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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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Police to launch crackdown against land mafia

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Complaints of land grabbing and extortion are piling-up against Dilip Gwalbanshi and his accomplices. Emboldened by police action against one of the Gwalbanshi, common men are now in over active mode to make a beeline to police station and register their complaint. With police on overdrive mode and eager to crackdown on goons and land grabbers, people are hoping to reclaim their plots. 
The city police has formed a special ‘Property Cell’ to deal with the property related offences that were on upswing as land prices went Northwards. A massive crack-down is set to be launched against land grabbers during the month ahead,” said Commissioner of Police Dr. K. Venkatesham. The police department is busy preparing documents before taking call on nabbing the goons as they want paperwork to be foolproof.
The property cell’s office of city is situated at Old Administrative building, besides Udyog Bhavan, Civil Lines, and citizens can now directly approach the cell. Senior Police Inspector Vazeer Sheikh has been appointed as the in-charge of the cell that is attached to Economic Offences Wing (EoW). The cell will have panel of experts including city survey officials, lawyers and financial experts to decipher through the maze of records created by dupesters and gangsters, the CP said. 
Other officials informed that stringent MCOCA Act is likely to be invoked against Dilip Gwalbanshi and his accomplices soon as the gang is notorious for wide range of criminal activities, including land grabbing, extortion, and have amassed huge wealth through their criminal activities. 
Meanwhile, Gittikhadan Police have registered another offence against Gwalbanshi gang for trying to extort Rs seven lakh. The accused are identified as Harish Gwalbanshi, Shailesh Gwalbanshi, Alok Mahadule and 15 others. According to complainant Babarao Wamanrao Domne (61), a resident of Police Headquarters, the accused allegedly attacked him when he had gone to check upon his  plot at Hajari Pahad wherein the accused persons allegedly tried to extort Rs seven lakh.  Later, the accused phoned owner of Plot No. 63 Pramod Ahir and threatened him for dire consequences if he dated to lodge complaint at Police Station.  The accused have been booked under Sections 141, 143, 341, 352, 383, 387 and 34 of Indian Penal Code.
It may be mentioned that accomplices of extended Gawalbanshi 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. Sources informed that the accused used to make duplicate documents of plots with the help of some agents in Revenue Department. 
As the land prices zoomed by nearly 300 per cent in last 10 years, many small players started business of land dealing in the city. The land dealers are openly violating rule of law, especially in outskirts of the city with the help of local goons. Such gangs are active in Hudkeshwar, Gittikhadan, Mankapur, Koradi, Kalamna, Wadi, MIDC and Hingna Police Stations areas. The land dealers identify land parcels of individuals and then grab the same by preparing bogus documents. After locking in the said plots in dispute the goons then enter into the picture and offer to settle the matter and thereby rake in lakh of rupees.



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