1. Quota Stir Turns Violent, Mumbai Bandh Today
A constable died and nine others suffered injuries during stone pelting yesterday.
Groups seeking reservation for the Maratha community have called for a Mumbai bandh today as a state-wide protest turned violent yesterday, resulting in the death of one constable at Kaygaon in Aurangabad and injuring nine others. The violence came a day after a 27-year-old protestor Kakasaheb Shinde jumped off a bridge over Godavari river in Aurangabad. Two more protesters attempted suicide yesterday.
The Maratha Kranti Morcha, which has called for the bandh in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Palghar and Raigad, has promised a peaceful agitation and said that emergency services like schools, colleges, school buses and milk tankers will be exempted from the bandh.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
2. Blackballing Is a Joke, Tainted Zoo Contractor Wins Revamp Project Again
The BMC’s claim of a no tolerance policy against tainted contractors is an eyewash. Nearly two years after it scrapped tenders for the Byculla zoo’s revamp following a Mirror exposé that the contractor for the penguin enclosure had submitted fake documents to win the tender, the civic body has picked the same company for a part of the facility’s Rs 125-crore renovation.
In defence of the indefensible, the BMC said since it had already penalised the company and its work with the enclosure was found “up to the mark”. The selection was made earlier this month and the contract will be awarded soon.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
3. Delisle Bridge Closure Tests Chaos Theory
Poor planning left lakhs of commuters in the lurch on Tuesday morning after the century-old Delisle bridge in Lower Parel was shut for reconstruction.
As diversions came into effect, motorists were stuck in traffic for hours. The authorities failed to anticipate the chaos — just four Railway Protection Force personnel and a few Western Railway (WR) ticketing staff were deployed near the Lower Parel station — pushing commuters heading to the station into a near-stampede situation. Pedestrians who used to take Delisle bridge to cross over from the east to the west also tried to squeeze through the narrow entry of the station using the railway foot overbridge (FOB).
Source: Mumbai Mirror
4. Bhiwandi Building Collapses, 1 Dead
A three-storey building collapsed in Bhiwandi on Tuesday night, leaving at least one person dead and six, including a two year-old boy, injured.
One person was still trapped under the debris at the time of going to press.
All the eight are residents of an adjoining chawl. None of the occupants of the building, located in Rasulabad area of Khoni village, was injured, as it had been vacated earlier in the day after a wall collapsed. Locals said that the structure had come up around seven years old.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
5. Speeding Jaguar Hits 10 Vehicles in Mumbai, Children Among Injured
Several people were injured and 10 vehicles damaged after a speeding luxury car rammed into them at Versova area in Mumbai’s Andheri suburb on Monday, police said.
Police said the injured, which included children, have been admitted to nearby hospitals.
The driver of the speeding Jaguar was apparently under the influence of alcohol and was thrashed by onlookers before he was handed over to the police, the official added. The angry mob also damaged the car.
“Prima facie, the driver looked in an inebriated state. We are waiting for the medical report to ascertain this,” said a police officer, who did not wish to be named.
Source: Hindustan Times
6. 31-yr-old Killed as Tree Falls On Autorickshaw
ONE PERSON was killed and two others grievously injured after a branch from a huge tree fell on an autorickshaw in Mulund on Tuesday. This is the third incident this monsoon in which a tree fall has claimed a life in the city.
The incident took place at the Guru Govind Singh Road near Mulund Colony at around 3.35 pm. The branch from a peepal tree collapsed on the autorickshaw, killing a passenger, Ravi Shah (31).
The auto driver, Chandrabhan Gupta (37), is in a critical condition with a head injury at Sion hospital. Another passenger, Urvi Shah (27) — the wife of the deceased — has been admitted to a private hospital with injuries on her head and the face.
Source: The Indian Express
7. Ceiling of Raghuleela Mall in Vashi Collapses
A portion of the ceiling in Raghuleela mall in Vashi, Navi Mumbai, collapsed at about 12.30 pm on Tuesday. No one was hurt in the incident. Raghuleela, which is located right outside Vashi station, also houses a cinema hall and therefore attracts many moviegoers.
Being a weekday, the mall was relatively empty at the time of the collapse. While the plaster of the dome ceiling crashed on the third floor, the metal reinforcement fell on the ground floor.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
8. Sheena Bora Murder Case: ‘Indrani Forced Me to Arm-twist Sheena’
On the second day, Mekhail Bora talks about Indrani’s ploy to murder him.
On the second day of his deposition in the court of special CBI judge JC Jagdale, Mekhail Bora avoided eye contact with his murder-accused mother Indrani Mukerjea and rattled off with confidence the list of things he was made to do, to arm-twist his deceased sister Sheena to make her give up the love of her life.
This included threatening disinheritance from ancestral property and repeatedly pestering Sheena to leave Peter Mukerjea’s son Rahul, only because Peter and Indrani were not happy with the relationship. This, Mekhail said, became a bone of contention between him and Sheena and she stopped talking to him, until he revealed the reason and cleared the air.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
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