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Major reshuffle expected in Maharashtra Police leadership

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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
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Bitter Truth: 87% rise in crime against women in city

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Crime against women


 Growing graph of crime against women and shocking instances of molestation and sexual assault reveals how perverts are emboldened to indulge in such lecherous acts

By Dheeraj Fartode 

Behind serene atmosphere of the Orange city, now being looked on as a prospective growth centre, the crime statistics seem to reveal a sinister and dark side. The new year, 2013, may have began on ominous note because in first three months there is a whopping 87 per cent rise in crime against women in second capital of Maharashtra.
The graph showing crime against women is heading Northwards which should be matter of concern for one and all who loves Nagpur, more famous for its quite and cosmopolitan culture. But police statistics, if taken at its face value, indicates that, cases of molestation and rape have zoomed upwards. This is more shocking when one peeps deep into crime figures and finds that in bygone year 2012 the crime against women appeared to be downslide. Hence the sudden upsurge seems shocking.
As per the data collated from city police, 71 cases of sexual assault on women were reported in the first quarter of the year.
According to Additional Commissioner of Police (Retd.) Babasaheb Kangale, on one hand one can say that fear of law is on wane among the criminals. For this faster trials and enhancement in punishment in crime against women can rectify the situation to a greater extent.
But if studied deeply, it seems the reporting of crime against women and its registration has increased. Now, every crime against women is registered without preliminary inquiry. Hence this gets reflected in ballooning figures of criminal assaults on woman in particular. Before jumping to any conclusions one should go deeper into these issues, Kangale opined.
Social activist Dr Seema Sakhre, however, said, the rise in cases against crime means one needs to introspect and admit that Nagpur too is following in footsteps of big bad metropolitan cities. Law enforcement agencies have utterly failed to establish rule of law and the respect for law is diminishing in society. Accused are outraging modesty of teenagers at will and the fact they are let out easily for want of evidence or faulty chargesheets seems to have emboldened them. She also castigated the police force saying, the men in uniform are not at all sensitive about modesty of women.
The Hitavada tried to get a line from Commissioner of Police K K Pathak on the matter. However repeated attempts failed to materialise as he preferred to remain silent on the matter.




Cases registered under sections 354 and 376 of IPC in Nagpur

      2011  2012  2013

Sec 354   27  21  51

Sec 376   13  17  20

Total     40 38  71


(Above data is between January and March)
(Sec 354 of IPC for molestation and Sec 376 for rape)


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