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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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Sales Tax Departmentt issues notices to 11 betelnut traders

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Sales Tax Department has issued notices to 11 betelnut traders to ensure entry of purchase of betelnut in the purchase register. “After ensuring the entry of purchase, the trader would have to pay 5.5% Value Added Tax (VAT) after sell,” confirmed Gajendra Raut, Deputy Commissioner, Sales Tax (Investigation Wing). 


The betelnut traders have imported 345 tonnes of betelnut from Dimapur, Assam. A goods train of 25 wagons arrived at Itwari railway station on Wednesday with betelnuts worth Rs 8.75 crores. 

After receiving information of smuggling and sub-standard betelnuts, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) had called Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to check the quality and Sales Tax department to inspect purchase papers of the goods. 

A RPF officer informed that FDA did not find anything wrong in the consignment and booking manager cleared the betelnuts. However, the sales tax department is ensuring the entry in the purchase register.

It may be mentioned that a joint team of Maharashtra Sales Tax department and Uttar Pradesh Sales Tax department had unearthed tax evasion worth crores of rupees in year 2013. The raids were conducted at Vikrant Transport, Nagpur, Gupta Transport, Nagpur, Balaji Traders, Nagpur and Tirupati trading company, Nagpur. The joint team had found manipulated bills from Vikrant traders and Tirupati trading co. However, address of Balaji traders turned out to be fake as no such establishment was present at the mentioned address.

According to sources, centrally located Nagpur is hub for betelnut business. Around 100-200 trucks arrive in Nagpur everyday from Karnataka and Kerala. Maximum trucks are parked in Maskasath and Wadi area where most of betel nuts are stored in godowns. Betel nuts of every quality ranging from best to worst is mixed here and then, is transported to North India including states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh where Gutkha manufacturing companies are located. As VAT is not applicable on Chilli and turmeric business hence, the businessmen often pass on betelnut in the name of chilli and turmeric. They also claim false credits, hide turnover, and even use hawala transfers in the business, the officials claimed.

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