Crime branch sources on Tuesday said multiple murder accused Vijay Palande, working at the behest of underworld don Chhota Rajan, had given information on gangsters like Santosh Shetty, Bhadresh Shah and Guru Satam, all of whom had fallen out with the Rajan gang. When he was rearrested, he had even offered to give information on Chhota Rajan’s hideout to an IPS officer in exchange for being allowed to escape.

On Tuesday, Maharashtra Day, a zilla parishad member and five panchayat samiti members in the Naxal-affected Bhamragarh tehsil of Gadchiroli submitted their resignations, citing threats from the Naxals. Earlier last week, several representatives of political parties too had tendered their resignations.

Maharashtra PWD minister Chhagan Bhujbal’s troubles are far from over. Sunil Karve, founder trustee of Mr Bhujbal’s Mumbai Education Trust, filed a criminal petition in the Bombay high court on Tuesday, demanding a CBI investigation into the alleged misappropriation of funds in the MET by the minister and his family.

The seven Indian crew members onboard the Italian flagged Enrico Levoli arrived in Mumbai on Tuesday. Hijacked by Somali pirates in December 2011, the ship was released last week after the ransom amount was handed over to the captors.

The Juhu Air Traffic Control (ATC) will soon get a radar display
system, which will relay flight activities from the Mumbai ATC, when
the construction of the new ATC tower is completed in June. This will
enable the ATC at Juhu to view Mumbai’s flight movements instead of
minute-by-minute coordination for smaller business aircraft that take
off from Juhu.

Breaking his silence over being nominated to the Rajya Sabha, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar cleared the air on the subject and said cricket would always remain his priority. “I am not a politician, but a sportsman and will always remain one. Cricket is my life and I will not give it up for politics,” said Tendulkar, speaking after being felicitated in Pune by a private firm for completing 100 cricket centuries.

The Enforcement Directorate on Monday started its investigation against former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan and 12 others for money-laundering in connection with the Adarsh scam.

The Raigad police has solved the 400-year-old Suvarnaganesh temple robbery in Dive Agar with the arrest of six persons from Ahmednagar over the last three days.

Customs officers at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport will
soon get frequent firearms training like the police and paramilitary
forces.

Since November, around 100 forest fires have taken place in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP). However, the difference now is that the villagers are well aware that the forest officials must be informed immediately to prevent them from spreading. This about turn in approach is the result of the authorities’ poster campaign that was aimed at creating awareness amongst villagers on how fires can be prevented.