Prashant Aher Dna

• Man held for repeatedly raping married daughter

  The Nigdi police on Friday arrested a 45-year-old man, who allegedly raped his 18-year-old married daughter in the Triveninagar slums several times. The victim registered a complaint at Nigdi police station.According to the Nigdi police, the victim, who is married to a 22-year-old worker of a Bhosari factory, originally hails from Osmanabad and arr...

• Pune: 9-year-old boy turns burglar to 'buy a credit card'

  Police investigations into the October 19 burglary in a bungalow in Mahatma Society, Kothrud, have thrown up unlikely suspects: two minor boys aged 9 and 13 years.The duo made away with diamond and gold jewellery and silverware valued at Rs 5.28 lakh.Deputy commissioner of police (zone-I) Dnyaneshwar Phadtare said on Sunday the Kothrud police have ...

• Husband 'plotted' home robbery to repay loan

  The Sahakarnagar police stumbled upon the bizarre fact while probing the robbery case at Suman Vihar Apartment. Suresh's wife Rajeshwari was alone at home when two men, posing as gas cylinder deliverymen, entered the house and threatened her, tied her limbs, gagged her and decamped with gold ornaments and a cellphone, together valued at more than R...

• Pune: Mother sets self, two kids on fire

  A 26-year-old mother allegedly committed suicide along with her three-and-a-half-year-old son and one-and-a-half-year-old daughter by setting herself and them on fire in Premnagar slum at Market Yard at 12.30 pm on Friday. The deceased were identified as Devaki Prabhakar Mungale (26), son Chetan and daughter Iccha. A local resident, Krushna Sonkamb...

• Youth murdered, thrown into Pashan stone quarry

  The Chatuhshrungi police on Friday found the body of an as yet unidentified youth in a quarry filled with water in Pashan area. The man's legs and neck were tied with a big stone when it was taken out from the quarry.Police suspect that some people must have murdered the youth, tied him to the stone and thrown him in the quarry. The Chatuhshrungi p...

• Pune: Rs 1.52 cr found on private bus

  The Pune rural police have recovered Rs 1.52 crore and 356 gm of gold ornaments, valued at Rs1.58 lakh, from a long distance private bus. The cash and gold were stuffed into two nylon sacks that were kept, along with the luggage of passengers, in the vehicle heading from Icchalkaranji to Mumbai.Officials from the income tax (I-T) department, enforc...

• Pune: District administration issues show cause notice to Bigg Boss

  The Pune district administration on Thursday issued a show cause notice to the producers of the reality show Bigg Boss asking why shooting should not be stopped in the wake of potential law and order disturbances caused by the show. Additional collector R K Gaikwad told reporters that he had issued the notice in his capacity as the district magistr...

• Pune: Two in police custody for duping woman of Rs 10 lakh by using 'witchcraft'

  An unmarried woman was duped of over Rs10 lakh by 'witchcraft' allegedly by two Mumbai-based persons. The Kothrud police arrested the duo and the court on Wednesday remanded them in police custody until Friday. The suspects were identified as Vaishnavi Sandip Ketkar and Nilesh Anant Moghe. The victim, Chitra Madhusudan Agashe (50) of Karvenagar, ha...

• Jeweller's wife killed, Rs 32 lakh stolen

  A city jeweller's wife was found murdered in their rented flat at Shubham Apartments in Nana Peth on Wednesday. The culprits slit the throat of Jayanti Nagraj Chhajed (55) with a sharp-edged weapon and decamped with gold ornaments valued at Rs32 lakh.Some cash and silver ornaments remained safe. The victim's husband, Nagraj Chhajed, has lodged a co...

• Pune: Theft attempt at corporator's home

  Unidentified suspects early morning on Sunday attempted to commit house breaking theft at NCP corporator Vishal Tambe's home in Dhankavdi.The alert corporator informed the police control room immediately but the suspect managed to escape.The corporator has a two-storey building at Chaitanyanagar. The suspects entered the first floor of the building...

• Pune: Man carrying police uniform detained

  The Pune police's special branch on Sunday detained a person, Dattatray Namdeo Mohite (20) of Solapur, possessing the police uniform with black jacket at the Pune Railway Station.The police said he might have cheated some people in the city posing himself as a policeman. They have appealed to citizens to inform them if anybody was duped by the man ...