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TOI : Baby Baburao Sarode (50), a Bopodi resident, was fatally hit by a speeding motorcycle near the V.B. Patil bridge on Thursday night. The police have arrested one Avinas Anilkumar Mishra (25) of Sus road for negligent and rash driving.

According to sub-inspector V.V. Khandagale, who is investigating the case, Sarode and her granddaughter, Gauri (14), were crossing the road around 8 am, when Mishra’s vehicle hit them. The impact was such that Sarode died on the spot. Gauri escaped with minor injuries, Khandagale said. Print EMail DiscussNew B…More

TOI : PUNE: Two persons were robbed of Rs 8 lakh and a car by four unidentified persons at knife point at Undri on Thursday night.

A complaint in this regard has been lodged with the Haweli police station by Babu Manik Bhise (26) of Mohammedwadi, Hadapsar.

According to the police, Bhise works as a driver for Vikram Sonigara of Bhavani Peth, who runs a business dealing with cement sheets and has an office at Dhole Patil Chowk. In the course of his business, he distributes cement sheets to traders in the district on a credit basis.

On Thursday morning, Bhise and the cashier, Gajanan Shinde, went by car to collect dues from various traders in the district. After collecting Rs 8 lakh, the duo started on their way back. Around 8 pm, at Undri, four unidentified persons blocked the car.

When Bhise slowed down, he was dragged out of the car at knife point. Another person pulled Shinde out and then the men got in the car and drove off with the Rs 8 lakh.

The duo chased the car for a while, then informed the police control room and their employer. Inspector Satish Patil is investigating the case. Print EMail DiscussNew B…More

TOI : PUNE: The Chinchwad police have booked district Shiv Sena chief Gajanan Babar and Pimpri-Chinchwad city unit chief Bhagwan Walhekar with eight others for wrongfully restricting an anti-encroachment drive at Chafekar chowk in Chinchwad recently.

A complaint filed at the Chinchwad police station said the anti-encroachment drive was planned at Chafekar chowk on Friday afternoon to be executed under executive engineer Deepak Thube.

It is alleged that Babar and Walhekar accompanied by hand-cart owners reached the place and started protesting against the drive. They also blocked the path to Thube’s ward office, hindering vehicular movement. Print EMail DiscussNew B…More

TOI : PUNE: The crime branch has arrested four chain snatchers, all women, and two thieves trying to steal mobiles, in two separate incidents, in the annual Wari to Pandharpur on Friday evening. The suspects were picked-up when the procession was on its way from Nigdi to Pune.

Those arrested in the first incident include two women and two men. The men have been identified as Bidesh Upadhyay (18) and Chandrakant Pujari (28), both are residents of Phulenagar in Vishrantwadi.

They were arrested near Dattanagar in Vishrantwadi when they were trying to steal mobile phones. The women were caught snatching chains near Magazine chowk in Dighi. They have been identified as Jivubai Kamble (49) and Lalita Gadhve (30), both of Gulbarga. The police recovered five gold chains from them.

After picking the suspects, they were handed to the respective local police station.

The crime branch had made different squads to check incidents of pick-pocketing, mobile theft, chain snatching and eve-teasing during the palkhi. The policemen were asked to keep vigil in plain clothes.

In another incident, two women from Karnataka and Solapur, were arrested by the Vishrantwadi police for snatching a gold chain which belonged to a Kothrud-based woman in Alandi.

According to the complaint filed by Jijabai Yadav, she found her gold chain, worth Rs 20,000, missing when she was walking in the wari on Friday.

She then noticed two women hurriedly walking away from her. Loosing no time, she informed her husband who, in turn, alerted the policemen on duty. The two women were caught within no time and the chain was recovered from them.

The suspects have been identified as Jhibubai Kamble (40) from Karnataka and Lalita Gavhane (30) from Solapur. The duo were also a part of the wari. Print EMail DiscussNew B…More

TOI : PUNE: The chances of a national-level cyclist to compete in the Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) look bleak as his bicycle was hit by a speeding car, driven by a minor boy, at the Tata Motors officers’ colony in Pimpri on Saturday morning.

Such was the impact that Ronak Sunil Berman (14) was flung about 10 feet high.

He was rushed to a private hospital in Pimpri. Besides severe head injuries, Ronak has been left with a fractured collarbone, said doctors treating him at a private hospital in Pimpri.

The cyclist underwent an emergency surgery and was reportedly out of danger, but kept under observation.

Ronak, a resident of Sant Tukaramnagar, Pimpri, and his friend Sagar Jambhukar (15) were practising for the CYG when the car (MH 14 AE 9736), driven by Nayan Ashok Rathod, hit the bicycle from front. Nayan fled the scene with the car, but was later detained from his home. He has been booked under section 338 of the Indian Penal Code (endangering someone’s life).

Ronak is a class IX student of Vidyaniketan school, Pimpri. The boy’s father too is in hospital as he donated a kidney to his sister on Friday. Speaking to TOI, Chandrashekhar Bhise, maternal uncle of Ronak, claimed that the minor was driving the car along with three girls. “He was driving the vehicle at breakneck speed. I had gone to Dubai to buy Ronak a bicycle for the CYG event. We hope he recovers in time for the CYG,” he said. Print EMail DiscussNew B…More