Topic: Maharashtra
PFI: 4 Muslim men held under UAPA in Maharashtra
The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested four Muslim men associated with the Popular Front of India (PFI) from Panvel in neighbouring Raigad district.
Bombay HC grants bail to ex minister Anil Deshmukh in money laundering case
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted bail to former Maharashtra minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Anil Deshmukh in a money laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate.
Angry with hotelier, drunk man calls cops with ‘info on threat to Shinde’s life’, arrested
The arrested person Avinash Waghmare (36), a resident of Mumbai’s Ghatkopar, was drunk when he made the hoax call to the control room from Lonavala. He allegedly wanted to teach a lesson to the hotel owner for overcharging him for a bottle of water.
Maha CM claims PFI protesters shouted ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ in Pune, Police say no
Top Maharashtra government functionaries including chief minister Eknath Shinde and his deputy Devendra Fadnavis claimed that members of the Popular Front of India had shouted “Pakistan Zindabad” slogans during a protest in Pune against the arrest of their leaders a few days earlier.
“RSS involved in bomb-blast across India,” claims former RSS worker
Yashwant Shinde, a former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker claimed in an affidavit filed in Maharashtra’s Nanded court that he took part in a bomb-making camp a year before the 2004 Lok Sabha election and that the organisations connected to the RSS were responsible for a slew of bomb explosions around the nation.
15 of 20 ministers in Maharashtra face criminal cases: ADR
Seventy-five per cent of the Maharashtra ministers have declared criminal cases against themselves, the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) said.
