Ghatkopar

Police are now focusing on a six-hour period on Tuesday when the movement of the couple is unaccounted for.

An officer said that while the post-mortem report was inconclusive about the cause of death, it ruled out murder, suffocation or any external injury mark as the cause of death. The officer added that while there was a gas geyser in the bathroom, it was not switched on.

“The door of the bathroom and the glass door that separated the toilet and the bathroom were ajar when the domestic help and family members reached the house. So there was no chance of them being suffocated,” said the officer.

Vital organs of the two bodies have now been sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory at Kalina, where a viscera test will be conducted to see if any poisonous substance is found. The officer said that some vomit-type substance was found in the bathroom, which too has been sent for forensic testing.

Meanwhile, police teams are focusing on the movement of the couple between 3.30 pm and 9.30 pm on Tuesday. An officer said that on Tuesday morning, the couple, along with five friends, had gone to a ground in Juhu near Ritambhara College, where their community had organised a get-together to celebrate Holi.

The couple reached the ground at 11 am and left around 3.30 pm along with two friends. “One of their friends was with them till the Chheda Nagar junction in Ghatkopar, till around 3.15 pm. The couple, who were then five minutes away from their residence, reached the building only at 9.30 pm, according to the watchman,” said a police officer.

“The CCTV cameras at the building were not working, so we couldn’t find footage of them entering the building, but the watchman said they came to the building around 9.30 pm,” the officer added.

“We have formed teams to look through CCTV footage to find out where the couple went from Chheda Nagar for six hours,” the officer said.

Meanwhile, the last rites of the couple were carried out at a crematorium in Ghatkopar on Thursday evening. An officer said the couple got married around two years ago, after they met in Bengaluru, where Deepak ran a garment business.

This was Deepak’s second marriage. He has two children from his first marriage.

Bharti Airtel ’s 5G consumer base comes from Mumbai, the telco said in a statement Thursday.

It said that it has 1 million unique 5G on its network in Mumbai which was one amongst the first eight cities to get Airtel 5G Plus . Earlier in the week, India’s second largest telco had said that its 5G consumer base in the country had reached 10 million.

Airtel started the phased launch of its 5G services under Airtel 5G Plus in October 2022 and currently covers 140 cities of the country.

It aims to cover every town and key rural areas with Airtel 5G services by the end of March 2024.

“We will continue to advance our network to more locations across the city,” Vibhor Gupta, chief executive Mumbai, Bharti Airtel, said. “The milestone is a testament to the city’s readiness in embracing the transformative power of 5G.”

Airtel 5G Plus is currently live in several locations in Mumbai, including The Gateway of India, Nariman Point, Film City, Bandra-Kurla Complex, Mumbai Metro junctions of Ghatkopar & Andheri, Chhatrapati Shivaji railway Terminus (CST), to name a few.

In an effort to push 5G adoption, Airtel has created 5G experience zones across all its retail stores where consumers can walk-in and experience Airtel 5G Plus.

MUMBAI : Of the 9 Metro corridors for which work is in progress in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), two are expected to open by 2024, five in 2025 and another 2 in 2026, revealed the state economic survey.

Nearly 185km length of Metro works are being undertaken in MMR, of which 32.5 km (Colaba-Bandra-Seepz) Metro 3 underground corridor is executed by Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) and the remaining by Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA).

As per the economic survey, Metro 3 is the earliest corridor to open by 2023-24 as 79% of the work on this project is completed.

MMRC has planned to open the line in two phases – Aarey-BKC in December 2023 and BKC-Cuffe Parade in July 2024. Another project whose work is at an advanced stage is Metro 6 corridor that will connect Swami Samarth Nagar in Lokhandwala to Vikhroli. MMRDA has achieved 63% of its targeted works.

The work on other corridors are still at nascent stage of execution, and in some cases, even the contractor is yet to be appointed.

Even though the Economic Survey has provided deadlines, experts feel most corridors are likely to miss it because of absence of maintenance depot.
The depot for Line 6 is it yet to be finalised as Centre has staked claim on the land when Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) had planned a integrated depot with Line 3. The depot issue for this line is not settled even though there was change in government for six months ago. The depot work for Line 4 (Wadala-Ghatkopar-Thane) has also not yet begun. The same is the case for Line 9 (Dahisar to Bhayander) whose depot site has faced resistance from villagers.

MMRDA has plans to partially open Line 9 on a 5km stretch between Dahisar and Mira Road in a year’s time. The trains of Metro 7 and Metro 2A, whose depot is at Charkop, will be used for Line 9 when it is partially opened.

In 2024, it will be able to open only a 5km stretch of Metro 2B whose entire corridor is 23km long between DN Nagar to Mandale. The stretch that will be opened partially will be between Diamond Garden and Mandale, where depot for Metro 2B is planned.