New Delhi: A 26-year-old man was arrested by Delhi Police on Saturday in connection with an alleged rape case. According to the police, he posed as Assistant Commissioner Police (ACP) of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on social media.
Fake IDs and stamps were recovered from his possession, police said. The accused, identified as Piyush Priya, lives in Delhi's Mayur Vihar area.
In another case, a 33-year-old woman has registered an FIR against a Kerala man for allegedly raping her after making false promises of marrying her. It took the woman nearly eight years to learn that the accused identified as Binoy Balkrishna (35) was married. The woman met the man in 2009 at a dance bar when she was employed there.
According to the Times of India, the accused, who claimed to be associated with construction business in Dubai began a physical relationship with the woman on the pretext of marrying her. According to the woman, he promised to marry her before leaving for Dubai in 2010, after she informed him that she was pregnant. The woman gave birth to a baby boy in 2010 and moved to Andheri in a rented house that he got for her.
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In 2017, the man told her that due to some business problems he would not be able to pay her rent and expenses. In February 2018, the woman came across his Facebook profile which showed he was married to a woman in Kerala. When she questioned him, he threatened her with dire consequences. A case under IPC sections for rape, insult and criminal intimidation has been registered. Oshiwara police will issue a lookout circular to nab the suspect.
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Mumbai Crime: Powai police arrest pervert ex-professor for stalking, harassing student The Powai police on Saturday arrested a man who formerly worked as a professor at a premier engineering institute in the city for allegedly sending lewd messages and videos to one of his ex-students. The accused, identified as Vijay Deshmukh, had been fired from the institute in 2018 following the student's complaint to its women's cell. But he resurfaced in her life recently after she returned from South Korea, following which she filed a police complaint against him. <a title="Mumbai Crime: Powai police arrest pervert ex-professor for stalking, harassing student" href="https://www.mid-day.com/articles/mumbai-crime-powai-police-arrest-pervert-ex-professor-for-stalking-harassing-student/21161169" target="_blank">(Read more)</a>
Mumbai trashes BMC's 'successful ban' claims as city vendors still use banned plastic Life is plastic and fantastic for Mumbai once again. While the Maharashtra government and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have been making tall claims regarding the effective implementation of the plastic ban, a test drive by mid-day at various markets in the city has revealed a very different picture. Close to a year since the state implemented the ban, plastic bags are still being freely handed out in the open market. <a title="Mumbai trashes BMC's 'successful ban' claims as city vendors still use banned plastic" href="https://www.mid-day.com/articles/mumbai-trashes-bmcs-successful-ban-claims-as-city-vendors-still-use-banned-plastic/21161168" target="_blank">(Read full story)</a>
Female leopard that attacked two kids found dead in Thane The decomposed carcass of a 10-year-old female leopard that attacked two children a couple of days back, was found in the forest patch in Murbad, Thane on Saturday. The children were attacked when they had gone to the forest with their grandmother to collect firewood and fruits in Karpewadi forest on Friday afternoon. <a title="Female leopard that attacked two kids found dead in Thane" href="https://www.mid-day.com/articles/female-leopard-that-attacked-two-kids-found-dead-in-thane/21161170" target="_blank">(Read full story)</a>
Mumbai: A year and Rs 3.34 crore later, Gokhale Bridge opens up Almost after a year since repair work started, Andheri's Gokhale Bridge was fully opened to the public on Sunday morning. The work, which started in July last year after the cantilever footpath on the southern end of the bridge collapsed, was carried out at a cost of R3.34 crore. Soon after the incident, Western Railway (WR) had undertaken a safety audit of the bridge with help from IIT-Bombay, following which major repair and strengthening works had been identified. <a title="Mumbai: A year and Rs 3.34 crore later, Gokhale Bridge opens up" href="https://www.mid-day.com/articles/mumbai-a-year-and-rs-3-34-crore-later-gokhale-bridge-opens-up/21161172" target="_blank">(Read full story)</a>
Maharashtra radiologists to join doctors' stir The Maharashtra State Branch of Indian Radiological and Imaging Association (MSBIRIA) has decided to support the striking doctors in West Bengal. To show their solidarity with them, members of the association have decided to shut all radio-diagnostic modalities like sonography, X-ray, CT scan, MRI etc for 24 hours across the state from 6 am today. <a title="Maharashtra radiologists to join doctors' stir" href="https://www.mid-day.com/articles/maharashtra-radiologists-to-join-doctors-stir/21161171" target="_blank">(Read full story)</a>
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