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 ...
As social media is now a rage among citizens, a few charlatans have turned it into a lucrative business by misusing the platform for maligning companies and elite in the society. There is no dearth of talented youth who for quick money are at beck and call of people who use them to hilt for defaming their rivals. Cyber Cells of State Police are now actively engaged in filtering out such malicious content and isolate the dark figures of the net and expose them. This phenomena has gained currency in dark net and is termed as Cyber Supari, said the police officials
Speaking on the condition of anonymity stated that people have in fact formed companies and many of them have flourised right here in city and raking in moolah. The most easy target are politicians as for them image is their biggest asset and rival are commissioning fake videos and photshopped images. These firms are even lodging fake complaints on social media accounts against companies that are to be targeted. These firms have inorganic base of followers on social media platforms who are getting paid for following instructions of these firms and helping in actively spreading the defaming content on social media, the official said and added that they are trying to stamp out Cyber Supari but having difficulty as rumours gain acceptance in our society very fast.
The illegal business has gained currency in recent years and they are using Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApps and other social media platforms to further their cause. They have chains of WhatsApp groups in which they post a fake video and particular messages against their target. Then group members (paid members of the firms) make the video and prepare messages that go viral in other groups in no time.
The officer claimed that such campaigns can be easily identified if one observe the patterns of the messages being circulated on the social media platforms. The firms are paying Rs 60 paise per message to their paid members.
In businesses where competition is now very intense, the social media platform are now a major cause of worry. As there is no policing of these platforms in the country. Therefore anyone can misuse the media and get away. These companies are using fake social media accounts to run such campaign, he said. Three major companies were targeted by such groups in the recent past that resulted in them closing down their business.
No twitter a campaign is started against a particular person or company on a particular subject on a large extent. Very soon the subject starts trending as it does not take long for 'bots' to lap and start spreading the falsehood in the digital world. Soon after, common users of Twitter too joined them and the count of tweets with a particular hashtag zooms.
This is turn is not very good for flourishing economy like India as now a days Start-ups boom has become a norm. And established firms may adopt this short cuts of using 'bots' to take out fledging companies before they become dangerous for their business.
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