Mumbai beat

Mendonca not fined, claim police
Mumbai police have denied that the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has fined police commissioner R H Mendonca Rs 5,000 for the inordinate delay in filing a reply to a notice issued by the court on September 29.

According to an official statement, police claimed the newspaper report stating that the commissioner had been fined was carried “without ascertaining facts.” It claimed that the amount is to be paid by the government towards “expenses” which the release does not specify. The money is not to be paid by the commissioner, it adds.

Supplementary exams in June n THE Maharashtra government is planning to hold supplementary examinations for students who fail their tenth and twelfth standard, within a month of declaration of results in June, to save one academic year of the unsuccessful candidates, according to Minister of State for School Education Anil Deshmukh.