The police at Shivaji Park have arrested Nasir Khan, 29, a tourist car driver, on Thursday for the alleged stealing of diamond and gold ornaments collectively valued at Rs1.62 lakh. The ornaments belong to a retired police inspector and were stolen after his son's wedding reception.

Retired senior police inspector Ashok Khedekar, 61, a resident of Shivaji Park, hired two Innova cars on February 14 to ferry his family, relatives and his son Sameer, the groom, from his house to Crystal Spring Hall at Bandra (West) where the wedding reception was being held. After the reception was over at around 11.30 pm, they kept the gifts in one car while a bag containing diamonds and gold ornaments were kept in the other car.

A fight for a place on the bench leads to the incident

A fight between two students at a school took a tragic turn here in which a 15-year-old student lost his life on Friday.

Akshay Potti (15) and his classmate in class IXth C at St Francis High School, Rane Nagar reportedly fought around 7 am in the school. The brawl is believed to have started for a place on the bench and took an ugly turn with Akshay being rushed to the hospital.

The school authorities informed his parents and took him to Sahyadri Hospital where his father Anilkumar Potti also arrived.

Four-wheelers worth Rs20 lakh seized, three arrested

The city crime branch officials on Thursday claimed to have busted an inter-state gang of vehicle thieves following the arrest of three suspects. The trio is allegedly involved in forging documents and selling the vehicles in other states.

Additional commissioner of police (crime) Rajender Singh said one of the suspects was caught red-handed in November 2008 while stealing a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) at Bhosari. During the course of investigation, the crime branch arrested two more suspects from Nashik.

Andheri police are questioning employees of a security agency regarding the murder of the elderly couple in Andheri (east) on Thursday. The prime accused, Amit, who is suspected to have killed Charan Kundnani, 79 and his wife Kamla 68, was employed by BSS security agency. Two other employees of the agency are also suspected to be involved in the crime.

"Amit is employed with BSS security agency. The other two, identified as Golu and Sikander, are also employees of the same agency," said senior inspector Pradeep Suryavanshi of Andheri police station.

The Gomtipur police on Friday arrested three Congress municipal councillors, after they ransacked and burnt down the furniture of AMC muster office at Gomtipur Darwaja. Sources said that the councillors took to violent demonstration after the corporation failed to respond to the repeated complaints made by the residents of the area about non-availability of clean drinking water.

Police arrested Ikbal Sheikh, Dahya Parmar, Bhanu Makwana and their supporters involved in the destruction. "They entered the municipal office, started arguing and assaulted officers. Later, they even burnt the furniture of the office," a police source told DNA. A total of 15 chairs and four tables were burnt outside the office.

A 39-year-old man on Friday allegedly killed his 35-year-old wife by severely beating her up at their Amberker Nagar residence in Cuffe Parade. The accused, James Claris Fernandes suspected his wife, Tressa, of having an extra-marital affair, the police said.

James, who works as a supervisor at the World Trade Centre, returned home after a night shift in the wee hours on Friday and found that his wife was not at home, said inspector Vilas Bhule of Cuff Parade police station.