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 ...
Unidentified thieves decamped with Rs 10 lakh cash after breaking open an unguarded Automated Teller Machine (ATM) of Bank of India (BOI) using a gas cutter at Dhapewada village in Kalmeshwar tehsil, said Saoner police.
The police are suspecting involvement of around two-three people in the crime. Police Inspector Ashok Koli of Soner police station said that they received an information about the theft in ATM on Sunday morning.
The crime took place in intervening night of Saturday and Sunday. The thieves came at ATM and broke open it by using a gas cutter. As there was no guard at the ATM kiosk at the time of the incident, it was so easy for thieves to committ the crime.
The thieves walked away with Rs 10 lakh cash from the ATM, the police said.
The police have seized Digital Video Recorder (DVR) from the spot to ascertain the sequence of events and identify the accused by using CCTV footage.
A large number of villagers were gathered at the spot after the news of theft in the ATM spread in the area. The police are suspecting involvement of inter-state gangs as two such cases recently reported in neighbouring Bhandara and Wardha districts. In Bhandara ATM theft case, the thieves stolen Rs 10 lakh.
An offence under Sections 457 and 380 of Indian Penal Code was registered by Saoner police. A team of Local Crime Branch (LCB) of Rural police also visited crime spot.
It may be mentioned here that a gang of ATM thieves was busted by Rural police in March this year. The gang had committed ATM robberies in Nagpur Rural, City and Wardha district.
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