Thane news

KALYAN: Three persons died while five others suffered injuries in major explosion occurred at Century Company, located in the Shahad area of Thane District's Ulhasnagar on Saturday.The injured people were transported to Century Hospital. The blast occurred at around 11.30am within one of Century Company's manufacturing units.Following the incident, other staff members from the company's unit rushed the...

THANE: A special recovery officer of the co-operative department accused of corruption has been acquitted by the special Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) court in Thane as the prosecution failed to prove charges against him. Hauserao Ramchandra Gawade was given the benefit of doubt by the Special Judge (ACB) Amit M Shete.According to the prosecution's case, in 2009, the complainant on her return from London...

THANE: A security guard has been in Thane district for allegedly assaulting an 82-year-old woman and stealing jewelry worth Rs 3.2 lakh. The incident occurred on September 19 in a housing society in Bhayandar town, and based on a tip-off, the police took Rajendra Bahadur Kumwar (42), a native of Nepal, into custody.According to deputy commissioner of police Zone I, Jayant Bajbale, an unknown individual...

THANE: Two armed robbers, including an externed criminal, were arrested after they sneaked inside a bar to steal cash, said the police on Thursday.A case was registered against Nagendra Maurya (30) and Manoj Gupta (23), under the relevant sections of the IPC. The duo, armed with a knife, entered the bar from its kitchen and stole Rs 4,000. The staff alerted the police, who rushed to the spot and caught...

THANE: The Navi Mumbai police in Maharashtra registered a case against a man for sexually harassing a 15-year-old girl after befriending her on social media, an official said on Thursday. Between November 2022 and June 2023, accused Altaf Sheikh first allegedly coaxed the minor to share a few semi-nude photos of her with him. He then demanded more such pictures threatening to make the earlier one viral...

THANE: Police have arrested a man and his son from a village in Thane district on charges of killing the former's second son over abusive words used by him against the latter's wife, who was his sister-in-law, an official said on Tuesday. The victim was identified as Ram Madhukar Jadhav (35), while the accused were identified as Madhukar Jadhav (55) and his younger son Vishnu Madhukar Jadhav (27). The...

THANE: A case has been filed against a 30-year-old man from Kalyan in Maharashtra's Thane district for reportedly assaulting two individuals with an iron rod at a Lord Ganesh pandal. According to an official statement on Tuesday, the accused, identified as Kunal Ingle, was allegedly inebriated during the incident, which occurred on Monday evening. As of now, the authorities have not taken Ingle into...

Thane: The Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission in Thane has directed an insurance company to pay a man claim amount with interest and additional compensation citing that there was a deficiency in its services. The commission held that the complainant, Diliprao D Mohite, a resident of Wagle Estate, has proved the case against the company Star Health And Allied Insurance Co. Ltd. PTIWe also published...

BHIWANDI: Two days after the decomposed body of a six-year-old girl was found dunked in a plastic bucket, with its lid on, in Bhiwandi, a 33-year-old man who lived as a tenant in the locality was nabbed from Bihar in connection with the crime on Sunday.The child's body was found in a makeshift tenement on Friday. The accused had been staying in the makeshift tenement since a month, the police said. The...

BHIWANDI: Two days after the decomposed body of a six-year-old girl was found dunked in a plastic bucket, with its lid on, in Bhiwandi, a 33-year-old man who lived as a tenant in the locality was nabbed from Bihar in connection with the crime on Sunday.The child's body was found in a makeshift tenement on Friday. The accused had been staying in the makeshift tenement since a month, the police said. The...