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IT raids Shiv Sena leader Yashwant Jadhav’s premises; Mayor slams action

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Ahead of the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections, the Income Tax Department raided premises linked to a prominent Shiv Sena corporator and his MLA wife for alleged tax evasion, as Mayor Kishori Pednekar slammed the action, here on Friday.

A team of the ITD swooped on the Mazagaon home of corporator Yashwant Jadhav and his wife Yamini Jadhav and carried out searches, besides some business associates in Byculla.

Jadhav is the Chairman of the BMC’s powerful Standing Committee which is authorised to prepare the civic budget and sanction expenditures for various works.

Among other things, Jadhav allegedly took bribes of over Rs 15 crore from civic contractors for awarding them big tenders, and then diverted the money through associates to shell companies in India and UAE purportedly belonging to his family and relatives.

Mayor Pednekar, who went to visit the Jadhav couple, was barred by the police from going to their home and appealed to party activists to remain calm.

“The central agencies are being used to harass us. We are not scared of them. This is being done as the Shiv Sena has done good work in the BMC,” Pednekar told mediapersons.

Pointing at the ‘continuous hounding’ by Central probe agencies, she said that many leaders of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) were targetted but they did not bend before them, they were cleared by the courts and are now rehabilitated politically.

Aam Aadmi Party city working President Ruben Mascarenhas labelled Jadhav as “one of the most corrupt politicians in India”, while the Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Ashish Shelar said that more corruption details will tumble out.

Mascarenhas demanded that the ITD probe must be widened to include the BJP and the ruling Sena, Nationalist Congress Party and Congress in the country’s biggest and richest civic body.

Today’s ITD action is said to have come after Bharatiya Janata Party former MP Dr Kirit Somaiya lodged a complaint to the Centre in January, alleging “money-laundering, parking the scam money, hawala transactions” worth around Rs 30 crore, through various shell companies, indulged in by the Jadhav couple.

Somaiya also ‘suggested’ to the ITD and Enforcement Directorate (ED) to initiate suitable action against the couple without waiting for the outcome of reported moves by the Election Commission of India to disqualify Yamini Jadhav for allegedly not disclosing her assets truly in the poll affidavit.

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Fire breaks out at timber warehouse in Mumbai Malad West, no injuries reported

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A Level-I fire broke out at a timber warehouse on Anand Road in the Malad West area of Mumbai on Monday night, prompting the mobilisation of fire brigade personnel and civic officials. No injuries have been reported in the incident, officials said.

According to the Mumbai Fire Service, the fire was reported at around 9 p.m. at the Ruiya timber warehouse.

The blaze was confined to wooden planks, cardboard stock and other materials stored on the ground floor of a ground-plus-two-storey (G+2) structure.

Following the alert, teams from the Mumbai Fire Brigade, police and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) rushed to the spot and initiated firefighting and other emergency measures.

The fire was classified as Level-I, indicating a relatively minor fire incident. No injuries have been reported so far, the Mumbai Fire Service said.

The incident comes against the backdrop of another major fire at a scrap godown in Mumbai’s Saki Naka area in October, which claimed two lives and left four others with burn injuries.

The fire had broken out at a scrap godown in Abdul Rashid Compound in Saki Naka, Andheri East. The Mumbai Fire Brigade received a call about the blaze at around 6.18 p.m. on a Tuesday and subsequently classified it as a Level-II fire.

The injured were rushed to the civic-run Rajawadi Hospital for treatment. One of them had suffered 80 per cent burns, while the identities of the two deceased persons had not been established at the time.

The four injured individuals were identified as Taufiq Shadil Qureshi, 20, who sustained 80 per cent burns; Jahid Abidulla Qureshi, 20, and Kamal Jalauddin Shah, 47, who both suffered 40 per cent burns; and Lalchand Ramlakhan Gautam, 40, who sustained 10 per cent burns.

A senior Mumbai Fire Brigade officer had said that the circumstances surrounding the incident remained unclear, with preliminary investigations unable to establish the exact cause or point of origin of the fire.

Officials had said that the flames spread rapidly due to the large quantity of scrap material stored at the premises, which also made firefighting operations challenging. The fire was eventually brought under control after sustained efforts by the fire brigade.

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Shiv Sena(UBT) hails ‘Chalo Delhi’ rally as beginning of democratic revolution

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In a critique of the ruling establishment, the Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray on Tuesday declared that a major political revolution is underway following the opposition-led ‘Chalo Delhi’ rally at Delhi’s historic Ramlila Maidan.

The Thackeray camp, in an editorial in the party’s mouthpiece, ‘Saamana’, asserted that the “roaring turnout has shaken the foundational walls of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah’s administration”. The rally, organised to protest alleged large-scale electoral malpractices, voter list manipulations, and what the opposition terms a systematic “vote-theft project”, brought together leaders from across the INDIA bloc.

The Thackeray camp led a fierce assault on Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, arguing that allegations surrounding voter list discrepancies are no longer merely opposition rhetoric, but stem directly from public disclosures made by sitting election commissioners.

“Vote-theft has now become a national slogan; it is the declaration of the people. Scams in the voter lists, the deletion of crores of voters’ names, and working to assist Modi and Shah under the guise of SIR do not constitute anarchy. On the contrary, this is a people’s rebellion against the terrible situation created by Modi, Shah, and Gyanesh Kumar,” said the editorial.

Accusing CEC Gyanesh Kumar of acting as a “protective shield” for the Central government, the editorial claimed that institutional bias is being used to shield the top leadership from accountability. Despite heavy police deployment, multi-layered barricading, and government attempts to stall incoming demonstrators, Delhi’s arterial roads witnessed massive vehicular and pedestrian congestion. While Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders attempted to downplay the turnout as a minor gathering of a few thousand, observers noted that hundreds of thousands assembled at Ramlila Maidan.

The editorial highlighted that the fervour and public outrage witnessed over the weekend rivalled Jayaprakash Narayan’s historic pro-democracy and anti-corruption crusade launched from the same ground on June 25, 1975.

“Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi stated that the Modi-Shah leadership lost its moral mandate in the 2024 general elections and was only sustained in office through administrative and institutional assistance. Vowing legal recourse, Gandhi declared that institutional figures complicit in electoral malpractices would eventually face strict judicial accountability,” the editorial said.

“The central leadership strongly repudiated the mobilisation. Home Minister Amit Shah characterised the ‘Chalo Delhi’ call as an invitation to political anarchy and defended the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, arguing that the opposition was attempting to shield illegal foreign infiltrators,” noted the editorial. It further added that Prime Minister Modi accused opposition leaders of attempting to divide the nation for short-term political gains.

The Thackeray faction countered the Home Minister’s defence, pointing out the absurdity of labelling millions of deleted Indian voters across multiple states as foreign national infiltrators.

In conclusion, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena asserted that the “roar for regime change” that echoed from Ramlila Maidan in 1975 has now been surpassed by an even louder demand for democratic restoration. Framing the rally as a decisive turning point, the party maintained that the momentum generated in the national capital marks the beginning of an unyielding national movement to restore constitutional integrity and hold the current establishment accountable.

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Mumbai: 70 to 80 guests of the wedding feast in Nahor fell ill with food poisoning, police continue investigation, FDA collects samples

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70 to 80 guests have been admitted to the hospital after they fell sick during a feast in Mumbai Mumbai Nahoor wedding ceremony In this case FDA has obtained the sample of the food and the police have also started investigation in this case Food report case Police will register a case in this case it has been confirmed by DCP Abhay Sinha Deshmukh here A wedding ceremony was held at Nalanda Buddha Vihar Hall in Nahore West on 1st November 2026 happened About 400 to 500 people attended the event. It is suspected that between 70 to 100 people who attended the last round of the meal suffered food poisoning. When symptoms appeared, they were admitted to hospitals for medical treatment.

Out of them, 22 persons have been admitted to Agarwal Hospital in Milind, 4 children have been admitted to Kamagar Hospital in Milind, and 5 persons have been admitted to a hospital in Vikhroli.
All the patients are currently in stable condition and are undergoing treatment. Concerned authorities are monitoring the situation and taking necessary action. Police will soon register an FIR in this matter.

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