Pujari is allegedly involved in eight serious cases in Mumbai, including firing, extortion and murder. A resident of Tagore Nagar in Vikhroli, he had fled from the country years ago. He had allegedly targeted builders and businessmen in eastern Mumbai, the crime branch official said.
Heartbreaking tales like a male survivor losing 13 of his family members unfolded, as rescuers armed with sensor-fitted equipment still looked for survivors and bodies in the debris of bricks, mortar and twisted steel, a day after the collapse at Shil-Phata in Daighar in Mumbra.
Parties, including Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena, gave call to the dawn-to-dusk shutdown against the razing of illegal buildings by Thane Municipal Corporation while demanding that alternate accommodation be provided to residents who will be displaced in the drive.
An agitation was also held against the movie at another multiplex in the north Maharashtra city by the Nationalist Youth Congress.
The construction lift in the 40-storey building located in Balkum area off the Ghodbunder Road here collapsed on Sunday evening.
The NIA also conducted a raid at the residence of Shiv Sena leader and former 'encounter specialist' of Mumbai Police, Pradeep Sharma in connection with the Antilia bomb scare and Mansukh Hiren murder case on Thursday, sources said.
A major fire broke out inside the industrial area of Dombivli in Thane after a boiler exploded at the plant of a chemical company.
Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray leader Abhishek Ghosalkar was shot dead during a Facebook live by local social activist Mauris Noronha in Mumbai on Thursday, police said.
The Maharashtra government will not arrest former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh till June 22 in a case registered against him under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the Bombay high court was told.
The Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray and Nationalist Congress Party group under Sharad Pawar on Friday demanded the resignation of Maharashtra Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis over the murder of Sena-UBT leader Abhishek Ghosalkar during a 'Facebook Live'.
More than 21 hours after a huge billboard collapsed in Mumbai's Ghatkopar area due to gusty winds and unseasonal rains, killing at least 14 persons and injuring 75 others, the search and rescue operation is still on, civic officials said on Tuesday.
'To attribute motives to the individual election commissioner or the Election Commission as a group is very unfair.'
The Shiv Sena Bhavan is controlled by 'Shivai Seva Trust'. Its founding trustees include late Bal Thackeray and his wife late Meena Thackeray. Many of the founding trustees are not alive now.
Date, a 1990 Indian Police Service officer of the Maharashtra cadre who once sold newspapers in Pune to financially support his family, was honoured with the President's Police medal for gallantry for his role in what has come to be known as the 26/11 attack.
At least eight persons, four of them children, were buried alive and three injured when a portion of a five-storey residential building crashed in Thane's Ulhasnagar on Tuesday evening, police and health officials said.
The unauthorised building was occupied at least up to the fourth floor and many are feared dead in the mishap
The shutdown, which paralysed life in the city, was called by the combine (maha yuti) to protest alleged lax attitude of the police in tracing BJP corporator Suhasini Lokhande, who is missing since February 24, a week after result of the local civic body polls was declared.
As many as 47 injured people (of the total 201) were undergoing treatment at various hospitals. Rest were discharged.
Two more persons including a journalist from Mumbra have been arrested in connection with the building collapse in Shil Phata area, which killed 74 people, taking the total number of arrests in the case to 11, police said on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to former Mumbai police officer Pradeep Sharma, who was arrested in connection with the Antilia bomb scare case and the killing of businessman Mansukh Hiran.
A special court in Mumbai on Friday granted bail to dismissed police officer Sachin Waze in an alleged money laundering case linked to former Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh.
Local train services came to a halt between Badlapur and Ambarnath section in Maharashtra's Thane district adjoining Mumbai due to water-logging on railway tracks after heavy rains, officials said.
Television visuals showed BJP workers mobbing the car at Khandoji Baba Chowk and vandalising it, resulting in the vehicle's windscreen and side panes getting damaged.
Singh also filed an affidavit before the single-member commission, saying he has nothing to depose and doesn't want to be crossed-examined by the probe panel.
The seven-storey building in Shil Dhaigar locality was unauthorised, civic officials said, adding that it was occupied at least up to the fourth floor. The incident took place at around 6.30 pm.
'Even if we have laws in place, which we must, we need a societal change.' 'Rather than telling our daughters that, "Listen, leave your house at so and so time, come back by so and so time," we must tell the men and boys that "Whatever point of time you encounter a woman in public space or wherever, you treat her with respect, dignity, and as an equal participant in these public spaces".'
On April 14, 2016, the crime branch of the Thane police had seized over 20 tonnes of ephedrine and 2.5 tonnes of acetic anhydride drugs from a pharmaceutical factory - Avon Life Sciences - in Solapur and other locations in Thane and Ahmedabad.
From working in a garment factory, selling bread, and driving an autorickshaw, the 24-year-old fast bowler's path to representing domestic giants Mumbai was anything but easy.
Ten workers were buried alive when the protection wall at a construction site in Thane collapsed due to heavy rains on Friday afternoon, police said.
Suresh Dhanaji Manchekar was involved in the killing of trade union leader Datta Samant.
A Delhi police team, with assistance from local cops, on Wednesday arrested a youth in connection with attack on journalist Harish Khare, former media adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, last week
As many as 13 persons attacked him with swords and other sharp-edged weapons, the police said.
A Right to Information activist Arun Sawant was critically injured after being shot by two unidentified men in Thane.
Raut made the allegations in a letter to the Mumbai police commissioner, copies of which were also sent to Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who holds the home portfolio, and the police of Thane city.
Mumbai police has reportedly arrested a 21-year-old girl for criticizing the total shutdown in the city for Bal Thackeray's funeral on Facebook.
'Where would a person living in the forest for 14 years go to find vegetarian food? Is it correct or not (question to the public)? Tell me when I am telling the truth'
Mumbai received 231.4 mm rain in the last 24 hours, while Thane received 229.81 mm.
One person was killed and more than 50 were injured in communal clashes, which broke out at Rabodi in Thane over the setting up of a 'pandal' for the Navaratri festival around midnight, police said.
Hit-and-run cases are those in which drivers, who cause the accidents, flee from the spot and do not inform the police.
A court in Mumbai on Tuesday remanded two police officers in the custody of the Maharashtra criminal investigation department in a case of alleged extortion in which former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh is one of the accused.
