1 killed, 35 hurt after speeding bus overturns

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Sidharth Bhatia [1]

A two-year-old son of a city businessman from Mumbai was killed and 35 persons were injured after an overspeeding tourist bus of the famous Sahara Travels moving from Karnataka towards Mumbai turned turtle on the National Highway in the Osmanabad district in the early hours of Wednesday. The incident took place at around 1 am in Naldurg village near Naldurg fort on NH 9. The bus had set off from Bidar in Karnataka. “The accident took place at a steep curve. The driver was over speeding while taking the steep turn due to which one of the wheels slipped off the road and the bus lost its balance and turned turtle,” said investigating officer, sub inspector M.N. Shaikh. Mr Shaikh said, “The passengers suspect that the driver Mustaq Ahmed (40) had consumed alcohol at a dhaba. When the passengers asked him to drive slowly, he shouted back.” “We took his blood samples and booked him for culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Normally, we book accused for death due to negligence, but in this case the driver had the knowledge that an accident could take place,” he added.

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Nashik ACB arrests mnrega official
Aftab Khan
Nashik, May 23

The anti-corruption bureau (ACB), Nashik division, arrested an extension officer of Mahatma Gandhi Employment Guarantee Scheme and a private agent for accepting a bribe of `7,000 from the latter in Pimpalner town of Sakri tehsil of Dhule district Friday afternoon.
Highly-placed sources from the ACB said, the complainant and three other beneficiaries had received two instalments of their due amounts and one instalment remained. For the third instalment the process was to checking the constructed well, muster roll, mensuration book and sending the signed documents to treasury department. For this process the extension officer Santosh Kisan Savkare demanded a bribe of `7,000 to be paid through private agent Ramesh Vasant Malve, resident of Vijapur in Sakri tehsil of Dhule. Ramesh Vasant Malve accepted the bribe at Samoda Chaufully (square) in Pimpalner town at around 2.15 pm and was promptly arrested by waiting ACB staff. The arrest was made by police inspector S.B. Bhabad of Dhule ACB and his staff on the directions of ACB SP Dr Sashikant Mahavarkar.
The ACB Nashik division had shot to fame with the arrest of alleged corrupt PWD engineers Satish Madhukarrao Chiklikar and Jagdish Magan Wagh on April 30.