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As reported by PTI Sep 1, 2010

A fast track trial court today recorded final statements of five of the six accused in the TISS rape case.
In the statement recorded under section 313 of CrPC, the accused denied all the allegations leveled against them for raping a US national, studying at the TISS institute, in April last year.

“The five accused told the court that they had gone out with the girl for partying and then returned to the house of one of the accused. They denied having raped her,” defence lawyer Rohini Salian said.

Six students – Vinamra Soni (23), Harshavardhan Yadav (22), Jaskaran Singh (21), Dev Colabawala (21), Anish Borkatki (21) and Kundanraj Borgonain (22) were arrested in April soon after the alleged incident.

According to the police, on April 12 last year, the victim had gone to a party with a hostelmate and six of her male friends. The group had snacked and consumed liquor at Deonar’’s Cafe XO after which she, along with her male friends, went to Andheri. She was allegedly raped at Borgonain’’s rented flat there.

The girl’’s statement blames Soni as the main culprit who spiked her drink and raped her along with the other accused.
The court will record the statement of Borgonain on September 3.

Excerpt from TOI, reported by Anil Singh, Aug 29, 2010: Read Full Article

A 14-year-old boy lost his left hand in a lift accident at Mankhurd at 8 am on Sunday. The boy, Jalaluddin Ansari, had inserted his hand into the grille door of the elevator in an attempt to open it.

Ansari tried to open the door of the lift that was stuck on the first floor. He wanted to press the `door open’ button using a badminton racquet but ended up pressing the button for the fifth floor. The lift moved up, dragging his hand that was trapped in the grille door. Ansari’s hand was severed from the elbow.

Excerpt from Mumbai Mirror, reported by Priyanka Borpujari on 27th Aug 2010: Read Full Article

Tree lovers – Lahar Mehta and Satwiki Nair are spreading their love for the greens by conducting tree walks on Sunday in different nook and crannies of the city

The average Mumbaikar will attribute his lack of knowledge of local flora and fauna to the fact that there is indeed no green patch of land within the city limits, barring the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) and the Maharashtra Nature Park (MNP). Again, the trip to the first park would be far for some, while the latter’s locus in Dharavi would put off many people. However, challenging the popular notion of no trees is being challenged by two young women, who have dedicated their Sundays – rain or shine – to the understanding of leaves, flowers, roots and nature at large.

Lahar Mehta and Satwiki Nair – both 29 – have been walking through city lanes spotting trees and now have embarked upon a journey to get more people to understand trees better and relate to trees. A journey that began in April this year with a handful of people is fast shaping up into a popular group called ‘Walk The Mumbai Trees’. With passing times the number of the participants is shooting up thanks to the word-of-mouth publicity. It was obvious that the crowd would have been an eclectic one, considering that the torchbearers of this walk come from diverse professional backgrounds – Mehta is an interior architect and Nair is an IT professional.

Excerpt from TOI by Bharati Dubey, Payal Gwalani & Parvathy Gopalakrishnan, TNN, Aug 28, 2010

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Despite all the sound and fury created by the Shiv Sena and the MNS over multiplexes failing to screen Marathi films, the first-day, first-show of two films-`Paradh’ and `Navra Awali Baiko Lovely’-failed to garner a response from Mumbaikars. TOI visited many multiplexes across the city on Friday only to find that even matinee and evening shows were running to near empty halls. In some cinema halls, audience count was as low as four, while the maximum attendance was 66.

At Fun Cinemas , KStart Mall , Chembur, with the 5.45pm show of `Paradh’ selling only 10 tickets. The older film, `Aiyka Dajiba’, fared slightly better with a viewership of 30. Cinemax at Andheri had to cancel its 2.30 pm show of `Baiko Lovely’.

Excerpt from TOI, reported by Parvathy Gopalakrishnan & Pallavi Mukherji, TNN, Aug 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Residents of Ghatla, Chembur, and students of two schools are facing the consequences of living near two plots of land that are being used as dumping grounds. Almost 150 students of the Chembur Karnataka High School are down with malaria and viral fever and the unhygienic atmosphere in which they study is one of the primary causes. The nearby BMC school has also reported 35 cases of malaria.

The plots, partly private owned and partly owned by the BMC, are being used to dump rotten vegetables, industrial waste and for grazing cattle owned by residents of a nearby shanty. Although there is a public toilet right in front, people use the grounds for defecation, all of which has made it a living nightmare for residents and schools around. Despite repeated reminders, the BMC has done little. A senior official of the BMC M-Ward (West) said, “A complaint may have been received at the lower level. We are looking into the matter and will work out something as soon as possible.”

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A 15-year-old girl has been sent to the Mankhurd remand home for allegedly abandoning a month-old boy in Tilak Nagar last month. The police are now looking for the baby’s biological father, who has been charged with raping a minor and abandoning the child. According to the law, if any person has sexual relations with a minor, even with her consent, it amounts to rape.

“Last month, the control room got a call about an abandoned baby,” said a police official, requesting anonymity.Senior police inspector R.M. Gavit said: “We tracked down the mother, who is a minor, and booked her under the relevant section of the IPC.”

But parents of the girl, who studies in Class 10, denied that it was her baby. “However, medical reports have proved that the girl had delivered a baby recently,” Gavit added.

“The girl also admitted to having abandoned the infant and also disclosed the father’s name,” said an official. The police are taking legal advice to decide if a fresh complaint has to be registered or they could add rape to the existing section. The baby is presently at a government orphanage.

In a new service, Maharashtra’s Chief Minister promises you a token number and a 24 hour call back assurance if you lodge a complaint with the cops online in Mumbai

Sit back. Relax. Switch on the computer. Get online. Log into the state government’s website at www.maharashtra.gov.in. Type in your name, mobile number, email address and type of complaint. You will receive an SMS code to feed into the system which verifies your complaint. You then receive a tracking number. According to a Hindustan Times newspaper source, the police will then ackowledge your complaint within 24 hours, conduct initial investigations and then decide whether it merits an actual FIR report.

Maharashtra State Police gets the honor of being the first state in the country to handle citizen’s complains via a click of a button. And it sounds like, from the Indian Express quoting Home Minister R R Patil, that you will be charged for “the same”.

http://gms.maharashtra.gov.in/CMS/

Excerpt from Indian Express by Prashant Rangnekar on Aug 25, 2010 : Read Full Article

Even as the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is gearing up to complete the Santacruz-Chembur Link Road (SCLR) Project, trustees of a mosque near Tilak Nagar that is to be relocated to make way for the road have refused to shift until the MMRDA shows evidence that the new site is owned by it.

A letter to the MMRDA by the Jamat-ul-Muslimeen Housing Board (the mosque authorities) states that while it is not against development, MMRDA does not appear to own the plot of land where they are being asked to shift to.

“We’re not against development and are ready to move, but the MMRDA should send us a copy of the document that confirms the ownership. We have also learnt that a service road is being planned and if that happens we have to again shift,” said Shahnawaz Kalburgi, secretary of the mosque. “More importantly, MMRDA doesn’t own the plot which they are offering to us. Under what authority (they) are giving us the plot,” vice-president of the mosque Mohammed Khuthbuddin asked.

As reported in TOI Aug 25, 2010

A woman riding pillion on a motorcycle was killed after she was crushed by a heavy vehicle at Gavanpada, Vashi Naka, in Chembur. The incident occurred on Tuesday around 7 pm when Alpana Shelke (28) was returning home after tying rakhi on her brother Vidhu Patil, who resides at JJ Wadi in Chembur, the police said.

The driver of the heavy vehicle, Jeev Kadam (30), was nabbed from the spot and has been booked for rash and negligent driving, the police said.

In another accident, a 45-year-old woman riding pillion on a motorcycle was killed after she fell down and was crushed below the front tyre of a dumper. The mishap occurred on Monday on LBS Marg in Kurla (W) around 10.30 pm when the victim, Shamin Khan, was riding pillion with her son Habibulla (20), said the police.

A senior inspector said that the driver, Rahim Shaikh, fled from the spot in fear of getting thrashed by the mob. The next morning, Shaikh surrendered himself before the cops.

Read more: Two women killed in separate mishaps – Mumbai – City – The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Two-women-killed-in-separate-mishaps/articleshow/6428870.cms#ixzz10WnA21Mh