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

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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...
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Railways introduced Nagpur-Jabalpur special train

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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-16.53/16.55, Itarsi-19.05/19.15, Pipriya-20.05/20.07, Narsingpur-21.08/21.10, Madan Mahal-22.05/22.07. From Jabalpur the train runs on same days and journey starts at 5.45 am and arrival in Nagpur is at 1.30 pm the same day. On return journey the train timings at Madan Mahal-05.51/05.53, Narsingpur-06.50/06.52, Pipria-07.50/07.52, Itarsi-09.00/09.10, Betul-10.35/10.37, Pandhurna-11.48/11.50 hrs.
The traffic pattern on special train is being monitored and based on figures in future the train could also become permanent fixture, said the sources. But currently many of the passengers are not aware about the special train, the DRM said, but he is hopeful of getting encouraging response from next trip onwards.
Home Platform: Talking to mediapersons on Tuesday, DRM said, the work on Home Platform to come-up on Santra Market side is going on at fast pace. Once completed it would be eighth platform at Nagpur platform where passenger traffic is increasing at fast pace. Home Platform concept is quite peculiar and division plans to run and terminate all ex-Nagpur train from here after traffic starts from here. The new platform would decongest Western side of Nagpur railway station and passengers would also feel comfortable as they would not have to criss-cross through foot overbridge (FoB) to catch the train or for moving out of platform to circulating arena.
Further with Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) planning to open Anand Talkies railway underbridge (RuB) by December, it would ease the problem of connectivity between East and West Nagpur. Home Platform at Nagpur railway station may be commissioned by December, the sources said.

Timing of Nagpur-H Nizamuddin AC special will be change

Central Railway has taken-up with Railway Board the inconvenient timings of all AC Nagpur-Hazrat Nizamuddin-Nagpur special train. DRM Brijesh Dixit said, he has spoken to Delhi division officials and sounded hopeful of advancing the timing ex-Nagpur train atleast.
As per current time table, Train no. 02437 Nagpur-H Nizamuddin AC special train is to run on every Saturday and leave Nagpur at 3.50 am. The Hitavada published a report, slamming Railways for running train at odd hours. Based on the report, DRM Dixit took-up matter at Delhi and has pitched for advancing the time ex-Nagpur to 5.30 to 6 am. From H.Nizamuddin the train no. 02438 is to run on every Friday at 6.45 am and reach Nagpur station at 1.40 am the second day.
Asked about delay in decentralisation of passenger reservation system (PRS), the DRM said talks are on with postal authorities and very soon the proposal would materialise. He mentioned that booking of e-ticket has increased by 40 per cent during past three years and there is considerable drop in queues at PRS windows.
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