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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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EoW gets five days police custody of Hemant Jham

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Economic Offences Wing (EOW) on Sunday were granted five days custody of Hemant Sikander Jham, Director of Jham Builders and Developers, and Youvan Jivandas Gambhir (34) whom they arrested for duping over 400 investors of crores of rupees. The accused were absconding for the past two years and landed in police dragnet on Saturday.
District and Sessions Judge (MPID) Special Court Patil remanded the accused to police custody for five days. Jham (33) was arrested form his house at Flat No. 202, Orchid Bloom Apartment, Sai Nagar, Sonegaon. A police officer informed that Jham had duped investors Nagpur, Pune and Mumbai cities. Maximum investors are retired governemtn employees who had invested their savings in the fraudlent schemes floated by the fraudsters. 
He had constructed a road at Kanhaiya City in Wagdhara to create an impression of construction of row houses among the investors. He had opened an office at Paryawaran Nagar in Somalwada where a large number of marketing executives were recruited to run the fraudulent schemes.  Sources informed that he was also making false promises of giving residential plots to the investors at a lay-out in Vathoda area. 
Jham was an accused in the infamous Rs 38.75 crore Navodaya Cooperative Bank loan fraud case, Jham’s 30 acre land worth Rs 40 crore at Waghdhara in Hingna Tehsil was seized by the police allegedly for not returning Rs six crore to about 400 investors in June 2017.
An offence of cheating and criminal breach of trust was registered against Jham Builders and Developers at Sonegaon Police Station in October 2015 following a complaint lodged by Shrikant Janbandhu. The complainant was among the 418 investors who had booked flats, row houses or bungalows at Kanhaiya City, a project launched by the Jham Builders in 2010.
After some investors had moved the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum,  about 250 summonses and warrants were issued against him but he had not appeared before it. Even an arrest warrant was also issued against him. 
He was booked under Sections 406, 409, 420, 120(b), 465, 467, 468, 471, 477 (a) of the Indian Penal Code, read with Section 3 of Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors Act and Sections 65, 66 (b) of Information Technology Act, has already been registered against the bank chairman, board of directors and others at Dhantoli Police Station.

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