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Chandra Kishore Mina Awarded President’s Police Medal

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...

115 organisations attends hearing of OBC Commission for reservation in local bodies

Dr Babanrao Taywade submitting a memorandum to the Commission.  The hearing of Dedicated Commission for Reservation for Backward Class of Citizens in Local Bodies of Maharashtra on Saturday evoked good response as 115 delegations submitted their memorandum before the commission. The representatives from six districts of Vidarbha including Nagpur, Chandrapur, Wardha, Gadchiroli, Bhandara and Gondia attended the hearing. The representatives of the organisations launched heavy sloganeering in the premises to show their strength.  Chairman of the Dedicated Commission Former Chief Secretary of the State Jayant Kumar Banthia (Retired IAS), Member and Associate Professor of Tata Institute of Social Sciences Dr. Shailesh Kumar Darokar, Dr. Naresh Gite (Retired IAS), Former Principal Secretary Mahesh Jhagde (Retired IAS), former Principal Secretary H B Patel and Member Secretary of this Commission and Managing Director of Maharashtra Fisheries Development Corporation Pankaj Kumar (IAS)...

RSS HQ recce: JeM terrorist in Nagpur ATS custody

THE Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) Nagpur has got custody of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist from Jammu & Kashmir who had conducted recce of Dr Hedgewar Smriti Bhavan of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Reshimbag in July last year. Raees Ahmed Sheikh Asadulla Sheikh (26), a resident of Khati Mohalla, Chandara, Awantipora town of Pulwama district in J&K, is being thoroughly interrogated by the ATS since the last two days. During interrogation, Raees reportedly told the investigators that a person named Omar, who is operational commander of JeM’s Nawabpur (Pakistan)-based terrorist launching pad, was his handler. Raees came to Nagpur by a Delhi-Mumbai-Nagpur flight on July 13 and checked into a hotel in Sitabuldi area. The handler had assured Raees that a local man would contact and help him at Nagpur in the operation. However, Raees conducted the reconnaissance on his own as no person contacted him at Nagpur, according to sources. On July 14, Raees took an auto-rickshaw and...