1. Assembly Polls: NCP Wants 12 Seats in City; Congress Non-Committal
Days after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar asked party cadre to focus on urban areas, the Mumbai unit of the party has demanded more seats to contest from the city in the upcoming state Assembly polls.
Such a demand is likely to lead to sparring over seat sharing with the Congress, which usually contests majority of the 36 Assembly seats in the city. The demand was raised in a meeting held by Pawar on Thursday. NCP Mumbai chief Sachin Ahir said they should either get equal number of seats or at least 12 seats for the Assembly polls in Mumbai. This may create differences between the alliance partners as NCP had contested on only seven seats in the 2009 Assembly polls. In 2014, both the parties had contested the polls on their own.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
2. High Court Rejects Plea Seeking Stay on Maratha Ordinance
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court (HC) on Thursday rejected a plea against the state government’s ordinance to retain 16% reservation for Marathas under the socially and educationally backward classes (SEBC) category in post-graduate medical and dental courses.
A bench of justices SB Shukre and SM Modak refused to hear the matter, citing the Supreme Court’s (SC) June 4 judgment which prohibited any court from hearing any petition or application related to PG medical and dental admissions for the current academic year.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
3. Mumbai’s Rs 500-Crore Cryptocurrency Scam: Main Accused Believed to Be in Dubai
It’s been a year since the Thane Crime Branch raided Amit Lakhanpal’s office at Orion Business Park on Ghodbunder Road for allegedly running a Rs 500-crore scam, in which he has duped more than 25,000 investors. But investigators are yet to get hold of Lakhanpal, who they say is in Dubai. Even before the FIR was lodged in Thane, he fled to Dubai.
On June 4, 2017, the Crime Branch was tipped off about a cryptocurrency scam in Thane following which it raided Lakhanpal’s office. Fifty-three laptops and the “technical brain” of the scam, Taha Kazi, was arrested.
(Source: The Indian Express)
4. Mumbai: Five-Day-Old ‘Abducted’ From Hospital
A five-day-old boy was allegedly abducted from the Nair hospital on Thursday. Police said the boy’s mother was recuperating in ward number 7 of the hospital when an unknown woman walked out of the hospital with the newborn.
Police said the incident took place at around 5.30 pm.
(Source: The Indian Express)
5. ‘Suspecting Extramarital Affair’, Man Strangles Wife in Ghatkopar
Suspecting an extramarital affair, a 37-year-old man allegedly strangulated his 27-year-old wife at their residence in Ghatkopar.
Police arrested the man, identified as Sachin Dalvi, when he was attempting to flee the city. According to police, Dalvi was a security guard employed with a private agency and lived in Ghatkopar with his wife Trupti and their eight-year-old son.
(Source: The Indian Express)
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