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
IN A significant breakthrough, Ganeshpeth Police arrested three members of an inter-state gang of vehicle lifters and recovered two stolen Tavera cars, two Indigo cars and and four mopeds from their possession.
The accused have been identified as Mohammad Asadulla Khan alias Nadeem Abdul Najib Khan (42), a resident of Om Nagar; Mohd Salman Qureshi alias Jakki Usman Qureshi (22), a resident of Sadar, behind Jama Masjid and Shyam Jaimangal Chauhan (43), a resident of Trimurti Nagar. Cops have launched a massive search for Mumbai-based kingpin Uday Maroti Patil and his accomplices.
About the modus operandi of the gang, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone III) M Rajkumar told mediapersons that the accused used to refurbish stolen vehicles using parts of old vehicles of the same models and sell them as genuine second-hand vehicles to gullible customers. Sometimes, the gang used to replace the chassis and engine numbers with old vehicles using grinding machine and other tools.
Acting on a tip offi, Rajkumar said, a team of Ganeshpeth Police nabbed Mohammad Salman Qureshi from Great Nag Road and seized his two-wheeler. During interrogation by police, he spilled the beans, he added.
He said, Mohammad Salman confessed to stealing a Honda Activa moped from Koadi area and named the other members of the gang. Cops then nabbed MohammadAsadulla and Shyam Chauhan from different places, he added.
Rajkumar informed that the team then recovered stolen two Tavera cars, two Indigo cars, a a Dream Yuga motorcycle, an Suzuki Access moped, a Honda Activa collectively valued at Rs 22.10 lakh from from Aurangabad, Beed, Karnataka and Tirupati. Search for the other gang members is on.
The arrests were made by senior Police Inspector M K Chavan, API A P Taksande, constables Anand Wankhede, Ajay Giradkar, Ashish Bahad, Sharad Chambhare and Ananta Garmode.
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