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A 35-year-old zilla parishad teacher, Prabhakar Thakuji Burse, allegedly raped a 12-year-old girl in the chamber of the school's headmaster on December 9 at Kaman village in Rajgurunagar taluka, about 40 km from Pune. The victim, the daughter of a cobbler, has lodged a complaint with the Rajgurunagar police station. The suspect is absconding. The i...

Eighty-eight girl students of the hostel run by Karvenagar-based Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Samstha (MKSSS) were on Friday evening admitted to Deenanath Mangeshkar and Mai Mangeshkar hospitals for food poisoning. The students, aged between 10 and 20 years, complained of stomach ache and started vomiting in the hostel around 6.30 pm. Director of ...

Two members of a family, including a one-and-a-half-year-old girl, were killed in an accident in Dighi on Tuesday morning. According to the police, Narendra Sharma, a resident of Bhosari, along with his wife Bhakti and daughter Kavya, was on his way to Pune via Alandi on his motorcycle when a speeding PMPML bus hit the two-wheeler head-on. The trio...

A 12-year-old school student, Pankaj Ashok Shinde, drowned on Thursday after falling into a lake in Lohegaon. His body was fished out by the fire brigade personnel on Friday.The police said Pankaj was a standard V student in a private school at Lohegaon. His father works in the Indian Air Force, while his mother is a homemaker.After attending schoo...

The Sahakarnagar police have booked the owner of a software company and his employees for allegedly duping the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) of about Rs11.89 lakh between April and August 2010. A complaint in this regard has been registered by PMC system manager, Rahul Pratap Jagtap, with the Sahakarnagar police station. The municipal corporatio...

A 30-year-old married woman and her 19-year-old paramour allegedly committed suicide on Sunday by consuming poison. The victims have been identified as Aakash Prakash Patil and Jyoti Suersh Desale, both residents of Moshi. Police inspector (crime) Ravindra Choudhari of Bhosari police station said the victims used to stay in the same building and ha...

A six-year-old schoolgirl, Ashwini Deepnarayan Pande, was crushed under the rear wheels of a speeding water tanker on Friday afternoon on Someshwarwadi Road in Pashan. The Chatuhshrungi police have arrested the tanker driver Sandeep Kundlik Dolas (40) of Pashan. A complaint in this regard was registered with the Chatuhshrungi police by the victim's...

The Pimpri police arrested a lawyer on Thursday for allegedly raping a woman on promise of getting her husband out from prison on parole. The accused has been identified as Sajid Sallauddin Sayyad (32) of Pimprigaon.According to the police, the victim's husband is serving life imprisonment since 2008 in a murder case. After one month of the verdict...

A police constable created a ruckus at the Sant Tukaramnagar police chowki in Pimpri on Wednesday morning.The constable, Toni Bokawe (40), who was on night duty, went berserk about 7:30 am and started shouting at the chowki."He broke a table glass top at the chowki before his colleagues overpowered him," the police officials said.Bokawe has been se...

A man was assaulted and robbed of valuables and a car on Sunday night by three men, who decamped with gold ornaments, a laptop and a car totally worth Rs4.25 lakh.The victim, Rahul Dattatraya Mane (32) of Adinathnagar, Bhosari, lodged a complaint at Vishrambaug police station. The police said Rahul was sleeping at his printing shop at Narayan Peth ...

The Sahakarnagar police stumbled upon the bizarre fact while probing the robbery case at Suman Vihar Apartment. Suresh's wife Rajeshwari was alone at home when two men, posing as gas cylinder deliverymen, entered the house and threatened her, tied her limbs, gagged her and decamped with gold ornaments and a cellphone, together valued at more than R...

The engine of the Mumbai-bound Latur-Mumbai Express caught fire in the wee hours of Thursday at Ghorpadi, but no casualties were reported.The train had left Pune station and was at the railway crossing in Ghorpadi when the incident took place. Railway sources said thick smoke engulfed the diesel engine and the drivers immediately got down to inspec...

A 17-year-old boy allegedly raped his 15-year-old sister, who was adopted by the suspect's father in her childhood. The Hinjewadi police have arrested the suspect. According to senior police inspector of Hinjewadi police station Ganpat Mandgulkar, the suspect's father had adopted the victim and was living in his house. The police said although the ...

The city police on Thursday said three suspects in the murder of the city jeweller's wife, Jayanti Nagaraj Chhajed (55), carried out the task in a well-planned manner.The police nabbed two suspects, Bharat Polaji Ghanchi (22) and Bharat Kaluram Ghanchi (20) from Sirohi in Rajasthan on Wednesday. The duo was later brought to the city. Deputy commiss...

A 13-year-old boy on Friday night died after being hit by a motorcyclist in Koregaon Park.The victim, identified as Sagar Anil Kamble of Bhawani Peth, was riding a bicycle when the incident took place. He was rushed to the Sassoon Hospital but was proclaimed brought dead by doctors.A complaint was registered at the Bundgarden police station in this...

A 35-year-old zilla parishad teacher, Prabhakar Thakuji Burse, allegedly raped a 12-year-old girl in the chamber of the school's headmaster on December 9 at Kaman village in Rajgurunagar taluka, about 40 km from Pune. The victim, the daughter of a cobbler, has lodged a complaint with the Rajgurunagar police station. The suspect is absconding. The i...

Eighty-eight girl students of the hostel run by Karvenagar-based Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Samstha (MKSSS) were on Friday evening admitted to Deenanath Mangeshkar and Mai Mangeshkar hospitals for food poisoning. The students, aged between 10 and 20 years, complained of stomach ache and started vomiting in the hostel around 6.30 pm. Director of ...

Two members of a family, including a one-and-a-half-year-old girl, were killed in an accident in Dighi on Tuesday morning. According to the police, Narendra Sharma, a resident of Bhosari, along with his wife Bhakti and daughter Kavya, was on his way to Pune via Alandi on his motorcycle when a speeding PMPML bus hit the two-wheeler head-on. The trio...

A 12-year-old school student, Pankaj Ashok Shinde, drowned on Thursday after falling into a lake in Lohegaon. His body was fished out by the fire brigade personnel on Friday.The police said Pankaj was a standard V student in a private school at Lohegaon. His father works in the Indian Air Force, while his mother is a homemaker.After attending schoo...

The Sahakarnagar police have booked the owner of a software company and his employees for allegedly duping the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) of about Rs11.89 lakh between April and August 2010. A complaint in this regard has been registered by PMC system manager, Rahul Pratap Jagtap, with the Sahakarnagar police station. The municipal corporatio...

A 30-year-old married woman and her 19-year-old paramour allegedly committed suicide on Sunday by consuming poison. The victims have been identified as Aakash Prakash Patil and Jyoti Suersh Desale, both residents of Moshi. Police inspector (crime) Ravindra Choudhari of Bhosari police station said the victims used to stay in the same building and ha...

A six-year-old schoolgirl, Ashwini Deepnarayan Pande, was crushed under the rear wheels of a speeding water tanker on Friday afternoon on Someshwarwadi Road in Pashan. The Chatuhshrungi police have arrested the tanker driver Sandeep Kundlik Dolas (40) of Pashan. A complaint in this regard was registered with the Chatuhshrungi police by the victim's...

The Pimpri police arrested a lawyer on Thursday for allegedly raping a woman on promise of getting her husband out from prison on parole. The accused has been identified as Sajid Sallauddin Sayyad (32) of Pimprigaon.According to the police, the victim's husband is serving life imprisonment since 2008 in a murder case. After one month of the verdict...

A police constable created a ruckus at the Sant Tukaramnagar police chowki in Pimpri on Wednesday morning.The constable, Toni Bokawe (40), who was on night duty, went berserk about 7:30 am and started shouting at the chowki."He broke a table glass top at the chowki before his colleagues overpowered him," the police officials said.Bokawe has been se...

A man was assaulted and robbed of valuables and a car on Sunday night by three men, who decamped with gold ornaments, a laptop and a car totally worth Rs4.25 lakh.The victim, Rahul Dattatraya Mane (32) of Adinathnagar, Bhosari, lodged a complaint at Vishrambaug police station. The police said Rahul was sleeping at his printing shop at Narayan Peth ...

The Sahakarnagar police stumbled upon the bizarre fact while probing the robbery case at Suman Vihar Apartment. Suresh's wife Rajeshwari was alone at home when two men, posing as gas cylinder deliverymen, entered the house and threatened her, tied her limbs, gagged her and decamped with gold ornaments and a cellphone, together valued at more than R...

The engine of the Mumbai-bound Latur-Mumbai Express caught fire in the wee hours of Thursday at Ghorpadi, but no casualties were reported.The train had left Pune station and was at the railway crossing in Ghorpadi when the incident took place. Railway sources said thick smoke engulfed the diesel engine and the drivers immediately got down to inspec...

A 17-year-old boy allegedly raped his 15-year-old sister, who was adopted by the suspect's father in her childhood. The Hinjewadi police have arrested the suspect. According to senior police inspector of Hinjewadi police station Ganpat Mandgulkar, the suspect's father had adopted the victim and was living in his house. The police said although the ...

The city police on Thursday said three suspects in the murder of the city jeweller's wife, Jayanti Nagaraj Chhajed (55), carried out the task in a well-planned manner.The police nabbed two suspects, Bharat Polaji Ghanchi (22) and Bharat Kaluram Ghanchi (20) from Sirohi in Rajasthan on Wednesday. The duo was later brought to the city. Deputy commiss...

A 13-year-old boy on Friday night died after being hit by a motorcyclist in Koregaon Park.The victim, identified as Sagar Anil Kamble of Bhawani Peth, was riding a bicycle when the incident took place. He was rushed to the Sassoon Hospital but was proclaimed brought dead by doctors.A complaint was registered at the Bundgarden police station in this...