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SC refuses to stay ACB probe into rRs.r2,000-cr disproportionate assets case against ex-PMC city engineer

India, April 21 -- The Supreme Court declined to interfere with a Bombay high court order reviving the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) probe into an alleged Rs.2,000-crore disproportionate assets case in... Read More


Man acquitted in mother's murder case as court flags gaps in probe

India, April 21 -- A sessions court in Vadgaon Maval on April 17 acquitted a 52-year-old contractor accused of murdering his elderly mother, holding that the prosecution failed to establish a complete... Read More


Two arrested for rRs.r14 crore fraud targeting jewellers in Pune

India, April 20 -- The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Pune police on Friday arrested two persons posing as businessmen for allegedly cheating several jewellers in the city of around Rs.14 crore by pr... Read More


Retired ACP, kin booked for rRs.r2.4 crore land investment fraud

India, April 20 -- A retired assistant commissioner of police (ACP) and four others, including his wife and son, have been booked by the Chaturshringi police station for allegedly cheating a city-base... Read More


Pune court sentences 48-year-old man to 20 years RI in POCSO case

India, April 20 -- A Pune sessions court has convicted a 48-year-old man who worked as a government cook for raping a seven-year-old girl and sentenced him to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI). T... Read More


BJP legal cell office-bearer, wife, daughter held for secretary's murder in Pune

India, April 19 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legal cell office-bearer advocate Sanjay Sawant, his wife and her minor daughter have been arrested for allegedly killing a 32-year-old woman who wo... Read More


HC terms arrest of Sheetal Tejwani 'illegal' in Mundhwa land case, grants relief in two FIRs

India, April 19 -- In a major reprieve for businesswoman Sheetal Tejwani, arrested in connection with the high-profile Mundhwa Mahar Watan land fraud case, the Bombay High Court on Friday declared her... Read More


Dead men, fake heirs: Yerawada cops bust land grab racket targeting prime plots

India, April 19 -- The Yerawada police unearthed a land-grabbing syndicate that allegedly targeted properties of deceased individuals, arresting the suspected mastermind and two accomplices for attemp... Read More


Protest erupts over proposed demolition of church inside cemetery

India, April 18 -- A large protest broke out on Friday at the main gate of the Poona Christian Cemetery near the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) fire brigade office at Dhobi Ghat, as nearly a thousand mem... Read More


Man fractures wife's nose after she refuses to sign property papers

India, April 17 -- A 47-year-old man was booked by Kothrud police on Wednesday for allegedly assaulting his wife after she refused to sign documents related to the sale of their jointly owned flat, of... Read More