THANE: A police raid in Maharashtra’s Thane district has uncovered disturbing conditions inside an orchestra bar, where women were allegedly being forced to perform and hidden in cramped spaces to evade detection. The police have raided an orchestra bar and rescued 13 women, including a minor, from the establishment in Maharashtra’s Thane district, an official said on Saturday. Based on a tip-off, a police team raided the bar in Bhayandar East on Thursday night and found women performing on stage, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Sandeep Doiphonde said. “The raid was conducted around midnight following inputs that the bar management was employing more women than permitted and forcing them to perform obscene dances to attract customers,” he said. During a search of the building, the police team found a narrow concealed cavity created to hide additional women, and rescued six women and a minor, who were suffocating in the confined space, the DCP said. Thirteen women have been rescued from the establishment, and a case has been registered under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita against 13 accused for allegedly endangering lives, hiding women in unsafe conditions and forcing them to perform obscene acts, the official said.

THANE: A 16-year-old boy with schizophrenia has been booked for culpable homicide after he fatally stabbed his 8-year-old sister while mimicking a sword-fighting video he had been watching on his mobile phone, police said.The incident occurred around 2.30 am on April 15 at the family’s residence in Amrutnagar, Mumbra. The girl’s father, a college teacher, was woken by her cries and found his son holding a knife and his daughter bleeding profusely from her neck. She was rushed to Bilal Hospital and later transferred to civic-run CSM Hospital. Despite ICU care for four days, she died on April 19. The preliminary post-mortem report cited liquefactive necrosis of the brain – a complication arising from the stab wound – as the cause of death.The accused told cops he’d been watching a video featuring a man fighting with a sword; while replicating the moves, the knife struck his sister. The father told police the son has for 2 years been undergoing treatment for schizophrenia, a severe mental health disorder that impairs how a person thinks, feels and behaves, causing them to lose touch with reality. The father initially declined to file a complaint, but Mumbra police registered the case on behalf of the state. The boy has been booked under Section 105 of BNS which pertains to culpable homicide not amounting to murder, on the grounds that the act was carried out without intent to kill.