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TOI : PUNE: An ATM centre security guard’s walk to the loo cost the bank a cool Rs 2.89 lakh, as some unidentified men entered the ATM cabin, opened the machine and escaped with the cash.

Kashinath Virbhadra Gadagi (30), an officer with the Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI), has lodged a complaint with the Deccan Gymkhana police station saying that Rs 2.89 lakh were stolen from their ATM located at Sharada centre in Erandwane between June 14 and 16. Importantly, the case was registered on this Tuesday after primary investigations by the bank.

The incident came to light only when the bank officials found a difference of Rs 2.89 lakh in the balance sheet. At first the bank conducted an internal inquiry and concluded that the amount was stolen from the Sharada centre ATM and so a complaint was lodged with the police.

Sub-inspector U.K. Yadav of Deccan Gymkhana police station said that primary investigations reveal that the thieves entered the ATM room when the guard went away for relieving himself. Unfortunately for the bank, the toilet is located at a distant place, due to which the guard was away for a considerable period of time and could not avert the break-in. Print EMail DiscussNew B…More

TOI : PUNE: Labourer Mohammed Aquil Saifuddin (25), of Bavdhan, was killed recently when debris thrown from the fourth floor of the construction site of Suryadatta Education Foundation at Bavdhan fell on him.

The Hinjewadi police have booked contractor Gopal Rathod (30), Hanumant Jagnnath Rathod (37) and woman labourer Pyaribai Sikari Nisad (48). According to the police, on June 12, Pyaribai was asked to throw some debris of bricks from the fourth floor. Without cautioning those below, she threw the debris, which fell on Saifuddin, who was standing on the ground floor. The labourer was severely injured and later died in the hospital. Earlier, a case of accidental death was registered. However, post-investigations, the police booked Hanumant, Gopal and Nisad.

In yet another case, the Kothrud police have booked contractor Suhas Ubhe (27), a resident of Dhananjaya society, for negligence and culpable homicide not amounting to murder, when a labourer Bapu alias Ramchandra Shelar (62), fell off third floor of the same building on Saturday evening. Shelar, a resident of Dhankawadi, was working for Ubhe. Print EMail DiscussNew B…More

TOI : PUNE: Hurling abuses at a woman commuter, that too in an inebriated condition, has cost a constable his job. Deputy commissioner of police (headquarters) Ravindra Sengaonkar on Monday dismissed Vijay Vitthal Jagtap for the ugly incident.
The incident which took place near S.G. Barve chowk on J.M. road on June 22 left the woman in total shock.

She was on her two-wheeler when Jagtap, who was attached to the Shivajinagar police headquarters, walked up to her and demanded to see her driving licence.

Jagtap, who was drunk, used abusive language while talking to her. When other motorists came to the woman’s rescue, Jagtap abused them too. The motorists, who were at the receiving end for no fault of theirs, decided to take up the matter with the higher-ups. They approached the Shivajinagar police chowkey and explained the matter to the policemen present there.

A medical check-up confirmed that Jagtap was under the influence of liquor. Subsequent tests showed the presence of 0.129 per cent of alcohol in his blood. When the matter came up before Sengaonkar, Jagtap was reprimanded and told to present his side in the incident for the purpose of fulfilling the clause of natural justice. However, Jagtap refused to comment on the issue. Print EMail DiscussNew B…More

TOI : PUNE: In a rare gesture, a young couple has donated the eyes of their 26-day-old daughter after she died of brain haemorrhage. It could be an unprecedented event, where the donor lived only for a few days to leave behind a priceless gift to illuminate another life.

“We were elated at the birth of our daughter,” said Balkrishna and Vandana Upasani, whose child was born on June 9. “But, she soon started to suffer from convulsions and spells of unconsciousness, and was admitted to hospital on July 4.”
Paediatrician Ramkrishna Dhongde of Shaishav clinic on Laxmi road, put her on ventilator. “We did everything medically possible to help the baby,” Dhongade said.

“After the check-ups, the doctors asked us to get a CT scan of the baby,” 37-year-old Balkrishna, a newspaper agent in Narayan Peth, said. “We took her to the Deenanath Mangeshkar hospital on the same day. The reports came by 9 pm and doctors said the chances of saving her life is very less. They said it was hopeless to keep her on ventilator.”
Realising that the baby would not survive, the parents resigned to their fate and, instead of grieving and thumping their hearts, they decided to do something constructive.

“I enquired about the procedure of eye donation. The doctors provided me the information. I discussed with my wife and she agreed,” Upasani said. “Then we asked the doctors to put the baby off the ventilator. Her heart convulsed for sometimes and was silent after two hours.”

With the help of the doctors, Upasanis contacted an eye bank. “After the formal consent from the parents, we got in touch with Jankalyan eye bank, which is just next to our hospital,” said Dhongde. Within an hour, the eyes were safely deposited in the eye bank.

When contacted, a renowned ophthalmologist said that it is possible…More

TOI : PUNE: Two children were killed and a man was injured when a slab of an under-construction house collapsed at Ganapati Matha at Sahyognagar in Warje on Tuesday night.

The Warje-Malwadi police identified the deceased as Akshay Mahadev Girawale (13) and Deepali Marne (6). Akshay’s father Mahadev (45) was injured in the incident.

According to the police, owner Mahadev Gamaji Girawale was renovating a single-storey house near Vaibhav Taki. He had put a slab about eight days ago and the father-son duo was watering the slab.

Girawale is a teacher in Mamasaheb Mohol school, while the children also study there.

According to fire brigade officials, the eight square feet slab came down crashing around 8.45 pm.

At the time of incident, Akshay was watering the slab from the ground, while Mahadev was standing on the slab. Deepali, who used come to Girawale for tuitions, was inside the house, when the slab collapsed. Local residents pulled out the children before the fire brigade could reach the spot. The children were rushed to a private hospital but were declared dead on arrival. Print EMail DiscussNew B…More

TOI : PUNE: Few things in life are as compelling as a full bladder. In villages like Donje near Pune, it has led dhoti-clad men to discover strange nooks and often triggered unprintable exchanges if the nook happened to be in a neighbour’s farm. Women aren’t as lucky: though also pushed to the edge by this greater force, they perforce developed an iron self-control that made them rise before dawn or wait teeth-grittingly for the solitude of pitch-dark nights to escape prying eyes. The same old story of underdeveloped India.

Lately, however, the villagers of Donje have stopped pleading to the bushes for cover. For a gratifying Rs 7000, most of them have purchased privacy in the form of three concrete walls filled with thermocol and one plastic door, on which their names have now been immortalised with wet chalk.

These are the ‘portable’ toilets designed and provided to them by a smiling man called Ramdas Mane, who, though ensconced in the air-conditioned comfort of his own office today, was once just like them. As a young boy from Lodhawade, a village near Satara, Mane worked in a government employment scheme for Rs 2.50 a day and funded his own school education before joining and topping the wireman’s course at ITI.

At the back of Mane’s mind was the experience of watching his mother, sister and wife control their “motions and emotions” or waiting endlessly for the elusive mistri to construct the expensive brick loo. In this unhygienic ambience, diseases and mosquitoes flourished gleefully. Print EMail DiscussNew B…More