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 ...
Injured passenger of Rajdhani express |
By Dheeraj Fartode
A group of miscreants on Saturday pelted stones on 12437 Secunderabad-H Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express when it was near Ballarshaha station (about 210 km from Nagpur) on Saturday afternoon, smashing window panes and injuring a passenger travelling in an AC-II tier coach.
The injured passenger, Akshay Acharya, a resident of New Delhi, groaned in pain but there were no painkillers in the medical kit on board. There were no doctors among the passengers either, said a railway official.
According to the railway officials, stone-pelting on important trains like the Rajdhani has turned railway administration on toes. The train do not have escorts between Ballarshaha and Nagpur, the official informed.
The railway official added that the incident occurred around 2.30 pm. Several coaches including B-7, B-5 and B-4 were hit by the stones. The injured passenger was occupying berth no 59 in the B-5 coach when a stone hit the window pane. The windows have two panes but both were shattered and the passenger’s chin was hits by the stone.
Guard of the train rushed to the spot and applied first-aid. More than three window panes were also shattered. Guard of the train relayed the information to Operating Control room of Central Railway, Nagpur Division. Staff of Government Railway Police (GRP) and Railway Protection Force (RPF) rushed to the train, when the train arrived at platform no 1 of Nagpur station at 4.30 pm. Cops have registered the case. Further investigations are on.
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