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Kunal Raut is Gen Secy of State Youth Congress By Dheeraj Fartode FIVE youths from city were arrested by Hoshangabad police for assaulting two forest officials and a toll booth employee. Those arrested include Kunal Raut, son of Employment Guarantee Scheme Minister of Maharashtra, Dr Nitin Raut. According to police, on Wednesday, five youths - Kunal Nitin Raut (23), Sanmeet Surjeet Singh Joli (22), Antar Preet Narendra Singh Gotra (23), Swapneel Neelendra Telang (23), and Shoyab Rauf Fariq (23) - travelling in a jeep, assaulted a toll tax check post staffer at Matkuli near Pipariya. They also attacked two forest officials who tried to intervene in the matter. Kunal Raut “Accused assaulted and injured Bablu Rajawat, a toll tax employee and also attacked two forest officials who were engaged in some work near the check post,” said Pipariya police. The accused were arrested and offence under Sections 294, 323, 506, 353, 337 of Indian Penal Code has been registered a...

                                                        DGP Sanjeev Dayal By Dheeraj Fartode  Director General of Police (DGP) Sanjeev Dayal has directed all the unit commanders of state to relieve all the transferred police personnel within next 48 hours. Many officers who were transferred from their posting during general transfers 2013, had somehow evaded to join the new posting and were trying to stay at the present location. “Monthly salary of these officers will be held up, if they do not report at their new postings,” said the DGP. However, Commissioner of Police K K Pathak said that he would talk with DGP Dayal on the issue as it would not be possible for Nagpur Commissionerate to relive our officers without getting their replacement. As per the data procured from Nagpur Commissionerate, 12 Police Inspectors, nine Assistant P...

The criminals posing as courier boys barged inside house snatched gold ornaments worth Rs 5.48  lakh from 81-year old women  By Dheeraj Fartode In a daring day-light robbery raising big question-mark over efficiency of Nagpur Police, three armed robbers struck at the house of former Director General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) T G L Iyer (IPS officer of 1952 batch) at Verma lay-out under the jurisdiction of Ambazari police station on Friday and walked away with booty worth Rs 5.48 lakh. The incident again brought to fore much neglected issue of safety of senior citizens and how criminals are becoming emboldened with every passing day. One of the robber, who posed himself as courier boy entered the house of T G L Iyer (Presently working as Director, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Nagpur Kendra with great distinction), situated at plot  no 103-A, Verma lay-out and forcefully and snatched away gold ornaments from the Managala Iyer (81 years), wife of I...

Accused along with police. By Dheeraj Fartode A fast-track court on Thursday awarded death sentence to two dreaded criminals after holding them guilty of committing rape and murder of a 19-year old girl at Lonara village of Kalmeshwar taluka in 2005. District Judge V P Ingle convicted Rakesh Manohar Kamble (31), a resident of Babulkheda, Ajni and Amarshingh Kishansingh Thakur (30), a resident of Bajrang Nagar, Babulkheda and awarded death sentence after finding them guilty of rape and murder of Kanchan Shyamrao Meshram, a resident of Lonara in full public view on wee hours of December 18, 2005. The court also sentenced them to 10 years’ imprisonment for outraging modesty, 10 years’ imprisonment for kidnapping and abducting the girl and five years’ imprisonment for criminal intimidation. According the prosecution, the accused entered the house of the deceased in Lonara village and tried to abduct her when she was inside her parental home. Fearing for safety, the girl fled from t...

Chain snatching Chain Snatching  January 18 February 13 March 12 April 15 May  29 Total      87 There is sudden spurt in chain snatching incidents and emboldened criminals are now targetting elderly woman  By Dheeraj Fartode Despite heavy deployment of police personnel on city roads using new vehicles and mobikes, the chain snatching incidents have actually doubled in the month of May. This sudden spurt in chain snatching incidents has also worried city police brass as the data compiled by them shows a dangerous trend of doubling of chain snatching incidents wherein some elderly women was even slapped by the the attackers. For the first four months of 2013, every alternate day, there was at least one chain snatching case was registered while in May on practically every day, the chain snatchers had a field day. Some even snatched chain of a woman sitting inside the car. City police brass is facing a peculiar di...

The accused being taken to Central Jail by the cops.  By Dheeraj Fartode A fast-track court on Thursday awarded double lifer to three persons and two for life after holding them guilty of a gruesome murder of a youth. Other two accused including a woman was sentenced for seven years of imprisonment. Ad-hoc Additional Sessions Judge P P Pande convicted Giri Ashok Dasarwar (24), a resident of 222, Vyankatesh Nagar, Nandanvan; Jagdish Vitthal Bhosurkar (28), a resident of Garoba Maidan; Rahul Raju Kalamkar (24), a worker at Snooker parlour and a resident of plot no 265, Ganesh Nagar; Amol Krishna Lanjewar (19), a resident of Nehru nagar; Palash Sanjay Suryawanshi (18), a resident of Garoba Maidan to life imprisonment after finding them guilty of murdering Dinesh Prabhakar Bukkawan (29), a resident of Bhandara, who had gone missing and later his dead body was discovered in a plastic drum at home of Dasarwar at Vyankatesh Nagar after 37 days in 2011. The court also sentenced Man...

Naxal leader Shridhar and Vernon coming out of court after being convicted on Tuesday.  By Dheeraj Fartode In a major victory for Maharashtra Police, two hard-core naxal sympathisers- Vernon Stanlase Gonsalves alias Vikram and Shridhar Srinivasan Krishnan Shriwasan alias Vishnu- portrayed as mere dissenting intellectuals by human rights activists, were held guilty under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and sentenced by District Court on various counts including supporting unlawful organisation, carrying out unlawful activities. This is for the first time that two top rank Naxalites have been convicted under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, notwithstanding a massive propoganda unleashed by various NGOs and frontal organisations charging Maharashtra Police with falsely implicating them. Both the hard-core naxalites were charged under sections 120 (B), 121 (A) of IPC, 3, 35 of Arms act, 6, 9 (B) of Indian Explosives act and sections 10, 13, 16, 17, 18, 20, 23 of Unla...