20 years after he died, Bombay HC clears sales tax officer in corruption and refunds conspiracy case
BySwati DeshpandeSwati Deshpande / Updated: Jan 25, 2021, 08:42 IST
MUMBAI: The Bombay HC recently acquitted a
sales tax officer, dead for almost two decades, in a 1985 corruption and refunds conspiracy case, 25 years after his conviction.
Suresh Kagne’s widow and son had in 2015 stepped into his shoes to continue with the appeal filed in 1996, against the conviction, an 18-month jail and Rs 26,000 fine.
In September 1996, a Solapur special trial court had convicted Kagne and two other officials, relying largely on the testimony of an approver son of a co-accused, an oil mill owner. He had been granted pardon at the end of the trial after 92 of the 94 prosecution witnesses were examined, “obviously to fill up lacunae in the case”, said the HC in its judgment by Justice S K Shinde.
real estate agent in an incident of
firing.
Vashi around 11 pm on Saturday.
A group of four people tried to loot the victim of his cash and two-wheeler. However, when he resisted, they shot at and injured him and fled from the spot.
Kharghar police station senior inspector Shatrughan Mali said that based on the clues from the CCTV footage in the area, they arrested four people.
The cops also seized a revolver and bullets from the four accused.
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Mumbai local trains: Here s what Central Railway says on restarting services
Mirror Online / Updated: Jan 25, 2021, 10:15 IST
The wait for
Mumbai local trains to resume for the general public seems far from over.
Several people, including passenger associations, have been demanding resumption of local trains, the lifeline of the maximum city. However, Central Railway has now said that it has not received any proposal from the state government. The railway administration will be able to take a decision only after the state government s proposal, said Sanjeev Mittal, General Manager, Central Railway.
Mittal made the remark during a press meet after he inspected various works on the Kolhapur-Satara route in the Pune section of Railways.