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...
- City police book 10th gang under MCOCA
By Dheeraj Fartode
Continuing the use of its most dreaded weapon -- Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) -- the City Police on Saturday slapped MCOCA against one more gang and put five people behind bars for their criminal activities. This is the 10th gang of criminals booked under MCOCA in last six months.
Additional Commissioner of Police Shrikant Tarwade approved the use of MCOCA against Sayyad Firoz Sayyad Noor (33), Sayyad Naushad Sayyad Kalim (21), Raja Abdul Gaffar (24), all residents of Goa Colony; Raju Bilmoha Chourasiya (46), a resident of Mangalwari Bazar; Rakesh alias Nikki Ashok Gedam (34), a resident of Patankar Square, near Sanyog Nagar Buddha Vihar.
The accused were produced in the court on Saturday and the vacation court sent them to two days’ MCR. The accused would be produced in the MCOCA court on Monday where cops will demand their police custody.
Addressing a press conference, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone II) Sanjay Latkar informed that the gang was operating under the jurisdictions of Sadar, Jaripatka and GRP Nagpur’s area. The gang was involved in body offences, abduction, threatening since last many years.
Accused Raju Chourasiya, who runs a cycle stand at Maharajbag, was involved in forcibly vacating houses in the area. Raja Abdul Gafar was convicted in a theft case reported at GRP Nagpur. Court had sentenced five months rigorous imprisonment to Gafar, informed DCP Latkar.
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