Mumbai News Live Updates: BMW hit-and-run case accused Mihir Shah sent to police custody till July 16; father sacked from Shinde Sena post (2024)

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has razed a portion of the Vice Global Tapas Bar in Juhu, which had served alcohol to Mihir Shah, the 24-year-old prime accused in the BMW hit-and-run case, before the accident.

The move comes a day after Maharashtra’s excise department suspended the bar’s licence and the collector’s office sealed its premises.

Officials from the BMC’s office in the K/West (KW) ward said the authorities inspected the premises on Tuesday evening to check if any illegal alteration had been made to the structure.

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray has demanded "bulldozer justice" in the fatal Mumbai BMW hit-and-run case, in which the son of Shiv Sena leader Rajesh Shah is the prime accused.

He sought to know why a bulldozer is not being run on the house of Mihir Shah, the son of Rajesh Shah, as a punitive action in the case.

The former state minister met the family of Kaveri Nakhwa, 45, who was killed in the accident on Sunday morning, and insisted her kin do not need monetary help but justice.

"The regime which believes in bulldozer justice must run bulldozer on his house. I would like to see bulldozer justice coming on to Mihir Rajesh Shah's house," said Thackeray, the MLA from Worli.

"Bulldozer justice" refers to demolition of properties of individuals accused of involvement in serious crimes using the powerful motorized machines even before they are pronounced guilty by courts. Several such punitive actions against accused have been reported from BJP-ruled states like Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

Thackeray emphasised the hit-and-run case, in which Mihir Shah has been charged with culpable homicide, must be treated as murder and dealt with accordingly.

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The Bombay High Court has pulled up the state government over its "apathy" towards filling up vacancies in the state advisory board for policies related to people with disability, making it non-functional since the last four years.

A division bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Amit Borkar directed the additional chief secretary/ principal secretary of the state Persons with Disabilities (PwD) Welfare Department to inform by when the board vacancies would be filled up and it would become fully functional.

The court warned that if clear information is not given on Thursday (July 11) in this regard, then it would be constrained to summon the authority concerned.

The HC said the board discharges certain vital functions and hence immediate steps ought to have been taken by the state government to make it functional.

"We notice with grave concern that till date the vacancies in the board have not be filled in. The apathy shown by the state government in filing up the vacancies in the board cannot be appreciated," the bench said.

It was hearing a public interest litigation taken up suo motu (on its own) on the issue of bollards put up on footpaths in Mumbai, thus making them inaccessible to persons with disabilities.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), pursuant to court orders, started removing the bollards which were causing hindrance to persons with disabilities to access footpaths.

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The Mumbai police investigating the BMW hit-and-run case involving Mihir Shah, the son of a Shiv Sena leader, said on Wednesday his family members, including his mother and sisters, escaped after the accident on Sunday as they were scared of being attacked by a mob and also of being interrogated by them.

On Tuesday, the Crime Branch arrested Mihir Shah, 24, from Virar after his friend, who was accompanying him, switched on his mobile phone. It also detained Mihir’s mother Meena, his sisters Pooja and Kinjal, and a friend from a resort in Murbad in the Thane district of the state. Meanwhile, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde removed Rajesh Shah, the father of Mihir, from the post of deputy leader of the Shiv Sena’s Palghar unit. Read full story here

Both the Houses of of Maharashtra legislature witnessed uproar on Wednesday over the Opposition boycotting the all-party meeting convened earlier by the chief minister on the Maratha reservation issue, leading to adjournment of the legislative assembly and council for the day, news agency PTI reported.

The all-party meeting convened on Tuesday evening was boycotted by Maha Vikas Aghadi members accusing the government of not taking them into confidence.

In the Lower House, presiding officer Sanjay Shirsat hurriedly conducted the day's business, including passing supplementary and budgetary demands, an appropriation bill, and a tax-related amendment bill, before adjourning the assembly for the day.

Maharashtra's Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar reassured the public that the earthquake, which affected parts of the state on Wednesday, was mild. He urged people to stay alert and not panic, emphasizing that the administration had taken all necessary precautions.

Pawar stated in the legislative assembly that the earthquake, measuring 4.5 magnitude, occurred at 7:14 am in districts like Hingoli, Parbhani, Beed, Jalna, Nanded, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in Marathwada, and Washim, as well as nearby areas in Vidarbha.

He mentioned that the epicenter was in Rameshwar Panda village, Kalamnuri taluka, Hingoli district. Pawar confirmed that the tremors were minor and there were no reports of casualties so far.

Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday removed Rajesh Shah, father of the accused in the BMW hit-and-run case, from the deputy leader post of the Shiv Sena. Shah was arrested by the Mumbai Police on Sunday.

Meanwhile, his son had been evading police since the accident but was apprehended in Virar.

Maharashtra's ruling Mahayuti alliance created a ruckus in the house on Wednesday forcing three time adjournments in the legislative assembly.

The ruling party accused the Opposition of betraying the Marathas and OBCs by not participating in an all-party meeting called on the issue of reservation.

The ruling side's ruckus forced the assembly speaker to adjourn the house thrice as treasury benches did not let the Leader of Opposition speak amid chants and slogans.

A 36-year-old woman was killed in an alleged hit-and-run accident in Maharashtra's Nashik on Tuesday evening, two days after the Mumbai BMW crash that killed a woman. The Nashik police arrested the driver of the car which knocked down the woman on Gangapur Road.

As per the CCTV footage from the spot, the woman, identified as Vaishali Shinde, was seen walking when a speeding Maruti A-star rammed into her. The woman was flung in the air due to the impact of the hit but the car and proceeded without stopping. Those present at the spot rushed her to a local hospital where she was declared dead.

The local police registered a First Information Report (FIR) and started looking for the accused. Using clues from CCTV footage, the police traced the driver based on the vehicle's registration number and arrested him. The accused, whose identity was yet to be revealed, was produced before a court and remanded in police custody.

Around 2,500 resident doctors from the civic-run medical colleges in Mumbai have announced plans to go on a strike from July 22 if their demands including a stipend increase are not met.

Emergency services will operate as usual but outpatients may face disruptions due to the strike.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) oversees four medical colleges and hospitals – KEM, Sion, Nair, and Cooper – where about 8,000 outpatients are treated daily. (Read More)

After torrential downpours, rain activity in Mumbai has subdued with the IMD's Santacruz observatory recording 4 mm and Colaba station registering 3 mm rain between Tuesday and Wednesday morning.

Meanwhile, the BMC's automatic weather station showed that the maximum rainfall was observed in the eastern suburbs wherein 6 mm rain was received in the past 24 hours, followed by 3.42 mm rain in the city division and 3.83 mm rain in the western suburbs.

On Monday morning, Mumbai woke up to find itself marooned amid choked streets after torrential rain battered it in the early hours, with some pockets receiving over 300 mm in six hours. From traffic snarls to railway disruptions induced by waterlogging, the heavy showers—which continued throughout the day— took a toll on infrastructure, bringing life to a grinding halt in the city.

What made the Monday showers truly “unprecedented”, however, was that it sweptMumbai even as the India Meteorological Department had issued only a yellow alert for July 7. And no alert had been sounded for Monday, with IMD expecting only moderate showers in the next week. (Read More)

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday accused the state government of “trying to protect the accused“ in the Mumbai hit and run case.

"The government is trying to protect the accused. This is not a common case... You can check the criminal records of the father of the accused... The Mumbai Police will now have to investigate his association with an underworld gang, and how is he able to afford his properties and such fancy cars. How did he become a close aide of the CM also needs to be exposed…” he said, speaking to news agency ANI.

“The accused was under the influence of drugs, and to avoid this from coming into his medical records, he was hidden somewhere for three days... The way an innocent woman was crushed to death by him, under the influence of drugs, is inhuman. Such people should not be released from jail,” said Raut.

he India Meteorological Department has issued a yellow alert for Mumbai as the rain showers have gradually subsided. The weather agency forecasts a generally cloudy sky with intermittent moderate spells of rain in the city and suburbs.

The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 32 degrees Celsius and 26 degrees Celsius, respectively. An orange alert- signifying heavy rainfall – remains in place for Pune, Raigad, Kohlapur, Satara and Sindhudurg districts.

A day after the Mumbai police said Mihir Shah, who allegedly mowed down a 45-year-old woman in Worli while driving a BMW car, visited a bar in Juhu with his friends hours before the accident, the Maharashtra excise department late on Monday sealed the establishment citing rules.

While confirming that Global Tapas bar was sealed a senior excise department official said, “On the basis of our findings, we have served them a notice and sealed their establishment. We have also seized their license and a hearing shall be conducted in front of the collector after which an order shall be passed on it”.

The Mumbai Police’s crime branch has detained the mother and two elder sisters of Mihir Shah, who is accused in the BMW hit-and-run case. His mother and sisters allegedly helped Mihir, son of Shiv Sena leader Rajesh Shah, escape after a car he drove mowed down a woman and injured her husband.

Detained from a resort in Murbad, they are being brought to Mumbai to be handed over to the Worli police investigating the case.

Mihir, who was absconding for three days after he allegedly mowed down Kaveri Nakhwa, 45, with the BMW on June 7 at Worli, was arrested on Tuesday.

On Monday morning, Mumbai woke up to find itself marooned amid choked streets after torrential rain battered it in the early hours, with some pockets receiving over 300 mm in six hours.What made the Monday showers truly “unprecedented”, however, was that it swept Mumbai even as the India Meteorological Department had issued only a yellow alert for July 7. And no alert had been sounded for Monday, with IMD expecting only moderate showers in the next week.

That the weather bureau had failed to issue alerts about the extreme weather event drew flak from residents, who were left reeling in the flooded city throughout Monday.

However, meteorologists say that almost all weather forecasting models failed to capture the extreme event which unravelled in the late hours. Read more here

Around 2,500 resident doctors from the civic-run medical colleges in Mumbai have announced plans to go on a strike from July 22 if their demands including a stipend increase are not met.

Emergency services will operate as usual but outpatients may face disruptions due to the strike.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) oversees four medical colleges and hospitals – KEM, Sion, Nair, and Cooper – where about 8,000 outpatients are treated daily.

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray demanded the BMW car crash involving Mihir Shah, son of a leader from the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, be treated as murder. Talking to reporters, Thackeray questioned the delay in arresting Mihir, son of Sena politician Rajesh Shah.

"This case should not be treated as a hit-and-run incident. This is a case of murder, and we demand that it should be treated like that," Thackeray said.

The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly unanimously passed a government resolution to change the names of six railway stations on Central Railway, Western Railway and Harbour Railway. The resolution was moved by minister Dadaji Bhuse and will be forwarded to the Centre for approval.

As per the proposal, Currey Road will be renamed Lalbaug, Sandhurst Road as Dongri, Marine Lines as Mumbadevi, Charni Road as Girgaon, Cotton Green as Kala Chowki, Dockyard Road as Mazgaon, and Kings’ Circle as Tirthankar Parswanath.

A senior railway official stated that the approval by the state is only the first step. The renaming will only be on instructions from the Railway Ministry.

Mihir Shah, the son of CM Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena leader Rajesh Shah's son, was arrested by Worli Police, three days after allegedly he mowed down a woman.

Shah was allegedly at the wheel of a speeding BMW which hit a two-wheeler in Worli, dragging a woman for nearly two kilometres, resulting in her death.

IMD Mumbai issued a nowcast warning for Mumbai and Palghar, stating that light to moderate spells of rain are likely in isolated pockets over the next 3-4 hours.

For the Thane district, the weather bureau has said that moderate to intense spells are likely to occur in isolated places over the next 3 - 4 hours.

In light of the subdued showers, the IMD has downgraded the red alert and now sounded a yellow alert in Mumbai which is slated to remain in place until tomorrow morning. The IMD has indicated that the city may witness heavy rainfall in isolated pockets today. While no warning has been issued in Mumbai for Wednesday, a yellow alert has been sounded again between Thursday and Saturday.

Meanwhile, an orange alert has been issued in Raigad which will remain in place until Tomorrow morning. In Thane, a yellow alert has been issued which is slated to stay in place until the end of this week.

Days after the Mumbai police’s Economic Offences Wing closed a case against Shinde Sena MP Ravindra Waikar, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is also set to close the money laundering case against him, citing that no proceeds of the crime were discovered, sources in the agency told The Indian Express.

The ED’s case was registered based on the cheating and forgery case filed byMumbaipolice Economic Offences Wing (EOW).

TheEOW had filed a closure report in the case against Waikar by submitting a C-summary report to the court on July 4 — just months after he moved from the Sena UBT to Shinde Sena, and won the Mumbai North West Lok Sabha seat. Read

Amid heavy rains in Maharashtra, the University of Mumbai has postponed the Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE) examination. Earlier scheduled to take place on July 9, the Mumbai University CDOE exam will be conducted on July 18.

While the FYBA and FY BCom (semester-1) exam set to be held today will be conducted on July 18 (11 am to 2 pm), the FY BSc information technology (semester 2) will be held on July 18 (11 am to 1:30 pm).

The FY (BAF) (semester 1) and FYBSc Computer Science (semester 2) has been postponed to July 18 (3 pm to 5:30 pm), the MMS semester 2 exam will be conducted on July 20 (11 am to 2 pm). Continue reading

Water started to recede from all the major pockets on Tuesday morning. The list of the heavily flooded areas that received above 100 mm of rain last night is below...

According to BMC's automatic weather system (AWS), an average of 141.97 mm was recorded in the island city, 116.61 mm in the Eastern Suburbs, and 142.58 mm in the western suburbs.

As per BMC's latest update traffic movement is normal.

The average overall water stock in all the seven lakes that supply water to Mumbai stood at 20.48% this morning. The highest rainfall of 214 mm and 196 mm were recorded in the catchment areas of Tulsi and Vihar lakes which are located in suburban Mumbai.

According to BMC's water level chart, last year, the average water stock in all the seven lakes stood at 23.11% on July 9, while in 2022 it was 28.89%.

Maharashtra | Due to heavy rain forecast in Mumbai, Mumbai Suburbs, Thane, Raigad, Palghar, Ratnagiri, and Sindhudurg districts, all exams scheduled for today (July 9, 2024) at the University of Mumbai have been postponed. New dates will be announced soon: University of Mumbai

— ANI (@ANI) July 9, 2024