Dhananjay Kulkarni

"During the meet we assured them that they should not feel insecure. They were also assured that the cops are present at any hour to safeguard them," said DCP Dhananjay Kulkarni.

Ratnagiri superintendent of police Dhananjay Kulkarni has suspended a constable over a ‘drink and drive’ case reported on Saturday evening. The drunk driver had dashed eight vehicles while returning from a bandobast duty in his Ertiga car. Almost all the damaged vehicles belog to tourists.

In a major setback to city police, a special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) dropped the stringent MCOCA charges from the 23 suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives who are accused of sending terror emails before and after the 2008 Gujarat serial bomb blasts.

The Shivaji park police have asked officials of Dena Bank’s Dadar (W) branch for recordings of closed-circuit televisions (CCTVs) over the past 15 days to track down the burglars who decamped with Rs 29.22 lakh cash on September 2.

Two men posing as policemen robbed a 55-year-old woman in Mahim of her gold ornaments worth Rs 6 lakh by holding her granddaughter at gunpoint on Wednesday.

A eunuch was picked up by his neighbour and three others who bundled him into a vehicle, took turns to allegedly sodomise him for over three hours, singed him with cigarettes and then doused him in kerosene before throwing him out of the car early on Thursday.

Six college students from the city were rescued by four professional trekkers on Saturday from near Jivdhan fort near Junnar on the Pune-Nashik highway, around 125 km from here.

The Deccan Gymkhana police are investigating a complaint by Dhananjay Kulkarni, secretary, Deccan Education Society (DES), accusing a woman assistant teacher of furnishing a bogus caste validity certificate to secure a job in a reserved category post at one of the schools run by the society

A 63-year-old man was recently arrested on charges of sexually assaulting the six-year-old daughter of his neighbour in Mahim's Naya Nagar after luring her to his hut with the promise of chocolates.

The Dadar police have arrested five people allegedly for throwing stones at and vandalizing the security guard cabin at Indiabulls office in Lower Parel on Sunday night.

The Ratnagiri Police Station Heads will be meeting to discuss ways to make the highways safer. The main focus of the meeting will be to install road safety signs. There have been a number of accidents on the highways recently, and the meeting is to try and prevent any more accidents.

A 43-year-old female police Naik was found dead at her official quarters next to city police head quarters. The woman's body, lying in a pool of blood, was found at the police colony's second floor where she resided with her husband and a nine-year-old son.

Tension prevailed at Lalbaug after a group of people allegedly hit people from another community at raound 10pm on Sunday.

The Dadar police have taken suo motu cognizance and lodged an FIR against an unidentified person who sexually abused a six-month-old baby.

A Pune resident has filed a PIL in Bombay High Court, challenging the state government's decision to cancel this year’s class 10 SSC exam due to a surge in Covid cases.

Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray has told education minister Varsha Gaikwad to share details of the SSC assessment methodology with schools not later than a week, said officials. Schools will have to assess the students and send their markings to Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE). The board will then decide the results date.

The maximum number of road accidents occur between 6pm and 3am, when people return home from the workplace or after partying.

The cop had allegedly threatened to arrest an IT professional and his friend.

A Bandra court has remanded taxi driver Virendrakumar Tiwari (40) in five days’ police custody for allegedly knocking down six people near Mint Colony in Mahim early on Wednesday.

A 12-year-old Std VI student from Kurla (W) reportedly staged her own kidnap on Friday when her parents turned down her request to get her enrolled in another school.

Bollywood and Bhojpuri actor Ravi Kishan has filled a missing complaint of his 19-year-old daughter with police here.

City top cop Rakesh Maria has transferred two senior officers—senior inspector Babaji Avhad of Sahu Nagar in Dharavi and acting senior inspector Popat Yelle of Mahim—to the local arms division after their subordinates were caught in bribery cases.

A Dharavi police team has left for Uttar Pradesh to arrest a woman, the prime suspect in the murder of 52-year-old grain dealer Vasant Jotha on Sunday.

A physical training teacher of a Dadar school was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly kissing a Class III student on the forehead.

A cast of 60 actors take stage to present Vaarta Vaarta Vadhe. The play introduces a quaint village and its quirky people. The villagers, through an inadvertent game of Chinese whispers, come to the conclusion that the world is ending and have to now deal with their issues in the face of impending doom.

In the year just gone by, Mumbai witnessed a case of credit/debit card fraud every alternate day (till November). The fast growing number is the result of changing methods adopted by fraudsters, a recent Mumbai police report said.

Vineet Karwadkar allegedly befriended a 15-year-old Kurla girl on a social networking site and got her to part with 230 gm of gold ornaments worth approximately Rs 5.75 lakh.

An 18-year-old collegian alleged that she was kidnapped by a youth (known by face) and two accomplices on Tuesday in broad daylight on the main road near Portuguese Church in Dadar (W) and left her back below the Sion Flyover five hours later.