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 ...
Saibaba is 90% disabled and there are no facilities in the jail for disabled persons, said Prof Hargopal
By Dheeraj Fartode
Senior Human Rights Activist Prof Hargopal on Saturday met Delhi University’s arrested Professor G N Saibaba for his alleged Maoist links at Central Jail and demanded immediate bail to him citing his health condition. “Saibaba is 90% disabled and there are no facilities in the jail for disabled persons. Government must grant him bail on humanitarian grounds,” said Prof Hargopal.
G N Saibaba (File Picture)
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Addressing a press conference at Tilak Patrakar Bhavan, Prof Hargopal said that he met Saibaba in the jail and discussed his problems. His health is deteriorating and needs super specialty treatment, said Prof Hargopal. “According to law every disabled jail inmate should get proper facilities. However, there is no facility for Saibaba, whose life depends on wheel chair,” Hargopal informed. The under-trial is being treated as a prisoner, which is causing injustice to him”, said Prof Hargopal.
“If the offence is not proved in the court then the punishment -- which is Saibaba getting right now in the jail -- will become punishment to an innocent person, which is against the law” Prof Hargopal stated. Getting bail is the right of an individual, Prof Hargopal has sought government’s intervene in the matter. The trials should be expedited in the case.
Police have put many innocent tribals of Sironcha and Aheri area of Gadchiroli district in Nagpur Central Jail, he alleged. For the past several years no one paying attention to their problems. “How can a government lodge any innocent citizen in the jail for years together,” he remarked. Demanding withdrawal of Prevention of Unlawful Activities Act, under which Saibaba has been arrested, Prof Hargopal called it a ‘draconian law’. Naxalism is the social problem and government should work out a proper method to resolve it, he said. Shoma Sena was present at the press conference.
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