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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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Woman RTO official arrested in learning license scam

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Published on November 5, 2019

Economic Offence Wing (EoW) on Monday arrested a Woman Assistant Motor Vehicle Inspector (WAMVI) in connection with learning license scam. 
The accused WAMVI was identified as Sanjivani Chopde. Senior Police Inspector (EoW) Hemantkumar Kharabe informed The Hitavada that the EoW obtained two-days police custody of the accused officer for custodial interrogation. 
He further said that RTO had set up an e-system to issue licenses. User id and password of the system was given to the touts by the RTO officials. The touts had issued hundreds of the licenses by accessing the system in connivance with the RTO officials. The touts were charging more than Rs 1,000 for each learning license and transferring a part of it to the RTO officials, PI Kharabe said.
First Investigation Report (FIR) was registered at Sitabuldi police station on the basis of complain lodged by RTO, Nagpur on September 27. The scam came to fore in year November last year after which PI Vijay Kare of Cyber Cell of City Police had conducted an investigation into the scam. He submitted a report to State Transport Commissioner. An offence under Sections 419, 420, 465, 468, 471 of Indian Penal Code was registered by the police. 
The accused were identified as Assistant Motor Vehicle Inspectors (AMVIs) Abhijeet Khare, Shailesh Kopulla, Vilas Tengne, Sanjay Pallewad, Sanjivani Chopde, Mangesh Rathod, Mithun Dongre; Jr Clerk Dipali Bhoyar, the then System Administrator Pradip Lohgaonkar; Ashwini Sawarkar, Rajesh Deshmukh, Ashish Bhoyar, Arun Lanjewar, Umesh Dhiwdhonde, UTL employee Amol Pantawne, private internet subscriber of Orange Infocom Pvt Ltd and owner of Orange Infocom Pvt Ltd Jeram Jerome D'souza. 
The police have arrested Abhijeet Khare, Shailesh Kopulla, Vilas Thengne, Sanjay Pallewad, Mangesh Rathod and Mithun Dongre so far. “Remaining accused will be arrested very soon,” said PI Kharabe. 

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