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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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Mahatma Gandhi’s spectacles theft case: CID still clueless

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Mahatma Gandhi eyeglasses stolen from Sevagram ashram
THE missing glasses of Mahatma Gandhi from Sevagram Ashram, Wardha, are providing a clear picture of the State Criminal Investigation Department’s inefficiency in cracking the theft. Three years on, since the spectacles went missing, it has remained a wild-goose chase for the CID with no breakthrough in sight.

The Mahatma’s glasses went missing from the Sevagram Ashram in November 2010 and the theft came to light on June 14, 2011. The probe was handed over to the State CID. Since then the department is groping in dark with no results.
Additional Superintendent of Police (CID) Ratan Singh Yadav has maintained that the CID was still probing the case. Till date the department has managed to seize a laptop from a woman inmate of the Ashram but yet to study the contents on the hard disk.

The woman got the laptop as a gift from someone. During investigation cops found that an important file had been deleted. They sent hard disk of the laptop for Chemical Analysis (CA) to recover the file. “The chemical analysis had recovered the file and forwarded it to CID Nagpur. However, the file sent was corrupt. We have again called for the correct file from CA,” Yadav said.

Speculations are rife that the historic piece of Mahatma Gandhi was sold in grey market for around Rs 4 to 5 crore. The CID officers promptly denied the reports but failed to elaborate on the angles they were probing apart from the seized laptop.

Sources said that CID was doing only paper work as they did not have any concrete evidence. The then Superintendent of Police Yashasvi Yadav, too, had investigated the case and made many visits to Wardha. But despite interrogating many people from the Ashram they failed to get any clue.

Incidentally, September 23 was the 80th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s arrival to Sevagram Ashram. He stayed here from 1933 and 1946. To mark the occasion the National Executive meeting of the All India Youth Congress also got under way on Monday, in the Ashram premises.
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