Police in the Indian city of Mumbai say they have arrested a man for forgery and polygamy after he married at least six women over the past two years.

Tushar Waghmare, an engineer with Air India, allegedly kept all his wives in the dark about their counterparts.

He was arrested after his sixth wife went to the police when she discovered he was married to someone else.

Mr Waghmare is being kept in custody until 29 August. He says he married three times and never deceived anyone.

‘Surprising’

Police said Mr Waghmare had told his wives he was divorced and had shown them a fake legal document.

“It is surprising that none of his previous wives did a background check on his antecedents,” Mumbai (Bombay) police officer RM Vatkar told the BBC.

He would tell them he was travelling and then go on to another wife’s home, Mr Vatkar said. Police say that some of his wives were well-educated and had jobs to support themselves.

But his latest wife became suspicious about his frequent travels and, after investigating his whereabouts, discovered he had another wife.

When she lodged a complaint with the police, details about his other marriages emerged.

Some newspaper reports say Mr Waghmare has married 14 women since 2006. But police told the BBC that they were only aware of six wives.

Mr Waghmare complained about different treatment for Hindus and Muslims.

“Muslims are allowed to marry a lot of times while Hindus aren’t allowed to do so,” he told Reuters television outside a Mumbai police station.

“Why do we have such a law present here?

“I didn’t force them to have sex with me nor did I ever dupe them. I have married only thrice till now.”

The US special envoy to Afghanistan has held an “explosive” meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai over the country’s election, the BBC has learnt.

Richard Holbrooke raised concerns about ballot-stuffing and fraud, by a number of candidates’ teams, sources say.

The US envoy also said a second-round run-off could make the election process more credible, the sources said.

Concerns have already been raised about Afghanistan’s election, although final results are not due until September.

A number of senior sources have confirmed the details of a meeting between Mr Holbrooke and Mr Karzai held on 21 August, one day after the election.

The meeting was described as “explosive” and “a dramatic bust-up”.

Mr Holbrooke is said to have twice raised the idea of holding a second round run-off because of concerns about the voting process.

He is believed to have complained about the use of fraud and ballot stuffing by some members of the president’s campaign team, as well as other candidates.

Mr Karzai reacted very angrily and the meeting ended shortly afterwards, the sources said.

However, a spokeswoman for the US embassy in Kabul denied there had been any shouting or that Mr Holbrooke had stormed out.

She refused to discuss the details of the meeting.

A spokesman for the presidential palace denied the account of the conversation.

There have been many doubts raised about the Afghan presidential election, about the turnout and irregularities.

But this is the first time that a leading Western official has apparently expressed it quite so openly.

It will raise more questions about the credibility of the whole process and could well make the plan to establish a meaningful government in a stable country all the harder to achieve.

A US woman found after being abducted as a girl in 1991 gave birth to two children fathered by her alleged kidnapper, police say.

Jaycee Lee Dugard and the children, aged 11 and 15, were kept in a “hidden backyard within a backyard”.

Alleged kidnapper Phillip Garrido, 58, and his wife Nancy Garrido, 54, are being held in custody in California.

DNA tests are being done to establish Ms Dugard’s identity, but meanwhile she has been reunited with her mother.

Ms Dugard disappeared in 1991, aged 11, from outside her Lake Tahoe home, apparently taken by two people.

El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar she had lived with the couple, isolated from view at a property in Antioch near San Francisco since the kidnapping.

“The tents and outbuildings in the backyard were placed in a strategic arrangement to inhibit outside viewing and to isolate the victims from outside contact.”

The three spent “most of their lives” there, he said, adding that they had never been to school or seen a doctor.

Their identities were revealed after Mr Garrido was spotted by police at the University of California Berkeley campus with the two young children.

He raised suspicions because as a registered sex offender he was not allowed to be with young children.

Phillip Garrido has a conviction for rape and was paroled in 1999, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

He was called in by his parole officer for questioning, and brought the two children and a young woman he called Allissa with him.

During questioning he revealed that Allissa was actually Ms Dugard. She also confirmed her identity to police.

At the Antioch property, there was also a vehicle hidden in the backyard which matched the vehicle originally described at the time of the abduction, Mr Kollar said.

“It’s a pretty spectacular story just to find someone like that. Someone we assumed was dead,” said Bill Clark, a senior prosecutor in El Dorado County.

Jimmie Lee, a local police spokesman, said Mr Garrido was also being held for investigation of rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and sexual penetration.

The funeral has taken place in south Wales of the 200th UK soldier killed in the Afghanistan conflict.

Pte Richard Hunt, 21, of 2nd Battalion the Royal Welsh was honoured at a service with full military honours in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.

Pte Hunt died in hospital in the UK two days after an explosion in Helmand Province while on vehicle patrol.

Up to 3,000 mourners, many lining the streets, listened to the tributes to a “true Welsh warrior”.

Pte Hunt died in hospital in Birmingham earlier this month after his patrol from A Company the 2nd Battalion the Royal Welsh was hit by an explosive device.

Lt Col Mark Wheeler told the congregation Pte Hunt made “an immediate impact” when he joined the battalion.

His enthusiasm was clear to us all and he was quickly identified by his platoon staff as a bright, enthusiastic soldier with plenty of potential for the future.

“Richard was brimming with excitement when it was finally announced that A Company would be deploying to Afghanistan.

“He immediately volunteered to undertake a sniper course rather than pursue a possible career promotion course believing that he could best serve the company and his friends as a trained sniper.”

Pte Hunt’s brother Alun Hunt also paid tribute.

He said: “Who would have thought this beautiful little blue-eyed boy would grow up to be such a brave and courageous young man.

He was a true Welsh warrior, an honour I know he would be delighted has been bestowed upon him.

“As a family we have paid the highest price for him serving his country. He and others like him have risked everything in order to protect us all. And for that we are grateful to him.

“And we request his all too short life not be in vain.”

Jonathan Cholakian, the soldier’s best friend, said the memories of the life they shared would stay in his heart forever.

“Rich you are like a brother to me and I love you,” he said.

“I will always cherish being in the band with you, making music with you was a privilege, even though you hit the drums so hard the rest of us could barely hear ourselves play.

“Losing you will leave the biggest and blackest of holes which will last a lifetime.”

Pte Hunt’s coffin was brought into the church draped in the Union Flag and adorned with his belt and beret, to the sound of Men of Harlech.

THE world’s top mobile phone maker Nokia has announced its entry into the computer market with a cut-size notebook.

The Nokia Booklet 3G netbook will run Microsoft Windows, weigh 1.25kg and offer up to 12 hours of battery life.

Nokia said it would announce more details, including the price, in September.

Netbooks are low-cost notebooks designed for surfing the web and other basic functions.

Pioneered by Asustek with the hit Eee PC in 2007, netbooks have since been rolled out by other brands such as HP and Dell.

“A growing number of people want the computing power of a PC with the full benefits of mobility,” said Kai Oistamo, Nokia’s executive vice president for devices.

A source close to Nokia said the new netbook would use the upcoming Windows 7 operating system.

A stripped-down version of Windows 7 will be released for netbooks at the same time as its general release on October 22.

Nokia’s announcement comes as mobile phone manufacturers such as Nokia and Sony Ericsson are facing sliding sales for their handsets.

The financial crisis has deterred many customers from buying new phones, while “smart” models such as the iPhone and Blackberry have taken sales away from the established phone giants.

Cut-throat market

Nokia said earlier this year it was considering entering the laptop industry, crossing the border between two converging industries in the opposite direction to Apple, which entered the phone industry in 2007 with the iPhone.

However analysts have worried that entering the PC industry, where margins are traditionally razor-thin, could hurt Nokia’s profits.

“We are fully aware what has the margin level been in the PC world. We have gone into this with our eyes wide open,” said Kai Oistamo, the head of Nokia’s phone unit.

“There’s really an opportunity to bring fresh perspective to the PC world,” he said, adding that Nokia would introduce extended battery life and continuous connectivity.

Nokia has produced PCs before, but divested the unit in 1991 when it started to focus on the mobile phone industry.

Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi said the success of Nokia’s netbook may depend on how well it stood out from other products.

“The question is: How will Nokia differentiate? This is already a crowded market,” she said.

“If they manage to differentiate it’s going to give them competitive advantage.”