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Major reshuffle expected in Maharashtra Police leadership

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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 ...
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D Y Patil sports academy returns Rs 1 cr received from Wasankar

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  • 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 2.40 crore. Both trusts are related to Leader of Opposition in Legislative Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil and former governor of Bihar and Congress leader D Y Patil whose son Satej Patil was minister of state for Home during DF regime. 

Wasankar had donated Rs 3.40 crore in 2012-13 to these charitable trusts, connected to political big-wigs of then ruling alliance. EoW sleuths are also probing whether there was any quid-pro-quo. Sources informed that the financial transactions took place between year 2012 and 2013 and Wasankar Wealth Management Ltd had used RTGS route for the money transfer. The Hitavada learnt that a sum of Rs One crore was transferred to Pravara Medical Trust on September 2, 2013. D Y Patil International Academy received Rs One crore on 20 November 2012 and Rs 40 lakh on August 26, 2013. Similarly, Rs One crore was transferred to account of DY Patil Sports Academy on February 17, 2012 as donation. 

After detecting the financial transactions, the Economic Offences Wing (EoW) of Nagpur City Police had written a letter to these three institutions and asked them to file reply. The three institutions in their response had claimed that their institutions were charitable trusts and the money was used for charitable purpose only.
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