Skip to main content

Major reshuffle expected in Maharashtra Police leadership

By
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 ...
Post a Comment

Seven rounds fired at Hasanbag, goon dead, two injured

By
By Dheeraj Fartode
Sensation prevailed in Hasanbag area on Tuesday after property dealer, he was younger brother of notorious goon Shamsher Ali, was shot dead over a property dispute. Gaffar Ali Ramjan Ali (40) was shot from almost point blank range at his eatery located at Aurangzeb Square. The incident police said occurred at 7 pm.
The shooters police said came on a two wheeler and shot Gaffar and later fled on their bike. Gaffar was involved in property dealing and sources said the shooting was fallout of a dispute over a prime piece of land. The bike-borne goons fired seven rounds that left two others injured in the attack. The accused police said used two fire arms to kill Gaffar.
Police spot panchanama at tea joint where 
the firing took place on Tuesday evening. 

Gaffar was at his eatery when the accused arrived on mobike from his back to avoid getting detected. The accused parked their motorbike and fired rounds from point blank range. Gaffar sustained injuries to his neck, chest and leg. Two others Ibrahim Sheikh Akbar Sheikh and Sazish Gamahe who were at the eatery also sustained injuries in the attack. Chaos reigned supreme at the eatery after the shooting as people ran helter skelter.
Gaffar was rushed to GMCH where doctors declared him brought dead. Ibrahim and Sazish were rushed to a private hospital. 
Commissioner of Police K K Pathak, Joint CP Sanjay Saxena, Addl. CP Deepak Pandey, DCP (Zone-IV) Chandra Kishore Mina rushed to the spot to coordinate the police investigations.
Thousands of residents assembled at the spot as the news of shooting spread in the area. City police summouned Quick Response Team (QRT) and deployed additional police bandobast to avoid any untoward incident. 
According to sources, Mehfus Ahmed Kabul Hasan Siddiqui, a resident of Bihar is suspected to be involved in the shooting. The police have detained two persons, Alim and Kalim Khan, both residents of Hasanbagh area, for questioning. Kalim and Alim are brother in-laws of Siddiqui.
According to sources, the shooting of Gaffar was the fallout of a simmering property dispute between Gaffar and Shamsher and their vials Kalim and Salim. The fours were earlier partners in property business but disputes cropped-up between them and they parted their ways.
Police are relying heavily on eye-witnesses to provide description of two shooters. They identified Siddiqui from the photographs of criminals shown by the. However police yet to find out whether Gaffar’s killing has supari element Gaffar and probing involvement of Kalim and Alim. 
DCP Mina told ‘The Hitavada’ that special team have fanned out to nab the shooters and expressed confidence that the two accused would be found by midnight. The police have also deployed bandobast at GMCH as thousands of relatives of deceased have reached there.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

IGP Prasanna : The man who stopped Obama’s convoy

By
IGP Mallikarjuna Prasanna By Dheeraj Fartode  Published on Feb/17/2019 NOT many are aware of an episode during the then US President Barack Obama’s visit to India in 2010. The world’s most powerful man was made to wait for 11 minutes in his car while an Indian cop took on American officials for their unwarranted interference in the US President’s security. KM Mallikarjuna Prasanna, Special Inspector General of Police of Nagpur Range, still continues to work with the same pride, wearing his patriotism on the sleeve. “Had they (Americans) deployed their personnel for area security, then the message would have been Indians are unable to protect VIPs in their nation,” recounted Prasanna on the episode that is one of the highlights of his distinguished career of a skillful investigator. The story of the IPS officer of 2000 batch is worth a film. In fact, a movie (Nagarjun-starrer ‘Officer’) has already been made by Ram Gopal Verma last year. His real life script als...
7 comments
Read more

Longest cable-stayed bridge to boost tourism at Ambhora

By
CONSTRUCTION work of 700-metre-long cable-stayed bridge, longest in the country, with a viewing gallery at the top at Ambhora in Kuhi tehsil is near completion. The bridge would be open for traffic in December this year providing a major boost to tourism at Shree Chaitanyeshwar Mahadev temple at Ambhora. It is set to open doors of development for the backward area of Kuhi and Umred tehsil. Ambhora, located 75 km from Nagpur city, is a famous religious and tourist place in Vidarbha. It is situated at the confluence of five rivers -- Wainganga, Kanhan, Aam, Kolari and Murza. Just around a decade ago the river bank housing Ambhora used to see a flux of tourists from all over the State. However, the banks were submerged in water after the construction of Gosikhurd dam which led to rise in water levels. Since then, tourist flow at Ambhora has also declined. However, now with the construction of the new bridge tourists will get a chance see the scenic backwaters across the river bed which is...
Post a Comment
Read more

Rs 1,18,046,99,18,073 !! Transaction of just one Dabba Trade accused

By
By Dheeraj Fartode  Rs 1,18,046,99,18,073... Yes-- One lakh eighteen thousand fourty six crore ninety nine lakh-- This is the extent of mind-boggling transaction by just one Dabba Trader unearthed by sleuths during their investigations. This shocking figure has been officially cited in an affidavit by the Economic Offences Wing (EoW) which stumbled upon this unbelievable figure after decoding the trading transactions of one Kanhaiya alias Kanni Thawrani.  The EoW investigation into multi-crore ‘Dabba’ trading scam has also revealed new sensational information disclosing huge turnover, unimaginable profit, hint about sources of black money and hawala racket, and ultimately huge loss to state exchequer. “Accused Kanni Thawrani has done a business of whopping Rs 1.18 lakh crore in last four years. And, another accused - Sachin Agrawal -- had done business of Rs 5,180 crore in only four months,” the investigating machinery stated in affidavit filed at Nagpur Bench of Bombay ...
1 comment
Read more