In a shocker from the country's commercial capital, a 12-year-old boy was found dead, police said, adding the victim's head was separated from the body at the time of the discovery.
Unit 3 of the Mumbai Crime Branch nabbed the 45-year-old near Mumbai Central Railway Station on Wednesday. Crime Branch officials recovered a country-made pistol and live cartridges from the accused.
While sharing details, police said, "19-year-old student Shubham Warkad, who posted death threats to Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and MP Shrikant Shinde through social media platform X, has been arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch from Pune on Friday."
The incident happened in the Dindoshi police station area. On recieving information, police reached the spot, took the body into their custody and sent it for post-mortem.
Abhishek, 41, the son of former Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Vinod Ghosalkar, was shot dead in Borivali in suburban Mumbai on Thursday evening during a social media live, allegedly by his old political rival Mauris Noronha, 47, who later died by suicide.
The Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of Mumbai Crime Branch police raided various locations and arrested 11 people, including two most wanted drug peddlers in separate operations. A total of 1.130 KG of MD (mephedrone) worth around Rs 2.22 crore was seized from them, officials said on Monday.
Mumbai Crime Branch claimed to have busted a fake call centre in the Andhera area and arrested 10 people for allegedly cheating United States citizens on pretext of selling medicines.
The Mumbai Police Crime Branch has arrested two drug peddlers from the Agripada area in Maharashtra's Mumbai and seized drugs worth Rs 58 lakh, said the police on Sunday.
Mumbai Crime Branch seized banned Gutkha and Pan Masala worth Rs 12 crore from the Kasa area in Maharashtra's Palghar and arrested seven people in this connection, an official said on Friday.