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

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...

Mother and grand-daughter brutally murdered, bodies dumped in nullah

Usha Kamble was murdered over dispute of Rs 7,000 DISPUTE over a small amount of Rs 7,000 resulted in gory murder of a woman and her one-and-a-half year old granddaughter at Pawansut Nagar on Saturday evening. After slitting their throats with sharp-weapon at his residence, the accused packed the bodies in sacks and threw in a nullah near Durga lay-out, behind Vihirgaon village on Umred Road. The bodies were recovered on Sunday morning. The deceased have been identified as 54-year old Usha Sevakdas Kamble and one and half-year-old Rashi Ravikant Kamble, both residents of Plot No. 17, Pawansut Nagar, New Dighori. Usha was the mother and Rashi was daughter of Ravikant Kamble, crime reporter of ‘Nagpur Today’ portal. The accused has been identified as Ganesh alias Golu Ramcharan Shahu (26), a resident of Plot No. 34, Pawansut Nagar. He is the proprietor of a grocery shop situated on the main road and near the residence of the deceased. Deceased Usha Kamble with her granddaughter...

CM's security detail gets an upgrade to bring in uniformity of approach

Now ASL to be conducted by team of Mumbai's SPU By Dheeraj Fartode The Advance Security Liaison (ASL) for Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis visits throughout the State would henceforth be handled by his personal security team of Special Protection Unit. This new norms would be applicable even for  visits Fadnavis undertake outside the State, but within the country. This new practice was put in place to bring about uniformity in practices of advance survey which are customarily used to be carried out by respective district SPUs units along with respective local police teams. Means now a team from SPU's Mumbai unit would undertake the advance location survey whenever CM is to visit outside the capital city. The visiting team would dictate the terms to local units henceforth, in simple terms. The new practice has been put in place as security survey in aftermath of many slip-ups wherein CM got mobbed or strangers got very close to his inner security circle caused alarms with...