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RNI NO. : MAHENG/2015/68543 Volume : 6 Issue : 15 Mumbai, 1 December to 15 December 2020 Pages : 4 Price : ` 2/- Covid-19 situation under control, need to watch till mid-December : Mumbai civic body MUMBAI : A rise in infections, without a sharp The daily number of Covid-19 cases, however, spike, suggests the Covid-19 situation is in control has risen to 1,000, from the range of 500 earlier this post Diwali, say Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation month before Diwali. (BMC) officials, however, insisting the need to watch “In the past 15 days, the testing has gone up, it till mid-December. and we have also witnessed a little surge in the daily Between November 1 and 28, 23,476 cases were cases being reported. With the increase in testing, reported, compared to 46,620 cases during the same we will have to wait and watch at least till December period in October. 15 to understand better the post-Diwali surge,” a According to data, 3.68 lakh tests were conducted BMC official said. between October 1 and 28, compared to 3.48 lakh tests Further, the fatality rate has come down from in the same period during November. In the same October 1 to 28 (1,224 deaths), to 529 during the same period, the case positivity rate came down from 12% period during November. According to BMC officials, to 6%. the testing had gone down in November (Page 3) Automen's union willing to help Woman Nabbed With Pure Quality State Government to get rid of MD Worth Rs 50 Lakh In Kurla Mumbai : The Anti-Narcotics illegal autos, transporters Cell (ANC) of the Mumbai Police Mumbai : has arrested a 26-year-old woman Mumbai automen's with 503 gms of pure quality union has again said Mephedrone (MD) worth Rs 50 its members are lakh, which the cops said was her willing to come per day sale. While the agency forward to help the claims that she was one of the government get rid of major suppliers of MD in the city, illegal autos and they have also found out that her transporters who family members were involved in have become a big drug trafficking as well. headache. They claim Based on a tip off, the ANC the peddlers, who would then sell out about those working for her," they are spoiling the name of the set up a welfare board for auto officers laid a trap at LBS Road, it off to customers from across Nalawade added. auto fraternity and have offered drivers so that it will generate Kurla and arrested the accused, the city," said Datta Nalawade, The ANC further said that she 365 days help to identify and proper schemes for all those identified as Shabina Khan. The deputy commissioner of police, was in the drug business for the weed them out. registered," he said. Rao claimed agency has found out that about ANC. "She has been arrested past six years. "Some of her family Meeting Maharashtra's that Parab has agreed to work out 15-20 drug peddlers work under under several sections of the members have similar cases Transport Minister Anil Parab on a seven-day drive, but Rao said a her. "Initial investigation revealed NDPS Act and we are registered against them and her Friday, Mumbai Automen's Union longer and sustained drive would that 500 gms is her per day sale, investigating the matter to find husband too has a (Page 3) leader Shashank Sharad Rao, be important. which she used to hand over to representing 15 lakh auto rickshawmen, made the proposal Five-year-old boy crushed to in addition to several demands for BMC will give out free masks, the industry, also seeking Rs death in lift accident in Dharavi 10,000 per month as help in these after charging Rs 200 penalty difficult times, waiving off loans Mumbai : A 5-year-old boy was trying to close grill, he was on autos that have been taken by was crushed to death in a lift caught between wooden door jobless youth and to remove the from COVID-19 rules violators accident in his building in Dharavi and shaft" told an officer from area on Saturday, police said. The Shahu Nagar Police station. restrictions imposed on automen Mumbai : After boy is identified as Mohammed Jawans of Fire Brigade as Unlock continues. receiving major flack Sarfraj Sheikh. He was going removed body of child from "We have said this earlier too. for its massive action home with his siblings when he bottom of the lift duct. He was We are willing to help the against those not got caught between the lift door rushed to Sion Hospital where authorities to do it, but the wearing masks, the and the shaft. Shahu Nagar police he was pronounced dead on authorities should carry out a BMC has now come have registered an Accidental arrival by doctors. "We have sustained and sincere drive. We up with the idea of Death Report (ADR) in verified the CCTV footage and will give our representatives for handing out free connection with the incident. confirmed there is no foul play. such a drive to identify and weed masks. Municipal According to Shahu Nagar An ADR has been filed in the odd ones out," Rao said. Commissioner Iqbal cops, the incident occurred at connection with the incident. We "Another of our important Singh Chahal had demands is of a public servant Kozi Shelter Building at Dharavi are requesting parents to be directed maximum action against masks to violators in addition to status for auto drivers like Cross Road around 12.45 pm more careful when kids travel in citizens found not wearing masks. the fines. MSRTC or BEST bus drivers has when Sarfraj along with his 7 and lift" said Shashikant Gangawane, The corporation initiated The corporation has collected been pending for a long time. 3-year-old sisters was returning Senior Inspector of Shahu Nagar significant action in September Rs 10.07 crore in fines imposed This will ensure safety and to home through the elevator. Police station. "There should be after reducing the fine amount on 4.85 lakh citizens over the past security of the those in the auto "Both of his sister opened the liftman in every lift, if it's not from Rs 1,000 to Rs 200. Now, it few months. "The best way to industry. The government should iron grill and wooden safety door available, parents should be has decided to provide free prevent COVID-19 is (Page 3) and went home. When Sarfraj careful" he added. 2 CRIME EXPLORER Mumbai, 1 December to 15 December 2020 EDITORIAL Private doctors await help from Closer to punishment: Maharashtra government On Tahawwur Rana's MUMBAI : With no government insurance for private role in 26/11 attacks medical practitioners, despite 62 More than 12 years since the dastardly attacks across Covid-19 deaths and repeated prominent locations in Mumbai, its key conspirators have pleas of the Indian Medical continued to evade justice in India. While nine of the attackers Association (IMA), HT speaks to were shot dead by the police between November 26-29, 2008, one family members of the victim of them, Ajmal Kasab, was apprehended and sentenced to death doctors, for whom the struggle is after a trial that revealed the conspiracy and planning by LeT endless. operatives among others responsible for the attacks. One among On May 23, Dr Zabir Hussain, the foreign collaborators is Tahawwur Rana, who conspired with 51, a general physician from former FBI agent David Headley to assist the LeT in the planning Chembur, who also worked with and execution. Rana, a Pakistani-Canadian citizen, was found guilty government ambulance service by a U.S. court in 2011 of providing material support to the LeT (108) for Covid-19 patients at and planning an attack on the offices of the Danish newspaper, night, succumbed to Covid-19 Jyllands-Posten, and was later sentenced to 14 years in prison. infection. He is survived by his Unlike Headley, who escaped extradition after entering into a plea wife and three teenaged children. gatekeepers in screening Covid- in Covid-19 duty,” asked Deepak bargain with the U.S. prosecutors and was sentenced to 35 years Till May, they managed the 19 patients, the state, under the Baid, president, Association of in prison, Rana was acquitted in the U.S. of charges of involvement household with Hussain’s Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, had Medical Consultant, who has in the 2008 terror attacks. An Illinois court commuted his jail monthly salary of ?27,000. With directed private physicians to also written to the state chief sentence that was scheduled to end in September 2021, after he no money left after his death, the keep their clinics open. In the minister’s office. tested positive for COVID-19; this has opened the window for his family moved back to their initial days of the pandemic, Most families of physicians extradition to India. Rana, according to Headley, had helped him hometown in Uttar Pradesh. “My many private practitioners who died of Covid-19 infection to open an immigration firm in Mumbai, which was used by Headley father worked day and night even screened people, risking their that HT spoke to criticised the to survey targets chosen by the LeT. An extradition memorandum during the pandemic for an lives as they were not even state for ignoring their plight. The filed by U.S. prosecutors in a California district court has reaffirmed income. I am the eldest son, but I provided with safety equipment kin of Dr Mithkesh Rampal Singh Rana’s role and provides more detail into the conspiracy and the am too young to work.