Senior Congress leader Dr Ratnakar Mahajan passed away in Pune on Saturday PUNE: Senior Congress leader, socialist thinker and political analyst Dr Ratnakar Mahajan died at his residence in Pune on Saturday following a brief illness, his close associates said. He was 80.Mahajan had been unwell for the past few days, according to his associates….
Private buses parked in Sangamwadi Pune: Passengers who feel that they are being overcharged by private bus operators during the Ganeshotsav festival can complain about the same on “8275330201” besides sending an e-mail on the same at “mh12prosecution.rtopune@gmail.com”, Pune RTO officials said on Friday.While launching a drive against the practice which start from Friday and…
Pune: Two unqualified individuals posing as doctors and treating patients in Kharadi and Warje were caught during Pune Municipal Corporation’s anti-quackery drive this week. Police later registered criminal cases against them.Acting on complaints, the civic body’s Bogus Medical Practitioners Search Committee carried out inspections and zeroed in on bogus doctors at two clinics. Officials found…
Pune: The court of Special Judge S M Sutar, on Wednesday, acquitted Nigerian national Eric Cyril Chinedu (31), who spent nearly four years in custody in a drug case, after finding serious gaps in the prosecution’s evidence linking him to the alleged recovery of mephedrone (MD) drug worth around Rs7.14 lakh.Eric was arrested in Sept…
Pune: The court of Additional Sessions Judge Aniruddha Sulbha Subhash Gandhi has acquitted a 30-year-old watchman, from Nepal, who spent over five years in jail in his wife’s murder case, on Thursday.“The prosecution fails to prove that it is a case of homicidal death. On the contrary, there is sufficient reason to hold that the…
Photo and graphic for representation Pune: A 76-year-old retired bank officer from Balewadi lost Rs3.5 lakh after a cyberfraudster posing as a bank representative sent him a malicious APK file on the pretext of preparing his pension card and subsequently siphoned money from his bank account.The fraud occurred between Sept 3 and 4, and the…
Photo and graphics for representation Pune: An engineer (29) from Wadgaonsheri lost Rs5.88 lakh after a man she met on a matrimonial website claimed to have sent her a parcel containing jewellery and cash from abroad, and got her to make multiple payments towards customs duty, insurance and other charges between Aug 3 and Aug…
Pune: Four men from Thane were arrested for extortion of Rs25 lakh from a fibreglass-moulded products manufacturing company in Bhosari MIDC on Thursday.A Pimpri Chinchwad crime branch team led by senior police inspector Rajendra Patil laid a trap and took the accused into custody. The accused, identified as Rahul Mishra (38), Altaf Janavekar (53), Ramesh…
Pune: Ganesh mandals in the city have urged authorities to provide flat or concessional electricity tariffs for temporary connections and expressed concerns over delayed refund of security deposits.In a recent meeting, mandal representatives said this would make billing more affordable. “In the current structure, we are paying the same rate as charged for residential connections….
Pune: A self-proclaimed spiritual guru and her four accomplices, including her husband and brother, allegedly duped a contractor from Solapur of Rs45,000 with the promise of resolving his family problems through rituals.Bibewadi police have booked the suspects under Section 318 (cheating) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human…
