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
Commissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar The fresh surge of novel coronavirus cases has forced the government to enforce lockdown to break the chain of the ‘super-spreader’ virus. While the medicos are fighting to save the precious lives in the hospitals, the men in ‘khaki’ are guarding the streets round the clock for enforcement of the lockdown and stop the further spread of the virus. Commissioner of Police (CP) Amitesh Kumar has himself hit the streets and supervised the bandobast across the state. When ‘The Hitavada’ talked to the young and dynamic Police Commissioner, he was very much confident about containing the soaring graph of the virus and said that the cases would be decreased by the end of the April if people will help the police by staying at home. The CP also warned that any misadventure of people like unnecessarily roaming on the streets would be dealt firmly and they will liable for legal action. In a freewheeling chat, CP Amitesh Kumar shared his plans and experiences of