1. Six Byculla Jail Staffers Arrested In Inmate’s Death
Six staffers of Byculla women's jail were arrested on Saturday morning in connection with last week's death of undertrial Manjula Shetye, which had sparked a riot in the prison by other inmates.
The six are jailor Manisha Pokharkar, guard Bindu Naikade, and other staffers Wasima Shaikh, Sheetal Shegaonkar, Surekha Gulave and Arti Shigane. They were named in an FIR lodged by the prisoners after Shetye died last Friday following alleged thrashing by jail staff.
The six are under suspension.
(Source: Mumbai Mirror)
2. Actor Kritika Chaudhary Had Links With Drug Mafia?
The Amboli police probing into the murder of Kritika Chaudhary suspect that the struggling actor was regularly in touch with drug peddlers and had links with the drug mafia. Investigators have now zeroed in on two men who often visited her.
The body of 27-year-old Kritika was found on June 12 in her Andheri house in a decomposed state and ever since the police are struggling to make a headway in the case. The two watchmen at Shree Bhairavnath SRA Society, where she had rented a oneroom apartment, have told the police about two regular visitors who called themselves her friend.
(Source: Mumbai Mirror)
3. BJP Bats For Dahi Handi, Ganpati Mandals
The BJP has come out in support of dahi handi and ganpati mandals, which were hit by a Bombay High Court order directing the state government not to grant permission to allow the use of loudspeakers in silence zones.
While the move was lauded by noise pollution activists and resident groups, head of the BJP city unit Ashish Shelar met Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday, urging him to come with a better solution, after meeting mandal heads on Friday.
Last month, a division bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Vibha Kankanwadi was hearing a PIL filed by Thane resident Mahesh Bedekar, raising concerns over noise pollution in silence zones during festivals like Navratri and Diwali. According to noise pollution activists, noise went above the limit during the Ganpati celebrations last year.
(Source: Mumbai Mirror)
4. Struggling 23-Year-Old Actor Slits Wrists, Saved By Cops
A 23-year-old struggling actor, who allegedly tried to kill himself, was saved in the nick of time by the police after they received a call from his mother from Allahabad.
The man lives by himself in a flat in Vanrai Colony, in Goregaon East. According to the police, the incident occured in the early hours of Saturday. Around 3.30 am, the Vanrai police received a call from his mother Pooja. She told the duty officer sub-inspector Indrajeet Patil that her son was about to commit suicide and requested him to intervene.
(Source: Mid-Day)
5. Mumbai Rains: First Death Reported As Tree Crushes Auto Driver
On Saturday, the first death due to a fallen tree was reported in the city. Rajmani Yadav, a 62-year-old rickshaw driver died after a huge trunk of Gulmohar tree fell on him in Borivali. Last year in four months of Monsoon season around 5563 trees fallen and around 6 deaths were reported due to the fallen of trees in all over Mumbai
On Saturday morning around 7, when Yadav a resident of Malad east started his rickshaw from his resident in Malad East to drop his granddaughter Rinku Yadav at her college, nobody knew that this will be the last time when they are seeing him.
(Source: Mid-Day)
6. Devendra Fadnavis, Salman Khan Release Documentary On a Cardiologist
Former Minister of Home Affairs Sushil Kumar Shinde, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and actor Salman Khan were at a Nariman Point venue for the release of a documentary on the late cardiologist Dr PL Tiwari, whose birthday it was on July 1. Dr Tiwari used to practice at Bombay Hospital, was well-known for his VIP birthday bashes, and passed at the age of 71 in July 2016. The documentary, titled An Unforgettable Legend, is directed by Dr Gautam Bhansali, consultant physician at Bombay Hospital.
(Source: Mid-day)
7. BMC Hands Over Its School In Vakola To Encroachers
For the last four months, around 30 people from seven families have been residing at a BMC school below the Vakola Bridge, after their shanties were washed away in a water pipeline burst in February. Even though these shanties, erected on the pipeline itself (abutting the Western Express Highway) were illegal, the BMC provided the dwellers a temporary shelter in the school on "humanitarian grounds", resulting in the school being shut down.
Now, the building, which catered to more than a hundred underprivileged children who were also provided meals there, has been turned into one big kitchen whose corners are used for sleeping, washing utensils, and drying clothes.
(Source: Mumbai Mirror)
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