Mumbai, Sep 28 (PTI) Following are the top stories from the Western Region at 1700 HRS.
BOM13 MP-ROAD PROJECT-LD PROTEST
**** Road-widening project: Stone-pelting against mosque demolition in MP’s Ujjain
Ujjain: Tensions flared in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain city on Monday as police deployed tear gas shells to disperse a crowd that hurled stones while protesting the proposed demolition of a portion of a mosque for a road-widening project, officials said. ****
BOM4 MH-IIT-SUICIDE-PARENTS-PROTEST
**** IIT Bombay student suicide: Sahil Wakode’s father stages protest at Mumbai’s Azad Maidan
Mumbai: The father of IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode, who allegedly died by suicide 10 days ago, began a sit-in protest at Azad Maidan in south Mumbai on Monday, demanding
action against those responsible for his son’s death. ****
BOM15 MH-NCP (SP)-PAWAR
**** Pawar rules out NCP (SP) merger with any outfit, says focus to be on strengthening party
Mumbai: NCP (SP) supremo Sharad Pawar on Monday said his party would not merge with any other outfit for the sake of power and asserted the focus would now be on strengthening the organisation. ****
BOM11 MH-MUMBAI-MANHOLE-DEATH
**** Two labourers fall into sewer manhole in Mumbai; one dead, another critical
Mumbai: One person died and another was hospitalised after two labourers hired by a housing society fell into a sewer manhole while cleaning a drainage line in Mumbai on Monday, officials said. ****
BOM9 MH-CEC-CONG-PROTEST
**** SIR row: Congress holds protests across Maharashtra against CEC Gyanesh Kumar
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Congress on Monday held protests across the state seeking the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over what the party claimed were irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and biased functioning of the Election Commission of India. ****
BOM8 GA-EC-SAWANT
**** Sawant slams Congress, says polls cannot be won by targeting constitutional bodies
Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Monday hit out at the Congress for targeting the Election Commission, saying political parties cannot win elections by repeatedly levelling accusations against constitutional institutions and demanding proof of electoral procedures. ****
BOM14 MP-EC-CONG-PROTEST
**** Cong workers clash with police during protest seeking CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation
Bhopal: Congress members tried to climb barricades and scuffled with police on Monday while trying to march towards the Madhya Pradesh chief electoral officer’s office here, demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar. ****
BOM6 MH-RAUT-FDA
**** FDA officials extorting lakhs from eateries, quick-commerce firms, alleges Raut; seeks probe
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Monday accused Maharashtra Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) officials of indulging in extortion and threatening hotels and quick-commerce businesses with licence suspensions, and demanded an independent inquiry against them. ****
BOM12 MH-DROUGHT-FARMERS-PROTEST
**** Latur farmers carry pumpkins and carrots in protest, say govt drought relief inadequate
Latur: Farmers carried pumpkins and carrots during a protest outside the Latur district collectorate on Monday, using the vegetables as a metaphor to claim that the Maharashtra government has announced inadequate relief measures. ****
BOM2 MH-COLLISION
**** Three killed in collision between two vans in Thane
Thane: A father-son duo and another person were killed while two others were injured in a collision between two speeding vans on a highway near Malshej Ghat in Maharashtra’s Thane district, police said on Monday. ****
BOM18 MP-BUS-ACCIDENT-TOLL
**** Death toll in Indore civic bus accident rises to 2; driver arrested for culpable homicide
Indore: The death toll in a road accident in Indore, where a municipal transport bus hit pedestrians and an autorickshaw, rose to two after one more person succumbed to injuries, a police official said on Monday. ****
BES6 MH-JARANGE
**** Efforts on to discredit me during 90-day period given to govt to accept quota demands: Jarange
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Activist Manoj Jarange on Monday claimed efforts were underway to discredit him during the 90-day period he has given the Maharashtra government to accept the demands pertaining to Maratha quota. **** PTI RSY
