Pratik Salunke
Pratik Salunke is a principal correspondent of Hindustan Times, Mumbai. He has spent a past decade covering crime and transport in cities of Mumbai and Pune. He has been covering terrorism, financial frauds and crime stories.
Articles by Pratik Salunke
Yes Bank case: ED raids 5 premises of Cox and Kings, claims firm defaulted on ₹3,642-crore payment
PUBLISHED ON JUN 09, 2020 12:17 AM IST
Mumbai officegoers are back on roads, so are traffic snarls
By Pratik Salunke, Mumbai
PUBLISHED ON JUN 08, 2020 11:28 PM IST
Yes Bank case: ED raids five premises of Cox and Kings in Mumbai
PUBLISHED ON JUN 08, 2020 02:05 PM IST
Mumbai: Traffic snarls reported across the city as offices in MMR open partially
By Pratik Salunke | Hindustan Times, Mumbai
UPDATED ON JUN 08, 2020 01:16 PM IST
The offices were shut in the MMR because of the lockdown restrictions, which were enforced since mid-March to contain the spread of the raging coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak.
Covid-19 outbreak:Sister pleads on a video to get breathless Mumbai Police constable admitted
By Pratik Salunke and Jayprakash S Naidu, Mumbai
UPDATED ON JUN 08, 2020 01:13 AM IST
More vehicles out, cops begin random checks
By Pratik Salunke, Mumbai
PUBLISHED ON JUN 06, 2020 12:16 AM IST
Traffic increases as Maharashtra opens up MMR roads, traffic police to initiate random checks
By Pratik Salunke | Hindustan Times, Mumbai
UPDATED ON JUN 05, 2020 02:49 PM IST
Mumbai Traffic Police authorities are conducting random checks on cars after the state government urged Mumbaikars to take out vehicles only for essential services.
Hit-and-run: Nurse killed in accident at Ghatkopar
By Pratik Salunke, Mumbai
PUBLISHED ON JUN 04, 2020 12:00 AM IST
40 cops from JJ Marg police station recover from Covid-19
By Pratik Salunke and Faisal Tandel, Mumbai
PUBLISHED ON JUN 03, 2020 12:10 AM IST
Sixteen policemen from Dharavi police station resume work after recovering from Covid-19
By Pratik Salunke and Faisal Tandel | Hindustan Times, Mumbai
UPDATED ON JUN 02, 2020 02:49 PM IST
A total of 32 policemen working in Mumbai’s worst Covid-19 hotspot contracted the virus, of whom 31 have recovered.
Traffic snarls begin again on all major highways, police expect further surge from June 3
By Pratik Salunke, Mumbai
PUBLISHED ON JUN 01, 2020 11:25 PM IST
Mumbai sees rise in vehicular traffic due to ‘Mission Begin Again’
By Pratik Salunke | Hindustan Times, Mumbai
UPDATED ON JUN 01, 2020 01:27 PM IST
Slow-moving traffic was reported in some stretches of the western and eastern express highways. Traffic slowed down outside the vegetable market on Sion-Panvel road and other areas in the suburbs on Monday morning.
13 personnel of CISF unit guarding Mazagon Dock test positive for Covid-19
By Pratik Salunke, Mumbai
PUBLISHED ON MAY 27, 2020 11:51 PM IST
Man killed, one injured for objecting sale of marijuana
By Pratik Salunke, Mumbai
PUBLISHED ON MAY 27, 2020 07:11 PM IST
CISF unit guarding Mazagon Dock in Mumbai reports Covid-19 cases
By Pratik Salunke | Hindustan Times, Mumbai
UPDATED ON MAY 27, 2020 05:22 PM IST
The development comes at a time when Maharashtra is topping the list of states for both infections and deaths. The state has recorded more than 52,000 infections and nearly 1,700 deaths.
20-year-old attacked with a sickle over honking in Mumbai
By Pratik Salunke | Hindustan Times, Mumbai
UPDATED ON MAY 26, 2020 01:40 PM IST
A brawl broke out when Shejul requested the SUV driver to stop honking. One of the assailants used a sickle to attack Shejul, but he managed to deflect the blow.
Activist Afroz Shah detained by cops for ferrying migrants to Ghatkopar bus stand
By Pratik Salunke, Mumbai
UPDATED ON MAY 20, 2020 09:06 PM IST
Activist Afroz Shah detained on charges of ferrying stranded migrant workers
By Pratik Salunke | Mumbai, Maharashtra
UPDATED ON MAY 20, 2020 01:46 PM IST
On Tuesday night, Shah tagged Mumbai Police and the police commissioner, Param Bir Singh, and recounted the trauma that led him to temporarily suspend his charitable activities.
FIR filed against Ghatkopar residents for protesting against quarantine centre
By Yesha Kotak and Pratik Salunke, Mumbai
PUBLISHED ON MAY 19, 2020 08:59 PM IST
Foreign nationals cheated in Goa; ED attaches 56 flats, 16 villas
By Pratik Salunke, Mumbai
PUBLISHED ON MAY 17, 2020 12:08 AM IST
Foreigners cheated in Goa; Enforcement Directorate attaches 56 flats, 16 villas
By Pratik Salunke | Edited by Sparshita Saxena | Hindustan Times, Mumbai
UPDATED ON MAY 16, 2020 03:16 PM IST
The ED initiated an investigation under the provisions of PMLA based on the FIRs registered by Goa Police on the complaints filed by foreign nationals.
ED arrests Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan in Yes Bank money laundering case
By Pratik Salunke | Mumbai, Maharashtra
UPDATED ON MAY 14, 2020 06:28 PM IST
A single-judge bench of Bombay HC rejected the Wadhawans’ anticipatory bail plea saying, custodial interrogation was needed because of the serious nature of allegations such as money laundering.
National Herald case: ED attaches part of Bandra building worth Rs 16 crore
By Pratik Salunke | Edited by Sabir Hussain | Hindustan Times, Mumnai
UPDATED ON MAY 09, 2020 05:10 PM IST
The Enforcement Directorate has attached part of a nine-storey building of the Associated Journals Limited (AJL), the publisher of National Herald newspaper, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act at a prime location in Bandra.
Yes Bank fraud: ED files charge sheet against Rana Kapoor and family
By Pratik Salunke and Charul Shah, Mumbai
PUBLISHED ON MAY 07, 2020 01:13 AM IST
Three brothers attacked in Chembur, one killed
By Pratik Salunke | Hindustan Times, Mumbai, Mumbai
UPDATED ON MAY 06, 2020 07:37 PM IST
According to RCF police, the incident occurred at New Bharat Nagar at Vashi Naka in Chembur. Prashant Panvalkar, 27, and his brothers Shankar, 25, and Pralhad, 22, indulged in a brawl with the accused four days ago.
Rana Kapoor, his wife and daughters named in ED chargesheet in Yes Bank scam
By Pratik Salunke and Charul Shah | Hindustan Times, Mumbai
UPDATED ON MAY 06, 2020 04:43 PM IST
The ED has provisionally attached 59 paintings, including an MF Husain painting of Rajiv Gandhi, seized during the raids.
Corona is not the end, keep yourself strong, says a 50-year-old cop after discharge
By Pratik Salunke, Mumbai
PUBLISHED ON MAY 04, 2020 10:46 PM IST
3 attacked with bamboo, sword over argument on wearing mask
By Pratik Salunke, Mumbai
PUBLISHED ON MAY 04, 2020 06:37 PM IST
Marginal increase in peak hour traffic after ease in restrictions
By Pratik Salunke, Mumbai
PUBLISHED ON MAY 04, 2020 05:30 PM IST
Lockdown 3.0: Lack of clarity on liquor shops in Mumbai
By Tanushree Venkatraman and Pratik Salunke | Hindustan Times, Mumbai
UPDATED ON MAY 04, 2020 02:11 PM IST
A Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) ward officer from the eastern suburbs of the city said the civic body will frame policy guidelines in a day or two.
