Man booked for extortion in Palghar

Palghar police have confiscated gutkha, banned in Maharashtra, from a tempo that was coming into the state from neighbouring Gujarat, police officals said.Officials informed that the contraband, worth Rs 12.28 lakh, was hidden inside a special cavity made in ...

The Government Railway Police has registered a case of accidental death in this regard

Palghar district rural police have requested the Special Inspector General, Konkan Range to transfer the investigation into the case of alleged suicide of Amit Jha, out of the district.Palghar District Rural Superintendent of Police Manjunath Singe, in a ...

A 48-year-old container truck driver was allegedly killed by four men in a brutal road rage attack near here, police said today.All the accused were arrested for the assault which took place at village Sapne in Palghar district late last evening, they ...

The police has arrested a 40-year-old man allegedly involved in about 50 cases of chain-snatching in Thane and the neighbouring Palghar and Mumbai districts.The man, identified as Pradeep Banerjee, was arrested by the Kashimira police on April 6, district ...

In an alarming incident, a 12-year-old girl jumped from the terrace of a building at Nalasopara in Palghar district, nearly 60 km from downtown Mumbai, to escape a molestation bid. The incident took place on Tuesday. The unidentified man, who attempted to ...

One person was killed when a massive fire broke out in a three-storey building in the Kasa area here in the wee hours today, the district rural police said.

A Palghar court has sentenced a 54-year-old Bangladeshi national to two years rigorous imprisonment for staying here without a valid passport.Additional Sessions Judge J R Mulani, of the court at Dahanu, also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on the accused - Babu ...

A five-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped by an unidentified woman from Palghar district in Maharashtra and was later found dead in a toilet at Navsari railway station in Gujarat, the police said today.The victim was kidnapped from Nalasopara in Palghar on ...