Srinath Rao

The 22-year-old Dombivali resident had returned to Mumbai from a work trip to Turkey on March 15. At the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, he was ordered by health department officials to stay in home quarantine for 14 days.

Following orders issued by the state government on March 24, ordering all places of worship to shut down immediately, the police had reached to out imams of the mosques

"No amount of training prepares you for a situation like this. There is nothing written down on how to tackle a lockdown curfew," said a Superintendent of Police of a western Maharashtra district.

“The men are primarily construction workers returning from Hyderabad to different parts of Rajasthan,” Rajkumar said, adding that police were probing how they had managed to get that far from Hyderabad without being intercepted.

For the last four days, four women and two men have been working 12 hours at the tailoring class in the local police training school.

Like us, most other Indian passengers had calmed down and decided to sleep off the slight change in plans after Malaysian Airlines found us an Air India flight from Singapore the next evening.

In June last year, the Ratnagiri district police’s Local Crime Branch had received information regarding a large quantity of cocaine changing hands at an industrial estate.

Pradeep Kasbe, senior inspector, Boisar police station, said that the police probe is also nearing an end. All that remains, he said, is to record Patel’s statement. Patel was admitted to Wockhardt Hospital in Mira Road after taking full impact of the bast and was operated on to remove metal shards which had pierced his stomach.

Last month, the then Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Barve directed each police station in the city to identify such chowkies and to prioritise making them regular by writing to assistant municipal commissioners at respective administrative wards.

The victim compensation scheme is distinct from the state government’s Manodhairya Scheme for rape victims, children who are victims of sexual offences and acid attack victims (women and children), which was effected in 2013 after the brutal gangrape and murder of a physiotherapist in Delhi in December 2012.

As per guidelines issued by the Bombay High Court, the production of juveniles before regular magistrates contravenes provisions of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000, the letter stated.

Police officers who attended the conference and who later reviewed the set of directives told The Indian Express that the objective is to be aware of activities taking place on university campuses.

A senior officer of the Mumbai Police said both the driver and passenger were “asked to go” as there was “no cognizable offence”. An Uber spokesperson said they were “reviewing the matter”.

“Recently, Naxals have prioritised disrupting road construction work, especially in villages bordering Chhattisgarh and Telangana. They do not want roads to be built in interior areas," said Shailesh Balkawade, Superintendent of Police, Gadchiroli.

In recent weeks, Gokhale, who has been openly critical of the Mumbai Police’s handling of the case, also discovered that his ACP promotion order had been published by the Maharashtra Home Department on May 26, 2019.

Senior police officers said what led them to the flag in the first place was a desire to find the origins of Mumbai Police’s emblem — a hand holding a baton, which in turn forms the spine of a balance scale.

Mumbai has been hosting the Queer Azadi March every year since 2008.

On January 22, after the Supreme Court declined to stay the CAA, women in Malegaon decided that protest rallies will not be enough. The same day, the Malegaon Sunni Council identified a vacant private property on the old Mumbai-Agra highway and decided to stage a protest in solidarity with the women of Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh.

The largest gathering was at Fateh Maidan, home to Malegaon’s tallest politician, socialist leader and former minister late Nihal Ahmad. His wife Sajida Ahmad said the repeated recitation of the Preamble was an attempt to keep the Constitution alive.