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Similar exercise was held on Monday at a mall By Dheeraj Fartode National Security Guard (NSG) commandos have undertaken a series of mock drill in city. On Tuesday the NSG team along with local police moved into Visvewaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) and held the drill. Senior police official said it is a regular exercise done to keep force into high action mode. Such drills also help in fine tuning anti-terrorist strategies. The prevailing inputs with intelligence agencies point out to susceptibility of urban areas in country. Hence NSG has got into high action mode. The reports with local top police officers are that NSG has previously conducted such mock drills at Hyderabad and Kolkata before coming to city. On Monday, NSG team with local police had held similar exercise at a reputed mall located in a multi storeyed building of city. The building was selected in view of its location in sensitive part of city and also from logistic point of view, the high ...

By Dheeraj Fartode Thin in a body and with average height, Ramesh was living at Tulsi Nagar area, which is 300 meters away from Railway Line. He had a younger brother and a mother. From childhood, Ramesh had no friends as he was psychopath. In a fit, he started yelling or tried to beaten up anyone since childhood. He had beaten up his mother and brother too and they were living in another part of the house after doing participation work in the house.  Ramesh was used to do work of cleaning in Bars or small roadside restaurants. However, the psychopath decease forced every owner to remove him from the jobs. Meanwhile, the deceased turned to sever turn. On February 14, Ramesh again suffered a fits and came out from the house in rage with a sharp edged weapon. This time the fit was very serious and he was trying to stab someone. He noticed a 30-year-old man walking from the area. He approached him and threatened with sharp-edged weapon and asked to follow him. The man followed...

By Dheeraj Fartode A psychopath serial killer was caught by police on Tuesday, capping the mystery surrounding three murders in equal number of days. Arrest of Ramesh Harishchandra Hadge (22) came as a major relief for city police. A shaken police force expressed a sigh of relief on getting the breakthrough. While two bodies were found in public places in jurisdiction of Nandanvan police station, on Tuesday another gory murder came to light in Kalamna area. The city police was in tizzy in aftermath of two murders in Nandanvan area. The cops were shaken as in both the cases there were many similarities and it was concluded that a madman is on prowl. For police it a major challenge as neither of bodies was identified nor was any clue available. But nevertheless the classic police response in aftermath of such cases proved effective.  The entire police was put on high alert and patrolling was also intensified, more in Zone-III and Zone-IV of Police Commissionerate. The lady ...

However, there is mild power shock for domestic consumers  By Dheeraj Fartode Call it a mild shock due to commitment of new Government to bring down power tariff in state, the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) has proposed 25% hike in Fixed/demand charges of domestic users and 16% hike for fixed/demand charges for industrial users. This is different from total tariff hike and its overall impact will not be very significant. In the Mulit Year Tariff filed by MSEDCL, the utility has maintained line of state governemnt and proposed to reduce power tarriff for industries by 5% and also maintained same rates of power for agriculture sector.  The MSEDCL filed a Petition for Multi Year Tariff for Financial Year (FY) 2013-14 to 2015-16, before the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) under the Electricity Act, 2003. The Commission has admitted the Petition on February 13, and directed MSEDCL to publish a Public Notice un...

Wake-up call for City Police Force, 92 dead in last four years By Dheeraj Fartode Death of police personnel in Nagpur City IN what should serve as a wake-up call for police force that operates in cloak of secrecy, the men in uniform are falling prey to pressures of the work and unable to balance responsibilities. There has been sharp rise in number of unnatural casualties in ‘Khaki’ uniform and force is needs to take serious thought of the matter.  For example in Nagpur City alone, 28 policemen have lost their lives in 2014 and notable reasons were suicide, road accidents and not the least, health problems. More shocking fact is that 50 % of deaths in current year were reported from the jurisdiction of Nagpur Police Commissionerate as compared to figure of year 2011 when there were in total 18 such cases.  Suicidal tendency increasing  Police personnel who are trained to take care of law and order in city have a tough time handling their personal prob...

Four senior police officers will investigate the case  So far 385 gullible investors have lodged complaint with EoW  By Dheeraj Fartode Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of Economic Offences Wing (EoW) Deepali Masirkar has formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to thoroughly and speedily investigate the alleged scam committed by Wasankar Wealth Management in which thousands of gullible investors have lost their hard earned money. The scam had shaken the faith of entire investing community as Prashant Wasankar was always viewed as financial whiz kid, but after persistent default offences were registered against Wasankar and his associates. However, the slow progress made by crime branch in unearthing the scam and tracing out money, has invited wrath from aggrieved investors.  Prashant Wasankar arrested  The ongoing legal battle also witnessed many twists and turns with Wasankar flatly denying any liability and on the contrary accusing investors wi...

Detection Rate of Nagpur Range Police The Range have have recorded 100% detection in rape and molestation cases. However in property crimes the detection is below 40% which is a cause of concerns By Dheeraj Fartode IPS Ravindra Kadam, Special IG Nagpur Range  Nagpur Range Police have recorded 77% detection rate in 2014, which is a drop of two per cent as compared to 2013. Reporting 29,300 crime cases in 2014, the Range -- including Nagpur Rural, Wardha, Bhandara and Chandrapur districts -- have recorded 100% detection in rape and molestation cases. However in property crimes the detection is below 40% which is a cause of concerns. Under major crime cases head, 175 murders were reported in the Range of which 162 were detected i.e. a 93% rate of detection. However there is sharp rise in numbers of attempt to murder cases which zoomed to 177 in 2014 as compared to 117 cases in 2013. In 2014, 254 rape cases were reported which is 22 less that last year's 276 cases...

The shocking failure is particularly striking in the backdrop of clear directives from CM Fadnavis and DGP Dayal who have categorically asked top police brass to improve conviction rate  By Dheeraj Fartode NAGPUR Police which is getting flak from all corners for spurt in street crimes and failure to control emboldened criminals, also suffered another ignominy with pathetic conviction rate. This has  brutally exposed their tall claim of keeping crime and criminals under control. Thanks to their shoddy investigation, faulty chargesheets and backtracking of witnesses, the city cops have been able to punish on an average only 15 out of 100 criminals. This is against the state trend, which has witnessed rise in conviction keeping with priority set-up by the Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to improve conviction rate.  Conviction rate of Nagpur City Police As per the police data available with ‘The Hitavada’, the Nagpur Police have recorded 15% conviction rate in ...