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...
NAGPUR Police have invited the ire of the Chief Secretary for their poor rate of investigation into sexual offences. Probe into more than 87.5 per cent sexual offences has not been completed within the stipulated 60-day period. The time-frame in sexual assault cases has been decided by Union Home Ministry by issuing The Criminal Law (Amendment) ordinance 2018. Chief Secretary of Maharashtra rapped the City Police for this lackluster attitude in a meeting held at Mumbai recently.
“As per the new amendment, filing of chargesheet within 60 days is necessary in such cases. However, many police units in the State have failed to do it as many officers are simply unaware of new amendment,” Inspector General of Police Pratap Dighaonkar, Prevention of Atrocities against women (PAW), informed ‘The Hitavada’.
The Centre had approved the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2018 last year which prescribed the time-limit for completion of investigation to put check on sexual crimes against women and children. The law was initially promulgated as an Ordinance on April 21, 2018 following an outcry over the rape and murder of a minor girl in Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir and the rape of a woman in Unnao in Uttar Pradesh.
According to the letter of IGP Dighaonkar, a total of 193 First Investigation Reports (FIRs) in crime against women and children were filed between April 21, 2018 and July 23, 2019 by City Police. Of them, cops have managed to file final reports and chargesheets in 103 cases which is 53.37 per cent and the compliance rate, as per the letter, is 13.85 per cent.
Recently, a review meeting was held in Mumbai which was presided over by Chief Secretary Ajoy Mehta. He registered displeasure after finding Nagpur police’s dismal compliance rate, it was learnt.
Citing reasons behind the slow compliance rate, a senior police officer of Nagpur Police said, “In some cases, complainants try to implicate a person on false charges. Such cases need to be investigated properly to prevent injustice to common man.”. Another reason, he told, was the delay in receiving medical reports from Forensic Labs which is the most important evidence in rape cases.
In February this year, the Home Ministry had launched an analytic tool — Investigation Tracking System for Sexual Offences (ITSSO) to monitor and track time-bound investigation. It is part of the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and System (CCTNS) that connects over 15,000 police stations across the country. Officials at PAW are monitoring progress in sexual assault cases in the State.
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