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AI Joins the Force: Maharashtra Police Deploys ‘Crime-OS’ for Smarter Investigations

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By Dheeraj Fartode  Imagine a police officer uploads an FIR and within seconds, an AI assistant begins planning the investigation. It write official letters, scan bank data and spot suspicious transactions. It sounds like science fiction - but it’s now reality in Maharashtra. The state police have started using Crime-OS, a powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool developed under the MARVEL project (Maharashtra Research and Vigilance for Enhanced Law Enforcement). This tool, built in partnership with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Nagpur, works like the co-pilot feature in Microsoft Office - but to solve crimes. It helps police save valuable time and reduces the heavy workload of investigations. Assistant Superitendent of Police (ASP) Deepak Agrawal explained that police investigations usually take a lot of time and effort. Crime-OS is designed to ease that burden. “For example, if a fraud case FIR is uploaded, the tool automatically picks out important information. It t...
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Mystery deepens in Timki double murder, suicide case

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THE double murder by a woman in Timki on Friday got mysterious with police confirming that the five-year-old boy brutally killed by Manisha Kushwah (25) was not her son. 

In the wee hours of Friday, Manisha had killed her husband Sarwar Alam alias Mohammad Ali Mohammad Harun (35) and Dadu (5) by slitting their throats with a sharp-edged knife before committing suicide in their rented house near Timki Police Chowky.

On Saturday there was a new twist to the case when Manisha’s sister confirmed to the cops on telephone that the boy, Dadu (5) was her own son.

After collecting call data records of the cellphones found in Sarwar Alam’s house and suicide note left by Manisha, cops contacted the relatives of the deceased in Kanpur and informed them about the incident. On Friday night, the relatives of the deceased told police that they would be reaching Nagpur on Saturday. Surprisingly, none arrived so far to claim the bodies.

When investigators tried to contact the relatives again their cellphones were switched off. “Why did Manisha kill her husband and her sister’s son and her own husband, this is the basic question troubling our minds. We want to find out the motive as parents of Manisha and Sarwar Alam had lodged missing complaints with Kanpur Police,” a senior police officer told ‘The Hitavada.’

The suicide note in a notebook left by Manisha and video cliping found in their cellphone, too, were not of any help to find out the motive. The officer said that the matter would be cleared only after family members or relatives of the deceased come to Nagpur.

Preliminary investigations revealed that Sarwar Alam alias Mohammad Ali and Manisha were from different religions. They allegedly had an affair. Following strong opposition from their parents to their marriage, they allegedly ran away from Kanpur. A missing complaint was registered by their family members with Kanpur Police on March 7, 2013. They started staying in a rented house in Timki for the past 8-9 months. Investigators are now trying to find out as why Manisha brought her sister’s son Dadu with her. Manisha slit the throats of Sarwar Alam and Dadu and then committed suicide by hanging in their rented house.

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