Sadaf Modak

4 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Sadaf Modak

While visiting an ATM in Vashi, Navi Mumbai, in March last year, a bank manager noticed two men fidgeting with the machine. Concerned about their suspicious behaviour and prompted by previous customer complaints about being unable to withdraw cash, the manager alerted the police to potential fraudulent activity. On checking the ATM, police and bank officials discovered that the slot meant for dispensing cash was blocked with a plastic sheet.

1 month ago | indianexpress.com | Sadaf Modak

The accused in Torres ponzi scheme case allegedly told investors that they were being offered high returns as the company was saving money by not hiring celebrities for endorsements, the Mumbai Police Economic Offences Wing (EOW) said in its chargesheet filed in the case.

1 month ago | indianexpress.com | Sadaf Modak

It all started with a drama therapy class aimed at behavioural changes at a Mumbai observation home for children in conflict with law nearly three years ago. In a first, 19 boys, who have been rehearsing for two hours daily for nearly four months now at their observation home, will perform an adaptation of ‘Hattamalar Oparey (Beyond the Land of Hattamala)’, a 1977 work by celebrated playwright Badal Sircar, across Mumbai starting March 20.

1 month ago | indianexpress.com | Sadaf Modak

In its detailed order staying the conviction of Maharashtra Agriculture Manikrao Kokate, a sessions court in Nashik said that if the stay was not granted, his resultant disqualification would lead to a re-election that would require “huge public money”. On March 5, the court had accepted Kokate’s plea to put a stay on the two-year conviction handed to him by a magistrate court in a 30-year-old cheating case. The order was made available Thursday.

1 month ago | indianexpress.com | Sadaf Modak

In 1954, Jayashri Raiji, a Member of Parliament from Bombay, had said in a speech that B R Ambedkar, the first law minister, had reportedly told the Parliament “that nearly 2,000 marriages were performed in contravention of the anti-bigamous Hindu Marriage Act in Bombay State in the first few months of the passing of that Act”, but “very few cases went to the court.” On October 24, 1950, Mali and six others were convicted by magistrate R P Salve under the Act and sentenced to rigorous...