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Four youngsters sustained injuries as speeding car they were travelling in hit road-divider, took a 10-feet high jump into air, and turned turtle when overtaking bid by car driver went wrong near Mate Square on Saturday late night. The injured youngsters fled the spot leaving the damaged car behind. According to eye-witnesses, a Hyundai i-20 car (MH-40/KR-9002) was coming from Rana Pratap Nagar Square with speed exceeding 100 km/hr. The driver tried to overtake an Indica car. The driver tried to over-take Indica through a small gap between road-divider and Indica. However, during the risky move, the driver lost balance and hit road-divider. In panic, driver applied brakes immediately. As a result, the i-20 car jumped 10-feet high into air, turned turtle, and skid before coming to a stop at a distance of 50-feet from the spot where it had hit road-divider. Soon, residents of the area gathered at the spot. “We heard a loud bang,” said a resident. There were four y...

One had frequently heard the famous dialogue in our Bollywood films, “Kanun ke hath bahut lambe hote hain” (criminals can be tracked down from where ever they are hiding). From film script to see this thing happening in reality there was a long wait. Now criminals who were having an easy option of striking at will and then escaping to other states can soon be tracked down if they happen to trip and commit crime at other places. The Maharashtra Police is readying Crime and Criminal Tracking Network system (CCTNS), part of ambitious national criminal network. State has been chosen for implementation of pilot project and same is being supervised by State Crime Records Bureau (SCRB) stated its head, Spl. Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sanjay Verma. By April 2013 the database of criminals should be in place and work is on at war footing. About 1,033 police stations and 600 supervisory offices of State Police are to be brought under CCTNS loop and project was rolled out in Utt...

Prakash Pohare arrived in the court. Editor-in-chief of Marathi daily ‘Deshonnati’ Prakash Pohare was arrested by the crime branch of Nagpur Rural police on Tuesday morning from his Akola farmhouse. Cops then produced Pohare before court of Judicial Magistrate First Class, Kalmeshwar, where the court remanded him to two days police custody. The cops arrived at Kalmeshwar police station around at 2 pm. His close relatives including former MLAs Harshawardhan Deshmukh, Ashok Dhawad also arrived at Kalmeshwar police station. Cops then registered a entry of Pohare’s arrest in station diary and took him for medical check-up. Acting on a specific tip-off, a team of Crime branch led by PI Rajan Pali and PSI Arvind Saraf spotted Pohare at his Barshitakli road farmhouse. The team was chased by some well-wishers of Pohare and cops later resurfaced and surprised them by arresting him. According to police officers, Pohare was about to leave the place, but the special squad foiled his ...

Missing persons from Nagpur City Year   0-18    above 18 Total Traced 2010 247         471            718   358 2011 724        1623           2347  1926 2012 596        1267           1863  1311 Director General of Police (DGP), Maharashtra, Sanjeev Dayal, has asked the force to refashion their style of investigations in missing persons cases. Stopping short of pulling-up the field workers, the state police boss however has spoken his mind on treatment meted out to relatives of missing persons at police stations. Hence he has asked police officers to reorient their outlook in handling cases of missing persons. Sanjeev Dayal has issued a list of do’s and don’ts to the department as he tries to instill a sense of disciplined approach in dealing with frayed nerves of famil...

Deaths under jurisdiction of GRP, Nagpur 2009 1152 2010 1212 2011 1162 Deaths under jurisdiction of RPF, Nagpur Division 2009 250 2010 245 2011 365 Death dance continues unabated on railway tacks. As many as 665 passengers lost their lives in the past three years in Nagpur Division of Central Railway. Between 2009 and 2011 the casualties increased by 31.5 per cent, if the data compiled by Railway Protection Force (850 rail kms). Major reason for the deaths are travelling dangerously by standing on footsteps of bogies, trespassing (crossing tracks illegally) and throwing caution to wind at unmanned level crossings are major factors. The high level safety committee headed by senior scientist Dr Anil Kakodkar in his report has referred to 15,000 people dying on railway tracks every year because of trespassing alone. According to data by Government Railway Police (GRP), Nagpur Region (their area stretches from Gondia in East till Igatpuri in West...

Ashok Singhal Accusing the Uttar Pradesh government of conniving to capture the disputed temple land in Ayodhya, Vishva Hindutva Parishad Patron Ashok Singhal alleged on Monday that Samajwadi party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav wanted to acquire a land next to the 70-acre acquired land around Sri Rama Janma Bhumi. Saying that the SP chief had alleged "ganged up" with UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi towards this end, Singhal said all the Sants of the country were of the opinion nothing but a huge temple to Sri Ram Lala would be built on the 70 acres of land. He also said the construction of a mosque would not be allowed within the scriptural and cultural rim and perimeter of Ayodhya.  Singhal said: "It seems that Mulayam Singh Yadav wants to build a mosque and an Islamic Cultural Centre on the said plot of land (where an Ara/saw machine stands) adjoining the 70-acre acquired land of the Central Government. The Islamic forces are compelling him to do so. Singha...

A police posse stands guard at the spot  where a youth, Rohit Jain, was buried  by the goons at the slum. Sitabuldi police on Wednesday exhumed body of a businessman, Rohit Jain, who was allegedly murdered and then buried at Vasantrao Naik Slum. After last night violence that resulted in lynching of a goon by angry slum dwellers, the skeletons in cupboard of Sitabuldi police started tumbling down. As decomposed body of Jain, who was tortured to death, by Akram Sheikh and his accomplices, the rot in policing at Nagpur city also become stark clear. Not that police were not told about activities of Akram Sheikh but the residents allege their complaints were ignored. Instead police used to tip off Akram about complaints received against him. After last night violence the police were on defensive. Acting on information of slum dwellers alleged the police swung into action. From morning onwards the formalities were completed and Tehsildar informed as per procedure. S...