IGP Chandra Kishore Mina By Dheeraj Fartode Chandra Kishore Mina, an IPS officer of the 2006 batch, has been awarded the President’s Police Medal for Meritorious Service. Currently serving as Special Inspector General of Police (IGP) for the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), Mina has held several important positions in Nagpur and the Vidarbha region. While serving as ASP in Gadchiroli, Mina led a successful anti-Naxal operation in 2009, which resulted in the Petha encounter, weakening the Naxal movement. This operation earned him the DG Insignia. As SP in Akola and Nanded, Mina used innovative methods to maintain communal harmony and resolve tensions effectively. He uncovered a state-wide kidney transplant racket in Akola and, as DCP in Nagpur, dismantled organized crime syndicates through MCOCA and MPDA cases. In Nanded, Mina detected a recruitment scam that affected the entire state. His technological skills were evident when he implemented the court monitoring system in Akola. As DCP in M...
THE ‘permanent closure of prostitution in Ganga-Jamuna’ notification issued by Commissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar was challenged before the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court, on Tuesday. The court directed the writ petition to be registered as a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) and allowed the petitioner to make necessary amendments.
The petitioner Mukesh Shahu, through his counsels Adv Chandrashekhar Sakhare and Adv Priti Phadake, challenged the notification of Nagpur Police issued under Section 7(1) (b) of Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act (PITA). The notification declared various religious premises, schools and offices in the red-light area as ‘public places’ and banned prostitution within 200 metres of such places.
The petition said that the notification violated the fundamental rights guaranteed under Articles 14, 19 of the Constitution of India. The right to reside in the rooms of the notified areas is a fundamental right of the prostitutes/sex workers and they cannot be prevented from occupying their residence except in accordance of law, it added.
Further, merely because these women were in the prostitution trade, it did not deprive them of their right to life and liberty, prostitution per se, was not a criminal offence and it was only when a prostitute operated within the notified area, the offence was committed. Therefore, prostitutes can reside in the notified area and have a right to carry on their trade outside the notified area, the petitioner stated in the petition.
The petitioner prayed the HC to quash and set aside the notification issued by the CP and direct the respondents (Police/government) to permit the prostitutes of the notified area to move freely and without any restrain or constraint and desist the respondents from entering into their rooms of the prostitutes without their permission or warrant.
The division bench of Justice Sunil Shukre and Justice Anil Pansare directed registration of the petition as a PIL and placed the matter for further review on November 17.
The petitioner Mukesh Shahu, through his counsels Adv Chandrashekhar Sakhare and Adv Priti Phadake, challenged the notification of Nagpur Police issued under Section 7(1) (b) of Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act (PITA). The notification declared various religious premises, schools and offices in the red-light area as ‘public places’ and banned prostitution within 200 metres of such places.
The petition said that the notification violated the fundamental rights guaranteed under Articles 14, 19 of the Constitution of India. The right to reside in the rooms of the notified areas is a fundamental right of the prostitutes/sex workers and they cannot be prevented from occupying their residence except in accordance of law, it added.
Further, merely because these women were in the prostitution trade, it did not deprive them of their right to life and liberty, prostitution per se, was not a criminal offence and it was only when a prostitute operated within the notified area, the offence was committed. Therefore, prostitutes can reside in the notified area and have a right to carry on their trade outside the notified area, the petitioner stated in the petition.
The petitioner prayed the HC to quash and set aside the notification issued by the CP and direct the respondents (Police/government) to permit the prostitutes of the notified area to move freely and without any restrain or constraint and desist the respondents from entering into their rooms of the prostitutes without their permission or warrant.
The division bench of Justice Sunil Shukre and Justice Anil Pansare directed registration of the petition as a PIL and placed the matter for further review on November 17.
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