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For the first time in the history of Mumbai’s suburban railway network, a motorman and guard of a local train were booked by police for “causing death by negligance” after two women died followed a freak mishap. The services between Virar and Churchgate stations on the Western Railway was badly affected because agitated public squatted along the tracks between Nalasopara and Virar stations – blocking the morning peak hour services.
Four Manickpur police constables received a pleasant surprise on Wednesday when Home Minister R R Patil invited them to Mantralaya and rewarded them for stopping a girl from committing suicide on January 13. The 19-year-old had tried to kill herself by jumping off the Bhayandar bridge apparently after a tiff with her mother over cooking lunch.
The historic Arnala fort, one of the popular beach resorts and tourism centres in the far western suburbs of Mumbai, is being restored and revamped by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). A lot of facilities are to be added in the neighbouring area by the Thane district administration.
Days after three members of a leading Goan football club were arrested for allegedly misbehaving with an airhostess, a passenger on the Jet Airways’ Hong Kong-Mumbai flight was arrested early on Sunday morning for allegedly molesting an airhostess. Brown Augustine D’Souza (56), a Vasai resident, was arrested by the Sahar police around 12.30 am.