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THANE: A Bhiwandi-resident was acquitted by a special POCSO court in Maharashtra's Thane in a rape case. The 28-year-old man was accused of abducting a Class IX girl on July 30, 2013 and raping her at his sister's house for three days. As per the prosecution, he had raped the victim in the houses of his kin in Bhiwandi and Shahapur as well. Her father filed a complaint with Padga police station in...

THANE: sentatA cyberfraudster has been booked for allegedly draining Rs 7.7 lakh from the account of a 29-year-old banker after luring him in a part time job of ‘promoting and subscribing YouTube videos’. The police said the victim, a resident of Budhaji Nagar, was lured by a woman who had sent him a message about a part time job on WhatsApp. The scamster told him that she is from a ‘private...

RAIGAD: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has taken a treasury officer into custody for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 6,000 from a retired government employee in Maharashtra's Raigad district. The accused, identified as Maruti Ramchandra Pawar, is said to have solicited the bribe from the complainant, Kashibai Tukaram Mahabale, a retired health department worker aged 62. The bribe was allegedly...

THANE: The father of an dead eight-month-old baby boy managed to evade the security and fled from the Kalwa CSM Hospital facility with his body in Thane on Friday morning after doctors insisted on post-mortem report of the baby, the police said.The baby was brought in a semi-conscious state around 11pm on Thursday. The baby was initially admitted to a private hospital for respiratory ailments but the...

THANE: Two persons were feared trapped after a four-storey residential building, tagged as 'dangerous' by the authorities, collapsed in Dombivli area of Maharashtra's Thane district on Friday, a civic official said.The two persons trapped have been identified as Arvind Bhaskar (70), and Kirti Lodia (45).The building 'Adinarayan Bhuvan', located at Ayre village in Dombivli east, collapsed in the evening,...

THANE: A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for abducting a housewife and her child and extorting money from her husband seven years ago. In her order on Wednesday, additional sessions judge Rachna Tehra, in Maharashtra's Thane district, imposed a fine of Rs 500 on convict Manikandan Selvaraj Nadar, a resident of Diva.The court also acquitted another accused in...

BHIWANDI: An FIR was registered against the 70-year-old owner of a building that collapsed last week in Bhiwandi, killing two people and injuring five others.The accused has been identified as Kanij Fatima Abdul Momin.The police registered an offence of negligence causing death in connection with the deaths.The Bhoiwada police, probing the case, said that Kanij in 1984 purchased the Gauripada-based room...

A high-level meeting of MPCC's extended working committee will be held in Thane on Monday. AICC general secretary H K Patil will preside over the meeting and senior Congress leaders, including MPCC president Nana Patole, Congress legislature party leader Balasaheb Thorat, former CMs Ashok Chavan, Sushilkumar Shinde and Prithviraj Chavan, are expected to address the meeting. A senior Congress leader said...

THANE: A 75-year-old retired civic engineer trying to recharge his online toll payment wallet was allegedly duped of Rs 3 lakh by a scamster. The accused offered to help him with the process of payment but instead made him download a malicious spyware on his mobile and later drained out his bank account, the Thane police informed on Sunday.The incident was reported on April 4. "The victim probably came...

PALGHAR: Two godowns were gutted in a fire in Vasai in Maharashtra's Palghar district in the early hours of Sunday, a civic official said.No one was injured in the blaze, which broke out at Mourya Naka in Sativali at 1:30am and was doused at 5:30am, the Vasai Virar Municipal Fire Brigade official said. A probe into the cause of the fire is underway, he added.(With PTI inputs)!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t,...