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Four youngsters sustained injuries as speeding car they were travelling in hit road-divider, took a 10-feet high jump into air, and turned turtle when overtaking bid by car driver went wrong near Mate Square on Saturday late night. The injured youngsters fled the spot leaving the damaged car behind. According to eye-witnesses, a Hyundai i-20 car (MH-40/KR-9002) was coming from Rana Pratap Nagar Square with speed exceeding 100 km/hr. The driver tried to overtake an Indica car. The driver tried to over-take Indica through a small gap between road-divider and Indica. However, during the risky move, the driver lost balance and hit road-divider. In panic, driver applied brakes immediately. As a result, the i-20 car jumped 10-feet high into air, turned turtle, and skid before coming to a stop at a distance of 50-feet from the spot where it had hit road-divider. Soon, residents of the area gathered at the spot. “We heard a loud bang,” said a resident. There were four y...

One had frequently heard the famous dialogue in our Bollywood films, “Kanun ke hath bahut lambe hote hain” (criminals can be tracked down from where ever they are hiding). From film script to see this thing happening in reality there was a long wait. Now criminals who were having an easy option of striking at will and then escaping to other states can soon be tracked down if they happen to trip and commit crime at other places. The Maharashtra Police is readying Crime and Criminal Tracking Network system (CCTNS), part of ambitious national criminal network. State has been chosen for implementation of pilot project and same is being supervised by State Crime Records Bureau (SCRB) stated its head, Spl. Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sanjay Verma. By April 2013 the database of criminals should be in place and work is on at war footing. About 1,033 police stations and 600 supervisory offices of State Police are to be brought under CCTNS loop and project was rolled out in Utt...

Prakash Pohare arrived in the court. Editor-in-chief of Marathi daily ‘Deshonnati’ Prakash Pohare was arrested by the crime branch of Nagpur Rural police on Tuesday morning from his Akola farmhouse. Cops then produced Pohare before court of Judicial Magistrate First Class, Kalmeshwar, where the court remanded him to two days police custody. The cops arrived at Kalmeshwar police station around at 2 pm. His close relatives including former MLAs Harshawardhan Deshmukh, Ashok Dhawad also arrived at Kalmeshwar police station. Cops then registered a entry of Pohare’s arrest in station diary and took him for medical check-up. Acting on a specific tip-off, a team of Crime branch led by PI Rajan Pali and PSI Arvind Saraf spotted Pohare at his Barshitakli road farmhouse. The team was chased by some well-wishers of Pohare and cops later resurfaced and surprised them by arresting him. According to police officers, Pohare was about to leave the place, but the special squad foiled his ...

Missing persons from Nagpur City Year   0-18    above 18 Total Traced 2010 247         471            718   358 2011 724        1623           2347  1926 2012 596        1267           1863  1311 Director General of Police (DGP), Maharashtra, Sanjeev Dayal, has asked the force to refashion their style of investigations in missing persons cases. Stopping short of pulling-up the field workers, the state police boss however has spoken his mind on treatment meted out to relatives of missing persons at police stations. Hence he has asked police officers to reorient their outlook in handling cases of missing persons. Sanjeev Dayal has issued a list of do’s and don’ts to the department as he tries to instill a sense of disciplined approach in dealing with frayed nerves of famil...

Deaths under jurisdiction of GRP, Nagpur 2009 1152 2010 1212 2011 1162 Deaths under jurisdiction of RPF, Nagpur Division 2009 250 2010 245 2011 365 Death dance continues unabated on railway tacks. As many as 665 passengers lost their lives in the past three years in Nagpur Division of Central Railway. Between 2009 and 2011 the casualties increased by 31.5 per cent, if the data compiled by Railway Protection Force (850 rail kms). Major reason for the deaths are travelling dangerously by standing on footsteps of bogies, trespassing (crossing tracks illegally) and throwing caution to wind at unmanned level crossings are major factors. The high level safety committee headed by senior scientist Dr Anil Kakodkar in his report has referred to 15,000 people dying on railway tracks every year because of trespassing alone. According to data by Government Railway Police (GRP), Nagpur Region (their area stretches from Gondia in East till Igatpuri in West...

Ashok Singhal Accusing the Uttar Pradesh government of conniving to capture the disputed temple land in Ayodhya, Vishva Hindutva Parishad Patron Ashok Singhal alleged on Monday that Samajwadi party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav wanted to acquire a land next to the 70-acre acquired land around Sri Rama Janma Bhumi. Saying that the SP chief had alleged "ganged up" with UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi towards this end, Singhal said all the Sants of the country were of the opinion nothing but a huge temple to Sri Ram Lala would be built on the 70 acres of land. He also said the construction of a mosque would not be allowed within the scriptural and cultural rim and perimeter of Ayodhya.  Singhal said: "It seems that Mulayam Singh Yadav wants to build a mosque and an Islamic Cultural Centre on the said plot of land (where an Ara/saw machine stands) adjoining the 70-acre acquired land of the Central Government. The Islamic forces are compelling him to do so. Singha...

A police posse stands guard at the spot  where a youth, Rohit Jain, was buried  by the goons at the slum. Sitabuldi police on Wednesday exhumed body of a businessman, Rohit Jain, who was allegedly murdered and then buried at Vasantrao Naik Slum. After last night violence that resulted in lynching of a goon by angry slum dwellers, the skeletons in cupboard of Sitabuldi police started tumbling down. As decomposed body of Jain, who was tortured to death, by Akram Sheikh and his accomplices, the rot in policing at Nagpur city also become stark clear. Not that police were not told about activities of Akram Sheikh but the residents allege their complaints were ignored. Instead police used to tip off Akram about complaints received against him. After last night violence the police were on defensive. Acting on information of slum dwellers alleged the police swung into action. From morning onwards the formalities were completed and Tehsildar informed as per procedure. S...

Room constructed by the Bhuru to run gambling den. Rohit Jain was killed in this room.  Rise of Bhuru alias Sk. Akram is akin to what is shown in Hindi blockbusters. Just a decade back the lanky youth used to ride on bi-cycle. However after diversifying into gambling business and other activities on other side of law, the small time goon soon amassed huge wealth. From a small house in Jaripatka, the goon now boasts of two big houses, including one in Sitabuldi, two four wheelers, 6 motorcycles and agriculture land. The total wealth with the goons is estimated to be in range of couple of lakhs. In fact Bhuru first made an impression in the area as a good smartian. He turned over his mother who was into illicit sale of liquor in the Vasantrao Naik Slums. This was exactly 10-years back. Having got a foothold in the area, the goon soon started extorting money from youth who were into thefts. Bhuru would expect 50 per cent returns in turn for his patronage. From 2004, Bhuru sta...

In a firing incident at the newspaper’s printing unit at Gondkhairi, 19 kms from Nagpur, security supervisor of ‘Deshonnati’ press was killed on Saturday evening. According to police, a security guard fired at the supervisor. Following the incident, as a matter of precaution, cops deployed bandobast at ‘Deshonnati’ group offices. Identified as Rajendra Krishnarao Dupare (47), a resident of Sonba Nagar, the deceased was working as Security Supervisor at ‘Deshonnati’ press. Dupare is survived by wife and three children. The employees of Marathi daily ‘Deshonnati’ were on strike since August 6. On Saturday evening, around 50 members of Deshonnati Karmachari Sanghatana including four security guards gathered at the main gate of the newspaper’s printing unit at Gondkhairi on Amravati Road. Editor-in-Chief of ‘Deshonnati’ Prakash Pohare reached the printing unit along with 10 persons including five security guards around 5.30 pm. As soon as Pohare reached the spot, the cops said, ...

A mob of slum-dwellers, mostly women, from Vasantrao Naik Nagar slums near Vidarbha Hockey Association Ground, lynched notorious goon Iqbal Shaikh alias Guru with sword-sticks, stones, cricket bats, sticks and wooden posts on the footpath between Maharajbag gate and Patrakar Sahanivas entrance on Amravati Road in Sitabuldi area on Tuesday night. The mob chased the goon, killed him on the main road, dragged his highly mutilated body several feet on to a sidewalk, damaged police vehicles badly and even set on fire one, and then charged towards the Sitabuldi Police Station a few hundred meters away, and clashed with the cops who tried to restrain the onslaught. The mob was still squatting in front of the Police Station well beyond midnight demanding arrest of the killed goon’s accomplice brother, and exhumation of a body the two goons had buried in the slum clandestinely. Iqbal Shaikh’s brother Akram Shaikh alias Bhuru, who used to run a gambling den in the slums, manage...

IN A shocking daylight incident, unidentified goons shot dead Vijay Pandurang Thawkar (36), owner of Thawkar Jewellers, in his shop on mezzanine floor at Shriram Bhavan, Khankhoje Nagar, in Hudkeshwar area on Manewada Road on Saturday. The assailants also attacked Vijay Thawkar’s salesman Prasad Sharadrao Khadekar (20) with a knife, injuring him seriously. After killing Vijay Thawkar and injuring Prasad, the assailants sped away in a Maruti 800 car. Brother of Vice-President of Nationalist Congress Party’s city unit Raman Thawkar, Vijay was a resident of Bhaldharpura. Vijay, who suffered bullet wounds on head and chest, was dead on the spot while Prasad sustained injuries and was taken to Government Medical College for treatment. Senior police officers investigating the incident believe that robbery may the motive behind the murder. However, they had no prima facie evidence to rule out the personal enmity angle. Some traders in the area alleged that Vijay had a d...

K N Govindacharya addressing a gathering. Coming down heavily on the Government and powers-that-be for supporting the cause of corporates and heaping injustice on common man, senior affiliate of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and convenor of Rashtriya Swabhiman Andolan K N Govindacharya stressed the need to preserve India’s original culture of savings and simplicity. Addressing a gathering of Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (SJM) workers from across the country at the end of national meet of the outfit, at NMC School ground in Gadikhana on Saturday evening, Govindacharya attacked almost all the major political leaders right from Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. At the same time, he heaped praise upon anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal, and Baba Ramdev. “We need alternative politics and not alternative party. Hazare, Kejriwal, and Ramdev should come together for betterment of India,” he said. The politicians were working for cor...

Acting tough against the chain snatchers, the city police on Monday booked Sachin Peshve and five others, involved in 14 incidents of chain snatching in different parts of city, under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). Commissioner of Police Dr Ankush Dhanvijay had promised to book the chain snatchers under MCOCA for spreading terror among women and morning walkers and zooming past with their gold chains or Mangalasutra. Keeping a close watch on gang of accused, Hudkeshwar police nabbed Peshve, a resident of Bajrang Nagar, lane no 11, Manewada road and his associates, when they were about to strike. The gang confessed to various incidents of chain-snatching and cops recovered a huge cache of gold chains from them. Hudkeshwar police has registered offence under sections 393, 411,413 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code against them and also conducted a raid at the premises of Bharat alias Bunty Galbale, a resident of Besa, who purchased the stolen goods.  T...

Dhantoli Police busted a racket involved in fake land deals by putting behind bars five persons, including two women, for swindling lakhs of rupees from several persons. Cops seized copies of bogus agreements, 7/12 records, sale-deeds, photo Identity cards, seals and other forged dpcuments from the possession of the acused persons. Cops arrested accused, Shama Keshav Kumbhare (80), a resident of Untkhana, Dolly Joseph (30), a resident of Chandan Nagar (30), Nikhil Ramchandra Kale (27), a resident of Surendra Nagar, Shabbir Khan (31), a resident of Gittikhadan and one Ghanshyam Jagdishprasad Sharma, on the charges under Sections 420, 465, 467, 468 and 471 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). According to Police, the accused persons approached Uttam alias Baba Jangluji Mendhe (35), a resident of 121, HB Estate Sonegaon and told him that they wanted to sell Plot No 59, Khasra No 13/1, Mouza Somalwada, at Guruchhaya Cooperative Society. Showing some forged documents, they tol...

Central Railway is running a special train on Nagpur-Jabalpur route to clear passengers rush during the festive season. Passenger traffic on Nagpur-Jabalpur sector has seen an impressive growth. The booking status reveals a long waiting list and special train would ease the pressure on lone train on the route, said Divisional Railway Manager (DRM), Central Railway, Nagpur Division, Brijesh Dixit, here on Tuesday. DRM appealed passengers to make optimum use of special train service to Jabalpur ex-Nagpur. There are plenty of vacant berths in Train No. 02159/02160 Nagpur-Jabalpur-Nagpur special train that started from October 2 and is available till November 30. One of the distinct advantage of special train according to DRM Dixit are it convenient timings. Ex-Nagpur, Train No. 02159 is available on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday and it depart at 2.30 pm and reach Jabalpur the same day at 10.30 pm. The train stoppages include Pandhurna-15.45/15.47 hrs, Betul-16.53/16...

The casual approach of Social welfare department of Zilla Parishad has created trouble for newly-wed couples who tied nuptial knot against the wishes of their family. The financial assistance of Rs 39 lakh instituted by the Central government for Inter-caste married couples is yet to be given to 78 couples collectively Rs 39 lakh for 2010 by Zilla Parishad. As per the information Union government has sanctioned Rs 50,000 financial assistance for 208 married couples in District. But, administration has not yet distributed the cheques to eligible couples. Validity of 39 cheques collectively Rs 39 lakh has lapsed on September 30 as they were prepared at the very beginning of current fiscal. To promote inter-caste marriages, the award money has been increased from Rs 15,000 to Rs 50,000. When ZP committee members confronted Social Welfare officer about this serious lapse, the official concerned gave evasive reply and claimed that budgetary provision was inadequate. Accor...