Mumbai LIVE: Land to be allotted in suburban Bandra for new HC building

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of police probing IIT Bombay student Darshan Solanki`s death on Thursday registered an offence against an unknown person for alleged abetment to suicide, an official said. The case was registered 47 days after Solanki allegedly ended his life by jumping off a building on the IIT Bombay campus in Powai on February 12. SIT officials on Thursday night visited Powai Police Station along with Darshan`s father Ramesh Solanki, and based on his complaint, the FIR was registered, the police official said. (PTI)

The Maharashtra government on Thursday told the Bombay High Court it has decided to allot 30.16 acres of land in suburban Bandra for the construction of a new HC building. A government resolution (order) to this effect would be issued soon, Maharashtra`s Advocate General Birendra Saraf told a division bench of Acting Chief Justice SV Gangapurwala and Justice Sandeep Marne. Saraf said the proposed complex in the upscale suburb would also house central tribunals and chambers for lawyers. (PTI)

Maha: Five killed, Eight injured in truck-auto collision
Five persons were killed and eight injured in a collision between a truck and an autorickshaw in Maharashtra`s Nanded district on Thursday, an official said.

Maha: Two orphaned tiger cubs moved to Pench reserve for `rewilding`
Two orphaned tiger cubs rescued from the Pandharkawada forest range in Maharashtra`s Yavatmal district have been moved to Pench Tiger Reserve for `rewilding`, an official said on Thursday.