1. Cop Thrashes TC at Dadar
A constable from Goregaon Police Station, identified as Vilas Pawar, allegedly beat up a ticket checker, Dhananjay Yadav, at Dadar Railway Station yesterday. Yadav has said in his complaint that he asked Pawar for a ticket after the latter alighted from the train at platform number six, and the cop, who was not in uniform, abused and assaulted him.
“The constable was accompanied by a friend and punched Yadav on the nose. Yadav’s colleagues rushed to his help and called up the railway police,” the complaint said.
In his counter-complaint, Pawar has said Yadav accused him of throwing his weight around when he tried explaining that as a policeman, he was allowed to travel first class.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
2. 17-Year-Old Thane Student's Body Found in Matheran Creek a Day After He Goes Missing
Seventeen-year-old St Xavier’s College student Mast Daga, was found dead in a valley below Garbett Point at Matheran on Tuesday night — a day after he went missing.
The post-mortem report revealed that he suffered a heart attack. The report indicated multiple fractures, leading police to suspect he collapsed and fell in the valley. The body has been handed over to his family.
“He was seen travelling alone in the train, and a Matheran resident spotted him sitting alone, close to where his body was found,” said a police official, who did not wish to be identified.
The Matheran police have registered a case of accidental death. They will transfer the case to the Wagle Estate police station in Thane, where the missing person’s complaint was filed.
Daga was a second-year junior college science student. He left home on Monday morning and withdrew Rs500 from nearby ATM at Wagle Estate in Thane. After he failed to show up to his tuition class in Mulund, his parents began looking for him.
Daga was a second-year junior college science student. He left home on Monday morning and withdrew Rs500 from nearby ATM at Wagle Estate in Thane. After he failed to show up to his tuition class in Mulund, his parents began looking for him.
Source: Hindustan Times
3. Can't Use Police, Courts for Recovery of Dues: HC
The Bombay High Court quashed an Economic Offences Wing case against a Juhu-based businessman and observed that the police and the courts cannot be used to recover dues.
A division bench of Justices Ranjit More and Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi, in a judgment passed last week, observed, "The intention of respondent No 3 (complainant)... appears to be to use the police machinery with mala fide intention to recover the amounts which he was unable to recover by civil mode. Therefore, it is a sheer abuse of the process of law."
The court was hearing a petition filed by denim manufacturer Ramesh Shah and two others seeking to quash a case lodged against them by Tushar Thakkar, a denim fabric dealer. Thakkar alleged cheating of over Rs 94 crore, based on which the NM Joshi Marg police station applied charges of cheating, forgery, criminal intimidation and criminal conspiracy against Shah, Yardi Prabhu Consultants & Valuers Pvt Ltd and Ashwinkumar Shetty, a chartered engineer and government registered valuer. The FIR was later transferred to the EOW.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
4. Dilip Kumar and I Are Being Threatened by Builder: Saira Banu
Veteran actor Saira Banu alleged on Wednesday, 13 December, that a builder was threatening to oust her and husband Dilip Kumar from their Pali Hill property in Mumbai.
Banu wrote to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis requesting him to protect them from builder Samir Bhojwani, who had reportedly faked some documents and had threatened the elderly couple regularly to hand over their property to him.
In August this year, the Supreme Court had ruled in favour of Kumar in the long-pending case over his 2,412 square yard property in Bandra in Mumbai. The actor had an agreement with a real estate firm in 2006 by which they were supposed to develop the property. But no construction had taken place.
The Supreme Court restored possession of the property to the actor, against which he would have to pay Rs 20 crore to Prajita Developers Pvt Ltd. The realty firm had appealed for the enforcement of the agreement.
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5. Rlys' Goodie Bag for Mumbai Train Commuters: New Lifts, Escalators, Toilets, FOBs, Free Wifi
The minister of state for railways, Rajen Gohain, on Wednesday inaugurated various passenger amenities on the central and western railway.
In a function at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Gohain inaugurated three FOBs and booking offices at Currey road, Nahur and Virar stations, one escalator at Titwala station, five lifts at Reay Road, Chembur, Virar, Vasai stations and Lokmanya Tilak Terminus stations and three toilets at Kalyan, Vasai and Virar stations.
Gohain also launched emergency medical rooms (EMR) at Mumbra and Byculla stations, during the function that was attended by senior railway officials and local representatives. “Railway is the lifeline of Mumbai. We are continuing with our efforts to provide them better amenities,” said Gohain.
The minister also inaugurated solar power plants at the passenger reservation system (PRS) buildings at Mumbai Central and Dadar, at the western railway headquarters in Churchgate, and the station buildings at Andheri and Bandra Terminus.
Source: Hindustan Times
6. Bullet Lodged in Man's Eye Socket Removed Via Nose
Doctors from the JJ Hospital on Tuesday operated on a 28-year-old man and removed a bullet that was lodged in his eye socket. The surgery was uncommon not just because of the manner in which the bullet embedded itself in the man’s eye socket, but also because the doctors removed it endoscopically from his nose. The doctors decided against any incisions on the patient, as an open surgery was fraught with risk.
According to the doctors, who performed the surgery, Tanveer Ahmed Ansari, who works as a salesman in Pratapgarh, in Uttar Pradesh, was grievously injured in his left eye when robbers shot at him near his home on December 6. Ansari, 28, then, rushed from one hospital to another in his hometown, but doctors refused to operate on him because of the risks associated with the surgery.
He then headed to Mumbai, where JJ Hospital’s Ear, Nose and Throat department took him in. Dr Shrinivas Chavan, the head of the hospital’s ENT department, told Mirror that when Ansari approached them, he had no vision in his left eye, and he suffered from severe bleeding in his eye.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
7. Risking Life for a Roof
As lights came on in the famous Lalbaugcha Raja lane on Tuesday evening, Sahajeevan Society caught the attention of passers-by because of its dark, eerie look. Moments later, the 100 families living in the 45-year-old building lit candles to confirm their presence and prayed to Ganesha for their safety.
The BMC has officially condemned the decrepit society, which has two four-storey wings, as dangerous and snapped the electricity and water connections to compel the residents to move out. But they are putting up resistance because they have nowhere else to go: the builder who has agreed to redevelop the property has still not handed them the keys to transit homes.
It’s a story that’s playing out in many neighbourhoods, especially in south Mumbai, as the BMC, criticised for failing to prevent a series of building collapses in recent years, ramps up efforts to declare crumbling structures as unsafe and issue eviction notices. Officials say only strict measures can help prevent casualties, but residents hit with notices say they cannot just pack up and leave suddenly, disrupting their children’s education and inconveniencing the elderly, without alternative accommodation.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
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