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AI Joins the Force: Maharashtra Police Deploys ‘Crime-OS’ for Smarter Investigations

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...

Youth killed by girl’s family over affiar

Publsihed November 9, 2019

A 22-year-old veterinary student was murdered allegedly by the family of his girlfriend in Parseoni tehsil and dumped the body in jungle. The woman’s father and uncle have been arrested.
The deceased has been identified as Ashish Raghunath Kangali (22), a resident of Bachhera village of Parseoni tehsil while the accused involved in the murder are - Ramdas Mayaram Parteti (50) and Dilip Mayaram Parteti (45), both residents of Bachhera village.
The youth was pursuing diploma in veterinary medicine. He was in a relationship with a woman, whose husband was living in Nagpur while she was living with parents at Bachhera village. Her father was upset with the relationship and he reportedly told the youth to do not contact the girl. However, the youth and the woman had continued their relationship and were meeting everyday in the farm of the woman which just behind her house.
On October 31 at 6 pm, the youth had signaled the woman to come at the farm. But the father noticed him and he did not allowed her to went out from the house. As the woman had not came, the youth walked towards her home. After seeing Ashish, Ramdas abused and tried to caught him. The youth ran towards farms and fell after he entangled in the fencing of farm constructed for wild animals. Ramdas jumped over the youth and killed him by tying rope around his neck.
Soon after, Ramdas and Dilip took the body to jungle and hide in bushes. When Ashish did not return home, the family members launched searched for him and lodge a missing complaint with police.
On Friday morning, the police picked Ramdas for questioning. During interrogation he spilled the beans and confess for committing crime. He took the police to the spot in the jungle. The body was found decomposed and some were eaten by the wild animals. An offence under Section 302, 201 and 34 of Indian Penal Code was registered against the accused persons.
Under the guidance of Superintendent of Police (SP) Rakesh Ola, the arrest was made by Police Inspector Vilas Chavan, API Nilesh Gahane, PSIs Sandipan Ubade, Dhnyanoba Palnate and staff including Mudassar Jamal, Prafulla Jagande, Sandip Kadu, Umesh Thakre, Maniram Neware and others.

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