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Accused in New India Cooperative Bank scam case arrested, remanded to PC

Mumbai Mar 16 (UNI) The Economic Offences Wing of the Mumbai Police on Sunday arrested Kapil Dedhia, who was wanted in the Rs 122-crore New India Cooperative Bank misappropriation case, from Vadodara in Gujrat
Dedhia is the fifth accused to be arrested in the case., in connection with the embezzlement of Rs 122 crore from the safe of New India Cooperative Bank.
Dedhia is a civil contractor by profession. He was on the run for the past three weeks. EOW’s team was trying to locate him desperately and even visited multiple places in Kutch (Gujarat) and Jaipur (Rajasthan), but in vain.
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Seven Thai women rescued from prostitution den

15 Apr 2026 | 11:48 PM

Mumbai, Apr 15 (UNI) Seven Thai women were rescued from a prostitution racket at a popular spa in Belapur area of neighbouring New Mumbai while an offence is registered against the owner and manager of the spa, police said today.

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Theft in Mumbai Corporation Standing Committee Meeting

15 Apr 2026 | 11:37 PM

Mumbai, Apr 15 (UNI) In an incident inside the Bombay Muncipal Corporation headquarters, Rs 20,000 was allegedly stolen from the purse of Shiv Sena (UBT) corporator Laxmi Bhatia during lunch time following the civic standing committee meeting on Wednesday.

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Kolhapur: 100 villagers injured in bee attack, 12 serious

15 Apr 2026 | 10:58 PM

Kolhapur, Apr 15 (UNI) More than 100 villagers were injured, 12 of them seriously, when they were attacked by a swarm of bees as they were gathered for the last rites of a fellow villager, at Yelavade village in Radhanagari tehsil of this district.
According to Radhanagari tehsil police, more than 100 villagers, including relatives of the dead person, were gathered at the cremation ground for the last rites, and were waiting for a crow for the 'Raksha Visarjan' ritual.

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Maha: BJP’s Minister Vikhe Patil says he met godman after Shinde Sena MLA insisted

15 Apr 2026 | 10:57 PM

Mumbai, Apr 15 (UNI) Senior BJP leader and Maharashtra's Minister for Water Resources Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil today clarified that he met arrested godman “Captain” Ashok Kharat only due to the insistence of Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena MLA Deepak Kesarkar.

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Conditional lifting of LOC against British citizen Dr Patil, State Informs HC

15 Apr 2026 | 9:38 PM

Mumbai, Apr 15 (UNI) The Maharashtra Government informed the Bombay High Court on Wednesday that it had no objection to lifting the Look Out Circular (LOC) against British citizen of Indian origin Dr Sangram Patil named in an FIR for alleged objectionable social media posts against BJP leaders, if the investigation reports are not made available within three weeks.

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