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Major reshuffle expected in Maharashtra Police leadership

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

Home Guards lose job as transfer of ‘babu’ at HQ delays extension

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Diwali is a festival of joy. However, for Home Guards attached to Nagpur district headquarters, Diwali has proven to be a lost opportunity for no fault of theirs. The service of 29 Home Guards working with Central Railway for four months, was discontinued as a ‘Babu’ with Home Guards headquarters at Mumbai got transferred and proposal for extension of their services awaits approval. These Home Guards were working at Nagpur, Ajni, and Wardha railway stations.


There are 450 men working with Railway Protection Force (RPF) and as many as 150 posts in RPF are lying vacant across Nagpur Division of Central Railways. Considering the vacancies, the Railways administration decided to deploy Home Guards at Nagpur, Ajni and Wardha stations. Accordingly, Home Guards were deployed on June 2, 2012. They were deployed on various duties including in parking areas, scanners, and other places.

Home Guards proved their worth with their performance. A Home Guard at Nagpur railway station nabbed a passenger carrying country-made revolver. Taking note of such positive results, Senior Divisional Security Commandant of RPF Ibrahim Sherrif moved a proposal for continuation of services of Home Guards and sent the same to Nagpur Division office, which forwarded it to head office of Home Guards one-and-a-half month back.

However, sources said, RPF did not receive approval to the proposal from Home Guards’ headquarters at Mumbai. As a result, services of Home Guards were discontinued from October 2, 2012. Asked about reason behind lack of approval, sources said that a ‘babu’ at Mumbai headquarters of Home Guards got transferred a month back. Already, a time of 15 days had passed by till then. Since transfer of ‘babu’, nobody cared for the proposal.

At present, a total of 1,852 personnel are attached to Nagpur district headquarters of Home Guards. As per the norms, Home Guards could be deployed with any Government agency for four months only and continuation of deployment requires approval from head office of Home Guards. 

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