Sagar Rajput

Sagar Rajput profiles five of Mumbai Police’s frontline fighters under the age of 45 who lost their lives fighting the pandemic.

In his statement to the police, the complainant said, “We sent one person to the registered address of the company in Nairobi, who inspected the goods and got back saying that the masks were available in large numbers. The person even met the owner of the company, Dr James Mubbuya.

The Jilhapeth police station, under whose jurisdiction the prison falls, have registered a case under relevant sections of attempt to murder, escaping from jail and possessing firearms against the three men — Suresh Magare, Gaurav Patil and Sagar Patil.

The move comes in the backdrop of the heightened vulnerability of these frontline police personnel in view of the Covid-19 outbreak — 53 police personnel, including 48 constables, have lost their lives due to the virus since the outbreak.

Despite being on leave, Praveen Chaudhary had submitted a no-objection report in a cheating and lockdown violation case in the intervening period. He had tested negative for the virus on April 29 as well, police said.

Vimal Pethakar had been camping on the grounds, Mumbai’s official protest site, since 2014 with her son Dattatrey, and until his demise two years ago, her husband Mohan.

A post mortem was conducted on Wednesday. The doctors have reserved her cause of death until they get histopathology reports.

The man was booked for violating lockdown norms as he crossed the Maharashtra border without taking necessary permission from the authorities. He was also booked under relevant sections of Criminal Amendment Act for illegally entering a prohibited area, said police.

Zeeshan Siddiqui first rode a bicycle to cover the 225-km distance from Osmanabad to Ahmednagar from where he took a motorbike to travel till Kutch in an attempt to cross the border, where he was apprehended by the BSF.

The incident took place in August 2019 but a case was registered recently as the man had suffered a heart attack after the incident and was recuperating.

On July 7, the Mahim police had booked nine persons – the four who got the jobs, four civic officials and a middleman – after receiving a complaint from the BMC, which detected the alleged cash for jobs scam during an internal audit.

"While question papers were being sent to various examination centres, Mishra received the same on his WhatsApp on September 23," said an officer from Azad Maidan police station.

The girl had run away from her home and arrived in Mumbai in November 2019. She started working at a hotel in Kurla where she met an 18-year-old boy. The two subsequently decided to move in together.

Hours after the Maharashtra ATS briefed the media Saturday about the arrest of Arvind alias Guddan Ramvilas Trivedi and his driver Sushilkumar alias Sonu Suresh Tiwari, two alleged members of Vikas Dubey’s gang, Kanpur Police said the two men were “neither named nor wanted” in the case.

The incident, police said, came to light on July 6 when Sub-Inspector Sandeep Patil, who is working in the Maharashtra cyber office and oversees social media, came across the Twitter handle that was using their profile picture.

The accused, who worked at a Chandigarh factory, had reportedly befriended the minor, who is from Mumbai, on a social networking site in February, police said. According to police, the two had shared their phone numbers and would talk frequently

“In a bid to stop such incidents, we have a security guard posted on the sea link,” an officer said. “So as soon as he stopped his bike, the guard sensed something was amiss…He was at a distance of 100 metres, but Kasle did not stop…”

With a capacity to test up to 200 samples in 15-16 hours, the centre is expected to release as many reports within 24 hours, officials said.

According to municipal authorities, the reason for the sudden spike was people avoiding testing as they feared once they test positive, all family members will be lodged in different quarantine centres.

Afzal Ibrahim Shaikh was stabbed to death in Dharavi on Friday. His 18-year-old son Fardeen, the main eyewitness in the case, said even though police were present at the spot, they did nothing to stop the assault.

According to police, the 30-year-old doctor, who was on night duty, was walking towards a ward when the accused came from behind and groped her on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday.

Yusuf memon was arrested soon after the 1993 blasts and had been lodged in different jails across the state since then. He was at Arthur Road jail in Mumbai till 2007 and was then shifted to Aurangabad jail.

On a good day, the 40-year-old barber does 10 haircuts, almost half the number of services he provided before the lockdown.

On May 23, while in office, the man received a call from his friend, who informed him that a fake Instagram account has been created in his name and that his morphed photos have been uploaded.