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28 firearms, 862 NDPS Cases, Rs 7.7 Crore; Seized: Rural Police crack down hard in 2025

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With the seizure of 28 illegal fire-arms and 57 cartridges, registration of 4,712 liquor cases, and a sharp rise to 862 NDPS cases , the Nagpur Rural Police delivered one of their toughest crackdowns on crime in 2025. Along with this, preventive action was taken against 2,178 accused involved in illegal activities.  Large-scale operations against crime and unlawful businesses led to seizures worth Rs 7.7 crore by the police during the year. Preventive action against  1,496  According to official records, preventive action under Section 126 of the BNSS increased sharply from 569 cases in 2024 to 1,496 cases in 2025 which marked a 163 per cent rise. Preventive actions under Section 129 BNSS also increased from 1,644 cases to 1,965 cases. Violations of preventive bonds rose from 85 cases in 2024 to 201 cases in 2025, and fines recovered through courts jumped from Rs 11,600 to Rs 23,66,200. The number of externed accused increased from 42 to 106, while detentions under the...
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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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