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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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Most suicides in India were by hanging

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HANGING was the most favourite mode adopted by suicide victims in India as 51.5 per cent victims ended their lives by hanging themselves. More suicide victims are leaning towards this mode as such cases increased by 0.7 per cent in year 2018 as against 49.8 per cent in 2017. 
The shocking revelation came to fore in data released by National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) for year 2018. According to statistics, Indians are adopting hanging, poisoning, jumping methods more for suicide which are easily available and effective mode of suicide than painful means such as self-inflicted injuries. 
A total of 26.7 per cent persons had committed suicide by consuming poison in year 2018 as against 27.5 per cent in 2017. It showing declined trend among the Indians. As many as 4.9 per cent victims adopted drowning as mode of suicide while 4.4 per cent adopted self immolation and jumping by 1.9  per cent victims. 
The number of male victims were more than females in all means of suicide except those who committed suicides by self immolation where share of female victims was more - 3,809 out of 5,950.
A total of 53 mega cities having population more than 10 lakh or more show an increasing trend of suicide during 2015 to 2018. It increased by 6.2 per cent (from 19,665 in 2015 to 20,879 in 2016) and increased by 1.8 per cent (from 20,879 in 2016 to 21,240 in 2017). It increased by 0.8 per cent (from 21,240 in 2017 to 21,408 in 2018).
A total of 64 cases of mass or family suicides were registered during the year 2018. In these 64 cases of mass or family suicides, a total of 173 persons, comprising of 119 married persons and 54 unmarried persons, have committed suicides during 2018. Maximum cases of mass or family suicides were reported Tamil Nadu (15 cases) followed by Andhra Pradesh (11 cases), Madhya Pradesh (9), Punjab and  Rajasthan (6 cases each) and Kerala (5 cases) during 2017. A total 35 persons in Tamil Nadu, 26 persons in Andhra Pradesh, 24 persons in Kerala and 22 persons in Uttarakhand have committed mass or family suicides during 2018.

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