Mumbai: FIR against man for offensive content on FB against NCP chief

An FIR has been registered against a man in the neighbouring Navi Mumbai for allegedly posting "offensive and humiliating" messages about NCP chief Sharad Pawar on a social networking site, police said on Friday.

No arrests have been made, with police saying appropriate action would be initiated after a proper probe. They also did not reveal the content of the messages posted on Facebook.

According to Nerul police station, an NCP worker saw the posts on Facebook about Pawar and found them "offensive and humiliating". He complained to the police on Wednesday, following which an FIR was registered against one Pravin Pisal.


No arrests have been made, with police saying appropriate action would be initiated after a proper probe.

"The FIR was registered under section 66 A (punishment for sending offensive message through a communication service) of the IT Act. We have not arrested Pisal as we want to first make a thorough investigation into the case," Rajkumar Chaphekar, senior inspector at the police station, told PTI. The officer, however, did not divulge the name of the complainant.

Investigators are taking help of legal experts before initiating any action against the accused, said another officer adding that Pisal would be questioned in this connection.

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Mangala Express derails, 3 dead

Over 30 hurt; probe ordered; services on route to resume today.

Three people were killed and more than 30 others injured, 20 of them seriously, when 13 coaches of the 12618 Nizamuddin-Ernakulam Mangala Lakshadeep Express derailed at Ghoti near Igatpuri junction early on Friday.

The incident took place around 6:25am when the train was passing through the Ghoti-Igatpuri section, about 35 kms from Nashik, a Central Railway (CR) spokesperson said.

Two of the deceased have been identified as Satya Bir Singh, 40, a resident of Pathoda in Haryana, and Raju Kushwaha, 34, a resident of Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh. The third person is yet to be identified. Among the injured, two were infants.

Around 6.25am residents of Ghoti heard a huge noise and woke up to find that 13 bogies of the Mangala Express were thrown off the track.

The impact was so huge that 12 bogies behind the engine smashed against each other. Five bogies were thrown 50 feet apart. The worst-hit bogies were S-8, S-9, S-10, S-11 as they were thrown on the opposite side falling apart on the service road and paddy fields.

Officials said an inquiry under the Commissioner of Railway Safety has been ordered.

Following the mishap, rail traffic on the up side was affected, forcing authorities to cancel many trains, including LTT-Manmad Rajyarani Express, CSTM-Manmad Panchavati Express, CSTM-Bhusawal passenger train and Nanded-CSTM-Tapovan Express.Twenty other trains were either terminated or diverted through the Kalyan-Pune-Daund-Manmad route, the officials said.

Senior officials rushed to the spot early in the morning but work on clearing the tracks was going on till late in the evening.

The railway officials converted the Godaan Express into a replacement train and sent it from Kurla at 8.02 am.

The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) and the railways have arranged 35 buses to take the passengers to Igatpuri station.

The deceased
1. Satya Bir Singh, Pathoda, Haryana
2. Raju Kushwaha, Aligarh, UP
3. Unidentified

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Quake in Jammu and Kashmir, tremors felt in Delhi

A 4.0-magnitude earthquake struck Jammu and Kashmir early on Saturday, and its tremors were felt in national capital Delhi as well.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the epicentre of the earthquake was 43- kilometers north of Ladakh capital Leh.

Saturday's tremor came days after four earthquakes within three hours brought people in south Delhi rushing out of their homes in the dead of the night.

Experts have described the recent quakes as mild tremors caused by a re-alignment in fault zones.

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