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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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Gangster Ambekar arrested for duping businessman of Rs 5 crore

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Notorious goon Santosh Ambekar was arrested by Crime Branch on Saturday night for allegedly duping three businessmen of Rs five crore and issuing death threats to them for extortion of Rs one crore. 
The complaint was lodged by Jigar Pareshbhai Patel, a resident of Kapadvanj, District - Kheda, Gujarat at Sitabuldi police station. According to police, accused Ambekar, Bhaiyyaji, Ramesh Patil, Balaji Angadia, Salim and others had hatched a conspiracy to dupe Patel, Anil Kadam and Vinod Pawar in a land deal. They had forged documents of a commercial property located in Mumbai and shown the property to Patel. Patel, Pawar and Kadam had fixed the land deal with Ambekar and given Rs five crore to him on July 5, 2018. Soon after realising the fraud, the victims asked Ambekar to return the money. 
Ambekar call the victims at Nagpur three to four times on pretext of registering land plots in their names. Instead of returning the money, Ambekar started issuing threats to the victims. “Ambekar and his accomplices were issuing death threats to the victims and their family members directly and on mobile phone,” informed a police officer.
On the basis of complaint lodged by Patel, Sitabuldi police have registered an offence under Section 420, 467, 468, 471, 384, 386, 506 (b) and 34 of Indian Penal Code. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of Crime Branch called Ambekar at his office in Gittikhadan for a discussion in the evening hours and arrested him. He would be produced in the court on Sunday. 

RPF nab mobile phone thief at Itwari rly station 

A mobile phone thief was arrested by Railway Protection Force (RPF) of SECR at Itwari railway station and recovered four stolen mobile phones from his possession. 
The thief land in RPF’s net when the RPF staff was conducting patrolling in circulating area of the railway station on Saturday afternoon. Suspecting movement of the youth, the RPF staff took him to RPF post for interrogation. During checking of his bag, the RPF have recovered four mobile phones, a cutter and a wrist watch collectivelly worth Rs 35,000. The thief was identified as Sunny Kumar Vasant Kumar Wadade (23), a resident of Panchasheel Nagar, Bhilai, Durg, Madhya Pradesh. 
A RPF officer informed that the accused had stolen mobile phones of passengers of 1823 Bilaspur-Itwari Shivnath Express. He was handed over to GRP for further action. An offence under Section 379 of Indian Penal Code was registered against the accused. 
Under the guidance of DSC Ashutosh Pandey, the arrest was made by Inspector Ganesh Garkal, Sub-Inspectors R B Yadav, Mohd Mugisuddin and staff including Prakash Raisedam, K A Ansari, Ishant Dixit, R S Bagderia and others. 

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