Girl Gang-Raped by Her Dad's Friend, 3 Teens for 30 Hours
A 15-year-old was raped by her father's friend and three teenagers in Kanjurmarg for 30 hours. All have been arrested.
The father's friend had allegedly taken the girl for an outing on July 5, but didn't return that night, following which the girl's worried parents filed a missing report. When the girl returned home on Thursday night, battered and bruised, she told her parents about the incident and the cops held the accused. The girl has been admitted to Sion hospital.
(Source: Mid-Day)
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Auto Driver Slaps, Molests 19-Year-Old Girl
In the second such incident in past two days, a teenage girl was molested and assaulted by an auto driver at Thane.
On Friday morning, the 19-year-old girl, a resident of Thane rural, came to Thane as she works in private firm there. " The victim and her friend hailed a rickshaw. An unknown man also sat in rickshaw with them" said a police officer from Thane nagar police station.
“As the auto driver headed towards Khopat, she noticed the driver, Mahendra Arun Pitale,49, was going the wrong way. When she asked him to stop, an argument ensued between them, and Pitale turned around and slapped the girl. The victim then got down from the rickshaw and started shouting at him. Pitale the assaulted her and touched her inappropriately ," added officer.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
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Mumbai Revalidated as Free of Open Defecation
Though people defecating in the open continues to be an ugly sight in the city, Mumbai got revalidated as an open-defecation free city (ODF) by the quality council of India (QCI), a Union government affiliated agency, on July 6.
Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis tweeted about the certification congratulating the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and civic chief Ajoy Mehta on Friday. The city received its first validation by QCI in January and after that the agency held another assessment in the first week of July, said civic officials.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
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1993 Serial Blasts Case: Convict Pleads For Mercy Citing Age and Ailments
Citing the age and responsibilities of the accused, the defence, in the last leg of the 1993 bomb blasts case argued that convict Taher Merchant, should not be given the death penalty. Merchant has been found guilty by the Special TADA court of harbouring men who were sent to Pakistan for training, two months before the blasts took place.
Lawyer Sudeep Pasbola arguing on behalf of Merchant (61), said that he was a senior citizen, suffered from several ailments, has a young daughter to be married off, and therefore should not be given the death penalty despite the prosecution’s demands. “A senior citizen cannot be a threat to society,” Pasbola said.
(Source: Mumbai Mirror)
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Kanjurmarg Plot Will Now Be Used for Metro-VI Project
The 41-hectare Kanjurmarg salt pan land, which was first identified for the Colaba-SEEPZ Metro-III car shed, will now be used for Metro-VI.This elevated metro line is from Swami Samarth Nagar (Lokhandwala, Andheri West) via Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road to Kanjurmarg. While activists were keen the Metro-III car shed be shifted to Kanjurmarg to save Aarey’s green cover, it will remain at Aarey.
In 2015, following large scale protests against the construction of a metro car shed at Aarey, the state government had set up a committee to look for alternative sites for a metro car shed. "The committee's first choice was Kanjurmarg," said metropolitan commissioner U PS Madan. The 41-hectares, though not disputed, is part of a single survey number comprising 200 hectares which is disputed and there is a order of the Bombay High Court to maintain status quo since 1997.
(Source: Times of India)
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18 Students Barred from 5 Attempts at HSC for Cheating
Eighteen students have been barred from five attempts at the HSC examination for forwarding images of question papers using WhatsApp during the boards in March 2017. They now get a shot at the exam only in 2020.
The Mumbai division of the Maharashtra State Board took the decision as four HSC papers had gone viral before the tests started this year. Last year, three HSC students had faced the same punishment. "We have strengthened the examina ion system by setting up vigi ance squads which keep an eye on malpractices, but students seem to be getting very nnovative in the ways they cheat. Use of social media for cheating is something that he board cannot control but we can at least punish those ndulging in these malpractices," said Dattatray Jagtap, chairperson of the board's Mumbai division.
(Source: Times of India)
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Nearly 2 Months On, Yet Another Chopper Scare For Maharashtra CM
Less than two months after he survived a helicopter crash in Latur, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis barely escaped another big mishap at Pen in Alibaug. Just as Fadnavis was to board a helicopter, the pilot took off.
Realising what had happened in the nick of time, Fadnavis turned back. The police have been told to question the pilots to establish on why the chopper took off just as the CM was about to board. Fadnavis was in Pen to attend the birthday celebrations of Peasants and Workers Party leader Jayant Patil, and the district administration had taken permission to use the private helipad there.
(Source: Mumbai Mirror)
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