Maharashtra: Singer attacked, robbed in Thane district; cops launch probe

A 79yearold Hindustani singer was attacked and robbed by two unidentified chain snatchers in Maharashtras Thane district police said on MondayThe incident took place in Dombivli town of the district around 9 pm on Sunday when singer Shubhada Pavgi was walking home with her son an official saidThe accused who were on a twowheeler hit the septuagenarian and decamped with her gold chain worth Rs 2 lakh he saidPavgi sustained minor injuries to her neck the official saidAn offence has been registered and the police were examining the CCTV footage from the scene to identify the accused he addedIn an another case in Thane a woman and her neighbour were arrested for allegedly eloping after stealing gold and cash cumulatively worth Rs 1546 lakh in 2017 a Thane police official said on SundayThe probe began after a woman filed a complaint on December 25 2017 that her daughterinlaw had run away with their neighbour after taking away 55 tolas of gold and cash from the house Property Cell senior inspector Anand Ravrane saidThe accused managed to change their names get PAN and Aadhaar cards in the new names and evaded police by moving from Gokarna in Karnataka to Goa to Chiplun and other areas of Maharashtras Konkan belt he saidThe two were held recently on a tip off he addedAlso read Maharashtra Five vehicles destroyed in fire in ThaneMeanwhile nine months after a 75yearold woman was found dead in her house in Maharashtras Thane district the police have registered a case of murder and destruction of evidence against her landlord the latters wife and son an official said on SundayThe deceased Waheedabi Noor Mohammad Shaikh was a widow and lived alone in the house in Kalyan town since 1990Her landlord had been forcing her to vacate the house as he wanted to develop the property The woman however had refused to vacate the house the official from Bazarpeth police station said quoting a complaint filed by a relative of the deceasedThe complainant also claimed the victim who was his aunt had on several occasions complained to him about the landlord troubling her the official saidThe complainant visited the aunts house on May 13 2022 and she was fine However after a few days he received a message that she died in the house on May 16When he went there the complainant found the body had turned black and there were blood stains around Following his request the police sent the body for postmortem the official saidAfter the womans death the landlord took away the house keys from the complainantAs the complainant suspected foul play in his aunts death he approached a court which in January this year directed the police to register an offence against the landlord and his two family members and initiate a probe into the caseThe Bazarpeth police on Saturday registered a case against the three persons under Indian Penal Code Sections 302 murder 201 causing disappearance of evidence of offence 120B criminal conspiracy and 34 common intention the official said adding no arrest has been made so farThe FIR also said that the police after registering a case of accidental death in May last year have been carrying out an independent probe into the womans deathThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever