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
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 Lakshmibai, wife Vijaya (40), son Sahil (9) and daughter Pari (14).
Agrawal family murder-cum-suicide case
A 40-year-old man had killed his wife and two minor children by stabbing them and then committed suicide at his rented house in Jaripatka on January 18 this year. The man, identified by the police as Madan Agrawal, and his wife Kiran (33) were staying in the house in the Jaripatka area with their 10-year-old son and daughter aged five.
Man kills wife and daughter
Within two months, one more such case reported in MIDC area on March 12 in which a man killed his wife and 13-year-old daughter before committing suicide in Rajiv Nagar area of MIDC police station. Vilas Gavte (50) had allegedly slit the throat of his daughter Amruta and wife Ranjana (45) before hanging himself from a tree outside his house.
In all these four cases, one thing was common -- the perpetrator committed suicide after committing the murders. The police have got some conclusions in the cases on the basis of statements of relatives and mobile phone data. Every case is unique and has a different story and reasons. But some reasons are common in some cases. In three cases - Rane family, Agrawal family and Maturkar family -- the perpetrator had not shared his family disputes with anyone.
Barring Rane family case, the accused had killed their family members by slitting their throats with a sharp-weapon when they were sleeping. In the Rane family case, the accused woman had administered anesthesia to his husband and children.
The police investigation revealed that an extra-marital affair was the reason in the first two cases while financial debt was the reason in the third one. In the four cases, the cops are suspecting short tempered behavior as the reason behind gruesome murders.
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