Ex-corporator gets jail for cheque bounce

PUNE: Former PCMC corporator Raju Anant Durge was recently sentenced to three months simple imprisonment in three different cheque bounce cases and was also told to pay a compensation of Rs 1,82,521 to retired teacher Abasaheb Dange by judicial magistrate first class Prashant Kale.
Durge is chairman of the Omkar co-operative credit society, where Dange had invested his hard earned money. Durge issued three cheques of various amounts to Dange after the maturity period, but all the cheques bounced due to insufficient balance.
As a result, Dange filed cases against Durge before the magistrate court under section 138 of the Negotiable Instrument Act. Durge said in defence that he had deposited the required amount at the district court and hence it was not binding on him to repay any amount to the retired teacher. But the magistrate rejected the plea and convicted him in the cheques bounce cases.
Advocates K.T. Aru, Pradeep Temgire and Sadhana Bhujbal appeared on behalf of Dange, meanwhile advocate R.V. Kulkarni represented Durge.
Inspector, others injured in mishap: A police inspector and two constables of the Pune rural police were injured when their vehicle was hit by a PMPML bus at Wakad on the old Pune-Mumbai highway early on Tuesday morning.
Inspector Bhausaheb Andhalkar, constables Mahesh Daundkar and Kamlesh Kusalkar and Nitin Sorte were in an Innova. According to the Hinjewadi police, they were heading towards Wakad in a private vehicle in order to conduct a raid after their official vehicle broke down. The PMPML bus, which was heading towards Wakad via Dange chowk, suddenly took a right turn and hit the Innova, which was coming from Kalewadi via the old highway around 6.20 am. The condition of the four in said to be stable. Sorte has registered a case against the driver of the PMPML bus.
Rickshaw driver gets RI for killing colleague: Autorickshaw driver Ashfaque Ansari (19) of Syednagar was sentenced to six years rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 1,000 for killing a fellow driver Salim Rehman Shaikh (27) of Hadapsar.
Additional public prosecutor Ramesh Ghorpade said that Ansari was a drunkard and frequently demanded money from Shaikh for buying liquor. On July 7, 2007, Ansari intercepted Shaikh and assaulted him with a sharp weapon, which resulted in Shaikh���s death. Ansari was arrested on a complaint lodged by the victim���s brother Hassan Shaikh. The prosecution examined eight witnesses after which fast track court judge H.S. Mahajan found Ansari guilty.
Woman duped: Geeta Nair (44), a hotelier from Haveli taluka, has filed a complaint accusing an unidentified person of duping her getting hold of her credit card details. According to the complaint, the accused introduced himself as an agent from a reputed bank and enquired after Nair���s credit card details. Later, the accused allegedly used the card number to buy tickets worth Rs 1 lakh to several places including Bangalore and Goa. The Hinjewadi police are investigating the case. In a similar incident, Vipal Sharda, a Bavdhan resident, has filed a plaint saying that an unidentified person made a duplicate of his ATM card and made transactions worth Rs 16,000.
Two held for embezzlement : The Bund Garden police have arrested two persons, Datta Gaikwad (39) and Khandu Karambalkar (21) for allegedly embezzling money from a firm involved in foreign exchange activities. Kamlesh Kanjar (32), an auditor of the firm, which has its headquarters in Mumbai, has filed a complaint saying the two suspects duped their branch on the Boat Club road of Rs 2.76 lakh. While reviewing accounts, Kanjar realised that cashier and accountant embezzled. tnn