The Tilak Nagar police has arrested a 21-year-old man for murdering his 17-year-old friend a month ago, by pushing him down a dam in Navi Mumbai. The boy’s family had filed a missing person’s complaint at Tilak Nagar police station, and the case was cracked on Monday.
The victim, Pra-tik Mangesh Shir-sat, along with the accused, Akshay Sable, had gone to Parsik Hill, at CBD Belapur. in Navi Mumbai, on June 18. “Pratik had left the house without informing his parents about his destination. After reaching the spot, they consumed alcohol, and a minor argument erupted. Sable told us that both fancied the same girl, which led to the argument, and in a fit of rage he pushed him down the dam, after wh-ich he fled from the spot,” said API V.S. Upase.
After the Bela-pur police identified the body, which it had retrieved a day after the incident from the site of the mishap, the Tilak Nagar poli-ce arrested Sable.
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MLA alleges he could break into yerawada jail for `5L
Mumbai, July 24: A legislator on Wednesday created a flutter in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly after he told home minister R.R. Patil that he could “break into” Pune’s Yerawada Jail for `5 lakh. “I know what goes on in jails. I was in one for four years,” said Dhule MLA Anil Gote, an accused in the multi-crore Telgi stamp scam, who had been lodged in Yerawada Jail in the case.
Mr Gote made the remarks after Madhuri Misal, BJP MLA from Pune, asked Mr Patil about cellphones and other facilities being made available illegally to prisoners in Pune jail. Mr Misal raised the issue during the question-hour. The home minister said the process to install CCTVs and jammers in jails was in progress. Mr Gote intervened saying he knew what goes on behind the prison walls. “Jailors and the police are on payroll of gangs and make queues to get their share. And here you speak about security. Give me `5 lakh, I will break into Yerawada Jail,” Mr Gote said.
He further alleged that the jailor gets `25,000 per month as “hafta”. Mr Patil announced that the CID would probe the same.
— PTI