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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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Cops seek Rs 25 lakh investigation fund to crack Dabba Trade case scam

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  • Fund will be utilised to clone hard disks and secure encrypted data 

By Dheeraj Fartode 
Investigation of the multi-crore ‘Dabba’ trading scam is going to be most expensive investigation for Nagpur police. After learning cost of various equipments and receiving first bill of cloning of computer hard disks worth Rs 2.5 lakh, the city police is all set to send a proposal for ‘extra’ investigation fund worth Rs 25 lakh which will be exclusively spend on investigation of ‘Dabba’ trading scam. ‘Dabba’ trading has inflicted heavy revenue loss worth crores to the state exchequer, experts claim. 
Deputy Commissioner of Police (EoW) Ranjan Kumar Sharma told The Hitavada that cloning and securing 64 digit hash value of all seized hard disk and DVR is the first part of investigation so that the seized evidence could be produced in the court to prove guilt of the accused. The cops will purchase same sophisticated hard disks and DVR for cloning and it needs Rs 16-17 lakh, said DCP Sharma. “The city police have prepared the proposal and it would be sent to Director General of Police (DGP’s) office next week,” he informed. 
Sources informed that Nagpur police received Rs 50 lakh as investigation fund last year. Then Director General of Police (DGP) Sajeev Dayal had started the scheme to update the investigating machinery and arm them with latest gadgets.
It may be mentioned that city police have seized more than hundreds of hard disks, and servers from L7 group and other accused allegedly indulged in ‘Dabba’ trading. The hard disks are substantial evidence for the police hence cops are giving utmost importance to it.
Sources in EoW informed that Ravi Agrawal had also stored data of ‘Dabba’ trading in icloud, which is a cloud storage and cloud computing service from tech giant Apple. This would be the difficult task for the EoW Nagpur as Apple had earlier refused to share data with USA’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack citing privacy of customers.

Cops issue Look Out Circular against absconders 

City police have issued a Look Out Circular (LoC) against four accused of ‘Dabba’ trading scam. The Nagpur Police has written to the concerned authorities at all the immigration checkposts in the country to prevent these accused from escaping outside the country. Similarly, the police is keeping tab on movements of friends and relatives of the absconding accused.
DCP Sharma informed that the police issued LoC against accused Ravi Omprakash Agrawal, proprietor of L7 group, Veena Ghansham Sarda (51), a resident of Sharda House, Cement Road, Shivaji Nagar, Dinesh Bhawarlal Sarda, a resident of Canal Road and Sachin Thakurlal Agrawal (37),  a resident of Satnami Nagar.
The LoC are issued to trace the absconding criminals and also to prevent and monitor effectively the entry or exit of persons who may be required by law enforcement authorities. An LoC is valid for period of one year. 

Provide medical treatment to Laddhad 

Sessions Judge P V Ganediwala on Monday ordered Superintendent of Jail to provide medical treatment to accused Kushal Kishore Laddhad at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH). Defence lawayer Adv Atul Pande moved an application before the court stating that Laddhad was suffering from Ulcer and was not getting proper treatment at Central Jail. After hearing the plea, the court issued the order. 

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  1. Anonymous18 July 2016 at 21:24

    Hello Sir, I have been following the Dabba scam and am aware that the accused who were arrested have been in the jail for nearly 2 months.My question is will the absconding accused also face the same trial? Or will they easily get bail as one absconder got interim bail on medical ground stating that she has been diagnosed with cancer? I have full faith in our judiciary and know that justice will definitely happen but my concern, as a citizen, is if absconding people get bail easily on medical grounds, it will encourage people to do crime, abscond and come back appealing for bail ! Are cancer patients allowed to do any sort of crime and get bail so easily ? Really ?

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