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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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CM appeal people to help police for bettering security in State

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CM Devendra Fadnavis launched ‘Koshish’ smartphone App


By Dheeraj Fartode
People's co-operation is utmost need of hour in the age of heightened 'fear' as ever increasing threats cannot be tackled by police alone. For a better security environment an alert society is must stated Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis after dedicating smartphone application 'Koshish' made by Nagpur Rural Police on Sunday.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis launching
 ‘Koshish’ mobile app while others were looks on. 
Addressing the gathering at office of Superintendent of Police, Nagpur Rural, Fadnavis again reminded Government officials that delivery of services on time is essential to keep common man’s faith intact in the system. “If you will not deliver in time, then you alone will be responsible for people's’ outrage,” Chief Minister further said while putting officials on notice. There is shortage of manpower in Government departments while people's expectations is increasing and moreover they want fast action and hence Government would adopt e-platforms to overcome this hurdle.
The Koshish application is very useful in time of accidents and also for working women. The Government is working to start single window system’ at each police station to give better services like various permissions through e-platform. Praising Superintendent of Police (SP) Dr Aarti Singh, Chief Minister announced that Government would try to standardise the Koshish application and replicate it across the State in near future. 
State Energy Minister and District Guardian Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Mayor Pravin Datke, MLAs Krishna Khopde, Sudhakar Kohale, Sameer Meghe, MLC Prof Anil Sole, Commissioner of Police K K Pathak, Joint Commissioner of Police Anup Kumar Singh, Special Inspector General of Police (Nagpur Range) Ravindra Kadam, and others were present on the dais. Chief Minister also felicitated Mahesh Kandalkar, Parth Kathore and others for making Koshish application. 

'Koshish’ can save lives, provide
lifeline to women in distress'

Koshish Mobile App of Nagpur Rural Police
Giving details of Koshish’ App, SP Dr Aarti Singh said that the application with size of 5 MB is available on Google Play Store and is based on Android platform. After downloading the application, a simple registration window will appear, user have to enter his mobile phone number, address, photo through mobile camera and one or three contacts of close relatives. The data will synchronised to data server of Control Room of Nagpur Rural Police. 
In case an accident occurs, the user have to press emergency button and within a minute a SMS with exact GPS location will be sent to the relative, nearest police station, control room, Hospital and 108 Ambulance services. The App will itself make a call to relative (based on numbers given at time of registration) of the user. Using GPS system, the control room's server will show exact location of the user who has met with an accident and entire system will be able to respond quickly in such emergencies, especially if help is made available during the
Golden Hour (a hour after the accident), 90 % of lives would be saved. Saving lives of injured persons in accident is the main moto of the application,” she said.
The app have also facilities have option of ‘Nirbhaya’, if the woman user presses the button, police machinery will get alerted about the emergency. It would also help reduce atrocities against the women. Other options of the App are traffic rules information, info about police websites, traffic jam information, safety guidelines, fines after traffic violation, e-challan, crime diary and others. 
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