Police have booked the Mercedes driver for the accident on Palm Beach Road
NAVI MUMBAI: Two sons of a Mumbai Police assistant sub-inspector were killed in a road mishap on Vashi’s Palm Beach Road in a head-on collision between their bike and a Mercedes early on Monday.
As the Mercedes driver fled the spot, APMC police have registered an FIR against him for alleged rash and negligent driving causing death. “We will obtain the car owner’s address from the Panvel RTO office on Monday and arrest him,” said APMC police sub-inspector Pankaj Mahajan. “As the driver fled the spot, we cannot ascertain whether he was driving drunk, hence Section 185 of the Motor Vehicle Act for drunk driving has not been invoked against him.”
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NAVI MUMBAI: A 30-year-old woman allegedly beheaded her one-year-old son and committed suicide by jumping from a running train in Navi Mumbai s Vashi on Thursday night. A home guard in the ladies coach is witness to the incident of the woman jumping from the running train with the bag in which the infant s beheaded body was found along the tracks on Vashi creek railway bridge on Thursday around 10.30pm. The woman was returning from her maternal house in Hadapsar, Pune, from where she had left at 4.30pm, said Vishnu Kesarkar, the senior inspector of Vashi GRP.
Illegal construction work being carried out in Kalhe village
NAVI MUMBAI: Two forest lands at Kalhe village, near Karnala bird sanctuary, have been encroached upon by the land mafia.
The two plots are located barely 100 m away from Kalhe forest chowki. Despite this, illegal constructions have cropped up here and the Panvel forest officials have not taken any action against the offenders yet.
“The two lands, one measuring around 3,000 sq ft and the other 5,000 sq ft, have been encroached upon by the mafia in Kalhe village. Compound walls have been built on the plots. Surprisingly, all illegal activities are taking place here even though the forest check post is just a few meters away,” said Rashtriya Seva Dal (Raigad district) coordinator Santosh Thakur.
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NAVI MUMBAI: Empty chairs were seen at the waiting lobbies of a couple of vaccination centres in the NMMC area during the initial hours of the vaccination drive on Tuesday. Later, shortlisted healthcare workers started turning up steadily. ASHA workers were summoned to get themselves vaccinated in the absence of people shortlisted from other healthcare departments.
The coronavirus vaccination drive for the second time after two-days break began at 10am on Tuesday after a delay of nearly an hour. A total of 400 health workers are scheduled to be vaccinated during the day on Tuesday in the four centers located at Vashi FRU, Airoli civic hospital, Apollo Hospital at Belapur and DY Patil Hospital at Nerul. Each centre will vaccinate at least 100 people. The drive will continue on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. “The drive is going on smoothly and the numbers will be more than that of the first day of the vaccination campaign,” said NMMC commissioner Abhijit
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NAVI MUMBAI: A 90-year-old woman was raped by a labourer in Dapoli, Ratnagiri last month. The daughter-in-law of the victim lodged a police complaint on Friday.
The victim was raped on December 19, 2020 by Soham Bhil, the 33-year-old accused, but she did not reveal about the incident to anyone fearing the accused would harm her.
“The nonagenarian was staying alone in Hatip village at Dapoli. Her son and daughter-in-law are based in Mumbai. After the incident, the woman did not reveal anything for several days to anyone out of fear that the accused may harm her,” said Dapoli police assistant inspector, Pooja Hiremath.