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 ...
Published on 29-10-2019
Arrested gangster Santosh Ambekar used to cast fear on his ‘targets’ with the help of negative publicity against him in media. He also used to take help of videos uploaded on You Tube by news channels.
Additional Commissioner of Nilesh Bharne informed The Hitavada that Ambekar had targeted businessmen living in Gujarat and Mumbai area. He cheated hundreds of business persons in the fake land deals. When the victims came to get back their money, Ambekar was used to ask them to just google his name. “After going through information available on news websites and videos available on You Tube instill fear among would be complaint, said Bharne.
“We are going to break this fear about Ambekar. People should approach us with their complaints and the city police would definitely help the victim,” assured Bharne and added that the police would teach lesson to every criminal in the city.
The police have seized five cars, motorcycle and a chair made of silver f collectivelly worth Rs 2.51 crore from the house of Ambekar. MCOCA was invoked against Ambekar and his 11 accomplices last week by Crime Branch for duping a businessman of Rs five crore in a property deal and also issuing threats to him for extortion of Rs one crore. Soon after, a series of offences were registered against him within a fortnight at Lakadganj, Ambazari, Sonegaon and Tehsil police station.
Along with Ambekar, Nilesh Kedar (34), Darodkar Chowk; Chandan Choudhary (44), Mumbai; Juhi Choudhary (39), Mumabi; Ankit Patel (31), Gujarat; Ajay Patel (39), Mumbai and Rajendra Armarkar (53), Sitabuldi were arrested by the police so far.
The cops have also seized Rs 13.66 lakh cash from Juhi Choudhary, Rs 45 lakh cash from Arvind Patel, currency counting machine from Ajay Patle and Rs 84 lakh cash from gold ornaments worth Rs 1.36 lakh from Rajendra Armarkar. It means that the police have seized properties worth Rs 5.30 crore including Rs 1.42 crore cash.
Ambekar was first time arrested by police this month 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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