Wagh likens Maha min to Jyotiba Phule

2 MORE HELD FOR MURDER OF HISTORY-SHEETER

Navi Mumbai: The Panvel Taluka police have arrested two more persons for the murder of a history-sheeter from Pune, identified as Sanjay Karla, whose body was found in November. The suspects—identified as Sushil Dharma Yadav (38) and Rohit Bharat Kanitkar (36)—were arrested from Karanjade in Panvel. So far, four persons have already been arrested in the case. The crime branch had arrested two persons in the case on January 05.

MAN BOOKED FOR SUBMITTING FORGED DOCUMENTS IN FRIEND’S BAIL PROCEDURE

Thane: A man was booked for allegedly submitting fake documents in the bail process of a friend in Kalyan railway court, a police official said. The accused had submitted fake tax receipts, Aadhaar and ration card photocopies and a false affidavit as part of his personal details in the court while standing surety for a person accused of robbery by railway police, he said. The man has been booked for cheating, forgery and other offences at MFC police station on the complaint of a court official, he added.

3 OF A FAMILY END

LIVES, BLAME MONEYLENDER

Nashik: A 55-year-old man and his two sons ended their lives by hanging in the Radha Krishna Nagar area of Satpur Sunday. As per the suicide note left behind, they had ended their lives due to harassment by a moneylender.

The deceased have been identified as Deepak Supdu Shirode(55), Prasad(25) and Rakesh(23). Deepak Shirode’s wife had gone to the temple with their youngest son, 19-year-old Harshal when the three men took the extreme step in three different rooms of their house, the police said.

7 jobseekers lose nearly `19L in online fraud

Thane (PTI): Seven jobseekers were allegedly cheated of nearly Rs19 lakh by an unidentified person on the pretext of providing them part-time employment in Thane, police said on Monday.

An offence under the Information Technology

ILLEGAL GAS REFILL CENTRE BUSTED, 2 HELD

Mumbai: The officers of crime branch Unit 2 arrested two persons for illegally filling domestic gas into vehicles in the Satpur area. The police also confiscated 21 LPG cylinders, electric motor, weighing machine and cash collectively worth Rs91,000 from the two accused, identified as Mahesh Gangurde and Nilesh Ingle. On Saturday, constable Rajendra Ghumre of the crime branch received information about the illegal business, and a raid was carried out following the same, the officials said.

First India Bureau Mumbai: The Shiv Sena - Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray on Monday took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over right-wing groups taking out a march against “Love Jihad” in Mumbai on Sunday.

An editorial in its mouthpiece Saamana

Act was registered on Sunday based on a complaint lodged by one of the victims who lost Rs2.82 lakh to fraudsters, an official said. According to the complainant, she had received a message from an unknown number on an app about the availa- bility of part-time jobs last month, he said. The victim was asked to carry out some activities on the app and on YouTube, after which some money was credited to her account. However, after more such activities, she found that Rs2.82 lakh had been si- phoned from her account. On realizing that she had been cheated, the woman approached the police and found that six others had been duped in the same manner, he said, adding that the seven victims have lost nearly Rs19 lakh in the fraud.

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Chandrakant

First India Bureau

Pune: Bharatiya Janata

Party leader Chitra

Wagh has compared Maharashtra cabinet minister and her senior party colleague Chandrakant Patil with social reformer Mahatma Jyotiba Phule.

Notably, state Higher and Technical Education Minister Patil, who is an MLA from Pune, had kicked up a row by commenting that BR Ambedkar and Jyotiba Phule did not seek government grants for running educational institutions, but “begged” people to gather funds needed to start schools and colleges.

We can see Savitribai (wife of Phule and pioneer of women’s education in Maharashtra in the 19th century) in households, but a search is on for a Jyotiba (Phule) like Chandrakant Patil and BJP leader Hemant Rasne.

The use of the word “begged” had stirred up a controversy, resulting in an ink attack on Patil. Wagh, who heads the state BJP women’s wing, made the comments on Sunday at a programme organized here by local party leader Hemant Rasne which was also attended by Patil.