Anil Kamble

A 31-year-old woman was arrested by the police in a two-year-old case of cheating. Tasneem Vohra, the accused, had moved to Dubai. Her co-accused, Anil Kamble, was arrested in 2009.

An art teacher from Sangamner, Anil Kamble, has claimed that he has created the world's smallest Ganesh idol.

The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) had to rectify the electricity bills of over three lakh customers because of faulty meters or incorrect readings during the initial phase of the pandemic last year.

Deshonnati edged past Sakal by one wicket in thriller to enter the Super Six stage of the OCW-SJAN Inter-Press Cricket tournament, organized by the Sports Journalists’ Association of Nagur (SJAN), at the Vasant Nagar ground here on Wednesday.

The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) has not made public its reliability indices of service since September last year, evoking sharp criticism from consumer activists.

Bhoiwada police on Sunday raided an ayurvedic centre in Dadar and arrested its manager for running a prostitution racket under the banner of a pharma company. The cops rescued a woman working as a masseuse who was also a part of the prostitution racket.

A metropolitan court on Thursday ordered investigation against Sardarnagar police officials on accusations of extortion and criminal intimidation levelled by a bootlegger. The court has ordered probe against the cops with observation that the deputy commissioner of police zone-4 appears to have intention of shielding the cops.

A businessman from Badlapur, Anil Kamble (50), was duped online of Rs 53,000 with a promise of a job contract for a hospital in Pune.

Two persons were killed after an accident between a motorcycle and a moped on Mangli-Baranj road in Bhadrawati tehsil late on Sunday evening.Anil Kamble was heading towards Mangli on his moped.

A court in Ahmednagar has convicted a power consumer and sentenced him to two years’ rigorous imprisonment for pilferage of power supplied by MSEDCL.

State energy minister Nitin Raut on Friday directed the state power utility firm, MSEDCL to make it convenient for over 1.5 crore residential consumers across state to register complaints regarding power failure from home.

The Chandrapur Electrical Contractors’ Association (CECA), the union of electrical contractors working for the Maharashtra state electricity distribution company Ltd (MSEDCL), is on a warpath over the denial by the company to raise the cost data (rate of work) in accordance with the hike in the market rate of materials. The maintenance, upgrade and breakdown work of MSEDCL has taken a hit as the contractors attached to the association have stalled work for the company.

"The case pertains to 2018 when there was a drive conducted to recover pending electricity bill arrears," said MSEDCL chief spokesperson Anil Kamble. He said that a team had gone to the residence of Ganesh Talokar (52), a resident of Vishawanath colony in Amravati. They informed him that he should pay the bills, else face disconnection of power supply.

"In the past, the punishment was up upto a year. But this is perhaps the first time that a power thief in MSEDCL jurisdiction has been sent for two years in jail. This will send a strong message to others and create a huge deterrent," said MSEDCL chief spokesperson Anil Kamble.

Anil Kamble (35) has a predilection for duping people, with 11 cheating cases against his name in the last eight years. Surprisingly, he is none too despairing when he is caught by the police, usually rather easily. For, Kamble is homeless and a kidney patient too, and where better than jail to get free food and regular dialysis.

Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited

Over 27 lakh consumers in the Pune zone experienced around 1,099 incidents of power interruptions in December last year as compared to 14,000 such incidents across the state in the same month.

Lokmat overwhelmed Sakal by seven wickets to retain the title of the 16th VICCO-SJAN Inter-Press Twenty20 Cricket tournament, organized by the Sports Journalists' Association of Nagpur, at Ambedkar College ground on Saturday.

Consumer activists have slammed MSEDCL for not making public its reliability indices of service since January year.

The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited conducted an intensive three-day drive against power thefts and detected 383 cases across the state between April 24 and 26.

More than 5,000 consumers faced temporary power disconnections in the past three weeks due to non-payment of electricity bills for several months, a MSEDCL official said on Monday.