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Indian railway train in naxal affected area  Chief Security Commandant of Central Railway and Inspector General of Railway Protection Force (RPF) Anil Sharma assured train passengers about their safety from naxal menace. “Despite of several major naxal attack on police in naxal affected area, Indian railway is safe from the naxals,” said Sharma. IG Sharma was on special visit of Nagpur division of central railway on Thursday. He supervised security arrangements at Nagpur station and then went to Chandrapur station on Thursday evening. The IG have asked RPF officers to improve security arrangement at Chandrapur, Ballarshaha stations, which are comes under Naxal affected area. Talking with newspersons at Nagpur railway station, IG Sharma said that RPF is very vigilant about safety of passengers. “Intelligence unit of RPF continuously coordinating with Intelligence Bureau (IB) and state police about information of naxals,” said the IG. Replying a question about vacancies i...

Commissioner of Police K K Pathak addressing a press conference while Joint CP Sanjay Saxena, DCP (crime) Sunil Kolhe, PI (Crime) Madhav Giri and staff looks on.  Sleuths of crime branch with dreaded goon Raja Ghous.  By Dheeraj Fartode Commissioner of police (CP) K K Pathak on Wednesday announced that notorious shooter and arms dealer Ghous Ali Raja Waris Ali and his accomplices will be booked under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). “Serious offences like dacoity, attempt to murder were registered against Raja Ghous and his nine associates. City police is fully prepared to book the gang under MCOCA.” City police had nabbed Raja Ghous from Gola Gokarannath town of Lakhimpur Kheri district in Uttar Pradesh on Monday night. Briefing mediapersons at his office, the top cop said that offences were registered against Ghous in Ajni, Sakkardara, Nandanvan, Sitabuldi and Rana Pratap Nagar police stations. Ghous went into hiding and escaped to Madhya Pra...

Detained 12791 Secundarabad-Patna Express at platform no 1 of Nagpur railway station. As the passengers got irate over malfunctioning of Air Conditioner of AC coach of train, 12791 Secundarabad-Patna Express was detained at Nagpur Railway Station for around 2 hours on Wednesday.Divisional officers of Central Railway assured the passengers to repair the fault in running train, but the passengers were not in position to hear urge of the officers and created scene at the railway station. AC of B1 coach of the train was malfunctioning from source station and passengers were demanded repair of AC at every station. However, railway officers of other divisions only assured the passengers that the fault will be repaired at next station. The train arrived at Sewagram station at 6 pm. As the train started journey, the passenger pulled the chain. Sources said that the train was detained for 38 minutes at Sewagram station.  After reaching at Nagpur station at 8.55 pm, staff of electrical depa...

Pantograph of train (file pic) By Dheeraj Fartode Train movement on Mumbai-Howrah and Chennai-Delhi route thrown out of gear after a pentograph of 12592 Banglore-Gorakhpur Express got damaged on Tuesday evening. Following the incident, five superfast trains were controlled at various railway stations four around two hours.  A railway officer said that a pentograph of the train, which is an apparatus mounted on the roof of an electric train to collect power through contact with an overhead equipment, got damaged at around 5 pm, when the train was running between Sindhi-Borkhedi stations. As electric supply for the train was stopped, loco pilot of the train relayed the information to operating control room of central railway, Nagpur Division. Operating control swung into action and directed all running trains on down line to stop at respective stations. Team of electrical department rushed to the spot and started operation. The railway officer said that the engineers repaire...

Raja Ghous alias Ghous Ali  City Police and Uttar Pradesh cops nabbed Ghous wanted for dacoity, loot and many violent crimes across Maharashtra and MP and his arrest is considered as a major success by cops By Dheeraj Fartode Notorious shooter and arms dealer Raja Ghous alias Ghous Ali was nabbed by joint team of Nagpur and Uttar Pradesh police before he could cross Indo-Nepal border from Gola Gokaran Nath town of Lakhimpur Kheri district on Monday night, a senior police officer of city police confirmed. Uttar Pradesh Police team fully extended logistical support to Nagpur Police and deployed their own armed personnel to nab Ghous. Now, crime branch sleuths are searching for Satyendra Gupta, another hard-core criminal and a close accomplice of Ghous, involved in several dacoity and violent crimes. Gupta, considered more dangerous than Ghous, is also hiding somewhere in Uttar Pradesh and is wanted in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh police. According to sources, many rela...

DCP Sanjay Darade inspecting the murder spot at Babulban. By Dheeraj Fartode A mother bid to save his son went in vain as assailants murdered the history sheeter in full public view at Babulban area of Lakadganj police station on Sunday afternoon. The assailants who numbered around seven said they had come to resolve a dispute that Atish alias Balya Haribhau Meshram (26) had with Nitesh Jadhav whose driver was yesterday assaulted. However the moment Balya stepped out of house, the seven laced with knives and swords pounced on him and felled him to ground. Hearing the screams, Balya’s mother rushed to door sensing the worst. She was aided by her other son and two tried to defend the history sheeter who was outnumbered as well as taken by surprise. The gang of killers it seems determined to finish their business and pushed aside Meshram mother-son duo and right in front of their eyes murdered Balya. The incident occurred near Sugat Buddha Vihar around 3 pm. The attackers we...

Ex-Vidarbha player, two bookies arrested By Dheeraj Fartode THE sleepy city of Nagpur again shot into big league but for all the wrong reasons. The widening probe into IPL spot-fixing scandal saw Delhi Police swooping down on three city bookies, including one former Vidarbha player. The trio were netted from Aurangabad and police said, the three were having crucial link in the scandal. One more former Vidarbha Ranji player, who now represents Indian Railways, was also named by the police and said he was absconding. The three were identified as Manish Guddewar (32), a former player of Vidarbha, and bookies Sunil Bhatia (44), a resident of Kadbi Square, and Kiran Dole (42), a resident of Raj Nagar. The trio were picked up from Aurangabad in an early morning raid. Guddewar had shifted to Faridabad and practiced with Ajit Chandila, who was arrested along with S Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan on spot-fixing charges. He was with Chandila in the Air India team before 2000...