Mumbai News Live Updates: The National Investigation Agency has arrested two Mumbai based alleged associates of Dawood Ibrahim and Shakeel Shaikh alias Chhota Shakeel. The arrested accused have been identified as Arif Abubakar Shaikh (59) and Shabbir Abubakar Shaikh (51). As per NIA both were involved in handling Dawood Ibrahim’s illegal activities and terrorist financing in the western suburbs of Mumbai.
Maharashtra on Thursday recorded 231 fresh coronavirus cases and one more death linked to the infection, according to news agency PTI. With this, the state’s overall Covid-19 tally rose to 78,80,074, while the death toll increased to 1,47,851. Mumbai, meanwhile, recorded 139 cases in the last 24 hours, accounting for more than 50 per cent of the new patients in the state.
A day after the Maharashtra unit of the BJP tweeted an edited video of his speech and accused him of being a Hindu-hater, NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Thursday said he was reading out lines from a poem which presents the pain of the labourer class, but those who wanted to spread misinformation were free to do so. The @BJP4Maharashtra on Wednesday had tweeted a short video of Pawar’s speech in Satara, claiming that “atheist Sharad Pawar always hated Hindu religion” and he would not have achieved his political success without insulting Hindu gods and goddesses and indulging in casteism.
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