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DCP spits and assaults accused in custody

By Dheeraj Fartode Shocking allegations of misconduct have emerged against a police officer in Nagpur City Police. The officer is accused of abusive and degrading behaviour, particularly targeting accused in Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Sources claim that the senior officer arrives at the police station and calls the accused into a separate room, where the officer not only hurls abuse at the accused but also spits at their face. Later, the officer allegedly kicks the accused in the private parts. In some incidents, when a couple approached a police station in Nagpur to file a complaint following a domestic dispute, the police sent a proposal for preventive action to the officer. However, instead of handling the matter professionally, the officer allegedly made the man sit down, then kicked him in the private parts and leave him in pain and humiliation. The behaviour of the high ranked official have raised questions about the professionalism of law enforcemen...

Familicide : Man set himself afire along with wife and son in car

A man set himself afire along with wife and son in a moving car on Tuesday afternoon, reportedly due to  financial crisis. While the man was charred to death, his wife and son sustained serious burns in the familicide pact.  The incident took place near Khapri Punarvasan area under jurisdiction of Beltarodi police station area, said the officials who attended the spot. The deceased was identified as Ramraj Gopalkrishna Bhat (58), a resident of Jaitala. His wife Sangita (55) and son Nandan (30) have sustained around 50 per cent burn injuries. Ramraj was owner of a factory in the MIDC Hingna area and Nandan was an engineering graduate, according to police.  A police official said, it seems to well-planned murder-cum-suicide case. Ramraj was under sever financial  stress while Nandan too was unemployed. The worrisome financial situation led to regular arguments between the father and the son and the tension finally seems to have driven Ramraj to the ghastly idea, he sai...

‘Nai Talim’ taught me to become self-reliant’

Adv Prashant Kumar Sathianathan  IN THE year 1937, Mahatma Gandhi had introduced a revolutionary education concept ‘Nai Talim’ in India which was aimed to make every person self-reliant vis-à-vis villages. The education system was based on the principle that knowledge and work are not separate. Its resonance is now found in the New Education Policy (NEP) which has brought notable changes in education. City’s eminent lawyer Prashant Kumar Sathianathan is one of the pass-outs of ‘Nai Talim’ which made him passionately follow the idea of being a perfect professional. ‘The Hitavada’ spoke to him on the education system, its flexibility, and its utility in his legal career. Being a special public prosecutor for Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and Anti-Naxal Operations (ANO), Adv Sathianathan, during his career, has proved guilt of dreaded criminals, naxals and terrorists in the courts and put them behind bars. Naxal ideologue G N Saibaba was one of them. While representing the State in the c...