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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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Somaiya demands SIT probe into alleged PWD scam

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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 associated with PWD Minister Chhagan Bhujbal’ also had bagged PWD contracts and he had done sub-standard work of Ring Road in Nagpur.
Somaiya accused PWD and Minister Chhagan Bhujbal of involvement in large scale corruption worth Rs 5,000 crore and demanded SIT probe into the scam. “I have submitted all information to Anti-Corruption Bureau as well as Chief Secretary regarding irregularities in PWD,” he said. He flayed Bhujbal for allegedly shielding the officials involved. “I wonder if Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and NCP chief Sharad Pawar also support Bhujbal’s stand,” he said.
Somaiya also questioned how Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) could give clean chit to former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal in the Railway appointment scam. “How can CBI Director Ranjit Sinha give clean chit to Bansal even when Joint Director of CBI Pramod Kumar is still conducting inquiry into the case?,” Somaiya asked. Bansal invested money in more than 100 companies owned by his relatives, he added.
MLA and BJP city chief Krishna Khopde, MLA Vikas Kumbhare, BJP State Spokesperson Girish Vyas, and Chandan Goswami were present at the press conference.
It may be mentioned here that Bhujbal has already announced to conduct a probe into allegations levelled by Somaiya. Bhujbal had said a day back that merely providing list of companies did not prove charges of corruption. Everyone was free to run a company, he had said. 


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