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...
Aggrieved land owners are openely coming out against real estate gangland and complaints are pouring at Special Investigation Team (STI). So far, massive 1,100 complaints have been received by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) against the gang and 16 First Investigation Reports (FIRs) have been lodged at various police station of city. Interestingly, complainants from rural area also lodging complaint the land-mafia.
City police’s initiative to establish SIT and Property Cell has come as a great relief to victims whose complaints were earlier brushed aside as ‘civil disputes’ by concern police stations. Many middle-class and poor families have lodged complaints at SIT and Property Cell that their only property was forcibly taken over by land grabbers. Now, police will initiate action asp per the law, said a police officer.
The officer further said that that city police have lodged 16 FIRs so far against Gwalbanshi gang alone and some of these FIRs have more than 50 complaints as the FIR was lodged on behalf of Housing Society, he said.
It may be mentioned that accomplices of extended Gawalbansi family were in business of extortion since last many years. The gang have illegally encroached on land plots of citizens in Gittikhadan, Koradi and Mankapur area and allegedly forcing people to pay money to clear their plots. Now information coming to fore that the gang have forcebly enchroached land in town of Nagpur district. Three complaints from Kalmeshwar, one from Gonhi village, town have reached to SIT so far.
Modus operendi
Fake documents, coupled with muscle or money power, have played a dominant role in land grabbing ‘projects’ of Gwalbansi gang. The Gwalbanshi gang had adopted unique modus -operendi with the help of men from neighbouring states. First, they send cattle on the field and after some time constructs huts for labour to live. As the land situated in the outskirts area of city, no land owner visits the land-plots everyday. This opportunity was the gold chance for the gang and they send their men to take possession of land. Later, Gwalbansi sell these plots to labours coming from others states for Rs 10,000 to 50,000.
His second modus operendi was grabbing land by using bogus documents of registered property. He was preparing bogus documents with the help of some agents and were used to register property or create an encumbrance in revenue records. With the help of bogus documents they took over the property and evict owner and also threaten against entering the premises. However, there was not much of action on the complaint lodged by the victims against the gangland in last few years.
Crush the land-mafias, says CP
After observing overwhelming response with hundreds of petitions pouring against land-mafia, Commissioner of Police Dr. K. Venkatesham urged citizens to approach police fearlessly against land-mafia and lodge a complaint. “Victims should immediately rush property cell and loggia complaint against land-mafia,” he said. The Police Commissioner have ordered all Zonal and Police Station level officers to given utmost importance to complaint against land-mafia and crush the menace mercilessly.
Court reject bail to Gwalbansi
Additional District and Session Judge S. S. Das rejected bail application of Dilip Gwalbanshi. He was arrested for abetting to committ suicide Bhupesh Sontakke who ended his life in October 2016. He was booked under Sections 384, 306 and 120(B) of Indian Penal Code.
Defense lawyer argued that the applicant has not committed any crime. He already compromised with deceased Bhupesh Sontakke long prior to his suicide and therefore, he has nothing to do with that suicide and urged for bail. However, prosecution strongly opposed the bail application and stated that Dilip Gwalbansi is the known land-mafiya and pressurise others to act as per his direction by showing fear of force. He is facing many criminal cases. If bail is granted to this applicant, witnesses will not come out to give statements due to his fear. After hearing both side, the court rejected the bail application.
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