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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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RPF goes lenient in liquor seizure case at Nagpur Railway Station

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Nagpur Division of Central Railway patting its back for intercepting foreign made liquor at Nagpur railway station let the culprit off the hook by invoking lenient clause of false declaration. In fact, RPF could have booked the firm that was transporting the liquor for carrying inflammable goods in the train that could have lead to prosecution.

A railway official informed The Hitavada that Commercial Department and RPF have imposed fine worth Rs 1.10 lakh under Section 163 of Railway Act against the lease holder for false declaration of goods. The consignee simply mentioned that they are transporting some goods but in reality they were transporting costly liquor. This was a case of smuggling foreign liquor to evade payment of excise duty, the officer said. However, reason for not imposing fine for transporting inflammable goods in the trains without prior information could not be ascertained. 
Public Relation Officer (PRO) P. D. Patil said that the transporter has been booked for false declaration. “A detailed report has been sent to Northern Railway Headquarters for further action,” said PRO Patil.
Another railway official informed that the division authorities had chance to book the lease holder under section 164 of Railway Act for transporting dangerous products. However division officials opted for simple action to avoid lengthy paper work for invoking sections pertaining to transportation of inflammable material. The officer speaking on condition of anonymity said for inflammable material, it would have to be impounded and later sent to forensic department for certifying it as dangerous.
RPF Inspector Virendra Wankhede informed The Hitavada that an application has been given to State Excise Department for the further investigation. The Excise Department has to decide on further action against the illegal transporter. 
Superintendent of State Excise Department Swati Kakde said that the department would write letters to Excise Department of Delhi and Chennai and then only decide line of action. The action will be initiated against the illegal transporter if he had not paid excise duty of importing foreign-made liquor. 
After seizing Foreign-made liquor worth lakhs of rupees from Chennai bound trains, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) has involved State Excise Department to investigate the case further.
It may be mentioned that RPF’s Nagpur Unit, on Friday night, seized foreign-made liquor from 12616 Delhi-Chennai GT Express, and 12622 Delhi-Chennai Tamil Nadu Express at night hours and took the consignments in the custody.  The train was detained at Nagpur Railway Station for more than 30 minutes. 

RPF seizes liquor worth Rs 40,000 from train

Railway Protection Force (RPF) Nagpur Unit have seized liquor worth Rs 40,000 from 12792 Danapur-Secunderabad Express on Monday. 
According to police, a team of RPF led by Inspector Virendra Wankhede conducted raid on the train at 11.30 am and discovered liquor bottles in four sacks. The RPF staff immediately took the sacks under custody and informed State Excise Department.  RPF staff including Sub-Inspector K. N. Rai, R. S. Gurjar, Vikas Sharma, Vinod Rathod and others have made the seizure. 

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