The university had registered an FIR in recruitment scam

Judicial magistrate (first class) AK Mandavgade on Wednesday remanded the University of Pune's (UoP) section officer from the administration department RH Attar in police custody till Saturday.

Attar, who hails from Sangamner, was arrested by the city police on Tuesday night.

The city police had earlier arrested the university's assistant registrar MS Gaikwad (53) of Sus Road and produced him in the court.

The city crime branch claimed to have busted a racket involved in stealing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from domestic cylinders in Thergaon.

The crime branch officials arrested two suspects in the case. The agency seized 39 domestic cylinders meant for distribution in Wakad, Thergaon and adjoining areas, two commercial cylinders and two auto rickshaw cylinders worth Rs2 lakh.

The police found that the suspects had transferred 53 kg of gas into the empty cylinders from 31 sealed cylinders.

The Act is meant to stop trafficking of girls and prostitution in city

The social security cell of the city crime branch has been delegated with the powers to file cases under stringent norms of Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (PITA), meant to stop prostitution and trafficking of females across the city.

Earlier, it was only the assistant commissioner of police of the crime branch who was vested with powers to file the cases. Under the new rule, the police inspector heading the social security cell will be able to file cases under the PITA.

Every year, the city police rescue around 400 women and minor girls forced into prostitution by the brothel keepers, massage centre operators and others under the special act.

The city crime branch and Khadki police station authorities claimed to have solved the case of a woman's murder after the arrest of a suspect on Wednesday.

Around five unidentified persons allegedly kidnapped a 63-year-old senior citizen and robbed valuables worth Rs86,000 from him before pushing him down a valley near Bhor on Monday night.

The victim, Sadashiv Rama Banjan, a prominent electronic goods showroom owner, is a resident of Shivajinagar. Following Banjan's complaint with the Faraskhana police in this regard on Tuesday, the police have booked five suspects.

The Mumbai Crime Branch has arrested a city-based senior executive of an MNC, for his alleged attempt to rape a Mumbai doctor.

The accused has been identified as Sameer Pareeja (40), assistant vice-president of a Pune-based MNC firm.

The Mumbai police arrested the accused from Bangalore. Police said that Pareeja posed as Raj, working on a World Bank project in Tokyo, and met the victim on an online matrimonial site, Jeevansathi.com.

Mumbai police said that while exchanging photographs, he allegedly forwarded her pictures of a male model instead of his own. The 35-year-old doctor, however, mailed him her original photographs.