Overview
- Police recovered six young men from Pune and their Mahindra Thar after locating the SUV roughly 400–500 feet down a Tamhini Ghat gorge, with all victims identified and post-mortems conducted before handing bodies to families.
- The group went missing after a late-night Konkan trip; investigators traced phones and CCTV to a sharp curve, then used a drone to spot the wreck and bodies in difficult terrain.
- Raigad police say the probe is examining overspeeding, mechanical failure, low visibility and slippery, blind curves on an accident‑prone stretch, with an FIR registered under BNS and Motor Vehicles Act provisions.
- On Thane’s Ambernath flyover, four people, including the car’s driver, died and four were injured when a Tata Nexon crossed into oncoming two‑wheelers; police are testing claims of a driver heart attack against other accounts and will confirm cause after investigation.
- In Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, three wedding guests were killed and two injured when their vehicle fell into a ravine, prompting a rescue by police and the State Disaster Response Force.