Punevoice: Pune news

Pune residents were allegedly cheated of lakhs in digital arrest threats, fake challans and crypto investment scams, among them a 75-year-old woman from Karvenagar who was allegedly cheated of ₹32 lakh.

On Monday night, a car allegedly driven on the wrong side of the road and at high speed rammed a two-wheeler on Shinde Bridge in Shivane, near the Warje-Kothrud belt.

Two groups allegedly got into a violent street fight in Bhekrainagar, Pune, and a video of it has gone viral on social media.

The video shows men kicking and assaulting each other. It has raised concerns over public safety and law and order.

Three minors allegedly launched a life-threatening koyta attack on a 26-year-old on the road in Tinhewadi, Khed, on Tuesday, 10 November, at about 2:45 pm, while he was riding a two-wheeler.

A 48-year-old man at Hinjawadi’s Blue Ridge Society was left with a dislocated shoulder after the accused allegedly assaulted him over a previous complaint.

The residents’ dispute turned violent, and the accused also allegedly threatened his wife and children.

Hinjawadi Police have registered a case and are investigating.

Traffic came to a standstill on both sides of the Old Mumbai-Pune Highway at Kamshet after a container trailer travelling from Pune towards Mumbai overturned.

A speeding truck rammed into a two-wheeler on Rambaug Road in Bhor, Pune district, on Tuesday and dragged it for about 300 metres; both vehicles caught fire, and a young man died while another was seriously injured.

On Tuesday, 10 November, a speeding truck rammed a two-wheeler on Rambaug Road in Bhor, Pune district, and dragged it about 300 metres. One of the riders, a youth, died on the spot, while the other sustained serious injuries.

Chaturshringi Police have booked the wife and sister-in-law of a 30-year-old man, who was found dead at his residence in Panch Pandav Society, Janwadi, on November 4, on charges of allegedly abetting his suicide.

The Pune Cantonment Board has asked the Ministry of Defence for statutory approval to develop three prime properties in Koregaon Park, Dhobighat and MG Road for commercial use under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model, as it tries to tackle its growing financial crisis.

Around 1.30 am on 9 November, a 21-year-old woman was struck on the head with a sickle near Hope Hospital at Patra Chawl in Nana Peth while trying to save her father in a firecracker dispute.

The state government has sanctioned ₹300 crore for the expansion of the Mahatma Jyotirao Phule memorial in Pune, and the Pune Municipal Corporation is ready to begin land acquisition and rehabilitation as soon as the code of conduct ends.

The Pune Municipal Corporation’s standing committee has cleared tenders worth ₹168 crore, inclusive of GST, for a road upgrade covering 136 km of the 2027 Pune Grand Cycle Tour route within Pune city.

Rahul Kalbhor, a former Loni Kalbhor sarpanch, is among four booked for allegedly assaulting a hotel owner, staff and a customer at Jagdamba Hotel in Kadamwakvasti on Monday night, 9 November.

The husband, mother-in-law and father-in-law of a woman have had their custody extended in a Pune suicide case.

Of 50 tolas of gold, 35 have been seized, and the remaining 15 tolas are yet to be recovered.

Police Inspector Rajesh Dnyanoba Khandve of Sahakarnagar Police Station alleges that two fellow officers, Assistant Police Inspector Sonali Mithare and Senior Police Inspector Vitthal Pawar, confined him inside his own office for nearly three hours, threatened to implicate him in a false molestation case and deliberately humiliated him; according to his statement, the incident occurred late on November 6.

Two bikers stopped an ST bus on the Pune–Nashik highway at Chakan by putting their two-wheeler across its path, and brutally beat the driver.

The bus was travelling from Pune towards Nashik. Passengers on board repeatedly pleaded with the two young men, but the two did not stop the beating.

The attack, in the middle of the highway, left passengers frightened and has again raised the question of ST drivers’ safety.

A three-member inspection squad found a commuter without a valid ticket on PMPML bus number 17 on the Dhayari–Shivajinagar route, leading to high drama and a heated argument near the NuMaVi bus stop in Appa Balwant Chowk on Tuesday morning, around 10:30 am.

A retired senior citizen in Pune has gone to the cybercrime cell and Chaturshringi police after his four-BHK flat in Model Colony was advertised online for Rs 5 crore, though he had no plans to sell it and had authorised no one to advertise it.

A major drinking water pipeline of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) burst near Chintamani Temple in Akurdi, wasting lakhs of litres and sending clean water onto nearby streets.

On the Shivane–Shinde bridge in Warje Malwadi, local residents assaulted an intoxicated car driver after he collided head-on with a two-wheeler while speeding in the wrong direction.

SRA Secretary Sheetal Nikam announced the immediate suspension of the ongoing survey of the Jadhavnagar redevelopment scheme in Yerawada after more than 200 residents marched to the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) office.

The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has identified 41 hawker zones across the city, but only 1,506 of 15,013 eligible street vendors have registration certificates so far.

Major changes in Pune's revised draft Development Plan: roads originally planned at 36 metres have been reduced to as little as 24 metres. The plan proposes narrowing 50 roads in eight merged village areas and the Undri highway.

Near Yerawada Metro Station, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is to build a multi-level parking facility on an open plot reserved for the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML).

Roads in Baner, Balewadi, Hinjewadi and surrounding stretches are in poor condition after prolonged construction work, even as Pune Metro Line 3 between Hinjewadi and Shivajinagar has started running.

Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) leader Ramdas Kadam demanded an inquiry into NCP MP Sunil Tatkare over alleged foul play in Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's death in a plane crash. Tatkare says he will send Kadam a legal notice over his allegations.

A woman employee has accused former Deputy Mayor Mukari Algude of molestation and inappropriate conduct over an incident she alleges happened on Thursday afternoon, and the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has barred him from entering its headquarters.

The Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) plans to introduce 11 new feeder routes linking Pune Metro Line 3 stations with nearby areas.

The PMPML administration plans a driver monitoring system for 1,000 buses in Pune, putting PMP bus drivers under a ‘third eye’.

These are the 1,000 new buses that will join the PMPML fleet in the coming period.

The step is meant to prevent accidents caused by the negligence of PMP bus drivers during journeys.

From December, vehicles entering the Pune airport premises to drop or pick up passengers will have to leave within 15 minutes.

Those that break the rule will pay a fine of ₹500.

A construction worker, 46, died after falling from the fifth floor of a building under construction at Ravet on November 5.

Six men allegedly assaulted a man after a dispute over spitting on a public road, and Dighi police registered a case against them on Sunday.

134 hospitals across Maharashtra are still without fire NOCs, two months after the fire at the Amravati hospital.

Of the 527 facilities, 511 have completed fire safety audits, leaving 16 yet to undergo inspections.

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), which banned firecrackers in public spaces for Diwali, has taken no action against violations this year.

Around 21.5 TMC of water will remain in the four dams to meet the requirements of Pune city and rural areas over the next nine months, once the Khadakwasla circle dams stop releasing water for rural areas by this weekend.

The existing stock is around 5.5 TMC lower than the storage recorded in the dams around mid-November last year.

Authorities are to take a call on Pune's water supply.

Following inspections on November 4 and 5, the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has suspended the licences of 105 food businesses, and ordered seven establishments across Maharashtra to shut operations after detecting food safety violations.

On Sunday, a second day running, Parth Pawar visited Sharad Pawar at Silver Oak, fuelling talk of an NCP merger.

A Pune city police constable allegedly rammed his car into the main gate of Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar’s official residence on Tuesday evening, 3 November, in an attempt to force his way in, the city police said.

Infratech owner Kisan Dhavji Rathod and 12 others have been booked by Bharati Vidyapeeth police in a cheating case over flats and open plots offered at low prices in a ‘Katraj Valley’ housing project; police say 51 people allegedly lost ₹89,07,000.