With the seizure of 28 illegal fire-arms and 57 cartridges, registration of 4,712 liquor cases, and a sharp rise to 862 NDPS cases , the Nagpur Rural Police delivered one of their toughest crackdowns on crime in 2025. Along with this, preventive action was taken against 2,178 accused involved in illegal activities. Large-scale operations against crime and unlawful businesses led to seizures worth Rs 7.7 crore by the police during the year. Preventive action against 1,496 According to official records, preventive action under Section 126 of the BNSS increased sharply from 569 cases in 2024 to 1,496 cases in 2025 which marked a 163 per cent rise. Preventive actions under Section 129 BNSS also increased from 1,644 cases to 1,965 cases. Violations of preventive bonds rose from 85 cases in 2024 to 201 cases in 2025, and fines recovered through courts jumped from Rs 11,600 to Rs 23,66,200. The number of externed accused increased from 42 to 106, while detentions under the...
A day after Sachin Kurve, District Collector, conducted inspection at City Survey Office No 2 that revealed certain irregularities in functioning, the staffers at the said office staged demonstrations against the inspection on Friday.
Kurve and Ravindra Kumbhare, Resident Deputy Collector, conducted inspection at City Survey Office No 2 on Thursday and were to continue inspection on Friday too. The inspection was conducted following the complaints that touts were active in the said office and that there were irregularities. Kurve had started a special counter at Setu Kendra in Collectorate premises to accept and dispose of applications relating to mutation of property records. This had affected the touts active in City Survey Offices in the city. Conducting inspection of City Survey Office No 2 ruffled many a feather in the said office.
During inspection, Kurve found that not even 10 per cent of the applications received through Setu Kendra were disposed of at the said office. He blasted Vinayak Thakre, In-charge of the City Survey Office No 2, and other staffers at the said office. He is learnt to have warned the employees of appropriate action for delay in disposal of applications received.
On Friday, Kurve called for documents of the said office for verification. This irked the employees of City Survey Office No 2, and they staged demonstrations against the action. They wore black badges and raised slogans against District Collector. They also demanded to close down the special counter for mutation of records, started at Setu Kendra.
Collector is learnt to have issued a show cause notice to Thakre regarding pendency of applications. According to sources, in Mouza Sakkardara, a total of 88 applications for mutation were received at Setu Kendra counter. However, only one was disposed of by City Survey Office No 2. In Mouza Babulkheda, not a single of several applications received was disposed of as the clerk concerned was on ‘leave without authorisation’. Some more irregularities were found during inspection, and the Collector is compiling a report of the same, it is learnt.
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