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MUMBAI: Pappu Nepali, a 33-year-old inter-state robber, has become the first accused to be booked under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) this year. Nepali, a Virar resident whose actual name is Dalbirsingh Rawat, was most recently involved in an armed robbery at an imitation jewellery-making workshop in Malad (East).
Nepali has been booked in 13 criminal cases so far, including thefts, attempted murder, assault and robbery across western suburbs, Nalasopara, Thane and Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh. He has faced chapter cases, besides externment proceedings, under the Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities (MPDA) Act in the past.
On October 28, 2020, two men brandishing choppers had barged into an imitation jewellery workshop in Malad and threatened the workers in an extortion bid. The duo told the workers their employer should pay up Rs 15,000 per month. There were about two dozen workers on the premises. Some started to run, sparkin
‘Godman’ arrested for duping people of lakhs
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Kondhwa police
Adil Sheikh (32) filed the
complaint against Naeem Syed Siddiqui, who had lost his salesman’s job in pandemic and began conning people with some tantra-mantra tricks. As Sheikh’s wife has been ill for some time, one of his friends suggested Siddiqui’s name. Shortly after introduction, Siddiqui told Sheikh that his wife was ill, as ‘someone had done black magic’ on his family members. Siddiqui confidently told Sheikh he could ward off
black magic through tantra-mantra for which he took Rs 2.7 lakh from him.
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MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court has banned the sale of items that claim to possess miraculous or supernatural powers via television advertisement.
The Aurangabad bench of the court, comprising Justice Tanaji Nalawade and Justice Mukund Sewlikar ruled that TV advertisements of such items, would be punishable under the Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act, 2013.
The court was ruling on a petition seeking a ban on such advertisements on TV channels. The petitioner, in his plea stated that he came across advertisements on TV channels for articles like Hanuman Chalisa yantra claiming they possessed special, miraculous properties/qualities.
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