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

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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...
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Electricity theft : SNDL slapping Damage to Public Property Act for power theft

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Published on July 4, 2017

WITH an aim to curb the menace of power pilferage and recover pending amount in power theft cases, Spanco Nagpur Discom Ltd (SNDL) has started booking those involved in power theft under Section 3 of The Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984, a non-bailable offence. Earlier, the accused used to be charged only under the Electricity Act provisions which has failed to act as a deterrent. 
About 20 persons involved in power theft have been booked under the act last month and the action would be continue to create deterrence of law. 
It may be mentioned that electricity meter is considered as public property among host of other electrical infrastructure publicly installed for providing services to citizens at large. The other benefit of this move is that First Investigation Report (FIR) for power theft can be filed in other police stations for early action or taken upto the court for cognizance in case of delay. A person pronounced as offender under this section is liable to receive not only fine but also be sentenced to rigorous imprisonment ranging from six months up to five years, if 
found guilty. 
The distribution franchisee also intends to add charges of creating hazardous circumstances against the offender for anybody who ventures near such a tampered meter and/or other infra and similarly for people who are putting direct hooks for seeking power supply.
Sources informed that the Gaddigodam police did not execute summons in the power theft cases since 2011 due to manpower crunch. Therefore, thousands of defaulters who have been assessed for power pilferage amounting to crores of rupees have not been hauled-up. Hence they are emboldened to carry out misdeeds.
When asked, Sonal Khurana, Business Head, SNDL, said that the move to book those involved in power theft under Damage to Public Property Act will create deterrence and also bring down the percentage of power theft to a great extent. Power losses are rampant and rising due to lack of deterrence inducing factors such as early service of summons which in turn delays the process further,” he said.

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