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Police have arrested a key accused in a case where a Mumbai resident was cheated of around Rs 81 lakh in the name of facilitating admission for his son in an MD course at Pune's BJ Medical College, an official said on Monday.

Pune Police made shocking new claims Friday in the Porsche crash case, claiming members of the family of the accused - the teen who was allegedly drunk while driving the Rs 2.5 crore electric supercar - when it killed two people, were also drunk.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested by the Pimpri Chinchwad police in Pune district for allegedly stabbing a young woman to death after she refused to marry him, an official said on Tuesday.

Four people have died - three were electrocuted - in Pune, two drowned after falling into Thane's Barvi Dam, and a red alert has been declared for Mumbai and Palghar after heavy rainfall, overnight and this morning, battered Maharashtra.

Manorama Khedkar, the mother of trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar, was arrested by Pune Police today for allegedly possessing an illegal firearm.

The drunk Pune teen - who killed two people while driving his father's Rs 2.5 crore Porsche - caused the accident but was probably also in "shock" and it is natural, therefore, to assume his mental faculties would have been affected, the court said.

The 17-year-old, whose late night Porsche dash on a Pune road left two 24-year-old engineers dead, has told the police that he cannot remember what happened that night because he was drunk, according to sources.

Two friends of the 17-year-old teen at the heart of the Pune Porsche crash have claimed the boy was drunk when he killed two people while driving his father's Rs 2.5 crore supercar, police sources told NDTV Friday morning.

A court here on Thursday issued an order directing Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to appear before it in a complaint filed by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's grandnephew accusing him of defaming the Hindutva ideologue, the petitioner's lawyer claimed.

Police investigating the Porsche car crash allegedly involving a juvenile driver are planning "digital reconstruction" of the accident scene using some latest AI-based tools and software for "evidence appreciation", a senior police officer said.

The father of the accused minor, and Dr Ajay Taware, who faked the teen's blood report, communicated 14 times on May 19, the day of the accident.

The peon, who was arrested in the Pune Porsche crash case along with two doctors for allegedly manipulating the blood test report of the 17-year-old accused, handed Rs 3 lakh bribe to the doctors, sources have said.

A court in Pune on Monday remanded two doctors and an employee of Sassoon General Hospital arrested in connection with the Porsche crash in police custody till May 30.

Pune Porsche case: The father of the 17-year-old Pune teen - who killed two people while "heavily drunk" and driving his dad's Rs 2.5 crore Porsche electric sports car - faces additional charges of forgery and criminal conspiracy.

The father of the 17-year-old Pune teen - who killed two people after illegally consuming alcohol and then driving his dad's Rs 2.5 crore Porsche sports car sans a license of any sort - has been sent to jail till June 7.

Police have arrested a key accused in a case where a Mumbai resident was cheated of around Rs 81 lakh in the name of facilitating admission for his son in an MD course at Pune's BJ Medical College, an official said on Monday.

Pune Police made shocking new claims Friday in the Porsche crash case, claiming members of the family of the accused - the teen who was allegedly drunk while driving the Rs 2.5 crore electric supercar - when it killed two people, were also drunk.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested by the Pimpri Chinchwad police in Pune district for allegedly stabbing a young woman to death after she refused to marry him, an official said on Tuesday.

Four people have died - three were electrocuted - in Pune, two drowned after falling into Thane's Barvi Dam, and a red alert has been declared for Mumbai and Palghar after heavy rainfall, overnight and this morning, battered Maharashtra.

Manorama Khedkar, the mother of trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar, was arrested by Pune Police today for allegedly possessing an illegal firearm.

The drunk Pune teen - who killed two people while driving his father's Rs 2.5 crore Porsche - caused the accident but was probably also in "shock" and it is natural, therefore, to assume his mental faculties would have been affected, the court said.

The 17-year-old, whose late night Porsche dash on a Pune road left two 24-year-old engineers dead, has told the police that he cannot remember what happened that night because he was drunk, according to sources.

Two friends of the 17-year-old teen at the heart of the Pune Porsche crash have claimed the boy was drunk when he killed two people while driving his father's Rs 2.5 crore supercar, police sources told NDTV Friday morning.

A court here on Thursday issued an order directing Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to appear before it in a complaint filed by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's grandnephew accusing him of defaming the Hindutva ideologue, the petitioner's lawyer claimed.

Police investigating the Porsche car crash allegedly involving a juvenile driver are planning "digital reconstruction" of the accident scene using some latest AI-based tools and software for "evidence appreciation", a senior police officer said.

The father of the accused minor, and Dr Ajay Taware, who faked the teen's blood report, communicated 14 times on May 19, the day of the accident.

The peon, who was arrested in the Pune Porsche crash case along with two doctors for allegedly manipulating the blood test report of the 17-year-old accused, handed Rs 3 lakh bribe to the doctors, sources have said.

A court in Pune on Monday remanded two doctors and an employee of Sassoon General Hospital arrested in connection with the Porsche crash in police custody till May 30.

Pune Porsche case: The father of the 17-year-old Pune teen - who killed two people while "heavily drunk" and driving his dad's Rs 2.5 crore Porsche electric sports car - faces additional charges of forgery and criminal conspiracy.

The father of the 17-year-old Pune teen - who killed two people after illegally consuming alcohol and then driving his dad's Rs 2.5 crore Porsche sports car sans a license of any sort - has been sent to jail till June 7.