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Strong police bandobast of around 3,000 police personnel including two companies of State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) would be deployed on the occasion of Holi and Shab-e-Barat on Thursday and Friday. The focus of the police would be on preventing unruly activities, including applying colours forcibly, indecent behaviour with women and illegal consumption of liquor. Commissioner of Police (CP) Amitesh Kumar said that the police deployment would start from Thursday morning. As many as 90 checking points have been identified by the police for fixed police deployment. A total of 10 Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCP) rank officers, 10 Assistant Commissioners of Police (ACPs), 40 Police Inspectors, 208 APIs/PSIs, 1843 police personnel, 190 women police personnel, two companies of State Reserve Police Force, special teams of Crime Branch and Special Branch (SB) will be deployed during the two-day long bandobast, he said. “Damini squad will be deployed for the safety of women and to keep ch...

Familicides cases in which husband or wife murders their partner and children was the rare phenomenon in Nagpur city. Sadly, such cases are on rise in the past two years as a whopping 21 persons of four families have lost their lives. Medico woman kills hubby and children The first such incident reported in recent years was on August 19, 2020. Dr Shushma Rane had killed her husband Dhiraj (42), a professor at an engineering college, and their children aged 11 and five at their home in Om Nagar in Koradi area. The bodies of the three were found in the bedroom while Sushma was found hanging from a ceiling fan. Man murders five including children Second such sensational incident reported after almost a year on June 21, 2021 when a 50-year-old man killed his wife, daughter, son, mother-in-law and sister-in-law before dying by suicide. The incident was happened in Pachpaoli area of the Tehsil police station. Alok Maturkar had killed his 30-year-old sister-in-law Amisha, mother-in-law Lakshm...

ALARMED by the big number of deaths in road accidents in 2021 in rural region of the district, Nagpur Rural Police are leaving no stone unturned to mitigate the fatality rate. Making safety measures stringent for two-wheeler riders in the district, the Nagpur Rural Police have made it mandatory for riders to wear helmets. Police action against helmet-less riders is in full swing in the rural areas this year. As against 843 riders getting fined for not wearing helmet in entire 2021, the police have fined 900 riders in just two months of 2022. It may be mentioned here that 466 persons were killed in road accidents reported in Nagpur district last year. Of them, 176 deceased persons (37.78 per cent) were two-wheeler riders; 85 were pedestrians (18 per cent) and 110 were car or taxi drivers/occupants (23 per cent). A large number of victims were not wearing helmet during the time of mishap, police said. Police Inspector (Traffic) Vijay Mahulkar said that road accidents could be prevented w...

SP GRP M Raj Kumar Retrieving cellphones stolen from running trains is one of the most difficult tasks for the police as either the thief or the victim covers a distance of hundreds of kilometres before the incident comes to fore. However, the Government Railway Police (GRP) Nagpur seems to have managed to find a solution to the arduous task. Continuous tracking of the gadgets and regular follow up of the cases is helping the railway police to double the detection rate in cellphone theft cases, within a year. Moreover, tracking the device, the GRP personnel went up to Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Visakhapatnam to nab thief. According to statistics of GRP Nagpur, the detection rate was just 14 per cent as out of reported 350 cases, just 48 cases of cellphone thefts were solved in 2020. After taking reins of GRP Nagpur, Superintendent of Police M Raj Kumar came out with a Standard Operating Procedure (SoP) and ordered the police personnel to investigate cellphone missing/ theft ca...