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Mumbai News Live Updates: NCB DG says no international link in Cordelia drugs case, action will be taken against Mumbai officials – The Indian Express

The NCB DG said that the remaining 14 accused were chargesheeted as corroborative evidence was found against them. (ANI)

Mumbai News Live Updates: Addressing a press conference Friday after giving a clean chit to Aryan Khan in the Cordelia cruise drugs case in October last year, S N Pradhan, Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), said there was no sufficient evidence against him and he is not a part of any international drug cartel nor is there any conspiracy. Pradhan added action will be taken against the Mumbai NCB team that arrested him as serious irregularities have been found in the investigation done by the team.

At least 15 persons were injured, five of them seriously, when the bus they were travelling in plunged into a 25-feet deep gorge at Wagobha Khind in Palghar district of Maharashtra on Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway early on Friday, police told PTI. The incident occurred around 6 am when the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) bus was travelling from Bhusawal in north Maharashtra’s Jalgaon district to Boisar in Palghar, a police official said.

Mumbai on Thursday recorded 350 new coronavirus positive cases, its highest single-day count since February 11 this year, although nobody died due to the infection during the day, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. This is for the 10th day in a row that the metropolis has witnessed more than 150 Covid-19 cases. Except four days, the city has recorded daily infection cases in three digits so far this month. With this addition, Mumbai’s infection tally climbed to 10, 63,921, but the death toll remained unchanged at 19,566, the civic body said in its bulletin.

Mumbai News Live Updates: 15 injured as bus falls into gorge in Palghar

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