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...
- Kunal Raut is Gen Secy of State Youth Congress
By Dheeraj Fartode
FIVE youths from city were arrested by Hoshangabad police for assaulting two forest officials and a toll booth employee. Those arrested include Kunal Raut, son of Employment Guarantee Scheme Minister of Maharashtra, Dr Nitin Raut.
According to police, on Wednesday, five youths - Kunal Nitin Raut (23), Sanmeet Surjeet Singh Joli (22), Antar Preet Narendra Singh Gotra (23), Swapneel Neelendra Telang (23), and Shoyab Rauf Fariq (23) - travelling in a jeep, assaulted a toll tax check post staffer at Matkuli near Pipariya. They also attacked two forest officials who tried to intervene in the matter.
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“Accused assaulted and injured Bablu Rajawat, a toll tax employee and also attacked two forest officials who were engaged in some work near the check post,” said Pipariya police.
The accused were arrested and offence under Sections 294, 323, 506, 353, 337 of Indian Penal Code has been registered at Pipariya police station.
According to sources, when stopped at the toll booth, Kunal claimed to be son of Maharashtra Minister and refused to pay toll tax. When Bablu Rajawat urged Kunal to pay toll tax, all the occupants in the jeep got furious and had altercation with Bablu. Angry over the repeated demand of the tax, they bashed up Bablu. On hearing heated argument, two forest employees, who were working nearby, rushed to the spot. They too were attacked by the youths.
Later, Kunal and others headed towards Pachmarhi. When they were returning back to Nagpur, cops deployed at the toll booth arrested them for assaulting Government employees on duty and seized their jeep.
IG Hoshangabad Range, Ajay Sharma informed ‘The Hitavada’ that stern action will be taken against the youths including Kunal, General Secretary of Maharashtra Youth Congress.
Kunal had landed in troubled waters earlier also. He was in controversies for thrashing an engineering student on parking issue in Nagpur.
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