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 ...
Body of a newborn girl was found floating in a nullah under a bridge in Hingna police station area on Tuesday morning. The infant was found by Durgesh Ashokrao Kuhite (27), a resident of Chini Mangli village in Hingna tehsil, when he was passing by the area around 7 am. Staff of Hingna police station rushed to the spot after being informed by Kuhite. The police have recovered the body from the nullah and sent it to hospital where doctors declared her brought dead. A police official said that it was a case of a mother abandoning the newborn. The child might be died after birth, but to conceal the birth and to destroy evidence, the accused dumped it in the nullah, the official said.
“We have sent the body to hospital for a forensic post-mortem,” said the official. Hingna police have registered the case under Section 318 of Indian Penal Code for concealing the birth of a child by secretly disposing of the body. The offence is punishable by up to two years of imprisonment.
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