7 crime stories that shocked Mumbai in the past week

Man killed by friend for refusing to dance at birthday partyA 21yearold man was murdered by his 24yearold friend for apparently declining to dance at the birthday bash of a common friend According to a Hindustan Times report the incident occurred at around 400 am at Gundavali Andheri East outside a lottery shop in which the deceased Ankush Jadhav stayed The accused Ketan Shirvadkar and the deceased who were part of a group of five friends had decided to throw a birthday party for one of them during which alcohol was consumed Both entered into an argument as the reverly progressed when Shirvadkar asked Jadhav to dance which the latter refused to do This led to an argument between the two which turned into a fight during which Shirvadkar hit Jadhav with a wooden plank Jadhav succumbed to his injures after being admitted to the Trauma Care hospitalUlhasnagar women smuggled gold by hiding them in rectumsIn a rather bizarre incident two women and a man were booked at Mumbai airport on Wednesday for allegedly trying to smuggle gold concealed inside rectums According to a report in Times of India both are widows and repeat offenders as well The duo has been identified as Salochna Keshwani 60 and Mohini Lalawani 35 On Wednesday customs officers stopped the two on their arrival from Bangkok on suspicion The officers undertook a clinical examination The same revealed that 450gm of gold worth Rs 1365 lakh was ridden in their rectums However the duo did not admit to the crime They had children who depended on them financially On coming to know of the same officials told the duo that they would that inform the children about their criminal activities It was only after this that the two admitted to the crimeMumbai Police responds to womans tweet about receiving 15 porn clipsThe Mumbai police force is trying to trace a person who allegedly sent over 15 porn clips and photos to a woman on her cellphone The incident came to light after the woman complained about the issue on the city policersquos Twitter page The woman name withheld lives in the suburbs and works as an animal activist She also uploaded screenshots of the porn clips photos and texts messages even forwarding them to Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj She was so disturbed that she uploaded 12 screen shots of her phone from the senders number 917258940771 a police official said A police source said that the woman has been receiving such messages since the last few days She had also discussed the same with her friends who asked her to report the matter to the policeHas Meow Meow entered BollywoodA tip off to a cop in Manipur posted as an election observer led to the busting of a drug acket trying to establish its roots in the vicinity surrounded by the artists of Bollywood and TV soaps Following the seizure of 2400 kilograms of Meow Meow drugs worth Rs 48 lakh the antinarcotics cell ANC sleuths have also learned that the racket had its connections in three states of country including Gujarat Punjab and Mumbai On interrogation we found that the drugs were to be supplied to some dealer in a posh locality of Oshiwara Our sources have told us that this dealer supplies drug to film and TV artists from the field of acting fashion makeup and modelling We are further working on the information an officer saidVillager held for killing motherinlaw in ThaneDistrict rural police arrested a villager in Thane for allegedly killing his motherinlaw in Sahapur Yamuna Bhange 45 and the accused identified as Pandu Rathad 39 lived at Muchala Pada in Sahapur taluka and used to often quarrel over petty matters police said They picked up a tiff last morning over some issue and the accused in a fit of rage picked up an axe and attacked his motherinlaw killing her on the spot The accused was booked under IPC section 302 murder following a complaint lodged by his wife police said adding that the body has been sent for postmortemFight over plastic bag claims shopkeepers lifeA petty quarrel over an extra plastic bag ended up with a shopkeeper of a sweet mart Kaluram Bhutaji Raika 35 paying with his life According to a Hindu report the arrested accused has been identified as Maruti Bende 32 Raika hails from Rajasthan and worked with Riddhi Siddhi Sweet Mart at Devicha Pada Taloja On Sunday evening Bende visited the shop and purchased sweets worth Rs 80 Raika packed the same in a in a plastic bag Bende however asked for an extra plastic bag The shopkeeper refused resulting in the fight Raika allegedly abused Bende in Rajasthani and the latter retaliated by slapping him Bende left the shop after that but Raika lost consciousness Due to the assault a nerve below Raikas left ear got damaged Doctors said he had to undergo surgery an emergency surgery Unfortunately Raika died during the surgeryDiamond dealer from Malad booked associate held for cheatingThe economic offences wing EOW of Mumbai Police has booked a 34yearold diamond dealer from Malad and arrested her associate for allegedly cheating over a dozen city diamond traders of Rs 2559 crore Around a fortnight ago the EOW registered a case of cheating criminal conspiracy and criminal breach of trust against diamond trader Durga Vishal Mamtola a Kandivli resident and Kalpesh Mahendra Shah Shah from Malad was arrested on Friday Hemant Shah 38 a diamond trader in his complaint has alleged that he and other diamond traders in 2013 gave diamonds and jewellery to Mamtola at a rate of Rs 25000Rs 35000 per carat to sell them for more profitable rates Mamtola gave these to Kalpesh for trading at a profitable price The two accused won the trust of the traders by initially sending money regularly from diamond selling Kalpesh and Mamtola between 2013 and 2016 have taken diamonds worth Rs 55 crore from the traders but only returned Rs 33 crore to them When furious traders asked them about this they were told by the accused that their diamonds were sold at the rate of Rs 19000 per carat They refuse to return the remaining Rs 2232 crore said an officer