By Dheeraj Fartode Shocking allegations of misconduct have emerged against a police officer in Nagpur City Police. The officer is accused of abusive and degrading behaviour, particularly targeting accused in Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Sources claim that the senior officer arrives at the police station and calls the accused into a separate room, where the officer not only hurls abuse at the accused but also spits at their face. Later, the officer allegedly kicks the accused in the private parts. In some incidents, when a couple approached a police station in Nagpur to file a complaint following a domestic dispute, the police sent a proposal for preventive action to the officer. However, instead of handling the matter professionally, the officer allegedly made the man sit down, then kicked him in the private parts and leave him in pain and humiliation. The behaviour of the high ranked official have raised questions about the professionalism of law enforcemen...
EVEN as the city fights a pitched battle against novel coronavirus (Covid-19), it has recorded a positive news on another front. There is a drastic reduction in crime cases in the last two months. As against 134 crimes reported in last week of January, Nagpur witnessed just 39 crimes during the lockdown period of last week of March as the criminals are also scared of the deadly coronavirus.
Joint Commissioner of Police (Joint CP) Ravindra Kadam said that the substantial drop in the crime was result of stricter implementation of lockdown. “The criminals are not even daring to come out from the home as the police have blocked the movement of vehicles,” Kadam said.
Statistics of crime reported at Nagpur from January 24 to 31 and March 24 to 31 of Nagpur Police show huge drop in theft cases during lockdown period enforced by the government to contain spread of the virus.
Total crime dropped by 70.89 per cent during the lockdown as compared to January last week. As against 53 theft cases in January, the city reported just nine theft cases during the lockdown period. Similarly, burglary cases also reduced to six in March last week as against 11 cases in January last week. As against six robberies, the city reported just one robbery case during lockdown while cases of crime against women reduced to three from six.
Importantly, murder cases have not shown any sign of abatement with one case each reported in the last week of both months. However, not a single attempt to murder case was reported.
Other Indian Penal Code (IPC) crime cases also saw substantial drop, the data says. A total of 54 other IPC cases were reported in the last week of January while the city saw drop of 68.51 per cent by registering 54 cases after lockdown.
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