Mumbai LIVE: Worker falls to death from under-construction building

Mumbai: Worker falls to death from under-construction building; labour contractor booked

Police have booked a labour contractor and others for not providing safety gear to a 20-year-old worker from West Bengal who fell to his death at an under-construction building site in suburban Mumbai last week, said an official on Tuesday. No arrests have been made yet in connection with the incident which took place on CST Road in suburban Kalina on December 30, he said. (PTI)

Two held for killing man and dumping his body in car on Mumbai-Goa highway

Two persons were arrested by Navi Mumbai police from Dehu Road in Pune for allegedly killing a man last November and dumping his body in a car on the Mumbai-Goa highway, a senior crime branch officer said on Tuesday. The arrested accused are notorious criminals, he said, adding they fatally shot the victim as the latter had taken Rs 7 lakh from one of them under the pretext of selling gold at a cheaper price but failed to deliver. The body of an unidentified man with bullet wounds was found in a car near Tara village on November 18 last year, DCP (crime) Amit Kale told reporters. (PTI)

Nothing wrong if people look at Sambhaji Maharaj`s contribution in different ways: Sharad Pawar

NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said it was not wrong to think of the 17th century ruler Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj either as a saviour of religion or the protector of `Swarajya`, the independent Maratha state founded by his father. Controversy broke last month when Pawar`s nephew and senior NCP leader Ajit Pawar said in the Maharashtra Assembly that Sambhaji, the eldest son of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, was `Swarajya-rakshak` and not "Dharmaveer" (protector of religion) as portrayed by some right-wing Hindu groups. (PTI)

CBI searches premises of WCL official`s premises in disproportionate assets case

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday conducted searches at residential and office premises of an officer of Western Coalfields Limited (WCL) in a disproportionate assets case in Maharashtra`s Nagpur, an official said. The searches were conducted at the accused official`s premises in Nagpur and Umred, the official said. A case under relevant provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act was registered against the accused official on December 29, 2022, said M S Khan, deputy inspector general and head of branch of CBI, ACB Nagpur. As per a release, the WCL official had allegedly amassed assets worth more than Rs 67 lakh disproportionate to his known sources of income. (PTI)