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Major reshuffle expected in Maharashtra Police leadership

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

Ignoring good samaritan DCP lands quarreling youth in jail

  • The youth realised their grave mistake of ‘ignoring’ plain clothes police officer’s intervention

By Dheeraj Fartode
Men in khaki can control a mob. And what happens when the same policemen in plain clothes appears before the crowd? The reaction of crowd is entirely different. An incident that occurred well past Saturday midnight at Empress mall, proves the above point. A Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of Nagpur city police who tried to intervene in a brawl was manhandled by the mob. In the melee, the DCP’s spectacle was also damaged. The DCP had gone to watch late night show of ‘Ragini MMS 2 movie’. 
The DCP was clad casually in T-shirt and jeans. After the movie was over, an altercation occurred between two groups over eve teasing. According the police, the brawl started after a youth molested a girl. Attention of the audience got diverted towards the brawl and the mob immediately gathered around the fighting youth. The enthusiastic DCP intervened in the matter identifying himself  as an police officer. Sources informed that both groups had 7-8 members each. However no one paid attention to DCP’s pleading and someone in the crowd pushed him aside. Two persons allegedly manhandled the DCP and in process his spectacles also got damaged after it fell down on the floor.
Furious over the unruly mob’s reaction, the DCP decided to teach a lesson to these anti-social elements. He called for police force back-up and within minutes police force rushed to the spot. The police force gheraoed the Empress Mall and rounded up the warring youth from both groups. The youth were hauled-up to Ganeshpeth police station where the DCP who had played good samaritan was waiting to guide the police team. Now the khaki power had the soothing effect and youth realised their grave mistake of ‘ignoring’ plain clothes police officer’s intervention. Ganeshpeth police have registered the case under section 143, 323 and 354 (a) (1) and (4) of Indian Penal Code. Ganeshpeth police have arrested 13 persons in the case. 

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