Skip to main content

Major reshuffle expected in Maharashtra Police leadership

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 ...

Police seizes 1,555 kg of Ganja, arrest two


Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of Nagpur Police seized a whopping 1,555 kg of Ganja (Marijuana) hiding under fertilizer bags in a truck and arrested two persons in this connection. The seizure was made from a truck by the police while acting on a tip-off, police said. The driver and the cleaner of the truck were taken into custody, and a case was registered. 

The accused have been identified as driver Someshwarrao alias Bujji Kotipillam (50), a resident of Rahulpallam, tehsil - Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh and cleaner Balemananaji alias Nani Paidaykapu Balema (25), a resident of Vaigamyapuram, District - Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh. 

On Monday night, the police got information that a truck bearing the number (AP-16/AT-7349) had left Orissa with ganja. The truck was going to Beed via Nagpur. In-charge of ANC Police Inspector Manoj Sidam and in-charge of Social Security Branch (SSB) Shubhangi Deshmukh started to draw a plan. The information was that the truck would come to Nagpur from Chhattisgarh via Bhandara. 

As a result, the police laid a trap near Jai Bhole Dhaba in Kapsi. The truck was to reach Nagpur on Tuesday evening, but a tyre of the truck got punctured on the route. The driver fell asleep after rectifying the puncture. Still, the police remained on alert mode on the highway.

On Wednesday morning, the police spotted the truck and stopped it. On questioning the driver, he said that the truck was loaded with sacks of agricultural fertilizers. The police summoned a dog squad. As soon as dog Surya, who recently joined the City Police, signalled to the police, the goods of the truck were unloaded with the help of labourers. The sacks of Marijuana were found under the sacks of fertilizers. The cops immediately seized the Ganja worth Rs 2.33 crore and fertilizers worth Rs 49,400/- and the truck. 

A police official said that the truck driver revealed the names of Ambadas Raghu Janje and Subhash Tukaram Pandule, both residents of Ashti town of Beed district as receiver of the Ganja. On the instructions of Nagpur police, the Beed police arrested Ambadas and Subhash before they could get the news of the seizure of Ganja. A police team has left to bring them to Nagpur.

Under the guidance of CP Amitesh Kumar, Addl SP Navinchandra Reddy, DCP Detection Dr. Sandip Pakhale, the arrest was made by PI Manoj Sidam, WPI Shubhangi Deshmukh, PSI Balram Zadokar and others. 

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

IGP Prasanna : The man who stopped Obama’s convoy

IGP Mallikarjuna Prasanna By Dheeraj Fartode  Published on Feb/17/2019 NOT many are aware of an episode during the then US President Barack Obama’s visit to India in 2010. The world’s most powerful man was made to wait for 11 minutes in his car while an Indian cop took on American officials for their unwarranted interference in the US President’s security. KM Mallikarjuna Prasanna, Special Inspector General of Police of Nagpur Range, still continues to work with the same pride, wearing his patriotism on the sleeve. “Had they (Americans) deployed their personnel for area security, then the message would have been Indians are unable to protect VIPs in their nation,” recounted Prasanna on the episode that is one of the highlights of his distinguished career of a skillful investigator. The story of the IPS officer of 2000 batch is worth a film. In fact, a movie (Nagarjun-starrer ‘Officer’) has already been made by Ram Gopal Verma last year. His real life script als...

Longest cable-stayed bridge to boost tourism at Ambhora

CONSTRUCTION work of 700-metre-long cable-stayed bridge, longest in the country, with a viewing gallery at the top at Ambhora in Kuhi tehsil is near completion. The bridge would be open for traffic in December this year providing a major boost to tourism at Shree Chaitanyeshwar Mahadev temple at Ambhora. It is set to open doors of development for the backward area of Kuhi and Umred tehsil. Ambhora, located 75 km from Nagpur city, is a famous religious and tourist place in Vidarbha. It is situated at the confluence of five rivers -- Wainganga, Kanhan, Aam, Kolari and Murza. Just around a decade ago the river bank housing Ambhora used to see a flux of tourists from all over the State. However, the banks were submerged in water after the construction of Gosikhurd dam which led to rise in water levels. Since then, tourist flow at Ambhora has also declined. However, now with the construction of the new bridge tourists will get a chance see the scenic backwaters across the river bed which is...

Rs 1,18,046,99,18,073 !! Transaction of just one Dabba Trade accused

By Dheeraj Fartode  Rs 1,18,046,99,18,073... Yes-- One lakh eighteen thousand fourty six crore ninety nine lakh-- This is the extent of mind-boggling transaction by just one Dabba Trader unearthed by sleuths during their investigations. This shocking figure has been officially cited in an affidavit by the Economic Offences Wing (EoW) which stumbled upon this unbelievable figure after decoding the trading transactions of one Kanhaiya alias Kanni Thawrani.  The EoW investigation into multi-crore ‘Dabba’ trading scam has also revealed new sensational information disclosing huge turnover, unimaginable profit, hint about sources of black money and hawala racket, and ultimately huge loss to state exchequer. “Accused Kanni Thawrani has done a business of whopping Rs 1.18 lakh crore in last four years. And, another accused - Sachin Agrawal -- had done business of Rs 5,180 crore in only four months,” the investigating machinery stated in affidavit filed at Nagpur Bench of Bombay ...