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AI Joins the Force: Maharashtra Police Deploys ‘Crime-OS’ for Smarter Investigations

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By Dheeraj Fartode  Imagine a police officer uploads an FIR and within seconds, an AI assistant begins planning the investigation. It write official letters, scan bank data and spot suspicious transactions. It sounds like science fiction - but it’s now reality in Maharashtra. The state police have started using Crime-OS, a powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool developed under the MARVEL project (Maharashtra Research and Vigilance for Enhanced Law Enforcement). This tool, built in partnership with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Nagpur, works like the co-pilot feature in Microsoft Office - but to solve crimes. It helps police save valuable time and reduces the heavy workload of investigations. Assistant Superitendent of Police (ASP) Deepak Agrawal explained that police investigations usually take a lot of time and effort. Crime-OS is designed to ease that burden. “For example, if a fraud case FIR is uploaded, the tool automatically picks out important information. It t...
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STBs show the real picture: MSOs evaded Rs 18 cr duty each year

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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 as 88,637 thus paying only Rs 4.78 crore as ED every year.
Sources said same practice was on in the entire State thus causing a huge loss of hundreds of crore every year to the government coffers.
The State Government is now mulling issuing notices for recovery of ED to all cable operators in Maharashtra.
“We have noticed that MSOs evaded huge amount of ED every year. The administration will serve notice to all MSOs for back recovery of ED with interest,” Deputy Commissioner S G Gautam said.
Divisional Inspector (ED) Udaykumar Bhaisare said the administration had done a survey of cable connections in the city and found a big mismatch in the numbers claimed by the cable operators.
“However, the cable operators denied our claim and only 14,000 cable connections were increased in February 2013. The digitalisation process was aimed at plugging such leaks in the system. With STBs in place, the tax collection is also expected to rise,” Bhaisare said.
STBs were installed in Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Aurangabad, Nashik and Thane cities under the process of digitalisation from April 1.

STBs installed in city

UCN 2.60 lakh
IN-BCN 1.31 lakh
GTPL 0.43 lakh
Total 4.34 lakh

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