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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 ...

Rural Police busted inter-state gangs from Haryana for duping bizman to the tune of Rs 24 lakh

  • Cops have recovered Rs 12 lakh from their bank accounts
  • The gang duped numbers of persons across the country

By Dheeraj Fartode
Nagpur rural police have busted a seven member gang hailing from Haryana and Delhi for duping a businessman of Umred town to tune of Rs 24 lakh. The accused were also on radar of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Goa police for duping number of persons to tune of crores of rupees. 

According to police, the complainant Amit Ashok Gupta (34), a resident of Itwari Peth, Umred, on April 24, 2014 received a call from call center of ICICI Prudential company. The caller first informed him about details of his policy so as to gain confidence of Amit. The caller further asked Amit to open five new policies of ICICI to nominate himself in diamond category and further said it will give him impressive returns of Rs 47 lakh. The caller started daily calling to Amit from the call center and convinced him to purchase new policies.

Amit transferred Rs 24 lakh in various banks accounts which were given by the prank caller. The caller also sent email of confirmation of received amount on Amit's email id. Amit was relaxed about the bonus of Rs 47 lakh. However his dream was shattered when the caller made demands for additional money. Now Amit got suspicious and inquiries revealed he has been duped and approached Umred police station. The police had registered the case under sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 34 of Indian Penal Code read with sub-section 66 (d) of Information Technology Act 2000. 

During investigation the phone numbers and the bank accounts number were primary information for the police to identify the accused and get their location. As the police got information about detail address of the accused, Superintendent of Police (SP) Dr Aarti Singh directed Umred police to arrest the accused. The team moved to Faridabad and arrested two accused first and later picked-up rest of them with help of local police there.

The accused are identified as Ankush Wasudev Gulati (22), a resident of Sonepat, Haryana; Jatin Sureshkumar Arora (22), a resident of Delhi, Sachin Girichandra Tripathi alias Yashvant Gandhi alias Avinash Sharma (24), a resident of Delhi; Anil Bansilal Kapoor (23), Dilipkumar Ayodhyaprasad Gupta (27), both residents of Faridabad; Umesh alias Rajendrakumar Khurana, a resident of Haryana and Nitin Omprakash Gera (24), a resident of Faridabad. The police have recovered Rs 12 lakh from their bank accounts so far.

SDPO Shankar Singh Rajpur, Police Inspector Sanjay Pawar and staff of Umred police station including Sudhir Dhnyanbondawar, Mamta Dokharmare, Sushma Thakur and others were made the arrest. 

The accused were employees of call center

According to police, the accused are employees at a Call Center located in Delhi and Noida areas and their duty was to call ICICI’s policy holder and promote new policies. As the accused had access to the information of policies, they used it to cheat the ICICI bank customers. SP Dr Aarti Singh said that police of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Goa were also searching for the accused. The accused had duped many persons across the country using similar modus operandi.

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