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TOI : PUNE: The crime branch, Pune, recently chargesheeted gangster Shekhar Wankhede and seven others under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). The chargesheet was filed before special judge R.Y. Shaikh.

The others chargesheeted include Sachin Madavi, Narayan Dabhade, Guddu Yadav, Taj Khan, Sanjay Pawar, Mohsin Mulani and Raju Bhalerao. They have been chargesheeted for running an organised crime syndicate in Pune city, Pune rural and Aurangabad for the last 10 years.

The Nigdi police had registered a case under the MCOCA against the gang, after which the probe was handed over to assistant commissioner of police Sangramsinh Nishandar. Print EMail DiscussNew B…More

TOI : PUNE: Sandip Patil (30), a junior engineer of the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) was caught red-handed on Friday evening by the anti-corruption bureau (ACB) officials while accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000.

ACB officials said Kiran Ghare from Bebedohol village in Wadgaonmaval taluka had applied for an electric connection to his house at the MSEDCL office near Somatane Phata. He had approached junior engineer Patil and asked him for a connection. For this, Patil demanded Rs. 50,000.

Ghare informed the ACB and a trap was laid on Friday evening. Patil was caught red-handed while accepting the money by the ACB team led by inspectors Sanjay Bhamare and B R Patil. Inspector Patil is investigating further. Print EMail DiscussNew B…More

TOI : PUNE: Two members of the Lashkar-A-Bhima organisation sustained injuries as a builder’s security personnel opened fire on them in ’self defence’ near the Kedari garden at Wanowrie on Sunday afternoon.

The victims were identified as Nilesh Hasure (22) and Ismail Shaikh (22), both residents of Yerawada. They were later admitted to a private hospital in Hadapsar. As many as 24 members of the organisation were detained by the police.

According to deputy commissioner of police (zone IV) Jalinder Supekar, over 400 members of the Lashkar-A-Bhima organisation, including women, launched a violent agitation at Wanowrie on Sunday. They were protesting against a builder for allegedly taking over lands owned by the Mahar community. The protestors shouted slogans against the builder.

The protestors, who had assembled at the open land near Kedari garden, soon attacked the security guards who were deployed there by the builder. They also overturned three cabins built on the land. Seeing the situation getting out of hand, the security guards fired their guns in self defence which resulted in two people getting injured.

According to inspector S.G. Kanse of the Wanowrie police station, the police team reached the spot and appealed the activists to solve the issue through discussion. However, they turned violent and started throwing stones, Kanse said. Later, an additional force was called to control the situation.

The police have detained 28 activists, including the president and the secretary of the organisation. The four security guards, who had opened fire, were also detained, Kanse said.

According to the police, two months ago, the state government had allotted 49 acres of land near Kedari garden in Wanowrie to a builder. Print EMail DiscussNew B…More

TOI : PUNE: The incessant rains since midnight Saturday have not only completely halted rail traffic between Pune and Mumbai due to water-logging on the tracks, but landslides in the ghats section have also considerably slowed down vehicles on the expressway.

Meanwhile, a major landslide caused extensive damage to a ground-plus-two storeyed building at the Sinhagad Technical Education Society’s (STES) academic campus in Lonavla early on Sunday morning.

No casualty was reported as the workshop building of the institute, which, otherwise houses over 250 students and staff on working days, was unoccupied since it was a Sunday and a holiday.

The Central Railway had to cancel a number of inter-city trains, including some on the Pune-Lonavla route, due to landslide between Lonavla and Karjat and water logging of tracks near Lonavla. Moreover, a few express trains were diverted via Daund and Manmad, though local trains between Pune and Talegaon were still running.

A large number of passengers were reportedly stranded at various railway stations, many of them resorting to cool cabs, taxis, state transport buses and other private vehicles to continue their journey. Print EMail DiscussNew B…More

TOI : PUNE: Two days after an IBM staffer was gangraped, cops on Sunday interrogated cab drivers of the BPO. The police also questioned the victim’s boyfriend, Hansraj Nana Brahmne (26), who had filed a complaint against unknown people, and other employees of the call centre at Phursungi in Pune.

Cops, however, said they were yet to record the victim’s statement as she was in a state of shock. She has been kept under police security at the Sassoon general hospital. On the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, the 22-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by eight to 10 men.

The incident has come as a chilling reminder of last year’s case where an IT professional was raped and killed on the outskirts of the city.

DSP (Haveli Division) Ravindrasinh Pardeshi told TOI that the police were investigating the matter. The cops have procured a list of the cab drivers, who were on the duty on Thursday and Friday, and are verifying their past records. “The victim’s boyfriend has claimed that on the day of incident she was followed by some of her colleagues from IBM. Hence, the
police have also interrogated some employees from the call centre,” said Pardeshi.

A medical examination by a private hospital confirmed rape, even though test reports in a government-run hospital are yet to come. Print EMail DiscussNew B…More

TOI : VARANASI: The “Cape of Good Hope” has again opened the gates of mutual growth and prosperity for Indian Railways as well as African countries which have placed huge orders for supply of diesel engines from India.

Apart from fulfiling the requirements for locomotives by the rapidly expanding railways here, Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW) at Varanasi, which began manufacturing locomotives in 1961 with the help of some American companies and is presently making five different types of diesel engines, is committed to supply these to a number of African and other countries.

From making just four locomotives in the first year of its production, it produced 222 locomotives in 2007-08. Railways’ current annual demand for diesel locomotives is about 400.

DLW has already supplied locomotives to Mozambique, Angola, Male, Senegal and Sudan, apart from countries like Vietnam, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Malaysia.

“We only make the locomotives. Export of these is carried out through RITES and IRCON,” chief mechanical engineer Neeraj Kumar told TOI on Wednesday. To meet the growing demand from world over as well as the need by India’s own Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) project, railways has set up another locomotive manufacturing unit at Marora in railway minister Lalu Prasad’s constituency in Chapra (Bihar).

Here, powerful diesel engines for heavy haulage of 6,000 horse power will be manufactured. A separate unit was necessitated by the fact that newer machines will be installed for making more powerful engines which would move at faster speed as well. Contrary to the popular view that diesel engines are not cost effective due to oil price hike, experts pointed out that barring European countries, diesel locomotives were the mainstay of (bigger) railways in the US, Australia, Africa, China and the Arab world.
“Besides, our diesel locomotives are powerhouses on wheels. One diesel engine has the capacity to generate 2 mw electricity…More