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Mumbai: A month after hetook over the state’s reins,chief minster Devendra Fad-navis had expressed fears thatdue to the worst resourcecrunch, the government maybe compelled to take a loan topay state employees’ salaries.

True to his fears, high-ranking bureaucrats told TOIon Friday that the day was notfar off when the state govern-ment will knock at the doorsof leading institutions for fi-nancial assistance for pay-ment of salaries. Fadnavishad told a state-level conven-tion of employees that the gov-ernment had inherited a debtburden of Rs 3.35 lakh crorefrom the Congress-NCP gov-ernment.

“The financial situation isbad. Fadnavis took over on Oc-tober 31 last year. No stringentmeasures have been taken tomobilize resources or curb ex-penditure for 10 months. Thefinance department will de-cide whether to secure loan,’’ asenior bureaucrat told TOI.

He said no doubt the com-mon man was happy with thefall in prices of petrol and die-sel, but it had resulted in a lossof Rs 800 crore to the state ex-chequer. “In six months, theprices of petrol and dieselwere reduced six times. Theimmediate impact of a fall in

petrol and diesel prices is dras-tic reduction in collection ofsales tax. We have lost Rs 800crore in nine months,’’ he said.

Secondly, he said, owing tooverall recession in the real es-tate and manufacturing sector,there was a fall in collection ofsales tax on motor vehicles,stamp duty on transactions inreal estate and significantly,the collection of excise duty onliquor too was less, comparedto last year.

He said the deteriorating fi-nancial condition was due tothe state’s decision to imple-ment populist measures it hadpromised to lure voters. “Wewill be paying Rs 800 crore todevelopers towards abolition

of toll on certain routes, andanother Rs 2,098 crore towardsabolition of local body tax,’’ he said.

A BJP cabinet membersaid when finance ministerSudhir Mungantiwar pre-sented a white paper on thestate’s economy, it was expect-ed that he would initiate dras-tic measures to tackle the fi-nancial crisis. “It was justanother document. There wasno direction for improving thestate’s finances,’’ he said.

He said it was high timethe state government took im-mediate measures to reducethe cost of establishment. “Weare paying Rs 75,000 crore to-wards salaries and Rs 20,000crore for pension,’’ he said.

State may take loanto pay staff salaries

Pension

`20,000 crore

For developers, towards abolition of toll on certain routes

`800 crore

Abolition of local body

tax `2,098 crore

Crop insurance scheme for farmers

`630 crore

Assistance to farmers hit by natural calamities

`481 crore

Right to education

`276 crore

Premium for Rajiv Gandhi health scheme

`474 croreUrban local bodies under Clean India campaign

`177 crore

Plan to stop farmers’ suicides

`48 crore

Salaries for state employees

`75,000 crore

WHERE THE MONEY IS GOINGPrafulla.Marpakwar@timesgroup.com

Pune: The Pune district con-sumer disputes redressal forumhas sentenced the proprietor ofa construction firm at Shivteer-thanagar, off Paud Road to threemonths simple im-prisonment and a fineof Rs 10,000 for defy-ing the forum’s order.

On May 1, 2005, theforum had passed anex parte order direct-ing Hanumant Bhag-wan Lokhande, proprietor ofLokhande Constructions, tohandover the possession of a 250sq.ft flat along with Rs 1,000 costto the complainant, Rajeshwari

A Jindam, a resident of NanaPeth. As an alternative, the fo-rum had given Jindam the op-tion of securing Rs 1.90 lakhwith 9% interest from the build-er.

Jindam initially filed a re-covery plea with the forum but

due to delay on the partof the tehsildar in reco-vering the money fromthe builder, she filed anexecution plea in June2010 under Section 27of the Consumer Pro-tection Act, seeking ac-

tion against the builder for nothanding over the possession ofthe flat despite the forum’s or-der.

During the trial, after the fo-

rum framed charges againsthim on October 3, 2013, Lok-hande had taken a defence thathe could not deliver the flat as hehad not received the entire con-sideration and argued that hehad called off the deal in May 14,2002 by way of a cancellationdeed.

However, a three-memberbench of the forum, headed byits president V P Utpat, cited thedocuments and evidence on re-cord to observe that the cancel-lation deed cannot be consid-ered as valid as it was notexecuted in the presence of anyauthority nor did the builder ex-amine any witnesses in supportof the document and unlike theoriginal agreement of sale be-

tween Lokhande and Jindam,the cancellation deed was notregistered.

The forum observed that thebuilder had ample opportunityover the last 10 years since the

September 1, 2005 order, to im-plement its directions consider-ing that the order had attainedfinality because the builder didnot challenge the same before ahigher appellate authority. The

builder had no other option butto execute the September 1, 2005order which he did not, the fo-rum held. Hence, he is liable forpunishment under Section 27 ofthe CP Act, the forum ruled.

Builder gets three months in jail for defying forum’s order

Pune: A 13-year-old boy’s pres-ence of mind halted the plans ofthree men who would steal andsell smartphones.

Aspate of robberies came tolight after the teenager defiedhis age and physical strength totake on two robbers who tried torun away with his cellphone inWanowrie on August 7.

Sudhir Hiremath, deputycommissioner of police (ZoneIV), said the boy, Sahil Sehlot,will be felicitated for showingexemplary courage. He hasurged people to remain vigilantand help the police instead ofremaining spectators. He laud-ed the efforts made by the inves-tigating team in recovering 27phones from the three men.

A passerby saw the boyholding on to the robbers' mo-torcycle while they desperatelytried to escape. The robbers, Sa-jim Nasir Sayed (22) from Campand Ashraf Aslam Sayed (20) ofBhavani Peth, were overpower-ed and handed over to police.Their interrogation led to thearrest of main suspect AbdullaAnwar Sayed (23) from Mitha-nagar in Kondhwa, who was onthe run, and the seizure of 27smartphones’ worth Rs 1.5lakh.

“We have registered sixcases against Sajim and Abdul-

la under sections 392 (robbery)and 406 (criminal breach oftrust) of IPC. We are in the proc-ess of tracing the IEMI num-bers to identify the owners forregistering more complaints,”said sub inspector DevidasDhole of Wanowrie police sta-tion on Thursday.

Sahil, a student of standardIX in Kendriya Vidyalaya, PuneCamp, was waiting at thePMPML bus stop in JambulkarChowk after his tuition classesaround 7pm. Ashraf and Sajimdrove the motorcycle close tohim and asked for his cell-phone, making an excuse thattheir phone was low on batteryand they needed to make an ur-gent call. Sahil gave them his.

The robbers forced Sahil tosit on the bike and said theywould drop him home. On theway to Fatimanagar via Shivar-kar Road, Sahil suspected foulplay and raised an alarm.

The robbers pushed himdown, but Sahil stood up andgrabbed the vehicle from theback and cried for help. Vilas

Haribhau Mahadik (42) of Jag-tapnagar, who was passing by,rushed to the boy's help andoverpowered the robbers. Po-lice constable Azim Sayyed alsoarrived at the spot on hearingthe commotion and took thesuspects into custody.

“The robbers during inter-rogation allegedly confessed tostealing phones from the limitsof Wanowrie, Koregaon Park,Sinhagad Road, Kondhwa, Ha-dapsar and Cantonment policestations since two months,”Dhole told TOI.

He said, “We have seized Sa-hil’s phone and recovered 21more from the residence of Sa-jim’s brother’s MangalwarPeth residence. The suspectsare close friends who used theill-gotten money to drink.”

“Sajim and Abdulla ridingon a motorcycle allegedly inter-cepted and robbed phones frompeople saying that they wantedto make urgent phone calls. Theduo continued with their actwhen they saw that no com-plaints were registered againstthem,” Dhole added.

Sub inspector MangeshBhange, investigating one ofthe robberies, said, “Sajim andAbdulla have robbed manyphones while Ashraf had ac-companied Sajim only once incommitting the crime. We haverecovered five phones fromAbdulla.”

Police recover 27 smartphonesfrom robbers teen grounded

Asseem.Shaikh@timesgroup.com A spate of robberies

came to light after theteenager took on tworobbers who tried torun away with his cellphone in Wanowrieon August 7

The real stuff is probablyinside a launch facility atSriharikota, but space

enthusiasts in Pune can see amodel of India’s first dedicatedastronomy mission.

In an exhibition titled Hub-ble and Beyond, which will beon till August 23 at the NehruCultural Centre on Ghole Road,Jyotirvidya Parisanstha (JVP),an amateur astronomers’ clubin the city, has put together a dis-play of some current and up-coming space missions theworld over.

This includes the Astrosat,India’s first dedicated astrono-my mission, which, via a scaled-down model, has been displayedwith its technical details, withmodels of all the payloads it willcarry on its tentative Septem-

ber 28 launch, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriha-rikota.

The Inter-University Centrefor Astronomy and Astrophys-ics (IUCAA), on the premises ofthe Savitribai Phule Pune Uni-versity, has designed one of thepayloads, and is collaboratingwith Tata Institute of Funda-mental Research and the Cana-dian Space Agency on the others.

The exhibition also show-cases some astronomical dis-coveries made by Hubble SpaceTelescope, along with a scalemodel of the telescope, and withvarious repairing missions.

“Almost everything weknow about the universe comesfrom studying the light emitted,reflected or transmitted by ob-

jects in space. Telescopes playan important role in collectingand analysing this light comingfrom celestial bodies. Hence,this year’s exhibition is aimedat the milestone in astronomi-cal telescopes which completed25 years in 2015,” said SagarGokhale, the organisation’s sec-retary.

The exhibits have also in-cluded the Thirty Metre Tele-scope, the world’s largest, beingbuilt at Mauna Kea peak in Ha-waii. India, the US, China, Ja-pan, and Canada are contribut-ing with research anddevelopment support. Themuch-delayed successor toHubble, the James Webb SpaceTelescope, was also displayed asascaled-down model.

—Shiladitya Pandit

Astronomy wonders on display Mandar Deshpande

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THE DISPUTE June 30, 2003 Jindam paid another Rs 80,000. The builder had not delivered possession of the flat by May 2002

September 3, 2003 Jindam moved the district consumer court

September 1, 2005 Consumer court passed an ex parte order directing the builder to handover possession of the flat or pay Rs 1.90 lakh with 9% interest to the complainant

June 29, 2010 After an unsuccessful attempt, Jindam filed

a fresh application before the consumer court seeking apt action vis-à-vis

execution of its order

August 19, 2015 Consumer court held Lokhande liable for punishment for defying its order and sentenced him to three months’ simple imprisonment and Rs 10,000 fine

May 15, 2000 Hanumant Lokhande entered into a registered agreement with complainant, Rajeshwari Jindam, for the sale of a 250 sq.ft flat for Rs 1,41,120

August 17, 2000 Jindam paid Rs 80,000 to the builder towards the consideration for the flat

Vishwas.Kothari@timesgroup.com

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Pune: A sharp increase incrimes against children in thestate prompted Pune police to re-ach out to school children toraise awareness about child sex-ual abuse.

Zone IV of the city policeheld a month-long awarenessprogramme called Nirbhay Vi-dyarthi Abhiyan. Students fromseveral schools enrolled in theworkshops that taught partici-pants about potential crimesagainst them through theatre,slogan- and essay writing,which were evaluated in the fi-nal contest.

The jury to assess the chil-dren’s works included artist Ra-vi Paranjape, cartoonist Man-

gesh Tendulkar, and actor AmitWaze, among others. Top policeofficials, including police com-missioner K K Pathak, jointcommissioner Sunil Rama-nand, and Zone-IV deputy com-missioner of police Sudhir Hire-math were present at thefunction, which was held atSymbiosis Institute’s Vimanna-gar campus

Apart from the felicitation,

senior police officers also spokeat length about the ways inwhich children are being ex-ploited. They also presentedtheir views on the causes as wellas warning signs.

DCP Hiremath, whose zoneinitiated the programme, saidthat children should not beafraid to approach the police un-der any situation. “We haveworked with numerous non gov-ernmental organisations in thisprogramme. We have engagedwith the children through playsand essays just to tell them thatwe are not scary, we are theirfriends. Children are welcome toapproach us if they face prob-lems of abuse,” Hiremath said.

Joint commissioner Rama-nand explained that the city po-lice felt the need for such a reach

out programme for several rea-sons, “A number of cases ofchild sexual abuse are reportedfrom cities these days. Childrenseem to be losing their emotion-al well being and this may be dueto the breakup of joint families,smaller apartments where fam-ilies reside, and working par-ents, who are unable to giveenough time to their children.Loneliness is also a major factor.This leaves children vulnerableto abuse and exploitation”, hesaid.

Having served with a num-ber of UN missions, the jointcommissioner recounted his ex-periences to warn audiencesthat the internet is a double-edged sword, which can easilyturn into a trap for child abusersand victims.

We’re not scary, talk to us: Top cops tell kidsShiladitya.Pandit

@timesgroup.com We have engagedwith the children

through plays and essaysjust to tell them that we aretheir friends. Children arewelcome to approach us ifthey face problems of abuseSudhir Hiremath | DCP, ZONE-IV

Pune: ‘Barsha Baithaki’, thefirst event of Maitree Ek Khoj- 2015, a multi-cultural pro-gramme will be held at the In-dian Institute of Tropical Me-teorology’s (IITM) Meghdootauditorium, Pashan. The en-try is free.

The programme is beingorganized by city-based cul-tural forum, Upasana. “Thisyear, we have a clothes collec-tion programme and a chil-dren’s card-making event. Westarted collecting clothes forthe less privileged on August14 and will continue till Sep-tember 12,” co-organiserSharmila Mazumdar said.

A special clothes donationprogramme by children alongwith a ‘Children’s Festival’ isslated for November 6. Emi-nent raga pianist DeepakShah will play Hindustaniclassical music on the instru-ment. ‘Friends of Upasana’will perform songs by Rabin-dranath Tagore, Nazrul Islamand Atul Prasad Sen.

Clarification: Maitree,Ek Khoj has been organizedby the cultural forum Upasa-na and not the Indian Instituteof Tropical Meteorology asrendered in Friday’s edition.

Culturalprogrammefor a cause

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