Dabo club Nagpur Efforts to reopen the controversial Dabo Club, which was shut down for 45 days following the murder of two young men, have triggered strong anger and fear among the families of the victims. The incident took place in the early hours of December 26 last year during a Christmas party at Dabo Club. Pranav Ranavare (27) was allegedly killed after a minor dispute. His friend, Gaurav Karda (34), was badly injured in the same incident and later died during treatment. The Sonegaon police arrested six accused - Soumya Deshmukh, Mehul alias Monu Rahate, Rajiv Chawla, Abhay Jhamtani, Gappu Sharma and Tushar Nankani. All the accused are currently lodged in jail. The club is owned by Directors Devyani Vijay Wadettiwar, Karan Vikram Thakkar and Mohd Hamza Rayeen. It may be mentioned here that Dabo Club has a long history of complaints related to harassment and assaults. Police sources said repeated warnings were ignored by the management. During the investigation, it was found...
Publsihed on July 5, 2017
With an aim to reclaim the lost glory of detection’, Commissioner of Police (CP) Dr. K Venkatesham has decided to scrap all zonal units of City Crime Branch and revert back to centralised system. The Zonal units were launched last year to create deterrence in the crime world and aim was that it would provide operational flexibility. But the idea did not bear fruits and result were not up to the mark, revealed the assessment done by top bosses.
When asked, CP Dr. Venkatesham told The Hitavada that all territorial units would be scrapped and new ‘functional units’ would be formed to improve detection rate. The zone-wise Units were launched by the then City Police Chief Sharda Prasad Yadav on the lines of Mumbai and Thane Police. Prompt reaction and penetration of deep roots of informers in crime world was the idea behind the zonal units. Another exception was that the unit offices would also help the informers and complainants to have better and easier access to the Crime Branch officers. But when the idea was implemented on ground, the results could not meet the expectations.
Daily functioning of the units was -- staff came to Crime Branch office in Gittikhadan for a meeting in morning hours and then moved to their respective zones. But what the units were doing in field thereafter was a mystery.
It may be mentioned that before formation of Zonal units, the Crime Branch had centralised ‘functional’ squads in which Zone-wise squads followed body offences and there were separate squads for robberies, chain snatchings and vehicle thefts. Presence of the Crime Branch was visible in the crime world during the ‘functional units’ as the squads achieved mastery in their respective crime-heads and doing fast detection of crime.
A senior police officer who was heading one such squad in the Crime Branch said that the Zonal squads were working like police stations. They ended-up following every crime and property offences but with limited man-power the objective could not achieved. We were repeating work of police stations at these Units where Crime Branch is meant to act as specialised agency. “Detection is the main area of Crime Branch but we were asked to concentrate on preventive action thereby distracting us from detection. As there was no direct supervision, the Units less bothered about results of daily work. This working style deteriorated the functioning of Crime Branch,” he claimed.
Another reason for failure of Zonal system could be lack of resources for the teams in city unlike deep pockets available to their counterparts in Mumbai City and Thane City. Even Chowki system is functioning very well in Pune city. For Nagpur city the geographical area is not that big and besides vacancies at every level, mostly at Sub-Inspector and Inspector level, means decentralisation is always to ensure limited results.
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