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 ...
The scramble by millions of panicked Indians to exchange banned currency or deposit them turned tragic when a bank employee of State Bank of India (SBI) Nagpur Branch died due to cardiac arrest in the bank on Friday afternoon.
The nationwide toll due to various reasons related to demonetisation reached to 31. According to police, Rampantula Venkatesh Rajesh (51) was busy doing cash works in the bank when he suffered a cardiac arrest at around 11.45 am.
He started sweating profusely and soon collapsed in the bank. Employees and customers panicked after the incident and offered water to him. As R V Rajesh was not responding, the bank employees rushed him to Wockhardt Hospital where the attending doctors tried hard to revive him. He was declared dead after all efforts failed.
R V Rajesh was an ex-serviceman working as the customer service assistant at SBI Nagpur’s Gandhi Nagar branch. The demonetization move of the Narendra Modi government created chaos across the country. Many people are still at the receiving end standing in long queues and facing tough time to get their money deposited or changed. Banking staff also getting stressed due to work overload.
A bank peon died of a massive heart attack in Pune rural yesterday. He was stressed handling large crowds and working 12 hours a day. In another case, a 48-year old man, who came to deposit Rs five lakh worth scrapped high denomination notes in a bank in Thalassery in Kerala, died after he fell down from the second floor of a building. While in Bhopal, a SBI cashier died of heart attack. Bank employees have been putting in extra hours and handling large queues.
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