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
Crime Branch have arrested an automobile dealer, Guddu Bhatia (35), in the murder case of transporter Bhupendra Singh Manjit Singh Makan alias Bobby Sardar (46). “The Innova car in which Bobby Sardar was strangled to death was provided by Bhatia,” said police.
A police officer informed that role of Bhatia came to fore during interrogation of four arrested accused. Bhatia was member of the rival gang that killed Bobby Sardar. As Little Sardar, Manjeet Wade and others decided to eliminate Bobby, Bhatia also joined them and assured to arrange the vehicle. The Innova car was registered in the name of Bhatia. Accused Hani Chandok took the vehicle from his garage on April 25, he told the police.
CCTV image of the Innova car led to cracking of the murder case. After getting the images, the police had launched searches for a white coloured Innova car with a sentence written in Punjabi language and found it with Bhatia. He initially told the police that the car was sold to Chandok for Rs 10 lakh. Hence, the police had arrested Chandok. Bhatia was arrested when the needle of suspicion pointed towards him during investigation. He was arrested by the police late Thursday night. The police have produced Bhatia and four other accused in the court on Friday and they were remanded to three-days police custody. APP Adv Mrs Borkar represented the state while Adv Sudeep Jaiswal and Adv Atul Rawlani apeared for the accused.
Bobby left his office on April 25 at around 11.30 pm. The accused took Bobby with them. He was murdered by the accused by strangulating him using a rope in the wee hours of April 26. The accused had threw the body under the bridge near Kathalabodi village in a bid to destroy evidence.
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