The Mumbai crime branch has arrested the mastermind of the online admission racket in the admission fraud case where admissions were fraudulently secured to the city’s NMIMS Institute that is considered as one of the top management institutions in country.
The arrested accused is a Delhi-based man who runs career counselling centres in north India. He was arrested from the capital, taking the total number of the arrested accused in the case to eight.
Arrested accused is identified as Vikas Bansal, 34, who was picked up from the Delhi by the BKC Cyber police officials on Sunday. He was produced in the court on Monday that remanded him into police custody up to the July 22,” confirmed Nandkumar More, Senior Police Inspector, BKC Cyber police.
Investigation revealed that Bansal was the main brain behind the racket that promises guaranteed admissions in any educational institute in the country. “He runs career guiding centres in Ghaziabad, and other parts of north India in the name of ‘Career Guardian’,” said an officer.
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Turbid water supply troubles city
Age correspondent
Mumbai, july 8
Residents of the island city and eastern suburbs are a hapless and worried lot as they have been receiving turbid water supply since the last fortnight. The problem has not been addressed inspite of making several complaints to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, they said.
Locals living in areas like Dadar, Naigaon, Mazgaon, Parel, Lower Parel, Ghatkopar have been receiving coloured water that often stinks too. Due to this, there has been rise in water-borne diseases in these areas. Shravani Deshpande from Dadar said, “There has been a sudden spurt in diseases like diarrhoea after drinking that water. But, no steps have been taken by civic officials to better the situation.”
BMC officials said that they have been trying to find the source of contamination in these areas but they haven’t been able to solve the issue as yet. “The turbid water supply during monsoons is common. Due to the wear and tear of old pipelines, clean water gets mixed with waste water and leads to water-borne diseases,” said the official. Consumption of adulterated food and contaminated water are the prime reasons for the spread of monsoon diseases, he added.