Skip to main content

AI Joins the Force: Maharashtra Police Deploys ‘Crime-OS’ for Smarter Investigations

By
By Dheeraj Fartode  Imagine a police officer uploads an FIR and within seconds, an AI assistant begins planning the investigation. It write official letters, scan bank data and spot suspicious transactions. It sounds like science fiction - but it’s now reality in Maharashtra. The state police have started using Crime-OS, a powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool developed under the MARVEL project (Maharashtra Research and Vigilance for Enhanced Law Enforcement). This tool, built in partnership with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Nagpur, works like the co-pilot feature in Microsoft Office - but to solve crimes. It helps police save valuable time and reduces the heavy workload of investigations. Assistant Superitendent of Police (ASP) Deepak Agrawal explained that police investigations usually take a lot of time and effort. Crime-OS is designed to ease that burden. “For example, if a fraud case FIR is uploaded, the tool automatically picks out important information. It t...
Post a Comment

Railway tracks or Death traps?

By

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 encompassing 3713 rail kms) 3526 persons died on tracks in the past three years. Most of the casualties occur at unmanned railroad crossings. The Committee’s recommended manning all level crossings or inter alia constructing railway overbridges (RoBs). Given Indian Railways fund constraints it is not in a position to implement the same.

Overcrowded coaches is also another reason for death of passengers. People suffered critical injuries after falling from crowded coaches, when trains collide or coaches derail. The lure of taking short cuts instead of walking down foot overbridges is another major factor for people dying on railway tracks.
Sr. Divisional Commandant Railway Protection Force (RPF), Central Railway, Nagpur Division, Ibrahim Sheriff, told ‘The Hitavada’ that major causes for increase in number of casualties is travelling on footsteps, over crowing in general coaches and trespassing. RPF conducts drives at regular intervals against to curb these tendencies among travellers and nearly 3,000 passengers were booked under sec. 147 of Railway Act for violation of rules.
Adding more, he said, passenger don’t follow the proper procedure while deboarding from train. They jump out from running train in opposite direction and fall down. Many such cases are reported in Nagpur Division. People should use footover bridges to cross the tracks, the Commandant appealed.

A senior officer of Government Railway Police mentioned that around 150 trains pass through Nagpur station everyday. Due to non-availability of platforms the trains are held-up at outer signal. The passengers get down from train and walk on tracks exposing themselves to danger. We also observed that at time travellers in a hurry to get down from the trains loose their balance and fall down or slip, leading to severe injuries.



Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

IGP Prasanna : The man who stopped Obama’s convoy

By
IGP Mallikarjuna Prasanna By Dheeraj Fartode  Published on Feb/17/2019 NOT many are aware of an episode during the then US President Barack Obama’s visit to India in 2010. The world’s most powerful man was made to wait for 11 minutes in his car while an Indian cop took on American officials for their unwarranted interference in the US President’s security. KM Mallikarjuna Prasanna, Special Inspector General of Police of Nagpur Range, still continues to work with the same pride, wearing his patriotism on the sleeve. “Had they (Americans) deployed their personnel for area security, then the message would have been Indians are unable to protect VIPs in their nation,” recounted Prasanna on the episode that is one of the highlights of his distinguished career of a skillful investigator. The story of the IPS officer of 2000 batch is worth a film. In fact, a movie (Nagarjun-starrer ‘Officer’) has already been made by Ram Gopal Verma last year. His real life script als...
7 comments
Read more

Longest cable-stayed bridge to boost tourism at Ambhora

By
CONSTRUCTION work of 700-metre-long cable-stayed bridge, longest in the country, with a viewing gallery at the top at Ambhora in Kuhi tehsil is near completion. The bridge would be open for traffic in December this year providing a major boost to tourism at Shree Chaitanyeshwar Mahadev temple at Ambhora. It is set to open doors of development for the backward area of Kuhi and Umred tehsil. Ambhora, located 75 km from Nagpur city, is a famous religious and tourist place in Vidarbha. It is situated at the confluence of five rivers -- Wainganga, Kanhan, Aam, Kolari and Murza. Just around a decade ago the river bank housing Ambhora used to see a flux of tourists from all over the State. However, the banks were submerged in water after the construction of Gosikhurd dam which led to rise in water levels. Since then, tourist flow at Ambhora has also declined. However, now with the construction of the new bridge tourists will get a chance see the scenic backwaters across the river bed which is...
Post a Comment
Read more

Rs 1,18,046,99,18,073 !! Transaction of just one Dabba Trade accused

By
By Dheeraj Fartode  Rs 1,18,046,99,18,073... Yes-- One lakh eighteen thousand fourty six crore ninety nine lakh-- This is the extent of mind-boggling transaction by just one Dabba Trader unearthed by sleuths during their investigations. This shocking figure has been officially cited in an affidavit by the Economic Offences Wing (EoW) which stumbled upon this unbelievable figure after decoding the trading transactions of one Kanhaiya alias Kanni Thawrani.  The EoW investigation into multi-crore ‘Dabba’ trading scam has also revealed new sensational information disclosing huge turnover, unimaginable profit, hint about sources of black money and hawala racket, and ultimately huge loss to state exchequer. “Accused Kanni Thawrani has done a business of whopping Rs 1.18 lakh crore in last four years. And, another accused - Sachin Agrawal -- had done business of Rs 5,180 crore in only four months,” the investigating machinery stated in affidavit filed at Nagpur Bench of Bombay ...
1 comment
Read more