Regd. No. MH/MR/South-160/2012-14 RNI Regn. No. 43675/1985 MUMBAI WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 2013 32 PAGES `3 Website: www.afternoondc.in
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wo days ago a 22-year old person was arrested for appearing as a proxy at the written exam of the Police Bharti Examinations 2013, which is a police recruitment test. The accused, identified as Pawan Bhahure, was sitting in for candidate Kisan Dhomal, who is his relative, said police personnel from the N M Joshi Marg police station. Dhomal has also been arrested by the police who were waiting outside the examination center. A preliminary inquiry revealed that the faces of both the accused were a bit similar and so they decided to cheat the examiner, said Sudhakar Ghagare, senior inspector of N M Joshi Marg police station. According to police, Dhomal had applied for the Police Bharti Examinations 2013 for the post of constable. He had undergone the physical fitness examinations and was supposed to clear the written examina-
tion of General Knowledge paper, which was scheduled on Sunday. The examinations were conducted in various schools across the city and one of the examination centers was the Holy Cross School in Elphinstone. “When the candidates came out of the examination hall after completing their paper, one of the candidates approached us and pointed out towards a candidate and raised suspicion of him being a dummy candidate. We questioned the candidate, who turned out to be a proxy,” said inspector Ramesh Shinde, attached to the N M Joshi Marg police station. Bhahure then gave investigators the cell phone number of the real candidate Kisan Dhomal, who was waiting just outside the school. Both of them were then taken to police station and arrested under sections 419 (cheating by personation), 420 (cheating) and 34 (common intention) of IPC.
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This stand-off is probably why Shewale (extreme left) decided to call it a day!
Potholes claim first important victim in Rahul Shewale
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By Vishnudas Sheshrao
tanding committee chairman Rahul Shewale has handed in his resignation from his post to Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray yesterday evening. Taking “moral responsibility” over the deteriorating condition of roads and mushrooming potholes, the corporator is reported to have seemed under considerable pressure during the tour of his party
boss to the worst spots in Mumbai on Monday evening. Predictably however, the Opposition has criticised the whole thing as drama to buy time and
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divert the attention of an enraged public, fed up with the state of the city’s roads. Shewale, four times consecutively
chairman of the Standing Committee, the most powerful such body in the BMC, is at 36 years, the youngest chairman in the civic body. He told reporters that he regretted that Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray had to express a public apology for bumpy ride due to mushrooming potholes, poor repair and maintenance of the roads.
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