Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Mumbai court grants interim bail to Elgar Parishad case accused to appear for exam

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Pankaja Munde says CM, Ajit Pawar to decide on cousin Dhananjay`s future in cabinet
BJP leader and Maharashtra minister Pankaja Munde on Tuesday parried a question about her cousin Dhananjay Munde`s continuance in the state cabinet, saying it was for the Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and his deputy Ajit Pawar to decide. Dhananjay Munde, a leader of the Nationalist Congress Party headed by deputy CM Ajit Pawar, is under fire as Munde`s close aide Walmik Karad was arrested in an extortion case related to the murder of Massjog sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh in Beed district. Deshmukh was allegedly killed for trying to thwart the bid to extort money from a windmill company.

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Heroin worth Rs 9 lakh seized in Mumbai, Uttarakhand-based man held
The Mumbai police on Tuesday arrested a man hailing from Uttarakhand and seized from him heroin worth around Rs 9 lakh in Borivali area here, an official said.
The accused, identified as Parvez Alam Ansari (45) from Haridwar, was nabbed under the Sudhir Phadke bridge when he was about to deliver the banned drug, he said.

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Man gets 10 years rigorous imprisonment for unnatural sex with teenage boy
A special court in Maharashtra`s Thane on Tuesday sentenced a man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for having unnatural sex with a 13-year-old boy in 2022.
Special judge hearing cases pertaining to the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, D S Deshmukh, also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on the convict, Vishal Raghuveer Dhulgach.

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Rupee settles 6 paise lower at 85.74 against US dollar
The rupee fell 6 paise to settle at 85.74 against the US dollar on Tuesday, as higher crude oil prices and outflow of foreign funds continued to weigh on the local unit.
Forex traders said the rupee pared some of its intraday losses as the American currency retreated from its elevated levels. Moreover, the recovery in the domestic equity market also aided sentiments.