1. State To Seek Death For 4 Blasts Convicts
On Monday, the CBI informed the special court that it would argue for the maximum punishment for all six persons convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. Earlier, the Special TADA court had held six of the seven guilty.
This means Special Public Prosecutor Deepak Salvi will demand the death penalty for conspirators Mustafa Dossa, Tahir Merchant and Firoz Abdul Rashid Khan and Karimullah Khan, who helped in landing ammunition for the blasts.
The prosecution will demand life imprisonment for another convict, Riyaz Siddiqui, and for extradited gangster Abu Salem.
While the arguments on the sentencing were likely to begin on Monday, the case was adjourned for the defence to produce mitigating circumstances, on the basis of which lesser punishment should be awarded. “I will be arguing for the maximum punishment for all convicts,” Salvi told the court of Special Judge GA Sanap.
(Source: Mumbai Mirror)
2. Bhojpuri Actor Anjali Shrivastava Found Dead at Mumbai Home
Bhojpuri actor Anjali Shrivastava was, reportedly, found dead in her home in Mumbai on Monday morning.
The 29-year-old was found hanging in her Juhu home.
According to the DN Nagar police, after being unable to get in touch with the actor since Sunday, her relatives alerted the landlord. The landlord found her hanging when he opened the door with his spare key.
(Source: The Quint)
3. Andheri School Molestation: ‘Trustee Will Return To Face Charges’
The trustee of the Andheri school, who allegedly molested a three-year-old student and is currently outside the country, will return to India to face the charges, one of the school’s founders said on Monday. “He is definitely going to return. All the talk of him being on the run is untrue,” said the founding trustee.
The founding trustee further dismissed any chance of taking disciplinary action against the European national before he is found guilty. Investigators recorded the statements of the school’s trustees on Monday.
The accused was in his home country when parents of the student filed an FIR against him under the Protection of Children against Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. In their complaint, the parents, who alleged their daughter was sexually assaulted four months ago, said they realised something was wrong with her when she kept touching her private parts. The parents said in their complaint that they spoke to her at length, and asked whether anyone was touching her inappropriately at school, to which she replied “people at school did such things”. The traumatised girl later pointed to the trustee’s photo when her parents showed her the school’s teachers and officebearers on the institution’s website.
(Source: Mumbai Mirror)
4. 'Pyaar Ka Punchnama' director's bail plea rejected
The Dindoshi sessions court last week rejected the anticipatory bail application of Luv Ranjan, producer and director of 'Pyaar Ka Punchanama', and his production company partner, Ankur Garg, in a case involving cheating an investor.
In August 2015, a representative of Blue Eye Arts Pvt Company discussed financing for Marathi film Friends with complainant Shivraj Suratkal. He was promised a 35 per cent profit in return for investment, and was told that 30 per cent of the movie had been completed. Suratkal said he then gave a loan of Rs 1.25 crore.
(Source: Mid-Day)
5. Thane Prison’s Ex-jailor Guilty Of Sexual Abuse
A state inquiry into disturbing allegations that a top Thane jail official sexually harassed a female constable under his command has indicted him on the charges, Mirror has learned.
The probe committee, headed by additional police commissioner police Aswati Dorje, has kept its report against senior superintendent (jail) Hiralal Jadhav in a sealed cover and will share the findings with the government soon. He could be considered for dismissal, though officials told Mirror it was too early to say what action the government would order.
Jadhav, 54, was suspended as the Thane Central Prison jailer last September following a complaint by the 33-year-old constable, who also submitted a recorded conversation in which he was heard pressuring her to meet him outside the guarded premises. It was Jadhav’s fourth suspension in a career that spans over two decades. In 2012, 17 trainees at a Pune jail staff college, which he previously headed, accused him of making inappropriate comments about their clothes and referring to their relatives as their ‘customers’. Jadhav has previously also faced allegations of corruption.
(Source: Mumbai Mirror)
6. Mumbai Police arrests Jogeshwari couple for smuggling kids to the US
A couple from Jogeshwari was recently arrested for allegedly spiriting away two unidentified children to the United States in April.
Officials of Bandra-Kurla Complex police station said that Azhar Qureshi (42) and his wife Nirmala (35) had flown the children out using the passports of their two kids for which they were paid Rs 5 lakh.
Three other agents - Zakir Shaikh (40), Firoz Shaikh (45) and Riyaz Nagpurwala (40)- allegedly involved in the case were arrested on Sunday. The agents were arrested on the basis of information provided by the Qureshi couple.
(Source: Times of India)
7. Seven Petrol Pumps Sealed For Tampered Meters
The Thane crime branch has sealed seven of the nine petrol stations it raided since Saturday after learning that they had been operating with rigged dispensers which show a false reading to customers while pumping less fuel than has been paid for. The police believe that the pumps have each pocketed Rs 5.5 lakh a month by dispensing 5–7 per cent less for every litre bought.
The tampering doesn’t come as news to motorists in Thane and the nearby Dombivali and Khopoli, who have lodged a slew of complaints with local police stations in the past few months that they had been short-changed by the fuel stations. When police informants corroborated these allegations, the crime branch raided the nine pumps.
(Source: Mumbai Mirror)
8. Ajay Devgn To Make Film On Jaswant Singh Gill
Ajay Devgn is currently shooting for Milan Luthria’s Baadshaho and is set to resume work on Rohit Shetty’s Golmaal Again soon. Recently, Mirror reported that he is also set to produce a TV show on yoga guru Ramdev. Now, we hear that the actor has joined hands with filmmaker Abhinav Shuklaa for a film on Jaswant Singh Gill, the chief engineer who in 1989 saved the lives of 64 miners at the Mahabir Colliery of Raniganj in West Bengal. Ajay, who will feature in the film, has roped in Tinu Suresh Desai (director of the Akshay Kumar-starrer Rustom) to helm the project.
“The makers have acquired the official rights to the life story of JS Gill for the yet-untitled film. Work on the script has already begun and Ajay will go through extensive prep before he starts shooting next year,” a source close to the development informed Mirror.
(Source: Mumbai Mirror)
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