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Police arrested a 49-year-old man from Maharashtra’s Palghar district for allegedly murdering his driver.

Pune:

Maharashtra BJP MLC Yogesh Tilekar’s uncle was allegedly abducted and killed by unidentified persons in Pune district on Monday, a police official said.

The victim, Satish Wagh (55), was bundled into an SUV near Shewalwadi Chowk in Hadapsar area of Pune city by four to five persons when he was out on a morning walk, prompting police to form several teams to trace him.

Wagh was found murdered near Yavat on Pune-Solapur Highway in Pune district, around 40 kilometres from the spot he was abducted, said Additional Commissioner of Police Manoj Patil.

“There were multiple injuries on his body. Several teams have fanned out to nab the accused. A team is at the spot to conduct panchnama,” Patil informed.

Earlier in the day, a police official said Tilekar’s family didn’t receive any call for ransom nor had they raised suspicion on anyone.

Police sources said Wagh had interests in farming and also owned a hotel near Shewalwadi.

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Mumbai:

18-year-old woman suffered serious injuries after an unidentified person entered her house in the early hours of Wednesday and threw acid on her in Malegaon town of Maharashtra, police said.

Her parents were also injured in the incident that took place around 2.30 am in Islambad area of Malegaon in Nashik district.

The intruder entered the house when all three were asleep, and threw hydrochloric acid on the young woman who is a college student. He also threw acid on her parents before fleeing.

All three victims are undergoing treatment at the government hospital in Malgaon.

The identity of the assailant as well as possible motives were not known yet, and the woman’s statement was yet to be recorded, said the police official.

A First Information Report was registered at Malegaon Killa police station under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 124 (1) (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by use of acid) and 333 (house-trespass after preparation for assault).

Further probe was on, the official said.

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Palghar:

A group of parents and locals on Wednesday thrashed, stripped and paraded a tuition teacher in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, accusing him of misbehaving with girl students, an official said.

The matter came to light after a 13-year-old girl refused to go to his tuition classes. When her parents sought to know the reason, she told them about the alleged misconduct by the tuition teacher.

The parents of the girl and other citizens then beat up the teacher, stripped and paraded him after pulling him out of his classes in Virar. They also accused him of misbehaving with other girl students, the official said.

Senior Inspector Vijay Pawar of Virar police station told reporters that the teacher has been handed over to the police and they are recording statements. Police will register an FIR against the tuition teacher, he added.

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Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra:

A 26-year-old newly married doctor allegedly committed suicide after facing harassment from her husband in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar city, police said on Tuesday.

The doctor, Pratiksha Bhusare, who got married five months ago and recently joined one of the leading private hospitals in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar as a medical officer, hanged herself to a ceiling fan in her home on Sunday, a police official said.

She left behind a seven-page note accusing her husband of harassment and blaming him for the extreme step, he said.

An FIR was registered at the Cidco police station against the suspect husband for dowry death and abetment to suicide on a complaint of the doctor’s family, the official said.

“The seven-page suicide note gives details about the harassment she faced from her husband as he questioned her character and checked her phone call records and messages. The couple got married on March 27 this year,” he said.

The woman’s father alleged the husband, who did his MBBS from Russia, wanted to set up his hospital and was continuously pressuring his daughter to get money from parents, the official added.

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Mumbai:

Police in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg district on Friday exhumed the body of a three-year-old girl whose death in an accident more than two weeks ago had not been reported to the authorities.

The driver of the dumper truck which allegedly crushed the girl to death at Malewadi in Sawantwadi tehsil was arrested for the accident as well as for destruction of evidence, said a police official.

The girl’s parents are migrant workers from Chhattisgarh.

After the accident on August 5, the driver, his assistant and the girl’s parents buried the body, the official said.

After getting a tip-off, district police started an inquiry and exhumed the body with a court’s permission.

Further probe was underway.

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A woman from Thane, Maharashtra, who recently returned from Pakistan, is under police investigation. Authorities allege that she may have used false documents, including a forged name and Aadhaar card, to obtain a Pakistani visa to meet a man she married “online” this year.

The case of Nagma’s return from Pakistan came to the police’s attention after came home on July 17 but on her documents, Nagma Noor Maksood Ali was Sanam Khan Rukh, the cops claimed. 

In 2021, Nagma/Sanam connected with Babar Bashir Ahmed from Pakistan’s Abbottabad through Facebook. Soon, they fell in love and exchanged numbers. She applied for a Pakistani visa which was rejected.

In February 2024, she married Babar “online” and applied again for a visa but in her documents, the woman’s name was mentioned as Sanam, the cops claimed. She came back last week on July 17.

The woman’s mother, who lives in Thane, has refuted the police’s claim and said in 2015, the woman changed her name after she separated from her husband and changed the name of her children as well. 

The police have neither detained the woman nor arrested her but have launched an investigation.

Mumbai:

A thief was overcome with remorse after realising that the house he stole valuables from belonged to a famous Marathi writer and returned the valuables he had stolen, police said today.

The house from where the thief stole the valuables, including an LED TV, belonged to Narayan Surve and is located at Neral in Raigad district, police said.

Surve, who died on August 16, 2010 at 84 years, was a celebrated Marathi poet and social activist. Born in Mumbai, his poems vividly depicted the struggles of the urban working class.

Surve’s daughter Sujata and her husband Ganesh Ghare now live in the house. They had gone to Virar to be with their son and their house was locked for 10 days.

It was during this period that the thief entered the house and stole a few things, including the LED TV set. When he returned to pick up a few more articles the next day, he noticed Surve’s photo and memorabilia in a room.

The thief was filled with remorse and returned all the items he had picked up. He pasted a small note on a wall, asking for the owner’s forgiveness for stealing from such a great literary figure’s house.

Sujata and her husband found the note when they returned from Virar on Sunday, police inspector Shivaji Dhavle of Neral police station said.

Police are carrying out further investigation based on the fingerprints found on the TV set and other articles, he said.

Before Surve became a famous Marathi poet, he had grown up as an orphan on the streets of Mumbai, then survived by working as a domestic help, a dishwasher in a hotel, a babysitter, a pet-dog caretaker, a milk delivery boy, a porter and a mill hand.

Through his poetry, Surve glorified labour and challenged the established literary norms in Marathi literature.
 

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Mumbai:

Days after an advertising agency owner was robbed of his valuables allegedly by a fellow passenger, who drugged him by offering a cup of coffee on board a Pune-Mumbai state-run AC bus, police have arrested the accused from Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Wednesday.

The accused, 52-year-old Yunus Shafiquddin Shaikh, was arrested by a team of Matunga police in Mumbai on July 8 from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, an official said.

The incident had occurred on June 14 on board the Pune-Mumbai Shivneri bus operated by the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC), he said.

“The victim, Shailendra Sathe (57), who owns an advertising and brand agency, had boarded the Shivneri bus from Wakad in Pune to Mumbai. The accused, who was travelling with him in the same bus, befriended him and offered a cup of coffee to him when the bus stopped at a food mall in Khalapur. As Sathe fell unconscious later during the journey, the accused stole his gold ornaments, including a ring, and a mobile phone,” the police official said.

After the bus reached Dadar in central Mumbai, the MSRTC staff helped Shailendra Sathe get down from the bus, he said.

Assuming that he was under the influence of liquor, they left him on a footpath, where he kept lying in an unconscious state for the next several hours, he added.

Later, Shailendra Sathe narrated the incident on his X handle, “LEFT TO DIE, thrown on a footpath for 18 hours. Hypnotised, Drugged, Robbed & Ignored on a Mumbai-Pune Shivneri Bus in an acutely confused state, Negligence, No concerned authority helped in distress. Found by family, 80 hrs unconscious, treated at Jupiter Hospital Thane.” Based on his complaint, a case was registered at Matunga police station on June 20, following which a probe into the case was launched.

Police teams went through the footage of CCTVs installed in the Shivneri bus and at other places, including the Khalapur food mall, Dadar, and the Mumbai Central area, he said.

During the probe, police teams zeroed in on two suspects and received information that they were from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, he added.

A team was then sent to the Guzri Bazar area of Meerut, and after mounting surveillance for three days, Yunus Shaikh was apprehended by the Mumbai police.

The police recovered Shailendra Sathe’s 30 grams of gold from Yunus Shaikh, who worked as an estate agent in the area, he said.

During the probe, the police found that Yunus Shaikh is a notorious criminal in Meerut, the official said, adding that serious cases like murder, attempt to murder, and arson were registered against him in the past.

He was also involved in incidents like robbing passengers, spiking their drinks or drugging them during the journey. Similar cases were registered against him in Andhra Pradesh, he said.

Following his arrest, he was produced before a local court and was brought to Mumbai on transit remand, the official said.

Police are looking for an accomplice of Yunus Shaikh, he said.

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