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By Dheeraj Fartode Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) is yet to clear the dues for availing police bandobast for the security during T-20 and Test Cricket matches held during last few years. The figure of outstanding dues is whopping Rs 3.19 crores and remainders of district police force failed to entice any response from VCA officials.  According to information, Nagpur Rural Police provided security to IPL T-20 matches in the year 2010. The Rural Police had sent bill of Rs 2,30,33,821 to VCA the same year. However, VCA did not pay the amount. In the Test Match held in year 2015 too Rural Police provided bandobast and a bill for Rs 89,36,664 was dispatched to VCA. This bill is also outstanding. With such outstanding dues, the Nagpur Rural Police are contemplating whether to provide security in upcoming T-20 matches in March 2016. Sources informed that the Rural Police is required to deploy manpower of 900 policemen including Dog squads and Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDD...

New Rural SP Anant Rokde asked senior officers to keep agenda in their mind  By Dheeraj Fartode Community policing will be the main thrust of policing of Anant Rokde, newly appointed Superintendent of Police (SP) of Nagpur Rural. “Efforts would be made to ensure feel of security among the residents of district especially Kamptee and Kanhan. Hence, concept of ‘Mohalla committee’ would be implemented in sensitive areas,” said SP Rokde.  Superintendent of Police Anant Rokde making a point during a press conference on Saturday.  Addressing a press conference on Saturday, Rokde said that maintaining communal harmony, check on illegal sand mining and transportation, check on illegal public transport are on his top priority. “I have conducted a crime meeting recently and asked all officers to keep the agenda in their mind,” said Rokde.  Informing about Kamptee SDPO had made presentation of communal riots and current situation in Kamptee and Kanhan area du...

City Police to appoint eight law officers soon Law officer will help police in all legal process By Dheeraj Fartode WITH an aim to secure conviction rate, the Maharashtra Police have decided to recruits law officers in all units across the state. The law officers would be appointed on contract basis after written examination and interviews. Process has already started at Nagpur Police Commissionerate to appoint eight law officers for city police. Joint Commissioner of Police (Joint CP) Rajvardhan informed ‘The Hitavada’ that the process began following a circular issued by office of Director General of Police last week. “An advertisement would be published soon regarding appointments. A written examination will be held in the city and then candidates will be shortlisted for interviews,” he said. Rajvardhan further said that law officers would play key role in legal process, right from filing of First Investigation Report (FIR) to chargesheet in the court. Depu...

By Dheeraj Fartode Economic Offences Wing (EoW) will attach ancestral properties of Prashant Wasankar, a master mind of defrauding gullible investors and co-accused including his relatives if the recovery from Wasankar, other co-accused and beneficiaries will not reach to total money of investors.  Deputy Commissioner of Police (EoW) Deepali Masirkar told The Hitavada that EoW have recovered cash worth Rs 6.28 from beneficiaries. Rs 2.78 crore were recovered from three Mumbai based beneficiaries and Rs 1.5 crore from two Nagpur based beneficiaries. Rs 1 crore returned by D Y Patil International Sports Academy and Rs two crore recovered from city businessman Avinash Bhute.  Along with cash recovery, EoW has attached 21 properties of Wasankar couple. As on date, government valuation of the properties is Rs 18 crore and market prize of the properties is Rs 30 crore. The EoW will file application in the court soon to Fixed Deposit the recovered amount so that the gulli...

Special MPID Court to hear matter on Feb 29  By Dheeraj Fartode  Under fire for accepting Rs One crore from Prashant Wasankar who is cooling heels behind bars for cheating gullible investors, D Y Patil Sports Academy has quietly returned this sum of Rs One crore to Economic Offences Wing (EoW) under protest. The academy had taken the money from Wasankar in form of donation in the year 2012-13. Earlier, the academy was not ready to return the money and conveyed the EoW that it was not possible under rules to pay back the amount. The Hitavada was first to publish the news -- “Wasankar donated Rs 3.4 crore to trusts of Vikhe Patil and DY Patil” on February 16, 2016. The D Y Patil sports academy had returned Rs one crore on February 22 under protest. The matter will come up in the special MPID court for hearing on February 29.  Two other charitable trusts including Pravara Medical Trust, DY Patil International Academy are also on EoW’s radar for recovery of Rs...

The notorious gangster is still eluding his arrest as cops declared imposition of MCOCA first instead of nabbing him, giving sufficient time to goon to go into hiding  By Dheeraj Fartode  In their bid to send home message of cracking down on the gangsters did city police bosses slip-up at most crucial moment and ended-up sending across a tip that enabled Santosh Ambekar to escape dragnet spread out for him? It seems top officers jumped the gun and gave established procedures a go-by instead of first arresting Ambekar under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). Nagpur CP Sharda Prasad Yadav Alarmed by this announcement, the goon just vanished, leaving Nagpur police bosses red faced. The strategy of city police bosses of going public to announce booking of Ambekar instead of first arresting him, appeared to have backfired. The strategy of the top officials in especially Ambekar case proved costlier for the city police. Special teams of Crime Branch...

Crores invested with Mumbai builders  Cops trying to recover money from trusts  By Dheeraj Fartode Prashant Wasankar, presently cooling heels behind bar for duping thousands of gullible investors and who failed to return money to his investors, had donated Rs 3.40 crore in 2012-13 to three charitable trusts, connected to political big-wigs of then ruling alliance. The charitable trusts are Pravara Medical Trust, DY Patil International Academy and DY Patil Sports Academy related to present Leader of Opposition in Legislative Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil and former governor of Bihar and Congress leader D Y Patil. The investigating machinery is tracing the money diverted by Wasankar to various individuals and institutions and came across this politically sensitive information. Sources informed that Wasankar had given hundreds of crore to Mumbai based builders. The money was used in construction business.  After detecting the financial transactions, the Eco...