Two men from Gujarat held by Mumbai Police with charas worth Rs 10 cr
Raheem Majid Sheikh (30) and Shantilal Tandel (32), residents of Valsad in the neighbouring state, were held on Saturday, the Chunabhatti police station official said
22 April,2025 09:44 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Ashwini Bidre murder case: Nine years later, API’s killer gets life term
Award-winning inspector, Abhay Kurundkar, sentenced for 2016 murder of Bidre who he was in a relationship with; the court held that Kurundkar, with whom Bidre had been in a personal relationship, killed her and disposed of her body with the help of his ‘associates’, who are co-accused in the case
22 April,2025 07:14 AM IST | Mumbai | Aishwarya IyerBaba Siddique's son Zeeshan receives email threat; probe underway
Confirming the development, Mumbai Police said, "A threat email has been received by ex-MLA Shri Zeeshan Baba Siddique. Bandra Police Station is in the process of registering FIR"
21 April,2025 10:53 PM IST | Mumbai | Faizan KhanFour held for killing man near Digha railway station in Thane
The accused used deadly weapons, wooden sticks, and bamboo poles to attack the victims leading to his death, an official said
21 April,2025 09:15 PM IST | Thane | mid-day online correspondentMan held for sexually assaulting four-year-old girl in Borivali
The accused allegedly threatened the girl with dire consequences after committing the crime, an official said
21 April,2025 06:42 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondentThane Police books 12 for power theft
The officials of the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) conducted inspections in Kongaon area of Bhiwandi on Saturday and found several consumers had tampered with the power supply lines
21 April,2025 05:44 PM IST | Thane | mid-day online correspondentUnidentified assailants open fire outside businessman’s house in Ambernath
Police have initiated an investigation into the incident and are trying to find the motive behind the shootout
21 April,2025 04:13 PM IST | Mumbai | Apoorva AgasheBody of newborn baby found near garbage in Thane
Some locals spotted the body near the garbage pile at Barodi village in the Bhiwandi area at around 9 am on Sunday, an official from Narpoli police station said
21 April,2025 02:18 PM IST | Thane | mid-day online correspondentPanvel Court sentences former inspector to life imprisonment
Two of his associates, Kundan Bhandari and Mahesh Phalnikar, were sentenced to seven years in prison each for destroying evidence related to the case
21 April,2025 01:56 PM IST | Mumbai | Aishwarya IyerMan injures woman with glass shard after her umbrella brushes against him
The woman, Anita Balu Patkar, was walking when the umbrella in her hand accidentally hit the accused, Sachin Bhagwan Avasarmol
21 April,2025 11:41 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondentTwo booked for creating fake Instagram account of couple, extorting money
FIR has named one accused as Jitendra Rajpurohit and another as unknown; the accused extorted Rs 1.5 lakh from the victim; they also posted morphed obscene photos of of the couple and began blackmailing the man
21 April,2025 07:57 AM IST | Mumbai | Samiullah KhanWill act with alacrity on cyber fraud cases: Police to Bombay High Court
The woman, in her petition, said due to non-registration of FIR and prompt action, she lost Rs 45 lakh; a division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Neela Gokhale, in the order passed on April 15, noted that cyber fraud cases were on the rise, with a number of senior citizens falling prey to such fraudsters
21 April,2025 07:52 AM IST | Mumbai | AgenciesTrial in 2008 Malegaon blast case over; NIA court adjourns matter to May 8
Six people were killed and over 100 injured when an explosive device strapped on a motorcycle went off near a mosque in Malegaon, a town about 200 km from Mumbai, on September 29, 2008
19 April,2025 09:58 PM IST | Mumbai | PTIBhayandar: Shocking knife attack on Police constable, two arrested
A routine police response turned violent in Bhayandar on Friday evening when constable Kashinath Bhanuse was brutally attacked with a knife. Bhanuse, who was in plain clothes, had rushed to Babu Bhai Mistry Chawl in Shiv Sena Galli after reports of a heated dispute. But instead of diffusing the situation, he became a victim himself—stabbed by two men, identified as Babu Nepali and Dilip Bhimbahadur. Senior Police Inspector Jitendra Kamble acted swiftly, ensuring the accused were arrested immediately.