The unauthorized structure fell onto an adjoining shanty, injuring a passerby.

MUMBAI: Five children aged 2-14 and a 32-year-old woman were killed and a passerby injured after a four-storey slum tenement collapsed onto an adjoining ground-floor shanty in Janta Nagar, Mankhurd, on Sunday night amid heavy rain.Four of the victims belonged to the same family, said sources. Local authorities said the four-storey tenement was allegedly unauthorised. Sources said both structures were on the collector’s land.Local BJP corporator Navnath Ban said the victims, Nabiya (2), Nihal (6), Aliya (7), Munaf (7), Muskan (14), and Soni (32), were pulled out of the debris after the crash around 8. 30pm and rushed to hospitals, where they were declared dead. The passerby, Rehan Ali (24), survived with a fractured hand.AIMIM corporator Vijay Ubale, who was present at the site, said two dilapidated structures that were on the verge of collapse had been vacated by residents on Sunday afternoon.

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However, by evening, several locals returned to the area, following which one of the structures collapsed. He said one of the children was from a neighbouring house who had come over to play with the other kids.Ubale said the crash plunged the entire locality in chaos, making it difficult to determine whether more people were trapped under the debris. Rescue operations were still underway at the time of going to press.The on-duty medical officer at Shatabdi Hospital said a medical team from the facility was deputed to the site, and other staffers at the hospital were making further arrangements in case more casualties were brought in.Mayor Ritu Tawade called the house collapse an unfortunate incident. “People are continuing to build such unauthorised constructions. They are continuing to live there and rebuilding repeatedly despite the civic body serving them notices to vacate. Such structures are rising three to four storeys high,” she said.Meanwhile, the balcony of a first floor flat in a five-storey building in Belapur crashed on Saturday night. No one was injured. All occupants of the 17 flats of Avighna Cooperative Society in Shahabaz village’s Sector 19 were safely evacuated. There were eight wall collapses across Thane.(With inputs from BB Nayak and Manoj Badgeri)

Mumbai: The Dongri Police arrested a 32-year-old habitual conman who allegedly duped jewellery shop owners across Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai by posing as a customer, showing fake online payment confirmations and fleeing with gold ornaments.His arrest has led to the detection of seven similar offences registered across multiple police stations.The accused, identified as Rahul Prakash Karpe, 32 , a resident of Kalyan (East), was arrested by the Dongri Police Crime Detection Squad led by Assistant Police Inspector Jadhav and PSI Vyavhare following technical analysis and intelligence inputs.The arrest stems from a case registered at Dongri Police Station on June 27 under Section 305 of the BNS. Police said Karpe visited Lalchand Bhurmal Jewellers in Dongri posing as a customer. After selecting a gold ring weighing 5.210 grams worth ₹82,000, he paid ₹42,000 in cash and claimed to have transferred the remaining ₹40,000 through UPI. Using a fake payment application, he showed a false transaction confirmation and, while the shop owner was checking whether the amount had been credited, allegedly picked up the ring from the counter and fled.The accused had a unique modus operandi. After selecting a gold ring weighing 5.210 grams worth ₹82,000, he paid half the amount in cash and claimed to have transferred the remaining half through UPI. Using a fake payment application, he showed a false transaction confirmation and, while the shop owner was checking whether the amount had been credited, allegedly picked up the ring from the counter and fled.During a personal search after his arrest, police recovered ₹2,190 in cash and a 6.63-gram gold chain, which was found to be linked to a case registered at Manpada Police Station in Dombivli.During interrogation, Karpe allegedly confessed to committing similar offences in the jurisdictions of Dongri, Kalachowki, APMC, Navi Mumbai , Narpoli, Bhiwandi , Manpada, Dombivli , Kopri, Thane , and Kapurbawdi, Thane , police stations. Police are investigating whether he was involved in additional cases using the same modus operandi.

Mumbai: The Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission (MSHRC) has directed the state govt to pay Rs 17.95 lakh in compensation to a 23-year-old woman’s family for “violating her right to life” by denying her timely emergency care.The commission also noted that the pregnant woman’s delivery was conducted by doctors who were not trained in obstetrics, and that she was shuttled between hospitals due to the absence of doctors and a gynaecologist.The woman, Priyanka Navar, was registered for her delivery at the Watangi primary health centre (PHC) in Kolhapur district’s Ajara taluka and underwentthe required antenatal tests and sonography. Her pregnancy was progressing normally, with the expected date of delivery being Nov 24.Two days before the due date, she went into labour. The doctor at Watangi PHC advised that she be shifted to the Ajara Rural Hospital, but no doctor was available there. She was then brought back to the Watangi PHC, where the delivery took place.According to the family, they were shocked by what they saw inside the labour room. The mother was bleeding profusely, and the staff were unable to control the bleeding. The doctor was absent from the PHC and allegedly instructed on the phone that she be shifted to a private hospital. The private hospital, citing her critical condition, referred her to the govt hospital in Kolhapur, where she died during treatment.In his order, MSHRC member Sanjay Kumar (Retd IPS) noted that when the woman reached the Watangi PHC, the medical officer was absent and her delivery was conducted by two assistant medical officers who were not qualified to manage a critical obstetric emergency. Instead of immediately summoning a doctor, they attempted to manage the case themselves, delaying specialist intervention until the woman’s family raised an alarm. Only then did the doctor concerned reach the PHC.The MSHRC observed: “Although committees constituted to inquire into the alleged negligence, apathy and mismanagement during the delivery of Priyanka Navar gave clean chits to the doctors and medical staff involved, a chronological scrutiny of the incident and the treatment provided to the critically ill pregnant woman by different health institutions and medical officers clearly shows complete apathy, mismanagement and a casual approach in treating a critical patient, ultimately leading to her death.”

Mumbai: Five years after Father Stan Swamy died at a Mumbai hospital while in judicial custody, a memorial for him at a church in Bandra on Sunday saw civil rights activists trace his activism and recall his days in custody.The 84-year-old Jesuit priest and Adivasi rights activist died on July 5, 2021, nine months after the NIA arrested him in the Elgar Parishad case under the anti-terror law, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).Speaking at the meeting, advocate Mihir Desai said that fake police encounters are not only when police fire on an unarmed person, but similar trauma may occur when an old person with fragile health, unlikely to survive prolonged incarceration, gets arrested on allegedly false charges.Activist Irfan Engineer said Father Swamy was a rock-like obstruction to the design of crony capitalism in exploiting the forest resources and mining industry, especially in tribal areas where he made a name for himself as a staunch upholder of human rights. “For super profits and exploitation of natural resources, when indigenous people’s constitutional rights had to be trampled upon, Father Swamy would come to their defence,” Engineer said. Teesta Setalvad and Shakir Shaikh recalled the life and struggle of Father Swamy.The memorial meeting was organised by groups of NGOs led by Bombay Catholic Sabha and included Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, People’s Union for Civil Liberties, Mumbai for Peace and Christian Development Association. Activists were in full attendance despite heavy rains.Advocate Susan Abraham, who represents several of his co-accused, recalled his sole court appearance in Oct 2020, when he rose, hands trembling from Parkinson’s, and told the judge, “I know nothing about the Elgar Parishad. I have never even been to Pune.” His bail plea was denied regardless.Shaikh of the APCR described a man with foreign degrees who could have lived in comfort, but instead moved 2,000 km from Tamil Nadu to rural Jharkhand, lived in his students’ homes and learned their language before taking up their cause.