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 ...
24-10-19
Film Director and producer Vipul Shah and his partner in the film production company were duped by fraudsters to the tune of Rs five crore. The fruadsters assured investment of Rs 100 crore in their upcoming movies and told him that they were making money through old coins of British era, saying that the coin minted from Iridium, a precious metal, had some supernatural powers.
The accused have been identified as Rajsingh alias Rajeshkumar Tarkeshwarsingh, a resident of Jharkhand; Builder Keshav D Padole, a resident of Nirmal Puja Building, Shivaji Nagar and R. Krishnakumar, a resident of Chennai.
Vipul Shah and his partner Vinit Ramlalprasad Singh (41), a resident of Flat No. 802, Brmhasan City, Building No. 6, Wadgaon, Pune lodged a complaint with EoW this month.
The accused met Shah and Singh at Nagpur in thier office and promised investment in their upcoming movies. Padole posed himself as Chairman of Builder Association of India and told the victims that he had license of providing super antique articles to government while Rajesh Kumar Singh identified himself as senior officer in defence. Revealing their business model, the accused told Shah that they were searching for British era coins and super antique materials containing iridium contents which have supernatural powers. They also claimed the victims that they were making hundreds of crore through the business.
When Shah and Singh agreed to work with them, the accused asked them that they would have to come with them anywhere in the country to get the coins. In the search of iridium, the fraudsters took Shah and Singh at Nagpur, Bhuwneshwar, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Hubali, Khamgaon, Mhau, Ghosi, Gorakhpur, Orissa, Chennai, Kathmandu, Banaras and other place between 2010 and 2017. The victims had spent more than Rs five crore for the trips.
After realising the fraud, Shah and Singh approached the police and lodged a complaint. An offence under Sections 420, 419, 406, 465, 467, 468, 471, 472, 120 (b) of Indian Penal Code was registered against the accused at Ambazari police station. API Rajendra Patil is investigatin the case.
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