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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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Election Commission’s flying squad seizes Rs 70 lakh cash from car

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By Dheeraj Fartode
FLYING Squad of Election Commission, monitoring  the implementation of Model Code of Conduct and expenditure for Legislative Assembly elections, intercepted a Maruti Swift car near Mahal (in Kotwali Police Station area) and seized  Rs 70 lakh unaccounted cash from it, besides detaining two persons for interrogation in this connection on Thursday.

Acting on a tip off, the Flying Squad blocked the car near Jagnade Square in the afternoon. During the search, the squad members found a bag containing cash in the utility box of the car. Flying Squad members took the cash along with the Maruti Swift car (MH-31/CR-908) and its driver to Kotwali Police Station. The seizure of cash created quite a sensation in political circles.
The officials with the seized cash of Rs 70 lakh. 
After the driver, Dilip Watuji Kodane (45), a resident of Kharbi Chowk, told the Flying Squad members that the car belonged to Pushpa Rajendra Agrawal, they called her to the police station. During inquiry, she told the Flying Squad that a businessman had sent the cash to her house as it was to be delivered to her Rajnandgaon-based son-in-law.  She stated that her son-in-law told her to send the cash to his sister’s house in Wathoda. Accordingly, she asked her driver Dilip to take the bag containing cash to Wathoda and hand it over to the sister of her son-in-law.
Gulzar Wani, Expenditure Observer (East, Central, North Nagpur), confirmed to ‘The Hitavada’ the seizure of Rs 70 lakh cash. “Prima facie, it is unaccounted money as the people involved are unable to explain the exact source. We are still investigating the matter,” he added. Wani said that the election machinery would hand over the case to Income Tax Department on Friday. “They will issue warrant and conduct further investigations,” he added. 

After the police alerted the officers of Income Tax (I-T) Department, they, too, reached the police station. Another senior officer said that investigators were trying to find out whether the cash was meant for distribution to woo the voters by politicos. IT officials are likely to quiz Agrawal’s son-in-law on Friday.
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