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The city crime branch has arrested four robbers, one of them 60 years old, for allegedly entering a 78-year-old woman’s Malad flat on the pretext of delivering a courier, tying up her hands and legs and gagging her before fleeing with jewellery worth Rs 1.9 lakh.

The Group Headquarters of the National Cadet Corps (NCC), Pune, has deployed 200 senior cadets for crowd management at 10 vaccination centres across the city civic limits following a request by the municipal administration.

The crime branch arrested seven men who allegedly printed Rs 7 crore in counterfeit currency notes of Rs 2,000 denomination and were planning to circulate them.

The murder case of Meenakshi Jaiswal, from Kharghar has taken a new turn.

National award-winning Abhijit Mohan Warang's upcoming Marathi film 'Prem Pratha Dhumshaan' starring Shivali Parab and vinayak chavan has already created a buzz on social media.

A police officer familiar with the investigation into Kharghar woman Meenakshi Jaiswal’s murder last week said on Tuesday that Surendra Kumar Batra, one of the four arrested men, was the employer of the others, vinayak chavan, Maninder Bajwa and Suraj Jaiswal.

The Hadapsar police on Thursday arrested three more people involved in the double murder case, which is registered with the Paud police station.

Police said that Qureshi had some dispute with the deceased, Babuji Qureshi, 55, over the payment of buying and selling fruits.

A 12-year-old boy was killed and another seriously injured when the rear wall of a house collapsed at Sambhaji Nagar on L B S Marg, Mulund (W), on Saturday morning.

The crime branch has begun a probe into a cheating case against the editor in chief of a magazine and some other office bearers for allegedly duping a 49-year-old man of Rs4,001. The complainant told the police that the accused were seeking funds to publish a book based on PM Narendra Modi's speeches in Mann Ki Baat.

PUNE: The presence of mind shown by a 12-year-old girl saved her from being sold to a brothel-keeper on Monday.

The city crime branch has arrested four robbers, one of them 60 years old, for allegedly entering a 78-year-old woman's Malad flat on the pretext of delivering a courier, tying up her hands and legs and gagging her before fleeing with jewellery worth Rs 1.9 lakh.

A motor accident claims tribunal recently held that married daughters cannot seek a share of the compensation awarded in their father’s accidental death, as they were not his dependants.

Acquitting nine members of the Chhota Rajan gang in a 14-year-old extortion case, chief judicial magistrate Suchitra Ghodke recently rapped the prosecution for failing to examine the investigating officer's evidence in the case.

Investigators probing the Saturday firing in Kandivli in which a 26-year-old staffer of a stockbroking firm was killed and three others were injured have learnt that arrested shooter Sonu Paswan was preparing to appear in a police recruitment exam in Bihar, said police.

A man in Mumbai was rescued by the police after Interpol alerted them that he was searching for ways to die by suicide. The man explained that he was frustrated about not being able to find a job and also wanted to help his mother get out of jail.

A 28-year-old resident of Malad, Mumbai, who was frustrated at not finding a job and his mother's incarceration, searched for ways to die by suicide on Google. Interpol alerted the Mumbai police, who located the man within two hours and provided counseling. The man explained that he had lost hope due to his unemployment and inability to arrange money for his mother's bail. The police assured him of assistance in finding a job and sent him home with a relative.

The police faced a tough time in protecting Rahul Patil, the managing director of Symbiosis Gold Trade, who allegedly duped thousands of investors across Maharashtra.

Forest officials investigating the blue bull poaching case in Chimur range have stumbled upon a huge racket of poachers spanned across more than three ranges. Officials have arrested 13 poachers and recovered one more muzzle loading gun besides the two guns seized earlier along with bulk of poaching material, gun powder and shrapnels used in fire from one of the accused. Investigators have also come across a couple of specialists involved in manufacturing illegal firearms in the forest area.