The Satellite police are yet to arrest people involved in the attack on noted social worker and environment activist Sandra Jhala. Jhala (53), who is undergoing treatment at Medilink hospital near Syamal crossroads, was attacked in her flat in Parth Apartment near Jodhpur road allegedly by her neighbours late on Monday night.

Even two days after the incident, the police are yet to record her version. Jhala, who is also president of an NGO, Animal Lover, was brutally hit on her head by the attackers.

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked the state government to explain how one of the accused in the September 2005 murder of Jalgaon Congressman Vishram Patil, in which President Pratibha Patil's brother Vishram Patil is also allegedly involved, died in custody.

The court had asked the police to explain how the same accused gave an interview to a TV channel while in custody. Additional public prosecutor Aruna Kamat-Pai told the court that Mali had given the interview while he was in the hospital, without permission from the jail authorities. Pai said that the constables in-charge were suspended and denied two increments.

Prisoners complain meals are so unhygienic one loses 10kg a month

It is not just Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur. People who have served sentences in Arthur Road and Byculla jails also say that the food served to convicts and undertrials is "unpalatable" and "not fit for human consumption".

The Bund Garden police have invoked the Information Technology Act, 2000 against two suspects involved in a fraud case. The two duped an auto showroom located in Koregaon Park to the tune of Rs80 lakh in the last one year.

The two suspects — Vishal Hawale (24) of Chandannagar and Sanjay Pardeshi (43) of Dhankavdi — were produced before judicial magistrate (first class) Jyoti Purkar on Wednesday. They have been remanded to magisterial custody.

The suspects were arrested on February 20 this year after the owner of the auto showroom Palindarsingh Avatarsing Bedi (80) lodged a complaint with the police.

According to the police, the two were working in the accounts section of the showroom.

Two men accused of car-jacking and theft — Stephen Fernandes and Vijayan Joseph — were acquitted by a sessions court after the defence successfully proved that the police had detained them illegally.

Last year, on April 2, Jalashankar Shukla complained that he was carjacked by two persons at Santa Cruz. He said the carjackers had a revolver and asked him to drive to Vikhroli where he was dropped off and the car stolen.

The prosecution said the police had arrested Fernandes and Joseph on April 15 in connection with the case. But when the trial began, doubts about the case surfaced after Shukla deposed that the police had showed him two photographs of the accused on April 6, after which they were arrested.

The number of judges in Bombay High Court may soon rise to 68, with the Centre on Wednesday informing the court that the four names recommended by the Chief Justice (CJ) for elevation to the post of judges are "in the advanced stage of consideration".

The HC has a sanctioned strength of 75 judges. Currently, it has 64 serving judges. Senior lawyer MP Vashi had filed a PIL for filling up vacant posts of judges and a review of the sanctioned strength of judges.