IGP Chandra Kishore Mina By Dheeraj Fartode Chandra Kishore Mina, an IPS officer of the 2006 batch, has been awarded the President’s Police Medal for Meritorious Service. Currently serving as Special Inspector General of Police (IGP) for the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), Mina has held several important positions in Nagpur and the Vidarbha region. While serving as ASP in Gadchiroli, Mina led a successful anti-Naxal operation in 2009, which resulted in the Petha encounter, weakening the Naxal movement. This operation earned him the DG Insignia. As SP in Akola and Nanded, Mina used innovative methods to maintain communal harmony and resolve tensions effectively. He uncovered a state-wide kidney transplant racket in Akola and, as DCP in Nagpur, dismantled organized crime syndicates through MCOCA and MPDA cases. In Nanded, Mina detected a recruitment scam that affected the entire state. His technological skills were evident when he implemented the court monitoring system in Akola. As DCP in M...
Tehsildar’s report exposes dubious role of cops CM directs Collector to probe this serious issue By Dheeraj Fartode When there is growing demand to either close down or shift liquor shop or bars from residential localities, a classic example of how a favourable report was prepared by police tweaking the facts and manipulating statements of nearby residents and a non-existent women’s organisations has come to fore. These discrepancies have been highlighted by a senior officer like Tehsildar of Hingna tehsil in his report submitted to the District Collector exposing misdemeanor of some personnel of MIDC police. It was on the basis of this questionable NoC granted by MIDC police, the permission to open liquor shop in dense residential locality of Gajanan Nagar, Nildoh in Hingna tehsil just outside the municipal limits of Nagpur city was granted. Overlooking the opposition of residents, the police report attached statements of “neighbours” either...