Mumbai: Four BMC clean-up marshalls held for extortion
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Mumbai, May 15: Five people hired on contract basis as clean-up marshalls for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) were booked, of which four have been arrested by MIDC Police on Friday for extortion charges.
The police said that the arrested accused had extorted money from a city-based businessman on the pretext of fine for violation of prohibitory orders issued amid COVID pandemic. They were arrested and booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
According to police, the complainant, who owns an ecommerce business at Nand Deep Industrial Estate in Andheri (E), had taken the due permissions from the authority to run his business. In April, the accused people, who were hired on contract basis by the BMC to impose fine on people for spitting, littering on roads and not wearing masks. The accused allegedly found the complainant without a mask, in violation of the pandemic orders and threatene
In its ongoing crackdown, the Mumbai Police have busted an illegal unit manufacturing liquid medical oxygen which was being sold at exorbitant rates for Covid t
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Amitabh Bachchan shares on his blog that he has bought oxygen concentrators from Poland.
Amitabh Bachchan has said that he has purchased 50 oxygen concentrators from Poland and donated ventilators to Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
In his latest blog, the actor wrote that oxygen concentrators have also been ordered. I have to, in deepest gratitude thank profusely the Govt., of Poland, the Mayor of the City of Wroclaw, the Ambassador of India at Warsaw and the LOT Polish Airlines for their very gracious gesture towards me. The general call from the places that were in need of help had been for the urgent need of Oxygen Concentrators. These are and were difficult to procure and when I was not getting any immediate source to acquire them my friend and the Indian Consul in Wroclaw stepped forward, Bachchan wrote in his latest blog entry, late on Thursday.
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