1. Bomb Assembled in a Shanty Goes Off in Antop Hill, Two Held
Two men were arrested Sunday afternoon from Antop Hill after a bomb they were assembling went off accidentally, injuring one of them.
Eye-witnesses said the explosion was so loud that it was heard in a radius of 1 km and it sent household articles tumbling down in the shanties in its vicinity.
The bomb was loaded with ballbearings, nails and glass shards, a typical terrorist hack to maximise fatalities. The case has since been transferred to the Crime Branch and the Anti-Terrorism Squad has started its own parallel investigation.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
2. State Govt Gives MMRDA a Slice of Aarey Land
More than a year after the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority(MMRDA) temporarily sought 8,000 sqm of land in Aarey Colony to house labourers and build machinery yards, the state dairy development gave it permanent charge of the plot on Monday.
Environmentalists alleged that the move smacked of a land-grabbing attempt.
The MMRDA, which is developing nine Metro corridors in the city—Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation is handling line 3—had in February last year asked for the land on a temporary basis for a maximum of five years, seeking to construct a camp for Metro labourers, a steel yard and a machinery yard for the Dahisar East-Andheri East corridor (line 7).
Source: Mumbai Mirror
3. Short Circuit in Bus Stop Hoarding, 35-yr-old Killed
A 35-year-old man was electrocuted at a Thane bus stop on Monday afternoon.
The Naupada police said Dost Mohammad Salmani, a resident of Rajiv Nagar in Bhandup who worked at a barber shop, was sitting at the bus stop near the ST workshop in Thane’s Khopat locality when a short occurred in the circuit of a hoarding above.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
4. Maharashtra: 8-year-old Boy ‘Thrashed, Locked Up’ in School Washroom; Teacher Booked
The Murbad police lodged an FIR against a school teacher for allegedly beating up an eight-year-old student and locking him up in the washroom. The boy’s parents claimed that their child was traumatised by the incident.
According to the police, the incident occurred in a private school in Murbad — Nirmala Baliram Tondalikar Vidyalaya.
“The teacher, Suchita Patil, allegedly beat up the eight-year-old and locked him up in the bathroom on Saturday. The teacher was angry, as the boy had not taken any notes from the blackboard when she had directed the class to do so,” said an officer from Murbad.
Source: The Indian Express
5. Train Hits Dead End at Mumbai’s LTT Station; None Hurt
The engine of the Mumbai-bound Pawan Express hit the dead end of a platform at Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) here in early hours Monday, a Railway official said. However, no one was injured in the incident, he said.
“The train (11062) was coming from Muzaffarpur in Bihar and was ending its journey at its final destination Lokmanya Tilak Terminus, when it could not stop and hit the dead end of the platform number 3,” said a spokesperson of the Central Railway.
“This incident neither caused any injury to any passenger nor caused any adverse impact on movement of trains,” he said.
Source: The Indian Express
6. NCP Protests Against Event to Felicitate Sanatan Lawyer
NCP workers protested outside the office of the Marathi Patrakar Sangh in Fort on Monday to protest against an event to felicitate Sanatan Sanstha lawyer Sanjeev Punalekar, who represents the eight accused charged by Maharashtra ATS and CBI in connection with the murders of rationalist Dr Narendra Dabholkar and journalist Gauri Lankesh.
A group of 40 NCP workers also shouted slogans and tried to block Sena MP Sanjay Raut from entering the venue even as saffron activists, who had lined up inside the gate, managed to provide him cover.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
7. 33,000 Say No to Axing 2,702 Trees for Metro Shed
BMC to hear objections from tomorrow; only 464 trees will be transplanted.
A whopping 33,000 objections have been filed with the BMC to the proposed cutting of 2,702 trees in Aarey Colony for the Metro-III car shed. Officials expect the figure to cross 50,000 when the BMC begins hearing the objections on Wednesday.
A senior civic official confirmed the tally.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
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