Woman held at Pune airport with gold of Rs 20l PUNE: Customs authorities have arrested a woman Monday. According to the officials, the woman arrived 4 passenger at the international airport here for allegedly from Dubai by a Spicejet flight on Sunday morning. THE FREEMUMBAI/STATE PRESSJOURNAL trying to smuggle gold paste worth around Rs 20 lakh Sleuths intercepted the woman under the belief that MUMBAI | TUESDAY | FEBRUARY 18, 2020 that was concealed in her body, officials said on she was carrying contraband goods, they said. Inter-state gang Eighteen arrested from stealing trucks Man held for killing watchman in Powai busted, 6 held PRIYANKA NAVALKAR incident, making him a Avinash Pandey, 38, was on a ted in another, he was also run since three months in a Mumbai prime suspect in the murder. � wanted in an arms posses- AGENCIES/ Aurangabad Police sought Pandey's de- gambling case that involved sion case at Allahabad," said gambling den in Andheri Close to three months after a tails from the security killing of a security guard Ankit Ankit Goyal, Deputy Com- Six members of an inter- security guard, Ankit Singh, agency that hired him, only Singh, a 22-yr-old missioner of Police (Zone 10). state gang stealing heavy- 22, was found murdered in the to realise that he had given Interestingly, Pandey was duty tipper trucks and sell- Several IT professionals and businessmen involved parking lot of a Powai high- fake addresses and numbers. very confident that he will ing them in several parts of rise, police arrested the prime Primary probe revealed get away with these murders the country were arrested in suspect, Avinash Pandey, 38, that Pandey and Singh had and was never planning to re- Aurangabad district, police STAFF REPORTER rested for running and man- at Oshiwara police station. from Delhi on Sunday. Police become close friends, who turn to Mumbai. Moreover, said on Monday. Mumbai aging the club, while sixteen All the eighteen accuse have said, Pandey had earlier mur- would consume alcohol and even after getting caught, Superintendent of Police others were arrested for sev- been released on bail subse- dered two persons, including play Ludo during night Pandey claimed that 'Lord Mokshada Patil identified In its crackdown against the eral offences involved in quently after the arrest. The his cousin in 2000 and 2008, shifts. They even gambled Bholenaath' had told him not them as local resident Shiva- prostitution and gambling gambling. "When the arrest- investigation also re- and was short tempered. while playing the game, to stay in Delhi as there was a ji Lahire (26), his Nashik- rackets running in the city, ed people were taken to the vealed that the 700- He was arrested from which often led to fights be- grave danger, said Goyal. based relative Mahesh the Social Service (SS) police station and inquired sqft flat, in which Delhi after being on tween the two over monetary Police said, Pandey was ar- Birute (38), and ring leader branch of the Mumbai police about their profession, many the club was op- the run — visiting issues. On October 27, the off that Pandey was coming rested based on human intel- Abdul Kaleem (40) from recently busted a high profile of them were found out to be erating since six cities in three duo was playing the game as to Delhi's Kamala Market ligence as he had neither Surat in Gujarat. Divakar case in Oshiwara. IT professionals and busi- last few months, months to evade ar- per tradition and an argu- and laid a trap to nab him contacted his family in Alla- Eknath Chavan (22) and Sub- Eighteen people were ar- nessmen from well-to-do fam- was rented by rest. ment over money escalated, there. As per information, habad since 12 years, nor neshkumar Bhatia (26) use to rested, of them, several were ilies," an SS branch officer 32-year-old Mon- Singh, a security after which Pandey, who was Pandey walked right into the used a mobile phone after the steal the trucks from Maha- IT professionals and busi- said. The SS branch officers ish Paleza for Rs guard at Lodha short tempered, slit Singh's trap and was arrested. murder in October last year. rashtra, Gujarat and Uttar nessmen, according to the SS have recovered Rs 91,000 in 10,000 per day. Ac- Supreme in Powai, was throat with a sharp knife, "Pandey had fled to several Pandey was arrested on Sun- Pradesh, while Mohammad branch officer. cash and 2,120 poker coins re- cording to the SS branch found in a pool of blood with killing him. cities like Pune, Satara, Oris- day and booked under rele- Istikhan would deactivate Acting on a tip-off, a team portedly worth Rs 35 lakh officer, such gambling clubs a slit throat. Powai Police Powai Police had made sev- sa, Gujarat, Bengaluru be- vant sections of the Indian the GPS and other equip- from SS branch raided a along with a diary of cus- are allegedly running in the had registered a case of mur- eral teams to trace the ac- fore he was nabbed at Delhi. Penal Code for murder. He ment in them, Patil added. gambling den running at tomer's record. After the city in residential premises, der against unknown per- cused, but Pandey gave po- He survived by selling his was produced in a local mag- Lahire was held two days Samartha Aishwarya build- raid, an offence under the and hence, it becomes diffi- sons and soon realised that lice a slip everytime hours mobile phone and working istrate court on Monday and ago and his questioning led ing in Oshiwara. During the sections of Maharashtra cult to raid them without the Singh's colleague, Avinash before they could reach. On odd jobs. Pandey was wanted remanded in police custody to the arrest of five others on raid, two persons were ar- Gambling Act was registered specific information. Pandey was missing after the Sunday, police received a tip- in a murder case and acquit- till February 21. Sunday, Patil informed. EX-TOP COP SEEKS TO SET RECORD STRAIGHT IN TELL-ALL 3 arrested for robbing donation

STAFF REPORTER the officer chosen as his successor 2015, he interrogated Peter Mukerjea of the trail! Such subterfuge!” boxes from temples, mosques Mumbai at the Mumbai Police chief’s post on his inaction after his son Rahul Maria alleges in his book, saying he had social relations with the Muk- had informed him about Sheena’s could not sleep a wink that night. STAFF REPORTER police checked the footage In his book titled `Let Me Say It erjeas. Maria has also alleged that sudden disappearance. Asked why The next morning, Maria received Mumbai near Dahisar toll plaza, they Now’, former Mumbai Police Com- someone had been feeding wrong he did nothing about it, Peter al- a message from then Additional noticed an autorickshaw missioner Rakesh Maria has finally information to then Chief Minister legedly refuted this and replied, “Sir, Chief Secretary (Home) K P Bakshi, Kasturba Marg Police arrest- minutes after the incident. put out his version of the events sur- Devendra Fadnavis about the case. I had told Deven! Peter answered informing him that he had been pro- ed three men including a fa- The autorickshaw had words rounding his sudden transfer from Writing about his visits to Khar looking at Deven Bharti, Joint CP moted as DG (Home Guards). ther-son duo for looting the ‘Kalu Bai Prasann’ written the post during the Sheena Bora police station to personally interro- (Law and Order),” Maria alleges. Maria also writes that a week af- donation box installed at on it. Police noted the num- murder probe, and on allegations at gate the accused, which was ques- Rakesh Maria spilled beans over “I looked at Deven with a quizzical ter his removal from the CP’s post, temples. The arrested trio ber and sought details from the time that he had taken undue in- tioned as the CP taking undue in- � his sudden transfer while look on my face, but he was poker- it was learnt that it was not him, were autorickshaw drivers the Regional Transport Of- terest in the case to protect Peter terest in the case at the time, Maria investigating the Sheena Bora case faced. And silent. I looked around but his successor at the post, by day and thieves at night, fice (RTO), and traced the ac- Mukerjea and his ex-wife Indrani, says he wanted to be sure his offi- the room and sensed that even the Ahmed Javed, who knew the Muk- which was their main occu- cused. both accused in the murder case. cers were ``on the right track’’. He other officers were taken aback at erjeas socially and were invitees to pation, said police. The trio The accused trio, identified Following Maria’s transfer and writes that his officers were aware he writes, news channels conveyed Peter’s disclosure,” Maria adds. his Eid party. was arrested late on Satur- as Murtuza Husain Shaikh, promotion as DG (Home Guards), it of his penchant for “complex and an impression that he had gone “Here the overzealous media was On his unexpected transfer and day and booked under rele- his son Aqueeb Murtuza was speculated that then Chief Min- knotty cases”. On his visits to Khar every day, he writes. suspecting me of being friends with promotion before his tenure as CP vant sections of the Indian Shaikh, 21, and Yaseen Khan, ister Devendra Fadnavis had trans- police station, Maria states this was “I did not know either Peter of In- the Mukerjeas when I had absolute- Mumbai was due to end, Maria says Penal Code. 21, all autorickshaw drivers, ferred him as he was unhappy with to save his officers’ time, rather drani Mukerjea from Adam. How- ly nothing to do with them, but the the `Mantralaya tsars’ had been jus- After three burglaries were used to loot temples and the officer’s role in the police probe. than call them to his office. “I did ever,for some reason, the media be- same media had not found that my tifying the move under various pre- reported in western subur- mosques only on Mondays or In the book, a chronicle of his ca- not feel even for a moment that it gan reporting that I knew them Joint CP (L&O) was a very good texts. Maria writes,“The somer- ban areas like Kandivli, Tuesdays owing to the in- reer and the important cases he was below my dignity to do so, or very well! When I got to know this, I friend of the Mukerjeas! How saults were designed to make a di- Borivli (E) and Dahisar, po- crease in crowd on weekends. cracked, Maria has not only blamed was uncalled for,” Maria writes. vehemently denied it and made it strange! Who was deliberately feed- gestible case for public consump- lice made a special team to Moreover, the arrested trio a senior Maharashtra Police officer He states he visited Khar police amply clear that the first time I had ing them with such cock and bull tion for my transfer on promotion nab the accused. According- would not use their own au- of keeping him in the dark about vi- station four times during the fort- ever met them was in the Khar po- stories to hide the truth? There was which was unceremonious, sudden, ly, police scrutinised the torickshaw for committing tal information related to Sheena night that the probe was underway lice station,” Maria writes. a definite attempt to create a smoke- ‘a bit early’ and in the midst of a CCTV camera footage from the crime, but would steal one Bora’s disappearance, but also said during his tenure as CP. However, Maria writes that on September 7, screen and put us off the real scent sensitive investigation.” the spot. Interestingly, when just to commit the robbery.

IN THE COURT OF SMALL CAUSES AT MUMBAI MARJI APPLICATION NO. 357 OF 2018 IN R.A.D. SUIT NO. 1341 OF 2006 1. Deshbhushan Co-operative Housing Society Ltd. having its Regd. Office at A-51, Patil Estate, CS No. 654/D, Malabar and Cumballa Hill Division, 278, Tardeo Road, Tardeo, Mumbai - 400 007 Regn.No.BOM/HSG/3755 of 1972) ... Applicant (Original Defendant) Versus Shri. Vishnu Ramchandra Kalbate Indian inhabitant, Age: 55 occupation: Service, Residing at Room No. D-95, CS No. 654/D, Malabar and Cumballa Hill Division, Off: Javjee Ddajee Marg, Tardeo Road, Tardeo, Mumbai - 400 007, through his Constituted Attorney Shri Raju Dattaram Awte, Age-29, Occupation Service, Residing at Room No. 36, Building No. 18, Mankhurd Transit Camp, Mankhurd, Mumbai - 400 088. ...Respondent (Original Plaintiffs) To, The Respondent (Original Plaintiffs) abovenamed, WHEREAS, Applicant (Original Defendant) abovenamed has taken out Application dated 01st December, 2018 i.e, Marji Application No. 357 Of 2018 against the Respondent (Original Plaintiffs) praying therein that Condone the delay 4422 days if any, in filing the above interlocutory application in the interest of justice and grant such other and further reliefs if an when the circumstances arise, and for such other and further reliefs, as prays in the said Application. YOU are hereby warned to appear before the Hon’ble Judge presiding over Court Room No. 13, 04th floor, Old Building, Court of Small Causes, L.T. Marg, Mumbai - 400 002, in person or by authorized Pleader duly instructed on the 26th February, 2020 at 2:45 p.m., to show cause against the Application, failing wherein, the said Application will be heard and determined Ex-parte. YOU may obtain the copy of the said application from Court Room No. 13 of this court. Given under the seal of the Court this 15th day of January, 2020. Sd/- Seal Additional Registrar.