IGP Chandra Kishore Mina By Dheeraj Fartode Chandra Kishore Mina, an IPS officer of the 2006 batch, has been awarded the President’s Police Medal for Meritorious Service. Currently serving as Special Inspector General of Police (IGP) for the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), Mina has held several important positions in Nagpur and the Vidarbha region. While serving as ASP in Gadchiroli, Mina led a successful anti-Naxal operation in 2009, which resulted in the Petha encounter, weakening the Naxal movement. This operation earned him the DG Insignia. As SP in Akola and Nanded, Mina used innovative methods to maintain communal harmony and resolve tensions effectively. He uncovered a state-wide kidney transplant racket in Akola and, as DCP in Nagpur, dismantled organized crime syndicates through MCOCA and MPDA cases. In Nanded, Mina detected a recruitment scam that affected the entire state. His technological skills were evident when he implemented the court monitoring system in Akola. As DCP in M...
By Dheeraj Fartode
Villagers of Kodamendhi village blocked Ramtek-Bhandara state highway and ransacked vehicles including a police jeep and MSRTC’s bus after one police officer allegedly thrashed a rice mill owner on Monday.
Demanding suspension of Police Inspector of Ramtek Police station, Kishor Gavai, the irked villagers launched protest on the state highway.
Cops resorted to mild lathi charge to disperse the angry mob and clear the highway. The villagers torched some tyres on the road and created ruckus to press their demand to take action against police official for his alleged high-handed act. The protest continued for around five hours. Additional Superintendent of Police Prakash Jadhav intervened into the matter and pacified angry villagers.
Raghunath Deshmukh (42), a rice mill owner was heading towards Kodamendhi village with his tractor. PI Gavai and staff were in front of his vehicle in a police jeep. Deshmukh accelerated his tractor and tried to overtake the jeep, in the process posing a danger to police vehicle. The act of Deshmukh irked PI Gavai and he blocked the tractor. As per the reports, Gavai allegedly pulled up Deshmukh from tractor and thrashed him with help of police staff.
Irked villagers protesting on state highway. |
News of the incident spread into the Kodamendhi village and hundreds of villagers gathered on the road and resorted to heavy sloganeering against police. Some villagers torched tyres on the road. Staff of Ramtek police station arrived at the spot and cane charged to disperse the mob. Angry villagers ransacked MSRTC’s bus and SDPO Deepak Salunke’s official Jeep. They also pelted stones at police in which many of them sustained injuries. The angry mob also retalitated police lathi charge and manhandled some of the police personnel and according to eye-witnesses thrashed them black and blue.
MLA Adv Ashish Jaiswal talking with the protesters. |
Political leaders including MLA Adv Ashish Jaiswal, ZP member Babita Sathawane, Ashok Hatwar, state general secretary of NCP Sadanand Nimkar and others arrived at the spot. Additional SP Prakash Jadhav too arrived at the spot and discussed the issue with Raghunath Deshmukh and his relatives. Addl SP Jadhav assured them to conduct a genuine inquiry in the case. Jadhav told ‘The Hitavada’ that additional force has been deployed at the spot and action will be taken if the officer is found guilty in the case.
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