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  • Man On The Run Since 1993 After Committing Double Murder Arrested By Mumbai Police

    Man On The Run Since 1993 After Committing Double Murder Arrested By Mumbai Police

    The Mumbai Police Crime Branch, on June 16, arrested Avinash Bhimrao Pawar who was on the run since 1993. According to the police, a case was registered against Pawar in Lonavala under charges of murder (IPC Section 302) for killing Dhanraj Thakrasi Kurva (aged 55) and Dhanlaxmi Dhanraj Kurva (50). The case dates back to October 4, 1993, when Pawar along with his two friends– Amol John and Vijay Arun Desai– allegedly stabbed and strangulated the victims to death.

    Police solve 30-year-old murder case
    The absconder was arrested after a Mumbai Police Crime Branch officer received a tip-off. The police was informed about a person residing in Mumbai with a false identity following which he was trapped and interrogated by the Crime Branch. During the interrogation, Pawar confessed to the police about his crime. While on the run, he changed his name multiple times to avoid arrest and kept changing his location to avoid being traced. Moving forward, the Mumbai Police will hand him over to Lonavala Police for further trial.

    Mumbai Police DCP Crime, Raj Tilak Roshan, while addressing the media, said, “Crime Branch unit 9 of Mumbai Police had got inputs that one person who has committed a crime, is living in Mumbai with a false identity. Following this, he was apprehended and later during the interrogation he confessed about the murder. He was on the run for the last 30 years. He is an accused in a double murder case.” The DCP revealed that he owned a shop near the house of the victims. While his associates were arrested immediately, Pawar escaped and was living in Mumbai’s Vikhroli before his arrest.

  • Shocking revelations in the brutal murder of the live-in partner

    Shocking revelations in the brutal murder of the live-in partner

    Mumbai. The murder case of Saraswati Vaidya, who was in a live-in relationship, has created a sensation across the country. The manner in which 32-year-old Saraswati was murdered and brutalized by her 56-year-old live-in partner Manoj Sahni, even the police are shocked. According to police sources, he killed Saraswati by slitting her throat and then cut her into more than 20 pieces with a saw. Then to hide the dead body, boiled it in a cooker and kept feeding it to the dogs. But Manoj Sahni has concocted a different story in his statement to the police.

    The police have been successful in identifying them. His 3 sisters have been identified by calling. The work of handing over the dead body to the family is going on. Their DNA is being mixed. Investigation revealed that these people were married. Due to the difference in age, they did not tell anyone else. DCP Jayant Bajbale has given this information.

    DCP Jayant Bajbale said the deceased has been identified as 32-year-old Saraswati Vaidya, who was staying in the flat with her friend Manoj Sahni, 56. Neighbors informed the police after foul smell emanating from the flat. After this, the mutilated body of the woman was recovered from the seventh floor of the society. After killing the woman, her body was cut into several pieces. The accused boiled the pieces of the dead body in a cooker so that the stench did not spread. Despite this, however, the neighbors were disturbed by the strange smell, so they complained to the police. Police have also recovered pieces of the dead body from the spot.

  • Amruta Fadnavis offered help to extortionist bookie, fashionista: Chargesheet

    Amruta Fadnavis offered help to extortionist bookie, fashionista: Chargesheet

    Mumbai (IANS) | Mumbai Police has said that Amruta Fadnavis, wife of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, had offered to help a bookie, Anil Jaisinghani, in the cases registered against him, as she claimed. In the 733-page charge sheet filed before a special ACB court on May 18 – some details of which are now available – the conversation took place days after Amrita filed a case against fashionista Aniksha Jaisinghani and absconding bookie and her father Anil Jaisinghani.

    On February 20, the deputy CM’s wife lodged a complaint with the Malabar Hill police station after the sensational case came to the fore with allegations of bribery, extortion, blackmail, threats to Amrita by the Jaisinghani father-daughter duo.

    The chargesheet includes some WhatsApp chats exchanged between Amrita and the Jaisinghanis on February 22 – two days after the police complaint was filed.

    In one such chat, Amrita assures Anil that if you have been wrongly implicated, I can talk to Devenji (her husband Devendra) and ask him to do justice, but I will not go ahead with those demands. I will not bow down to what Aniksha did to earn illegal money, I know I have done nothing wrong and you and Aniksha are working from day one with the intention of blackmailing me.

    Amrita said that most of the videos that Aniksha had threatened to use against her would defame me for some time, but would have no effect once the truth came out.

    According to the charge sheet, Amrita told Anil, who replied with several audio messages, “If you are really doing this to get justice, then tell me what you really want from me.”

    In another message, Amrita said that even though she was ready to help Anil, it was not because of the videos with which Aniksha was blackmailing her.

    She asked Anil what assurance he can give that after withdrawing the cases against him, he will not make further demands, the way Aniksha was pushing him to earn illegal money through the betting racket.

    Anil argued that Aniksha did what she thought would help her get out of affairs and that she had recorded the calls and meetings for her own safety and not to harm Amrita, and that it was only information (for betting purposes). on the racket) that she wanted to pass.

    In another chat, Amrita agreed to meet Aniksha to understand her matters and also assured to talk to Devendra after she wraps up the Pune (Assembly) bypoll campaign.

    Amrita also argued that her relationship with her husband (Devendra) had allegedly turned sour since 2019 and as per the chargesheet, she was apprehensive of divorce after the matter.

    Coincidentally, Amrita had blocked Aniksha a day before filing a police complaint and then Anil started communicating with the Deputy Chief Minister’s wife.

    Among other things, Anil accused Amrita of accepting dollars from Aneksha at the office of a leading music and film production house and that her daughter had given a bag of Rs 98 lakh to one of her (Amrita’s) employees.

    The police chargesheet started probing the matter after Amrita’s complaint on February 20, accusing the father-daughter duo of blackmailing, trying to extort Rs 10 crore, Rs 1 crore to help her father Another attempt to bribe, offered to provide information about cricket bookies etc. to make money.

    The Jaisinghanis, including a relative Nirmal, were subsequently arrested and booked under various charges, recording statements of 13 witnesses, call and bank records, properties in Maharashtra and other states and other things.

    –IANS

  • Police crack murder case after 20 years, arrest victim’s evasive friend from Thane

    Police crack murder case after 20 years, arrest victim’s evasive friend from Thane

    Mumbai: The Santa Cruz police on Saturday claimed to have solved a murder case registered 20 years ago. Joint Commissioner of Police (law and order) Satyanarain Chaudhary told newspersons that on March 31, 2003 Deepak Rathod (23), a textile trader from Delhi, and his friend Rupesh Rai alias Atul Kedia (42) had checked into Hotel Nest opposite Vile Parle (W) railway station. Both had come to Mumbai to make textile purchases. At night they had an argument following which Rai allegedly stabbed Rathod several times with a knife found in the hotel room, covered him with a bedsheet and fled after taking the victim’s bag containing ₹1,30,000 in cash. Around 10 a.m. when a housekeeping attendant Dinkar Shetty knocked on the room there was no response. He then opened the room with a masterkey and found Rathod lying on a pool of blood on the bed.

    12 failed attempts to nab culprit by police

    The only clue the police had was that the suspect was from Muzaffarnagar in Bihar. Different police teams visited Muzaffarnagar as many as 12 times, but returned empty handed. The police then made an application to the court to close the case.
    Assistant Police Inspector Tushar Sawant and the crime detection unit of the Santa Cruz police recently received confidential information from their sources about the wanted accused. The team went to Muzaffarnagar and made discreet inquiries following which it came to know that the suspect was working in a sweet shop at Majiwada, Thane, from where he was picked up. During interrogation the accused reportedly confessed to the murder.

    He is now remanded to police custody. During the past 20 years he lived under assumed names in different states doing odd jobs.
    Chaudhary and Additional Police Commissioner (west region) Paramjit Singh Dahiya felicitated Sawant and his team for the excellent detection.

  • Sameer Wankhede seeks special security from Mumbai Police

    Sameer Wankhede seeks special security from Mumbai Police

    Mumbai (IANS) | Ahead of a hearing in the Bombay High Court, former Mumbai zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), IRS officer Sameer Wankhede on Monday said he would seek special protection from the Mumbai Police as there was a threat to his life. Wankhede, currently embroiled in an alleged extortion case related to the sensational raid on the Cordelia cruise ship in which Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan was among those arrested, in a brief interaction with private Marathi TV channels Said.

    He said that he has been receiving various threats, including on social media, and will soon meet the Mumbai police commissioner with a request to this effect.

    Wankhede said that he has been raising the issue of exposure several times in the past, after the CBI filed an FIR against him.

    As per the High Court’s directions last Friday, the IRS officer was questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for two days, for about five hours a day.

    In the previous hearing, the Bombay High Court had granted relief from any coercive action till May 22 to Wankhede, a 2008 batch IRS officer, whose role has come under the radar of the CBI during the raid on the Cordelia cruise ship on October 2, 2021.

    Nawab Malik, a former minister in the Maha Vikas Aghadi government and leader of the Nationalist Congress Party, and Prabhakar Sail, a witness in the cruise raid (who died last year) made several allegations of corruption against Wankhede and the raiding team. Were.

    However, Wankhede has denied all the allegations leveled against him and expressed full faith in the judiciary, the central government and the CBI to bring him justice.

    Subsequently, Wankhede was cleared of the cruise raid case and an internal inquiry was subsequently conducted regarding the allegations against him, even as the NCB suspended Aryan Khan in May 2022 for ‘lack of evidence against him’. Clean chit was given.

    Besides Wankhede, the CBI has booked two other NCB officers, Vishwa Vijay Singh and Ashish Ranjan, and witnesses in the ship case, KP Gosavi and Sanvil D’Souza.

    –IANS

  • Mumbai: Youth gets date of birth changed in Aadhaar card to marry minor girl, arrested

    Mumbai: Youth gets date of birth changed in Aadhaar card to marry minor girl, arrested

    Mumbai (IANS) | The Mumbai Police has arrested a 23-year-old man for fudging the date of birth in a minor girl’s Aadhaar card in order to marry her. The accused got the date of birth of the minor changed in the Aadhaar card so that he could be proved as an adult. The fraud came to light when the boy and the girl got married on April 11 at the Bandra marriage registrar and later went to the Dahisar police station to complete the mandatory legal formalities.

    Police summoned the girl’s father Sabjit Pal, a tailor, in this case and he pointed out the discrepancy in his daughter’s date of birth and later filed a formal complaint.

    Pal said the girl was born on May 7, 2006, but her accused husband changed the date of birth in her Aadhaar card to March 12, 2004, to prove that she was above 18 years of age and was free to marry of her own free will. is worthy of. The accused has been identified as Gaurav Makwana of Mira Road town in Thane.

    The family also produced the original birth certificate of the girl presented at a local school as proof of the actual date of birth. The girl also admitted to cheating in her knowledge, after which the police registered an FIR on the complaint of the father.

    Inspector P.G. Patil told mediapersons that the police raided and arrested the accused on charges of kidnapping, cheating, forgery, child marriage etc. The accused has been sent to judicial custody for further investigation.

    He, however, said that the girl was sent for medical examination but she refused, hence police have not charged the accused with rape.

    The girl is a junior college student and was friends with the accused for the last one year. They decided to get married, as she was under age for marriage, to remove this hurdle the accused youth by resorting to fraud got the date of birth changed in the girl’s Aadhaar card.

    Preliminary investigation has also revealed that the Aadhaar card was tampered sometime last year. The police is also probing the role of the girl and her family in the case.

    –IANS

  • Mumbai, Jodhpur police arrest man who threatened Salman Khan

    Mumbai, Jodhpur police arrest man who threatened Salman Khan

    Mumbai/Jodhpur (IANS) | The Mumbai Police, in a joint operation with the Jodhpur Police, arrested a man from Rajasthan who allegedly sent an email threatening to kill Bollywood megastar Salman Khan. An official gave this information here on Sunday. Jodhpur’s Luni police officials said that an FIR was registered in this case by the Bandra police on March 18 against a 21-year-old youth, Dhakadram Bishnoi.

    In the investigation, the Mumbai Police traced the threatening email to Rajasthan and shared the information with the Jodhpur Police, who tracked it to Bishnoi.

    After locating his whereabouts, a joint raid was conducted in Luni and Bishnoi was arrested, officials said here.

    The Bandra Police Station team has brought the accused to Mumbai for further investigation.

    The youth is also wanted by the Punjab Police in different cases and has a few cases registered against him in that state.

    Significantly, a week ago, the Bandra police had registered an FIR against mafia Lawrence Bishnoi, his associates Goldie Brar and Rohit for a threatening e-mail sent to a close friend of the actor.

    It quoted an interview of mafia don Lawrence Bishnoi, in which he made a scathing claim that ‘the purpose of his life was to kill Salman Khan’.

    The email in Hindi was from Rohit Garg, who wanted to talk to the actor and the police booked him too after a complaint from Salman Khan’s team.

    The email also advised that if Salman had not seen Bishnoi’s interview, he should watch it, and that if he wanted to close the case, he should have a face-to-face talk with Garg and Brar, and He (Garg) will arrange it.

    Bandra Police immediately swung into action, beefed up security outside Salman’s house in Bandra West and registered an FIR against the accused.

    –IANS