Skip to main content

Major reshuffle expected in Maharashtra Police leadership

By
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 ...
Post a Comment

Crime by Police : Maharashtra ranks first in the country

By
Publshed on November 6, 2019

With 456 criminal cases registered against Police personnel in the State, Maharashtra Police ranks first in the ‘unwanted list’ of committing crime in India. The shocking revelation came to fore in a report issued by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) for year 2017. In crime committred by Police personnel, the state recorded a jump of 256 per cent in year 2017 as compared to 173 cases in year 2016, reveals the study of the situation of two years ago.  
After Maharashtra Police, Gujarat Police ranked 2nd for committing crime with 191 cases, followed by 169 cases committed by Rajasthan Police, 164 cases committed by Andhra Pradesh Police, 116 crime committed by Tamil Nadu Police, 114 crimes committed by Punjab and Kerala Police, 106 crimes committed by Uttar Pradesh Police and so on. 
Of all the 456 cases, the Maharashtra Police department has filed its chargesheets in 237 cases while 35 such complaints against the cops have been quashed by a magistrate’s court.  A total of 11 Police personnel have been convicted by the courts, which means that at least 216 cops are still facing a trial.
After analysing data from 2014 to 2017, it came to fore that the number jumped by 256 per cent from 2016 to 2017. A total of 178 cases were registered against Police in year 2016 which jumped to 456 in year 2017. Earlier, the state witnessed 237 cases against Police in year 2014 and 162 cases in year 2015. 
Surprisingly, in all these cases, not a single Police officer has been arrested for alleged crimes in year 2017.

15 custodial deaths 

A total of 15 custodial deaths were registered against Police personnel for torturing or inflicting injuries on accused or under trials, who were either in remand or were only detained in 2017. Judicial/Magisterial inquiries were ordered in four such cases in which Maharashtra ranked second after Andhra Pradesh. 
Of these deaths, seven cases were suicides, three were deaths due to illness or deaths in hospitals during treatment, one due to injuries sustained during Police custody to physical assault by Police, two due to accident during journey connected with investigation and two due to other reasons. 
And interestingly, only seven cops have been arrested for custodial deaths of these 15 persons. However, there has been no single conviction in any of the cases.
On various occasions, the Police department opened fire, ordered lathi-charge and other stern measures. In all this, over 476 civilians have sustained injuries while nine have succumbed to death. In lathi-charge alone, at least 230 innocent persons have sustained injuries at the hands of the Police force and of these two have died.

133 accused escape Police custody 

A total of 133 accused persons managed to escape from Police custody in year 2017. Of them, 103 were re-arrested while 19 still continue to be at large. According to NCRB report, 18 escaped from Police lock-up and 115 from outside lock-up. A total of five Police personnel were booked and one was arrested for the professional lapse. .

Revenue Dept tops chart of corruption, Police ranks second 

In corruption cases reported in year 2017, State Revenue Department was the ‘most corrupt’ Government department in the State while State Police ranked second. According to statistics of ACB, a total of 207 officials of Revenue Department were arrested by ACB for demanding bribe and a total cash worth Rs 52,29,800 was seized from them. As many as 170 Police personnel were arrested on corruption charges and a total cash worth Rs 18,43,000 was recovered from them.

Higher ethical norms lead to more registration of Police crime

Even as the findings of the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) are likely to be construed by the common people as an indication of an inept and immoral Police Force, a deeper analysis of the situation leads to an invariable conclusion that the ethical standards and a good professional culture of the Force compels the topbrass to ensure that most Police crimes are registsred. 
As against this, as knowledgeable sources indicate, the Police topbrass in many other States are not as meticulous about high professional and ethical standards of rank and file of the Police Force. Over time, the Maharashgtra Police and the Home Department have insisted more and more about not letting go the wrongdoes from rank and file, a retired high-rank Police officer said. 
This remark was seconded by many officers who are currently in uniform. 
This remark also stands the scrutiny of time as the overall record of Maharashtra Police has remained near the top of all statistical and professioanl norms. ///  

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

IGP Prasanna : The man who stopped Obama’s convoy

By
IGP Mallikarjuna Prasanna By Dheeraj Fartode  Published on Feb/17/2019 NOT many are aware of an episode during the then US President Barack Obama’s visit to India in 2010. The world’s most powerful man was made to wait for 11 minutes in his car while an Indian cop took on American officials for their unwarranted interference in the US President’s security. KM Mallikarjuna Prasanna, Special Inspector General of Police of Nagpur Range, still continues to work with the same pride, wearing his patriotism on the sleeve. “Had they (Americans) deployed their personnel for area security, then the message would have been Indians are unable to protect VIPs in their nation,” recounted Prasanna on the episode that is one of the highlights of his distinguished career of a skillful investigator. The story of the IPS officer of 2000 batch is worth a film. In fact, a movie (Nagarjun-starrer ‘Officer’) has already been made by Ram Gopal Verma last year. His real life script als...
7 comments
Read more

Longest cable-stayed bridge to boost tourism at Ambhora

By
CONSTRUCTION work of 700-metre-long cable-stayed bridge, longest in the country, with a viewing gallery at the top at Ambhora in Kuhi tehsil is near completion. The bridge would be open for traffic in December this year providing a major boost to tourism at Shree Chaitanyeshwar Mahadev temple at Ambhora. It is set to open doors of development for the backward area of Kuhi and Umred tehsil. Ambhora, located 75 km from Nagpur city, is a famous religious and tourist place in Vidarbha. It is situated at the confluence of five rivers -- Wainganga, Kanhan, Aam, Kolari and Murza. Just around a decade ago the river bank housing Ambhora used to see a flux of tourists from all over the State. However, the banks were submerged in water after the construction of Gosikhurd dam which led to rise in water levels. Since then, tourist flow at Ambhora has also declined. However, now with the construction of the new bridge tourists will get a chance see the scenic backwaters across the river bed which is...
Post a Comment
Read more

Rs 1,18,046,99,18,073 !! Transaction of just one Dabba Trade accused

By
By Dheeraj Fartode  Rs 1,18,046,99,18,073... Yes-- One lakh eighteen thousand fourty six crore ninety nine lakh-- This is the extent of mind-boggling transaction by just one Dabba Trader unearthed by sleuths during their investigations. This shocking figure has been officially cited in an affidavit by the Economic Offences Wing (EoW) which stumbled upon this unbelievable figure after decoding the trading transactions of one Kanhaiya alias Kanni Thawrani.  The EoW investigation into multi-crore ‘Dabba’ trading scam has also revealed new sensational information disclosing huge turnover, unimaginable profit, hint about sources of black money and hawala racket, and ultimately huge loss to state exchequer. “Accused Kanni Thawrani has done a business of whopping Rs 1.18 lakh crore in last four years. And, another accused - Sachin Agrawal -- had done business of Rs 5,180 crore in only four months,” the investigating machinery stated in affidavit filed at Nagpur Bench of Bombay ...
1 comment
Read more