The State Home Department in Maharashtra is gearing up for a significant overhaul of its top police leadership, including the position of Director General of Police (DGP) and Police Commissioners of Nagpur and Thane. The impending retirement of the current DGP, Rajnish Seth, on December 31 has prompted the department to commence the process of selecting his successor.A top rank official said that several prominent names have emerged as contenders for the esteemed position of State DGP. The frontrunner is Senior IPS Officer Rashmi Shukla, who currently serves as the Director General (DG) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar is also a strong candidate for the role. Other notable contenders include Thane CP Jaijeet Singh, DG ATS Sadanand Date, DG Police Housing Sandeep Bishnoi, DG Railway Pradnya Sarvade, Additional Director of NIA Atulchandra Kulkarni, and DG State Security Corporation Bipin Kumar Singh, he said. He further stated that the State Home ...
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 plan and arrested him around 7.30 am. Cops then took Pohare to Akola Kotwali police station and registered arrest of Pohare and similarly faxed a copy of arrest to Kalmeshwar police station and informed Nagpur SP Dr Manoj Kumar Sharma. Cops produced Pohare before JMFC court at 3.30 pm where Adv Prakash Jaiswal assisted to prosecution and Adv Ansari was defence lawyer.
According to prosecution, Pohare’s custodial interrogation was necessary since they wanted to know how he hired the gunman and circumstances leading to firing and death of one innocent worker. It was a cold-blooded murder, there was a conspiracy and preparation, the prosecution claimed and stated that he had several criminal cases and had assaulted many of his workers in the past as well.
Defence claimed that Pohare was unnecessarily implicated in the case. After a scuffle, there was accidental fire to which Pohare was no way responsible. There was no conspiracy, no intention and Pohare was trying to secure his premises from unauthorised occupants.
Pohare was booked for murder of security supervisor Rajendra Krishnarao Dupare (47), a resident of Sonba Nagar on October 13. Dupare was killed after bullet was fired by the gunman who accompanied Pohare. Kalmeshwar police had registered a case against Pohare, gunman Harikrishna Dwivedi and five others under sections 109, 147, 148, 149 and 302 of Indian Penal Code and 3 read with 25 of Arms Act. Accused gunman Harikrishna Dwivedi was arrested by the police on October 13.
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