Devendra T Goregaonkar Dna

• Teacher arrested for showing indecent clips to student

  The fad of obscene talks with the students led a teacher to jail when he went a step ahead and showed indecent MMS to a minor student. Police arrested the teacher and seized his mobile. The incident took place in Thane on Saturday evening. The accused Ravindra Bhalerao, 27, resident of Katemanivali in Kalyan runs private classes at Charai in Thane....

• Income Tax officer held in refund scam in Mumbai

  The Economic Offence Wing (EOW) arrested a class-II officer from the Income-Tax department with three others for an alleged scam of I-T refund orders. The scam amounting to more than Rs1.89 crore took place between 2007 and 2009 with the help of 250 refund orders issued in the name of fake tax payers.Police said the arrested officer, Prayag Sakhara...

• Man sets wife ablaze for attending wedding

  Maruti Khade, 27, allegedly set his wife ablaze when she attended a wedding ceremony without his consent. The woman was hospitalised while police are looking for her absconding husband.According to the information from Mumbra police station the incident took place in Mumbra on Wednesday evening. The victim woman Urmila Khade, 23, was staying with h...

• Mumbai: Hotel CCTV footage captures daring theft, cops perplexed

  It was business as usual at Samudra restaurant on December 2. At night, after tallying the accounts the manager locked the establishment and went home. At around 4.30 am on December 3, four persons arrived at the bar on two motorbikes. For the first fifteen minutes, they studied the area. After confirming that no one was watching them, they broke o...

• Mumbai mall kiosk used to send bomb hoax message

  Police investigation has revealed that one of the kiosks fitted at Thane's Korum Mall was misused to send a bomb hoax message on Tuesday evening. However, the accused in the case could not be identified until late on Wednesday evening.On Tuesday, Korum Mall authorities informed the police that they had received a message threatening to blast the se...

• Mumbai: City gets an exclusive Right To Information library

  In a bid to make the Right to Information (RTI) Act more effective in the city, Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) inaugurated RTI library recently. The library is located at the ground floor of the TMC headquarters and will be run by the Public Relation office, TMC.The library will retain the record of rules and regulations, several acts, yearly bu...

• Police constable arrested in bribery case

  Officials from Thane Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested a police constable for accepting a bribe from a person to grant bail to his kin incarcerated in judicial custody.According to ACB officials, Chandrakant Shelar, 40, police constable attached to the Bhiwandi town police station was trapped on Monday after a local resident Ramesh Patil, lodge...

• Mumbai motorist runs over watchman

  A 55-year-old security guard of a housing society in Mulund died on the spot when a resident of the society lost control over her car which allegedly hit him. Police later arrested the accused woman.According to the police, the incident took place at the gate of building C/3 in Rathi Highland Park Society at Mulund West on Sunday night. The watchma...

• Mumbai: 11 hurt as gas leakage leads to major blaze

  Eleven people, including a 11-month-old, were injured in a cooking gas leak and fire incident in Thane on Tuesday morning. The condition of three of the injured is stated to be serious as they have been inflicted with more than 70% burn injury.The incident took place at about 7 am at Anna Madrasi Chawl near Siddheshwar Lake at Paachpakhadi in the c...

• Mumbai cop arrested for allegedly molesting colleague

  Thane police arrested a constable attached to the Mumbra police station for allegedly molesting a woman colleague. According to information from Mumbra police station, the incident took place on November 20, in the premises of the police station, where the accused constable AM Sayyed was deputed. The victim works in the computer section of the poli...

• Mumbai: Class X student hangs to death

  Fifteen-year-old boy studying in class X committed suicide by hanging from a ceiling fan at his home on Sunday. Police suspect sustained pressure from his mother to improve his grades led to the rash step. According to the police, the incident took place at CP Talao area in Wagle Estate in Thane. The boy Ravi Lohpeti's father works for a private co...

• Hired to clean home for Diwali, maids steal gold worth Rs 4 lakh

  Two maids hired to clean a house for Diwali allegedly stole jewellery reportedly worth Rs 4.40 lakh in Mumbai. The incident happened at Vasant Vihar in Thane on Tuesday. Dipa Ayyer, a resident, found temporary maids with the help of the building watchman. At about 1pm, both of them went out for lunch, but did not return. On a hunch, Deepa opened th...

• Missing Mumbai teenager found dead; couple charged of murder

  A teenager from Diva near Mumbra who was missing since Sunday afternoon was found murdered at Dombivli on Monday. Manpada police have arrested a couple in connection with his murder.According to the police, Nilesh Sonar, 19, was resident of Vishishtha Apartment in Diva near Mumbra. On Sunday afternoon, he told his parents that he was going for shop...

• Mumbai: Firearms worth Rs 2 lakh seized, 4 arrested

  Cracking down on illegal gun running in the city, the crime branch arrested four persons from different places and seized five imported weapons costing more than Rs 2 lakh.Acting on a tip-off, Wagle Estate crime branch senior police inspector Ramesh Bhurewar and sub inspector RT Jadhav from bomb detection squad trapped the persons from Mumbra and T...

• Restaurant waiter and cook turn Pujari gang's ace sharp shooters

  Lure for easy money transformed two employees of a hotel into dreaded gangsters for don Hemant Pujari, today they are cooling their heels in police custody. The duo was identified as Ganpat Prajapati, 36, and Janardan Pujari, 30. Both are residents of Dombivli; while Prajapati is a cook, Pujari is a waiter. "Both became members of the notorious Hem...