Dabo club Nagpur Efforts to reopen the controversial Dabo Club, which was shut down for 45 days following the murder of two young men, have triggered strong anger and fear among the families of the victims. The incident took place in the early hours of December 26 last year during a Christmas party at Dabo Club. Pranav Ranavare (27) was allegedly killed after a minor dispute. His friend, Gaurav Karda (34), was badly injured in the same incident and later died during treatment. The Sonegaon police arrested six accused - Soumya Deshmukh, Mehul alias Monu Rahate, Rajiv Chawla, Abhay Jhamtani, Gappu Sharma and Tushar Nankani. All the accused are currently lodged in jail. The club is owned by Directors Devyani Vijay Wadettiwar, Karan Vikram Thakkar and Mohd Hamza Rayeen. It may be mentioned here that Dabo Club has a long history of complaints related to harassment and assaults. Police sources said repeated warnings were ignored by the management. During the investigation, it was found...
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| Maharashtra Police |
By Dheeraj Fartode
After direct cash transfer scheme for LPG users implemented by Union government to reduce corruption and give direct benefits to end user, the Maharashtra police headquarters wants to introduce direct transfer in the force for police kit equipment purchasing. The move in this regard has been played by State Director General of Police (DGP) Sanjeev Dayal. About 1.7 lakh policemen (upto head constable rank) of state will be beneficiary to get the direct cash transfer in their bank account for purchase of police kit.Right now, the police personnel get kit from their respective central depots. Once this scheme gets nod, the police personnel can purchase their own equipments from authorised stores.
“A proposal has been sent to the home ministry for approval and we are pursuing to get approval,” said DGP Sanjeev Dayal. When asked about reason for implementation of the scheme, the state DGP said that the companies, which are short-listed to provide police kit, are unable to provide the kit on such a large scale. The police department has to accord first priority to government undertkaings, prison units and khadi gramodyog. In practice, private contractrors supply the sub-standard goods on behalf of these establishments, sources claimed.
“After implementation of the process, the state police headquarters will publish the list of authorised establishments so that policemen, can purchase the approved kit equipments,” he added.
Standard kit includes state police uniform, boots, socks, water bottles, police stick, mats, belt and buckle, blanket, raincoat, long winter coat, police caps, shield, cotton and metal shoulder badges, torch and other equipments etc.
Sources informed that state police spends Rs 60 crore annually for purchasing of police kit through old tendering process. The move has been introduced by the DGP office, only to end up corruption in the tendering process of kit equipments. There will be pre-set specifications for kit equipments and the cops will able to get the equipments of good quality.

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