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...
By Dheeraj Fartode Crime Branch sleuths, on Tuesday night, busted an inter-State gang of online fraudsters and seized gold and cash totalling Rs 4.80 lakh. The cops arrested three young members of the gang, which operates out of West Bengal, came to the city to withdraw money. The accused were identified as Krishnakumar Drupdeo Mishra (28), Raja Manjeet Bhattacharya (25), and Santosh Kumar Parsnath Yadav (34), all residents of Kolkata, West Bengal. They were picked-up after Crime Branch team fast paced investigations into a complaint from a Yavatmal-based businessman, whose account was hacked by the gang for making transactions worth Rs 54 lakh. Staff of Crime Branch with arrested three accused. According to Wadgaon Road Police in Yavatmal, Priyank Chandrashekhar Deshmukh, dealer of Tata Motors, has cash credit account with Datta Chowk branch of Bank of India. When he checked the account details on Tuesday morning, all details were okay. However, when he ch...