PUNE: Indapur police have arrested 26-year-old truck driver Amitkumar Jokulal Patel from Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, for ramming his truck into an eatery after being denied service due to his intoxicated condition. The incident occurred around 8 p.m. on Friday at a restaurant along the Pune–Solapur highway, about 145 kilometers from Pune city. Patel, driving a…
PUNE: Blood samples of a 17-year-old minor involved in the Kalyani Nagar Porsche crash, as well as those of his two friends, were allegedly replaced at Sassoon Hospital in Pune to show they were not drunk at the time of the accident.The prosecution presented these allegations during the bail hearings for the minor’s parents on…
A video of a road maintenance pickup truck of the Pune Municipal Corporation speeding in reverse with no driver in sight has gone viral on social media platforms. The video showing the ‘driverless’ vehicle dangerously speeding backwards on an empty road has raised road safety concerns. The footage, recorded around 11.45pm on the Vaiduwadi flyover,…
PUNE: The Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) on Tuesday asked Pune police to file its response to a plea seeking the release of the Porsche Taycan involved in the May 19 crash when it ran over two techies while being driven by a minor.The car has been seized by police. A representative of the firm in…
Nasreen Amir Kureshi, 29, from Pune, slipped into a 50-foot gorge at Borne Ghat while taking a selfie. Her group had detoured there after learning Thoseghar waterfall was closed due to heavy rains PUNE: A 29-year-old woman, Nasreen Amir Kureshi from Warje, Pune, fell approximately 50 feet into a densely vegetated gorge at Borne Ghat…
NEW DELHI: A 25-year-old man in Maharashtra‘s Palghar district has been arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and killing a woman college professor.The incident occurred on Thursday around 6.30 pm, when professor Atmaja Kasat, 45, was walking home and was struck by a car within the limits of Arnala Sagri police station. The…
Manorama Khedkar, the mother of constroversial IAS officer Puja Khedkar, was sent to 14-day judicial custody by a Pune court. NEW DELHI: Manorama Khedkar, the mother of constroversial IAS officer Puja Khedkar, was sent to 14-day judicial custody by a Pune court in a case concerning alleged criminal intimidation tied to a land dispute. Manorama…
Probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar had applied for disability certificate thrice by changing her name and surname and with residential addresses from two districts APRIL 25, 2018 First application was filed in the civil hospital, Ahmednagar, in the name of Puja Diliprao Khedkar, a resident of Bhalgaon Taluka Pathardi, Ahmednagar district She was issued a…
PUNE: Where’s the pistol? The question is troubling Pune cops who arrested IAS officer Puja Khedkar‘s mother Manorama from a lodge in Mahad in Raigad on Wednesday.Superintendent of Police (Pune Rural) Pankaj Deshmukh on Thursday said that the licensed pistol belonging to Manorama Khedkar, has not yet been found and she will be interrogated about…
NEW DELHI: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Friday initiated criminal action against IAS officer Puja Khedkar for fraudulently availing attempts beyond the permissible limit by faking her identity by way of changing her name, her father’s and mother’s name, her photo/signature, email ID, mobile number and address. The UPSC has filed an FIR…
