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Indian railway train in naxal affected area  Chief Security Commandant of Central Railway and Inspector General of Railway Protection Force (RPF) Anil Sharma assured train passengers about their safety from naxal menace. “Despite of several major naxal attack on police in naxal affected area, Indian railway is safe from the naxals,” said Sharma. IG Sharma was on special visit of Nagpur division of central railway on Thursday. He supervised security arrangements at Nagpur station and then went to Chandrapur station on Thursday evening. The IG have asked RPF officers to improve security arrangement at Chandrapur, Ballarshaha stations, which are comes under Naxal affected area. Talking with newspersons at Nagpur railway station, IG Sharma said that RPF is very vigilant about safety of passengers. “Intelligence unit of RPF continuously coordinating with Intelligence Bureau (IB) and state police about information of naxals,” said the IG. Replying a question about vacancies i...

Commissioner of Police K K Pathak addressing a press conference while Joint CP Sanjay Saxena, DCP (crime) Sunil Kolhe, PI (Crime) Madhav Giri and staff looks on.  Sleuths of crime branch with dreaded goon Raja Ghous.  By Dheeraj Fartode Commissioner of police (CP) K K Pathak on Wednesday announced that notorious shooter and arms dealer Ghous Ali Raja Waris Ali and his accomplices will be booked under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). “Serious offences like dacoity, attempt to murder were registered against Raja Ghous and his nine associates. City police is fully prepared to book the gang under MCOCA.” City police had nabbed Raja Ghous from Gola Gokarannath town of Lakhimpur Kheri district in Uttar Pradesh on Monday night. Briefing mediapersons at his office, the top cop said that offences were registered against Ghous in Ajni, Sakkardara, Nandanvan, Sitabuldi and Rana Pratap Nagar police stations. Ghous went into hiding and escaped to Madhya Pra...

Detained 12791 Secundarabad-Patna Express at platform no 1 of Nagpur railway station. As the passengers got irate over malfunctioning of Air Conditioner of AC coach of train, 12791 Secundarabad-Patna Express was detained at Nagpur Railway Station for around 2 hours on Wednesday.Divisional officers of Central Railway assured the passengers to repair the fault in running train, but the passengers were not in position to hear urge of the officers and created scene at the railway station. AC of B1 coach of the train was malfunctioning from source station and passengers were demanded repair of AC at every station. However, railway officers of other divisions only assured the passengers that the fault will be repaired at next station. The train arrived at Sewagram station at 6 pm. As the train started journey, the passenger pulled the chain. Sources said that the train was detained for 38 minutes at Sewagram station.  After reaching at Nagpur station at 8.55 pm, staff of electrical depa...

Pantograph of train (file pic) By Dheeraj Fartode Train movement on Mumbai-Howrah and Chennai-Delhi route thrown out of gear after a pentograph of 12592 Banglore-Gorakhpur Express got damaged on Tuesday evening. Following the incident, five superfast trains were controlled at various railway stations four around two hours.  A railway officer said that a pentograph of the train, which is an apparatus mounted on the roof of an electric train to collect power through contact with an overhead equipment, got damaged at around 5 pm, when the train was running between Sindhi-Borkhedi stations. As electric supply for the train was stopped, loco pilot of the train relayed the information to operating control room of central railway, Nagpur Division. Operating control swung into action and directed all running trains on down line to stop at respective stations. Team of electrical department rushed to the spot and started operation. The railway officer said that the engineers repaire...

Raja Ghous alias Ghous Ali  City Police and Uttar Pradesh cops nabbed Ghous wanted for dacoity, loot and many violent crimes across Maharashtra and MP and his arrest is considered as a major success by cops By Dheeraj Fartode Notorious shooter and arms dealer Raja Ghous alias Ghous Ali was nabbed by joint team of Nagpur and Uttar Pradesh police before he could cross Indo-Nepal border from Gola Gokaran Nath town of Lakhimpur Kheri district on Monday night, a senior police officer of city police confirmed. Uttar Pradesh Police team fully extended logistical support to Nagpur Police and deployed their own armed personnel to nab Ghous. Now, crime branch sleuths are searching for Satyendra Gupta, another hard-core criminal and a close accomplice of Ghous, involved in several dacoity and violent crimes. Gupta, considered more dangerous than Ghous, is also hiding somewhere in Uttar Pradesh and is wanted in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh police. According to sources, many rela...

DCP Sanjay Darade inspecting the murder spot at Babulban. By Dheeraj Fartode A mother bid to save his son went in vain as assailants murdered the history sheeter in full public view at Babulban area of Lakadganj police station on Sunday afternoon. The assailants who numbered around seven said they had come to resolve a dispute that Atish alias Balya Haribhau Meshram (26) had with Nitesh Jadhav whose driver was yesterday assaulted. However the moment Balya stepped out of house, the seven laced with knives and swords pounced on him and felled him to ground. Hearing the screams, Balya’s mother rushed to door sensing the worst. She was aided by her other son and two tried to defend the history sheeter who was outnumbered as well as taken by surprise. The gang of killers it seems determined to finish their business and pushed aside Meshram mother-son duo and right in front of their eyes murdered Balya. The incident occurred near Sugat Buddha Vihar around 3 pm. The attackers we...

Ex-Vidarbha player, two bookies arrested By Dheeraj Fartode THE sleepy city of Nagpur again shot into big league but for all the wrong reasons. The widening probe into IPL spot-fixing scandal saw Delhi Police swooping down on three city bookies, including one former Vidarbha player. The trio were netted from Aurangabad and police said, the three were having crucial link in the scandal. One more former Vidarbha Ranji player, who now represents Indian Railways, was also named by the police and said he was absconding. The three were identified as Manish Guddewar (32), a former player of Vidarbha, and bookies Sunil Bhatia (44), a resident of Kadbi Square, and Kiran Dole (42), a resident of Raj Nagar. The trio were picked up from Aurangabad in an early morning raid. Guddewar had shifted to Faridabad and practiced with Ajit Chandila, who was arrested along with S Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan on spot-fixing charges. He was with Chandila in the Air India team before 2000...

By Dheeraj Fartode Yet another property dealer in the city was eliminated in a local dispute. Police said, 28-year-old, Kamlesh Dabhoji Janbandhu, a resident of Gautam Nagar, Gaddigodam, was felled by his rivals. The murder occurred at Pardesipura in Gaddigodam area under the jurisdiction of Sadar police station on wee hours of Sunday. The accused who numbered two ambushed the victim as he was heading home on his motorcycle around 12.30 am. Sadar police said that a tiff had taken place between Kamlesh Dabhoji Janbandhu, a resident of Gautam Nagar, Gaddigodam and the accused Khushal alias Jallad Thool (26), latter’s accomplice Nitesh Manwatkar (19), both residents of Gaddigodam, during last year. There were repeated skirmishes between them for past one year. Finally, Khushal and Nitesh conspired to eliminate Kamlesh and hatched a plan. The accused armed with a sword lay in wait for Kamlesh at Gaddigodam. When Kamlesh arrived on motorcycle the accused duo blocked him and pulled up h...

By Dheeraj Fartode Dhantoli police have booked a city trader for allegedly cheating a Kerala based firm to tune of Rs. 1.88 crore. The businessman is identified as Pravin Ninave (45), a resident of Riddhi Sadanika, Gajanan Nagar, Samajbhushan Layout, Wardha Road. He ran M/s National Commodity Supply Corporation of India, and had entered in and agreement with Sacchidanand Sridharan, a resident of Ernakulam, Kerala, representing M/s Omepars Tasuri Trading Company of Iran. He had placed an order of 14,500 tonnes of barley and total cost of the deal was Rs. 14,85,00,000 of which Pravin received Rs 1,88.50,000, 10 per cent amount, as advance. Ninave however did not supply the barley nor returned the money. Sridharan approached First Class Magistrate, and secured a order to lodge a complaint. Dhantoli police registered offence under secs. 156(3), 420, 406 of IPC.

BJP leader Dr Kirit Somaiya makes a point during press conference while MLAs Krishna Khopde and Vikas Kumbhare, and BJP State Spokesperson Girish Vyas look on.  By Dheeraj Fartode Former Member of Parliament (MP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Secretary Dr Kirit Somaiya, on Friday, alleged involvement of PWD Minister Chhagan Bhujbal in a scam in allotment of works to companies floated by kin of PWD officials. He demanded a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the ‘PWD scam’. Addressing a press conference at BJP Vidarbha Office here, Somaiya circulated to journalists a list of 19 officials of PWD whose relatives had floated various companies that had bagged contracts of PWD. The list included at least two officers from Nagpur namely T P Rathod, a Deputy Engineer; nad B R Lunge, a Superintending Engineer. “Sons of both the officers own different companies that bagged PWD contracts,” he alleged. Besides, he alleged, a Nagpur-based contractor ‘closely associ...

By Dheeraj Fartode Alert women in Kamna Nagar foiled a rape bid on a 8-year-old girl by a physically impaired boy. After the incident that occurred under the jurisdiction of Kalamna police station on Friday afternoon, angry residents matched to police station triggering sensation. They pelted stones and even attempt to set ablaze house of the alleged accused Shravan Ramesh Hatgade (19). Police informed that Shravan managed to escape residents wrath but his father was thrashed and was dragged to police station. His mother and siblings were also not spared by the mob who vented their anger on them. Around 2 pm, the victim was walking to a nearby shop when the youth stopped her and dragged her to an isolated area in the locality. The girl stated to the police that she tried to scream but Sharavan gagged her and laid her down in the pit. Around same time a woman staying in the nearby building found something amiss taking place. She immediately alerted other neighbouring women who ru...

Policemen escorting Dharamvir (on right) and Pankaj alias Sonu after they were sentenced in Dhanashri murder case at Nyay Mandir on Friday.  By Dheeraj Fartode A trial court handed down capital punishment to a college dropout who was held guilty of murdering his girl friend. The second accused in the case who helped dispose of the body got lifer. The wheels of justice moved quite fast as the gory incident came to light on independence day last year and within a year the trial concluded and accused persons were awarded the sentences. Main accused in the case is Dharamvir Shriram Chavan (24), a resident of Palloti Nagar. He was dating Dhanashri Ramteke, a resident of Indrayani Nagar, Gittikhadan and a B Com second year student of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar College. Dhanashri however was outgoing and hence had large friend circle while Dharamvir was obsessed with the girl. He used to suspect Dhanashri was having affair with other boys and that was the bone of contention between th...

Maharashtra Police After induction of 28 State Police Service (SPS) officers into Indian Police Service (IPS) cadre, Maharashtra Police is set for promotion of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP)/Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) to Superintendent of Police (SP) and Police Inspectors to DySP/ACP level. Establishment Branch of State Police have shortlisted 40 DySP/ACP for promotion as SP and 150 PIs as DySP/ACP, it is reliably learnt.  Special Inspector General of Police (Establishment) Dr Bhushan Kumar Upadhyay confirmed the news and said that proposal is with Home Department and their approval is expected by last week of May. Maharashtra has sanctioned strength of 300 posts of Superintendent of Police rank in Maharashtra Cadre and presently 50 posts are vacant. For DySP/ACP there are 500 posts of which 200 are vacant.  Sources said, many posts of DySPs are vacant in mostly rural parts of the State. Once the promotions are cleared, these posts would be ...

Grp Head Quarters, Nagpur Detection rate was merely 27% in the year 2011, which further came down to 14% in Low Detection rate raises questions about safety of passengers’ belongings in trains  By Dheeraj Fartode  Apathy of State Government and Indian Railways, a large number of vacancies coupled with absence of infrastructure, are slowly taking toll on effectiveness of Government Railway Police (GRP). On one hand, crime graph is soaring high and on the other, detection rate has seen steady decline in the past two years. As per the data from GRP, a total of 1,060 thefts cases were registered in 2011 of which 287 were detected, giving a rate of 27 per cent. The next year, 2012, while there was marginal increase in  theft cases (1,075), detection rate went down and only 157 cases were cracked. Thus, detection rate was only 14 per cent during the year. In running trains, bag-lifting is a major menace for which GRP is caught gaping. About 592 cases were reported in 2...

DGP Sanjeev Dayal By Dheeraj Fartode Dhantoli police have booked Additional Chief Secretary (Home), Maharashtra Government, Director General of Police (DGP), Maharashtra Police, and two other seniors officers in atrocity case. The complainant is Deputy Inspector General (DIG) (Eastern Prison) Shashikant Shinde who had moved Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) alleging he was sidelines allegedly due to caste bias by the quartet. A senior police officer told ‘The Hitavada’, JMFC court no. 2 had directed cops to register case against DGP and three others. However, the non-complainants challenged the complaint before Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court. The High Court refused to stay the decision but restrained Dhantoli police from taking any action against the applicants. The sources said after receipt of High Court's order, the senior police officials held legal consultations. Based on the opinion, Dhantoli police on Tuesday formally registered offence against its own D...

DCP (crime) Sunil Kolhe By Dheeraj Fartode About 28 State Police Service (SPS) officers were granted  Indian Police Service (IPS) cadre on Monday. At Nagpur, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) (Crime) Sunil Kolhe is among these officers. With their promotion, Maharashtra Government will fill-up the existing vacancies of cadre posts across the State. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Government of India, approved the promotion and Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), issued the notification of 28 state police officers into IPS cadre.  Maharashtra Government had earlier empanelled the 28 officers for promotion of SPS officers into IPS and criteria was they should have served for atleast eight years as Superintendent of Police (SP) or Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP). The list includes names of officers belonging to Deputy Superintendent of Police (Dy.SP) batches between 1988 and 1995, who were promoted to the IPS cadre. The officers are S V Ja...

Thousands of villagers gathered at the spot.  By Dheeraj Fartode IN A spine-chilling incident, as many as six people who had entered a 40-ft-deep well at village Kachari Sawanga near Kondhali, died of suffocation on Tuesday morning. Two of the deceased were workers who had been assigned the work of cleaning the well while four others had got into the well to rescue them. Smoke emitted by the diesel pump fitted inside the well produced carbon monoxide which suffocated them to death. The deceased include Sunil Namdeo Aahake (34), Bhushan Baban Manmode (29), Pramod Chintaman Sonone (26), Harishchandra Natthu Bawne (26), Jeevan Ramrao Marbate (28) and Chirkut Panjabrao Bawne (40). They were all residents of Kachari Sawanga. Amol Shivnarayan Pote (30), who was seriously injured during rescue operation, was admitted to GMCH, Nagpur. According to Nagpur (Rural) Police, on Tuesday, Panchayat Samiti Member Ravi Jaiswal had engaged two labourers for cleaning the well in his farm. J...

When Amir got to know about Juhi's plan he was shell shocked. He tried in vain to avoid the break-up but Juhi was firm about her career choic e By Dheeraj Fartode A youth shot himself to death, grieving for his love. Amir Ali Arif Ali (22) committed suicide at his brother-in-law's residence in Utkarsha Nagar, near Friends Colony, Katol Road, just past Saturday midnight, said the police. Gittikhadan police who rushed to spot said that the youth, a collegian, used a century old gun, belonging to his grandfather, to shoot himself on the chest. The incident occurred around 12.15 am when a dejected Amir opened the gun on himself in the bathroom. He was staying with his brother-in-law, Mohd Farukh Abdul Aziz, plot no. 20/C, Pioneer Regency. The family had not heard the gun shot as the sound got muffled. Farukh's daughter, Rimsha (10), woke-up around midnight and found the bathroom door locked when she went to answer nature's call. She informed her father w...

STB By Dheeraj Fartode EACH Set Top Box installed in city’s household has started unearthing the fraud played on the State Government by Multi Service Operators (MSO). In A bid to evade entertainment duty the MSOs misguided the district administration on the number of cable connections which cost the state exchequer a whopping loss of over Rs 18 crore as Entertainment Duty (ED) per year. After the STBs were made compulsory from April 1 the real picture has started coming to fore. The MSOs had put their cable connection strength to 88,637 in Nagpur city that has 5.32 households. However, data collected from Nagpur Divisional Commissionerate states that 4.34 lakh STBs have been installed in the Second Capital till date. The number has exposed the false claims of the MSOs and the massive evasion of Entertainment Duty. The government applies Rs 45 as Entertainment Duty for each cable connection. Before the STBs were made compulsory the MSOs in the city had shown their connections ...

Police officers trying to pacify people at a marriage hall, Kanhan on Friday after heinous incident was reported.  Accused was caught in the evening with the help of CCTV footage  By Dheeraj Fartode In yet another heinous crime, a youth sexually exploited a 6-year-old innocent girl by promising her an ice-cream during a marriage ceremony under the jurisdiction of Kanhan police station on Friday. Tension prevailed in the marriage hall as the incident came to fore. Kanhan Police caught the accused with the help of CCTV footage. Police said that the girl had come to a marriage hall in Kanhan, along with her parents, to participate in a marriage ceremony. The girl was playing with kids in the hall. Meanwhile, accused Rakesh alias Chakradhar Jagoji Bele (27), a resident of Tekadi village arrived in the hall and took the girl to first floor by promising her an ice-cream. The accused sexually exploited the girl and fled away. When parents of the girl started searching for ...

Senior officers of Kanhan police station pacifying Shiv Sena activist after the incident on Saturday evening.  By Dheeraj Fartode Angry Shiv Sena activists on Saturday beat up accused in 6-year-old girl rape case and blackened his face in Kanhan police station premises. The incident took place when cops were returned to police station after producing the accused in the court. Police personnel stated that Shiv Sena activists along with Deputy District Chief (Women’s Cell) Shubhangi Ghogle were hiding near Mahatma Gandhi statue at police station, when the accused was brought to the police station in a jeep. The accused is Rakesh alias Chakradhar Jagoji Bele (27), a resident of Tekadi village. When police vehicle arrived at the police station, the activists raised slogans against the accused and pulled him from poilce possession. The activists then beat him and blackened his face. Sudden attack of Shiv Sena activists shocked the police officers. Traffic in-charge of Kanha...