1. Bharat Bandh in Mumbai: Trains, Buses to Run According to Schedule; MNS Urges Party Workers to Participate in Protest but Not Destroy Property
The Bharat Bandh called by the Congress and other Opposition parties will take place on Monday, September 10. Several regional parties across the country have responded to the Congress' call for a protest against the rising fuel prices. In Mumbai, Congress approached both the Shiv Sena -- an ally of the ruling party BJP -- and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.
While MNS chief Raj Thackeray responded by saying that the MNS will not only support but also actively participate in the bandh, the Shiv Sena chose to remain "neutral".
Source: Mumbai Mirror
2. Filmmakers ‘Showing Hindus in Poor Light’ Were on Duo’s Hit List, Says ATS
The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) told the sessions court on Sunday that the two men, arrested from Jalgaon in connection with the terror plot case, had planned to eliminate film directors and producers who made movies “showing Hindu religion in poor light”.
The two, who allegedly have links with those earlier arrested in the case after the Nallasopara arms haul, had also conducted several recces and zeroed in on the targets, many of whom hail from Nashik and Jalgaon, the ATS claimed.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
3. CM Devendra Fadnavis: 40,000 Electric Vehicles Needed to Change Public Transport
The state will require 40,000 electric buses to bring a visible change in the eco-friendly sustainable transport system, for which multiple policy initiatives are under way. The state, which has already enforced its first electric vehicles policy complete with incentives to manufacturers, has plans to put 1,800 electric buses on roads in Mumbai (1,000), Pune (500) and Nagpur (300).
“Maharashtra has already initiated multi-pronged projects to address the challenge of a sustainable transport system. The integrated transport system, which would facilitate efficient use of public transport using a single travel ticket from end to end, will help help decongest roads and curtail the high level of carbon emissions,” Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said.
Source: Indian Express
4. Gang Poses as I-T Officers to Carry out 'Raids', Held Gang Behind 'IT Raid' in Santacruz Arrested
Over two months after a 48-year-old professor was cleaned out in a fake income tax raid, the Santacruz police arrested four out of five members of the gang which posed as I-T officials. The breakthrough came after the sketch drawn of the mastermind matched the accused arrested in connection with a similar offence in Mira Road last month.
According to the police, Faiyaz Kazi, 47, a scrap dealer from Pune, carried out the raids with the help of Manav Singh, 19, Salim Ansari, 21, Imran Ali, 25, and a woman who is yet to be identified. While Singh works as a car dealer, Ansari is employed as a waiter and Ali is a labourer.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
5. Sexual Abuse, Lack of Trained Staff, but No Regular Audits at Mumbai Shelter Homes
It was in 2014, a counsellor from Chunauti — a field action project — found a 12-year-old mentally challenged girl with some money at Mankhurd shelter home. On probing, she revealed that a peon of a municipal school on the same premises had sexually assaulted her and gave her the money to coax her to remain silent. The NGO complained to the superintendent and a case was registered with the Turbhe Police. Four years on, the sessions court last month sentenced the 50-year-old accused to life imprisonment.
“But the immediate consequence of our complaint was that children were stopped from attending that school. We fought that decision. But the root problem remains. Security must be strengthened,” said Asha Bajpai, from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), and project director of Chunauti, which works for children in shelter homes.
Source: Indian Express
6. HC Verdict in Sohrabuddin Case Today
The Bombay High Court is likely to pronounce on Monday its verdict on whether or not some senior Gujaratand Rajasthan police officers deserve to be discharged in the 2005-2006 alleged encounter case of suspected gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh, his wife Kausar Bi and their aide Tulsiram Prajapati.
Sheikh, Kausar Bi and Prajapati were killed in ‘fake’ encounters by the police of the two states in 2005-2006, according to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). \
Source: Mumbai Mirror
7. Witnesses Object to Ekbote’s Presence in Hearing Room
Two witnesses who were summoned by the Bhima Koregaon Commission last week have objected to the presence of Milind Ekbote, one of the main persons accused of the violence, inside the hearing room.
The witnesses, Ravindra Chandane and Comrade Bhimrao Bansod, were called by the committee last week during the first round of hearings, which were held in Mumbai. All the witnesses had been asked to sit outside the hearing room and await their turn, and only one witness was allowed in for deposition at a time. However, in contravention of these rules, on two days, Ekbote entered the hearing room at the beginning and sat there till the end, even while depositions were on, the witnesses said.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
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