Sagar Rajput

A unique drive launched by Mumbai Police to evaluate the eyesight of drivers on Mumbai’s streets has showed that nearly a third of drivers have poor vision.

Ansari (70), a medical doctor also known as ‘Dr Bomb’ because of his alleged expertise in bomb-making, was serving life imprisonment at Central Jail, Ajmer when he tried to jump parole.

Set up in 1968 to assist and protect civilians in war-torn situations, like terrorist attacks and natural disasters, the Maharashtra Home Guards and Civil Defence’s control room reportedly has not received a single phone call seeking assistance in the last two to three years.

Jalees Ansari, who is currently serving life imprisonment in Rajasthan, was out on parole and was to surrender in jail on Friday.

The accused, identified as Prem Lalsingh Nepali, confessed to troubling several residents of Kanjurmarg and claimed he did so under the influence of alcohol.

Police said the incident took place around 1.30 pm, when the first-year BCom student was standing near a stationery shop in the college premises. An eyewitness told The Indian Express that the accused touched the woman’s private parts and her shoulder.

The deceased have been identified as Ansari Elias, Nishu Singh, Madhuri Singh, Golu Yadav, Rajmatidevi Yadav and Mohan Ingale. At least five fire engines and 10 ambulances were rushed to the spot following the explosion.

While the Maharashtra Police registered 6,233 cases under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act in connection to 6,386 victims, the figure for Uttar Pradesh was 5,401 cases and 2,445 for Madhya Pradesh.

Among the country’s top 19 metropolitan cities with a population of over 20 lakh, Mumbai ranks 4th in the share of crime incidents, preceded by Delhi, Chennai and Surat. However, when it came to crime rate, Mumbai comes way down at 17th position.

On March 7, last year, Shravan Kumar Chaudhary had started a hair transplantation procedure in Chinchpokli under Halwai. The process began around 2.30 pm. By 2 am on March 8, the procedure was complete. But Chaudhary soon started feeling uneasy and suffered pain in his neck.

The case was registered after a 50-year-old real estate agent, Sunil Nagpal, filed a complaint with the Economic Offence Wing last December, alleging that he had been duped of Rs 45 lakh.

The complainant, Yashwant Shinde, has alleged that the incident happened when he had gone to DCP Abhinash Kumar’s office around 4 pm on December 27 regarding an RTI appeal.

So far, the department has issued over nine lakh one-day (individual) permits to different party venues and 1,264 party permits across the city, officials said.

Three, including godown owner, arrested; another booked

The brother of the deceased had filed a complaint with the police alleging she was mentally and physically harassed by the accused.

Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) DGP Param Bir Singh on Tuesday filed a second affidavit before the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court.

Kalshekar’s family claimed he was given no safety gear to wear. Their clothes were found outside the tank. “I always told him not to clean tanks, I didn’t like it. But he did it for money,” his father Prabhakar Kalshekar said.

The police have detained the 40-year-old woman who along with her brother, brother-in-law and an autorickshaw driver allegedly kidnapped and strangled him to death.

Since December 15, when FASTag lanes became operational on state highways, toll plaza operators have had to deal with a variety of situations arising from the new cashless system. And each new argument has led to the discovery of a new challenge.