Mumbai: Mumbai Police has claimed to have arrested 25-year-old Akshay Ashok Garud for the kidnapping and murder of a four-year-old child in Mumbai. An acquaintance named Garud first kidnapped a 4-year-old child under the limits of Kandivali police station in Mumbai and then killed the kidnapped child.

A complaint was lodged with the Kandivali police on March 22 in this case. To search for the child, the police had formed 6 teams under the supervision of DCP Anand Bhuite. They examined 150 to 200 CCTV footage of Kandivali, Borivali, Malad, Andheri, Santacruz, Virar and Surat city. In this, clues were found about the accused and the absconding accused was hiding in Surat. After this, the police team arrested him from Surat, Gujarat.

This action was taken on the instructions of Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar, Additional Police Commissioner of North Zone Abhishek Trimukhe, ACP Neeta Padvi, Senior Inspector Ravinder Adane. The incident was carried out under the leadership of the police and the accused has been arrested. Mumbai Police has started further investigation into the matter.

The kidnapping and murder of a four-year-old child in Mumbai has created a sensation. The child was kidnapped at night when his parents were resting. In this case, the police have registered a case of murder and kidnapping and arrested the accused. He is being questioned as to why he killed the child after kidnapping him.

Mumbai, March 26: Shiv Sena(UBT) has slammed the Mahayuti government, Mumbai Police and the Shiv Sena over the ransacking of the studio over the controversial remarks by stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra, saying that the criticism, which is the soul of democracy as advocated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been trampled.

Shiv Sena(UBT), in its mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ editorial, questioned what the Maharashtra Home Minister and police were doing while chaos was going on in Mumbai city.

“PM Modi says criticism is the soul of democracy. Here, both democracy and the soul have been trampled underfoot by PM Modi’s supporters and are exposed. Instead of taking action against the goons who attacked the podcast studio, the Home Minister asked Kunal Kamra to apologise to Shinde and settle the matter. There is no such thing as freedom of expression. Fadnavis’ ancestors fought against the strangulation of freedom of expression during the Emergency. It no longer seems true that these people went to jail against the Emergency and fought against Indira Gandhi,” reads the editorial.

“Using the pretext of criticism, the pro-Modi Shinde group attacked a ‘podcast studio’. They destroyed the studio and the platform of freedom of expression. They threatened to kill ‘podcast’ artist Kunal Kamra. What was the Maharashtra Home Minister doing and what were his police doing while this chaos was going on in Mumbai city?” says the editorial.

“Was the police a silent spectator while the vandalism was going on or were they in a role of cooperating with the vandals? As soon as the pro-Modi Shinde group vandalized Kamra’s studio, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation woke up and reached the studio with a dormant bulldozer. The civic body decided that many works in the studio were illegal and demolished it. BMC realised that there was illegal construction done inside the studio only after the stand-up comedian, without taking anyone’s name, read out his poem full of sarcasm. The BMC’s action should also be called a joke,” says the editorial.

The editorial further says, “Apologise and go away seems to be the policy of the current Chief Minister. If the podcaster has made a wrong and defamatory criticism, legal action can be taken against him, but threats, beatings and vandalism before the crime are proven hooliganism. Home Minister Fadnavis is openly supporting this hooliganism.”

Thackeray faction, while stepping up attacks against Chief Minister and Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ remarks, asks, “Shinde’s supporters attacked Kunal Kamra, but they are not ready to say a single word against a journalist Prashant Koratkar who insulted Shivaji. So has the Maharashtra government granted Koratkar the freedom of expression to insult Shivaji?”

The Shiv Sena(UBT) asks whether the Shinde faction will march at Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray’s residence and question him over his statement that ”There are many ‘Khokyabhai’ sitting in the Vidhan Sabha.”

“This statement reflects reality. Raj Thackeray called all those who defected with 50 boxes and got elected on the strength of those boxes ‘Khokyabhai’. The government belongs to these ‘Khokyabhai’s’. Are Shinde’s people going to march towards Raj Thackeray’s house today because he gave the analogy of ‘Khokyabhai’?” reads the Saamana.

Mumbai: More than 114 accused have been arrested in the Nagpur violence. Social media is also being monitored. The police is trying to find out who instigated the mob to violence and how they were instigated on social media. Five to six teams have been formed for digital investigation. 13 FIRs have been registered in the violence case. An international conspiracy is also being investigated behind the Nagpur violence.

The police is also investigating the role of all the accused. The arrests were made only after the people present at the Nagpur crime scene were identified. Many of the accused were not only involved in the violence but also had stones, wood and other weapons in their hands.

Six days have passed since the Nagpur violence. Nagpur Police Commissioner Ravinder Singhal said here today that the situation is now peaceful, but tension remains. He said that CCTV footage and videos are also being examined and the accused have been identified. Action is being taken against those who are seen in this video or who have been found involved in other acts and incidents including stone pelting in the video. Investigation is underway to find out how the violence started in Nagpur, who is behind it and how it was planned. Investigation is also going on on various aspects.

The police in Nagpur is on alert in view of the Prime Minister’s visit on March 30. Along with this, the festival season is also approaching. In such a situation, the police is fully alert and the situation is under control. In view of the Prime Minister’s visit, the police has also held a meeting and preparations have also started.