Doctor booked in Navi Mumbai for abusing businessman

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Navi Mumbai Police has booked a doctor for allegedly abusing a businessman after the latter sought payment for the installation of CCTVs done by him at the doctor's hospital, PTI reported quoting an official on Thursday.

The incident took place on Wednesday when the 35-year-old victim went to the private hospital in the Koparkhairne area of Maharashtra's Navi Mumbai to collect the payment, the official said.

The doctor allegedly refused to pay the bill for the work done and also abused the victim, the official from Koparkhairne police station said.

Based on the victim's complaint, a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against the doctor under Indian Penal Code sections 506 (criminal intimidation) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), the official said, adding a probe was on into the case.

Car stuck in swollen drain in Thane; 2 persons rescued

Meanwhile, two persons were rescued from a car after it got stuck in a swollen drain and was left dangling on the edge of the drain following heavy rains in Maharashtra's Thane city, an official of the Thane Municipal Corporation said on Thursday.

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The incident took place at around 3.30 pm on Wednesday, he said.

The city witnessed heavy downpour between 3.30 pm and 5.30 pm on Wednesday, Thane Municipal Corporation's disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi said.

Many areas in the city and drains got flooded.

A car moving behind the Balkum fire station got stuck in a swollen drain and was dangling on its edge after the vehicle driver apparently failed to spot the water body, mistaking it for a road, the official said.

The local fire station received an alert after which fire personnel and the disaster management cell team members rushed to the spot. They rescued the car driver and another occupant, the official said.

The two persons did not receive any injury, he said.

The car was pulled out of the drain after nearly two hours when the flood waters receded, he said. (With inputs from PTI)