By Dheeraj Fartode Shocking allegations of misconduct have emerged against a police officer in Nagpur City Police. The officer is accused of abusive and degrading behaviour, particularly targeting accused in Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Sources claim that the senior officer arrives at the police station and calls the accused into a separate room, where the officer not only hurls abuse at the accused but also spits at their face. Later, the officer allegedly kicks the accused in the private parts. In some incidents, when a couple approached a police station in Nagpur to file a complaint following a domestic dispute, the police sent a proposal for preventive action to the officer. However, instead of handling the matter professionally, the officer allegedly made the man sit down, then kicked him in the private parts and leave him in pain and humiliation. The behaviour of the high ranked official have raised questions about the professionalism of law enforcemen...
Sitabuldi police solved 18 cases of HBTs, seized 40 tola gold and Rs. 2.75 lakh cash
By Dheeraj Fartode
In a major breakthrough, Sitabuldi police have solved 18 cases of house burglaries thefts (HBTs) in single shot after arrest of 26-year-old youth. The interrogation of the arrested youth revealed that he hails from Yavatmal. The cops have seized 40 tola of gold worth Rs 12 lakh and Rs 2.5 lakh cash from his possession.
Accused Amol Ashok Mirzapure (26), a resident of Watkheda village of Babhulgaon taluka of Yavatmal district is HSC pass and is electrician by professional. Cops also seized his tool-kit with which he used to broke doors of house. The tool kits contains three screw driver, torch and a drilling screw.
Police said that Amol hit the crime street about two years back. He would first observe the apartments and then targets the selected flats. He travelled to Nagpur by his own car and parked it at parking slot of Nagpur railway station. Thereafter he would set out for his job carrying along a handbag containing his tool kit. On reaching the targeted flat, he would first make hole at corners of lock and then open it with a push. After stealing valuables, the accused would drove back to Yavatmal.
He had disposed off valuables worth Rs 10 lakh till now, said the sources. Amol hails from a economically poor family background. His father is also an electrician while mother is bed ridden. During interrogation the youth told that he took to crime as money was falling short for treatment of his ailing mother. There is plot of his father at Yavatmal and construction is in full swing. Sources claimed that the accused had spend around Rs 9 lakh for construction of the house.
Rising HBTs in city limits was cause of concern for Sitabuldi police station.
DCP (Zone-I), Nagpur city police, Abhinash Kumar along with seized booty and staff of Sitabuldi police station while addressing a press conference on Sunday. |
The police had recovered CCTV footage of Amol. However it was very difficult exercise for Sitabuldi police station to identify the accused. Finally police team of Sitabuldi police station got tip-off that the accused is coming to Children traffic park to meet a person. And he walked into the police dragnet.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone I) Abhinash Kumar told media persons that the accused have confessed for the crime and around 18 HBTs have been detected including 10 solely under the jurisdiction of Sitabuldi police station. Rest of the cases are registered under the jurisdictions of Dhantoli, Rana Pratap Nagar police stations. The police have seized the valuables from his residence at Yavatmal, his car and jewels.
The arrest was made by Police Inspector of Sitabuldi police station Ravindra Chavan, Assistant Police Inspector (API) Ram Bandekar and staff comprising Ramesh Bhorkar, Pradip Gedam, Narendra Denge, Rakesh Yadav, Rajendra Nagpure, Dharmaraj Dabale, Dipak More, Gajanan Mishikar and Mohd Ashfaq.
Thief with ethics
Each of the thief has come specialty which is noticed in aftermath of theft. The police found that in each of the HBTs, the mangalsutra, the most pious of ornament posses by married women, would not be stolen. This was quite an important clue and it helped police track down Amol.
Amol told cops that he would never steal the mangalsutra as it was against his norms. It also reveals the soft nature of the accused.
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