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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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One more offence registered against gangster Ambekar

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22-1-19
One more offence was registered against Gangster Santosh Ambekar by city police for extorting Rs 15 lakh from a person who was co-accused in the murder case of Balya Gawande, an arch rival of Ambekar.  
Complainant Jaibharat Jaihind Kale (43), a resident of New Subhedar lay-out, Sakkardara, and Ambekar were accused in Balya Gawande murder case. Gawande was killed in year 2017 at Sant Tukaram Nagar. The court had acquitted all the accused including Ambekar and Kale citing loopholes in the investigation by Kalamna police. 
“Ambekar told Kale that he had spent Rs one crore in Mantralaya to secure their acquittal. Of them, Rs 15 lakh was borrowed from Raju Armarkar at 3 per cent rate of interest. Ambekar was collecting Rs 45,000 per month from Kale as the interest on the Rs 15 lakh,” said police quoting statement of Kale. 
Ambekar and another accused Nilesh Kedar have collected Rs 11.25 lakh Kale so far. They were used to issue death threats to Kale for the money. On the basis of complaint given by Kale, Tehsil police have registered an offence under Sections 386, 504, 506 (b), 34 of Indian Penal Code read with Section 44 and 45 of Maharashtra Money-Lending (Regulation) Act, 2014.
Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) was invoked against Ambekar four times in the past. But he was acquitted by court in all the cases.  In this months, offences were registered against Ambekar and his gang at Sitabuldi, Lakadganj, Tehsil, Sonegaon and Ambazari police stations. 
The Lakadganj police had booked Ambekar for molesting and raping a woman for more than seven years. Ambekar was already arrested by police for duping a businessman of Rs five crore in a property deal and also issuing threats to him for extortion of Rs one crore. The complaint was lodged against Ambekar by Jigar Pareshbhai Patel, a resident of Kapadvanj, District - Kheda, Gujarat with Sitabuldi police on Saturday accusing Ambekar and his accomplices for duping him of Rs five crore and demanding extortion of Rs one crore.

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