 lakh to set up a control room which will monitor the water distribution network in the city limits. The structure was acquired on Saturday as the cafe8217;s lease expired three years ago. BMC used to get Rs 6,500 per month from the 1,500 sq m area.

MSEB official caught for graft

The Thane wing of the Anti-Corruption Bureau ACB trapped an Maharashtra State Electricity Board MSEB official at Kalamboli, Navi Mumbai while he was accepting Rs 15,000 from a hotel manager. Prakash Shantaram Sutar 48, a junior engineer, was nabbed as he was accepting the sum from Gregory Fernandes at Hotel Sai Teerth.

On July 23, Sutar raided the hotel and found its electric meter seals tampered. The hotel was asked to pay MSEB an outstanding sum of Rs 2,60,000.However, Sutar told Fernandes that he would take only Rs 42,000 if he was paid Rs 25,000. The manager paid Rs 10,000 in the morning of July 28 and asked Sutar to come later to collect the rest. Fernandes tipped off the ACB, and a team led by Inspector Chandrakant Thorat arrested Sutar.

One nabbed for selling gun

A 23-year-old youth was arrested for selling a firearm at Kandivali W on Wednesday evening. Following a tip-off that Harish Tiwari was to meet a gangster near Gokul Dairy at Marve, a Crime Branch team, led by SI Ambadas Pote, laid a trap for him there. Tiwari tried to flee but was apprehended. A revolver was found in his possession. Tiwari confessed to having smuggled the weapon from a village near Varanasi. He said he was forced into gun-running because he lost his job.

Plea on former chancellor

Petitioners Dadasaheb K Patil and another, who challenged the appointment of former V-C of the university, Dr S D Karnik as chairperson of the Maharashtra Public Service CommissionMPSC have moved Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court order. A division bench of the Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal and Justice S H Kapadia on July 22 in an interim order directed that Dr Karnik8217;s appointment be confirmed by the council of ministers on July 24. The bench directed that the appointee would not take office unless the council of ministers approved it. Dr Karnik8217;s appointment has since been approved by the cabinet.