The Maharashtra Police on Saturday arrested a social media influencer for allegedly duping women by pretending to belong to a royal family of Rajasthan. The police have informed that the social media influencer used to extort money from the complainant by threatening to kill her and her eight-year-old daughter.
“A case has been booked against the influencer Rajwir Singh under section 386 (extortion), 354A, 506 II of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly extorting Rs 1,33,000 from her since April 2021,” senior police officer of Goregaon Police Dattari Thope said.
The officer further said that the police arrested the accused man from a private hotel in Goregaon. His social media handles disclosed how he pretended to belong to a royal family of Rajasthan and contacted girls to extort money, Thope added.
“A similar case has already been registered against this person at the Juhu police station under IPC section 376 after which he remained behind the bars for a year. Soon after his release, he again approached the complainant and blackmailed her,” Thope said further. More details in the case are awaited.
More than 40 high-end mobile phones were stolen by unidentified persons during a concert at the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) here, police said on Sunday.
Many concert-goers approached the police with complaints that their mobile phones were misplaced or stolen during the concert that took place at MMRDA ground on Saturday night, an official from BKC police said.
Hundreds of people had attended the concert after booking their tickets online and the venue was packed, he said.
The police have registered four to five FIRs under section 379 (punishment for theft) and other relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) after more than 40 high-end mobile phones were stolen or misplaced at the venue, the official said.
The police were examining the CCTV footage from the area to identify and apprehend the accused, he added.
Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray said that Shinde faction wants every credit of sena party but does not want to do its own hard work. It wants to take late Balasaheb Thackeray’s name, Shiv Sena symbol, and name and PM Modi’s blessing but does not want to put in any hard work of its own.
Apart from that Uddhav faction also questioned that Are the crore’s of rupees kept in the fridge on which Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said I have to search for the crore’s of rupees.
CM Eknath Shinde and its members are on Assam visit where they would be offering prayers at kamakhya Temple in Guwahati, Assam.
Recently a tweet has been shared by the CM where they could be seen going towards Kamakhya temple.
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A 20-year-old Indian student was killed after he was hit and dragged by a pickup truck while crossing a road on a cycle here, according to a media report.
Though the police have not yet identified the victim, According to cbc.ca report published on Friday quoted the victim’s cousin Parveen Saini as saying that Kartik Saini came to Canada from India in August 2021.
Parveen Saini spoke from Karnal, Haryana, where their family is from, the report said.
The family is hoping that Kartik’s body will be sent to India as soon as possible for proper burial, Parveen said. Sheridan College has confirmed that Kartik was a student there, the report said.
“Our community is deeply saddened by the sudden death of Kartik. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, peers and professors,” the college said in an email on Friday.
According to police the fatal collision happened at the intersection of Yonge Street and St Clair Avenue at about 4:30 pm on Wednesday evening.
The cyclist died after being struck and dragged by a pickup truck in midtown, it said in a press release on Thursday.
Emergency services tried to free the cyclist and revive him, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Constable Laura Brabant, the spokesperson for the Toronto Police Service, said the investigation into the collision is on. “The determination on whether charges are laid or not takes time as the investigators have to conduct a full investigation first,” Brabant said, adding, “This takes time and is not a rushed process.”
Meanwhile, a makeshift memorial has been set up at the scene of the collision. A group called Advocacy For Respect For Cyclists is organising a ride in Kartik’s honour on November 30.
Participants will meet at Matt Cohen Park at Bloor Street and Spadina Avenue. The ride will end with the placement of a ghost bike at the crash site.
The probe agency had earlier questioned Kadam in the money laundering case registered against Parab and others in connection with the Dapoli resort fraud case.
Anil Parab has a resort in Dapoli which is allegedly illegal and Parab has also indulged in corruption to build it.
ED also intensified the investigation regarding this resort of Anil Parab.
The ED had called Parab in the alleged money laundering case in the Dapoli resort case. It is alleged that the rules of the Union Environment Ministry have been ignored to build the resort, due to which the Environment Ministry declared it illegal and also complained about this in the Dapoli Court.
Based on the same complaint, ED registered Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) and started an investigation into the matter.
In connection with the case, ED had earlier conducted raids at seven locations of Parab. Earlier, BJP leader Kirit Somaiya had informed that Dapoli Police agreed to consider his complaint and search for evidence against the unauthorized resort.
The government has declared its fraud forgery in the illegal construction of Dapoli Resort, Somaiya had informed.
In 2021, Kirit Somaiya lodged a complaint with then Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar against Parab accusing him of illegally constructing a resort in Ratnagiri during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Meanwhile, back in June this year, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had quizzed Parab in connection with an alleged money laundering case. He was summoned by the central agencies following raids at his properties in Pune and Mumbai in May 2022 after the agency filed a case under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The raids were carried out at Parab’s official as well as a private residence.
In September 2021, Parab appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Mumbai for questioning in connection with the bribery and money laundering case against the former home minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Anil Deshmukh.
India on Sunday recorded 343 fresh coronavirus infections that pushed its tally to 4,46,71,562, while the number of active cases came down further to 5,263, according to Union health ministry data.
The death toll due to COVID-19 climbed to 5,30,612 with four more fatalities, including three reconciled by Kerala and one reported from Maharashtra in the last 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am stated.
The active cases comprise 0.01 per cent of the total infections. The national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 98.80 per cent, according to the ministry’s website.
A decrease of 132 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,41,35,687 and the case fatality rate stood at 1.19 per cent.
According to the ministry’s website, 219.90 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered so far under the nationwide vaccination drive. India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19. India crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 last year, three crore on June 23 and four crore on January 25 this year.
The secretary of Karnataka’s Home department on Saturday called his counterpart in Maharashtra to resolve the state border issue, officials said.
According to sources, the Karnataka Home Secretary Rajneesh Goyal called his Maharashtra counterpart to ensure the protection of all Kannadigas in Maharashtra. Fresh Protests over the boundary dispute erupted on Friday during leaders and workers of the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MES) inscribed the message ‘Jai Maharashtra’ on state buses in Karnataka.
Earlier, former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday slammed Karnataka Chief Minister Basavraj Bommai over his remarks on the border dispute. “The Karnataka chief minister has issued a statement on the border issue. It seems like Karnataka CM has suddenly taken it upon himself to stake claim to 40 villages in Maharashtra,” Uddhav said. Speaking on th dispute, the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday attacked the ruling Eknath Shinde government in Maharashtra, saying it is because of a weak government in Maharashtra that the border dispute has erupted afresh.
“The Karnataka-Maharashtra border dispute has cropped up again because of the weakness and inability of the current government in Maharashtra to resolve it. This government has no idea about the state,” Raut told reporters.
Maharashtra’s Leader of Opposition Ajit Pawar also condemned Bommai’s remarks on the border dispute between the two states, asking Chief Minister Shinde and his deputy Devendra Fadnavis to “give a strong answer”.
Ajit Pawar also sought the Centre’s intervention on the issue. The dispute made fresh headlines after Bommai indulged in a war of words with Fadnavis calling the latter’s earlier remarks on the dispute ‘provocative’. “Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has made a provocative statement on the Karnataka-Maharashtra border issue. However, his dream will never come true. Our government is committed to protecting the country’s land, water and borders,” Bommai tweeted on Wednesday evening. Fadnavis had earlier said no village in Maharashtra would go to Karnataka. “No village in Maharashtra will go to Karnataka! The state government will fight strongly in the Supreme Court to get Marathi-speaking villages including Belgaum-Karwar-Nipani,” he had tweeted.
‘Operation Octopus’ – the joint operation launched by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Jharkhand Jaguar in September this year to capture the heavily mined ‘Burha Pahar’ hilly range in Garhwa district of Jharkhand seems to have started yielding positive results. With security forces having set up their camps, the region is witnessing development.
From construction of roads to infrastructure for the supply of electricity in remote places, a series of development projects have been started. Inspector General of Police Jharkhand sector) Amit Kumar said ‘Operation Octopus’ launched by CRPF and Jharkhand Jaguar – a special task force of Jharkhand Police, in September this year to capture Naxal bastion ‘Burha Pahar’, has been successful.
“Our teams are in a dominant position, and we have successfully established control in the ‘Burha Pahar’ region, which used to be known as naxal corridor,” Kumar told to media.
“The operation will continue until we completely dismantle Naxal infrastructure in the region,” he said.
According to officials, the ‘Burha Pahar’ hilly forest terrain is spread over 55 sq km area bordering three states – Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar – and was used as a corridor by Naxals.
‘Burha Pahar’ region stretches across three districts – Balrampur, Latehar and Garwah – along Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand border. It was a stronghold of Naxals led by their leader Arvind. Attempts had been made in past to free the region from Naxals but the security forces did not succeed in taking hold of the region.
In 2008, five security personnel had lost their lives when the forces tried to penetrate the hilly forest range. “People in Naxal-affected areas are now getting benefits from health and education facilities and welfare schemes. These regions didn’t have basic infrastructure and amenities for the last four decades,” an official said.
IG Amit Kumar said that the ‘Operation Octopus’ was carried out by CRPF and Jharkhand Jaguar and they made four camps in Aurangabad in Bihar. The main operation was launched on September 4 and the security forces took over Burha Pahar on September 7.
“The second phase of the operation was held in September, where 4 camps were established in the region. Our forces are sanitizing the area and defusing the IEDs. Arms and ammunition of Naxals are also being recovered,” IG Kumar said while adding that 29 IEDs were recovered from the region.
Jharkhand is on the way to becoming Naxal-free. Main strongholds Burha Pahar, tri-junction of Chaibasa, Khunti and Saraikela and Parasnath Mountain are in our control,” he asserted.
Australia prevailed over Tunisia to clinch 1-0 victory to bolster their chances of advancing into the knockout stage in the FIFA World Cup.
Lagging behind by a goal, Tunisia came in with great intent in the second half of the crucial group-D encounter at the Al-Janoub Stadium and found a corner in the 48th minute but failed to capitalize on it.
Tunisia players made repeated efforts to get an equalizer but the Australian defence held their nerve to not allow their box to be breached. Even as they went all out, Tunisian players could not find the back of the net. The 30th-ranked team brought in fresh legs as substitutes to ramp up their attack but to no avail.
Australia also found counterattack opportunities as Tunisia focused on the equaliser but both teams were unable to score in the second half. This was 38th-ranked Australia’s first victory in the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The early minutes of the first half saw both teams losing possession relatively easily as they looked to settle down in a crucial group D clash.
Australia launched the first attack from the left, but the cross from the flank was feeble to cause any threat.
Following that play, Aaron Frank Mooy was fouled, giving Australia the game’s first free kick, which the Tunisian defence deflected effortlessly. Fans cheered as the stadium echoed with thunderous applause with the teams looking to maintain possession and dominate in the midfield.
The game picked pace as Tunisia made its first inroad into the Aussie box in the 21st minute but the Aussie defenders were quick to shut the attack out.
Australia found success through Duke as the winger headed the ball into the net after the ball had rebounded off a Tunisia defender, giving the team a one-goal lead in the 23rd minute.
The goal saw the Tunisian defenders come alive as they looked to keep out the Aussie attack at all costs, sometimes resorting to rough tackles but the Aussie forwards had their tails up due to the lead and looked to score again.
Mohamed Drager took a shot at the goal in the 41st minute but the charge went begging as the Aussie defense blocked the kick.
Australia were awarded a free-kick in the dying minutes of the game which also resulted in a corner but the Tunisian defence line was alert to evade it.
The Congress on Saturday slammed Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari for not removing his footwear while paying floral tributes to the martyrs of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
Koshyari and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde paid floral tributes at the martyrs’ memorial in the premises of the Police Commissioner Office in south Mumbai in the morning.
Taking to Twitter, Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) general secretary and spokesperson Sachin Sawant said removing one’s footwear while paying tribute is Indian culture and definitely the culture of Maharashtra.
“The governor has been repeatedly disrespecting Maharashtra, its culture and icons. CM Eknath Shinde should have reminded him to remove his footwear and show respect to the martyrs of the terror attacks,” Sawant tweeted.
Koshyari is already in the eye of storm for his recent remark in which he referred to Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj as an icon of the “olden days”.
The governor has drawn flak from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT), who have staged protests across the state demanding his ouster.
