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AI Joins the Force: Maharashtra Police Deploys ‘Crime-OS’ for Smarter Investigations

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By Dheeraj Fartode  Imagine a police officer uploads an FIR and within seconds, an AI assistant begins planning the investigation. It write official letters, scan bank data and spot suspicious transactions. It sounds like science fiction - but it’s now reality in Maharashtra. The state police have started using Crime-OS, a powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool developed under the MARVEL project (Maharashtra Research and Vigilance for Enhanced Law Enforcement). This tool, built in partnership with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Nagpur, works like the co-pilot feature in Microsoft Office - but to solve crimes. It helps police save valuable time and reduces the heavy workload of investigations. Assistant Superitendent of Police (ASP) Deepak Agrawal explained that police investigations usually take a lot of time and effort. Crime-OS is designed to ease that burden. “For example, if a fraud case FIR is uploaded, the tool automatically picks out important information. It t...
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MPID Court extends PCR of Wasankar brothers, Choudhary

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Police found that 70-80 per cent investments were accepted by the accused in cash and the same was not reflected in the company’s account

By Dheeraj Fartode
Special Judge (MPIDA) S P Muley on Saturday extended the police custody remand (PCR) of Chairman of Wasankar Wealth Management Ltd Prashant Jaideo Wasankar and his brother-in-law and Director Abhijit Jayant Choudhary till August 6.  The court also extended the PCR of company Director Vinay Wasankar till August 4.
Arrested on charges of cheating, criminal breach of trust, criminal intimidation, criminal conspiracy and also under the provisions of the Maharashtra Protection of Interests of Depositors (In Financial Establishments) Act, 1999  for allegedly duping investors of crores of rupees, Wasankar brothers and Choudhary were produced before Special Judge by Investigation Officer Inspector Sudhakar Dhane as their first PCR ended on Saturday.
Seeking extension of their PCR for nine more days, Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) Vishwas Deshmukh told the court that the Economic Offences Wing (EoW) of the Crime Branch investigating the case had received complaints from 90 investors and the amount to be recovered from the accused persons was over Rs 19 crore. The investigators found that 70-80 per cent investments were accepted by the accused in cash and the same was not reflected in the company’s account, he added.
Maintaining that further custodial interrogation of Prashant, Wasankar, Vinay Wasankar and Abhijit Choudhary was necessary considering the magnitude of the crime, SPP Deshmukh informed the court that the accused trio had given company membership to investors not only from India but foreign nationals as well. As complaints continued to pour in against the accused from investors, their custodial interrogation by investigators was essential, he added.
Adv. Bhagwan Karde and Adv.Vandan Gadkari assisted the prosecution.
Strongly opposing extension of PCR to accused persons,  defence lawyers Adv Shyam Dewani and Adv Anand Deshpande stated that the police had already investigated the case  and seized the required documents, hard computer hard discs and other material from the accused persons.
After hearing the grounds cited by the prosecution and arguments of the defence, the Special Court extended the PCR of Prashant Wasankar and Abhijit Choudhary till August 6.  The court also extended Vinay Wasankar’s PCR till August 4. 

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