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Three youths planning to join IS nabbed in Nagpur

Arrested youths Hasan Farooq and Abdullah Basith are third year B.Tech students while Sayyed Omar is in B Sc final year The youths arrived in Nagpur from Hyderabad by road to catch a flight to Srinagar but were nabbed by the ATS Nagpur and Telangana Police The youths were directly taken to Hyderabad from Nagpur airport The IS recruiters were planning to take them to Syria via Pakistan-Afghanistan By Dheeraj Fartode THREE radicalised youths from Hyderabd aspiring to join dreaded terror outfit Islamic State (IS) were nabbed in a joint operation by Anti-Terrorism Squad of Maharashtra and Telangana Police at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport, here, while trying to board a Srinagar-bound flight in the wee hours of Saturday. A team of Telangana Police took the three youths to Hyderabad to interrogate them to ascertain their links with terrorist organisations. The youths are identified as Hasan Farooq Aiaz Wasim (21), a resident of Flat No 202, Muskan Hayat A...

City witnessed highest number of morchas

------------------------ Year Morchas ------------------------ 2005 86 2006 53 2007 53 2008 77 2009 81 2010 95 2011 83 2012 91 2013 101 2014 95 2015 123 ---------------------- By Dheeraj Fartode The winter session of Maharashtra Legislature held in city this year witnessed highest number of morchas. About 123 different organisations marched to Vidhan Bhavan to press for their various demands. After Gowari stampede in 1994, casualties during the morcha were witnessed this year only. A farmer and a youngster lost their lives during the course of morchas. Beside an underlying feature this year was that organisation taking out morchas were more vocal and desperate and put pressure on the policemen deployed on bandobast leading to use of force. The police were required to use force twice during this year winter session, leading to injuries. The morchas of Maha...

Going back to basic policing is Dixit’s main concern

By Dheeraj Fartode Going to the basics of policing is the core principle of Pravin Dixit, the soft-spoken Director General of Police of Maharashtra. He does not raise his voice, not even his eye-brows, but speaks with a firmness that suits his position so well. The authenticity in his words makes all the difference. As is his wont, DGP Pravin Dixit wishes to go to the basics of various issues of policing -- from recording of First Information Report (FIR) to combating Naxalism. Over the years, he has evolved a novel approach to the issue of offering security to the citizens whose help he seeks in policing. Police force cannot act as an island in this vast society and it has to act in tandem with the larger society, he suggests through various statements during an exclusive interview with ‘The Hitavada’. Talking to him is not just pleasure, but also a great learning of many human values, modesty being the most critical. He carries no airs, but talks with a firmness that defies ...

1.5 lakh 'Police Mitra' for pro-people policing

1.5 lakh Police Mitra joins hands of Maharashtra Police Police Mitra will be use for intelligence gathering in urban areas Many cases solved with help of Police Mitra CommissioneratePolice Mitra Mumbai 6484 Thane 6420 Navi Mumbai 2162 Pune Nashik 5510 Solapur 1914 Aurangabad 1410 Nagpur 1201 By Dheeraj Fartode The scheme of ‘Police Mitra’ holds the potential to change the policing in State and bridge the widening gap between citizens and the men in khaki. Across the State the policemen have enrolled 1.5 lakh citizens as Police Mitra till date. The number is equal to current size of uniformed men in the police department. Police Mitra The programme, a brain child of Director General of Police (DGP) Praveen Dixit, hopes to win back support of man on the street. With citizens closely involved with police, the web of suspicion that always befell the policemen can be resolved and also help overcome the reservation ...

Mystery deepens over death of Adv Khandalkar

The lawyer was alive for 2.35 hours and died on Sunday at 7 pm, claims police giving a new twist to entire case Probe handed over to Crime Branch Relatives suspect foul play in suspicious death By Dheeraj Fartode Mystery deepened over suspicious death of Adv Shrikant Khandalkar as Sadar Police on Monday made a sensational disclosure that Adv Khandalkar was alive at 4.35 pm when the body was first discovered by the cops. He was alive but unconscious for two hours and 25 minutes, the police said. The medical treatment was offered to him, but he succumbed to injuries at 7 pm. This revealation has shattered all previous theories about suicide or homicide and about the timing of his death and gave a new twist to ongoing investigation. It was believed that his dead body was lying in garbage in the backside of Nyay Mandir and perhaps the death occured on Saturday evening. But, if police release is to be believed, Khandalkar was alive when his badly mangled...

Lawyer found dead at Nyay Mandir under mysterious circumstances

Suicide note dated Nov 18 found from Adv Khandalkar’s shirt Family, friends confirm that he was under depression Cops to probe homicidal angle Post martem report likely today CM directs top brass to personally supervise probe DBA demands CCTV surveillance, better security at Nyay Mandir By Dheeraj Fartode Sensation prevailed in legal fraternity after a badly mangled body of a prominent lawyer Adv Shrikant Khandalkar was found inside Nyay Mandir premises on Sunday afternoon. The discovery of dead body on back side of District Court building Civil Lines under the jurisdiction of Sadar Police Station raised a serious question-mark over security of the building and after initial confusion about cause of death, it became clear by Sunday night that Adv Khandalkar abruptly ended his life by jumping from Nyay Mandir. The cops discovered a suicide note dated November 18 from his person and his elder brother confirmed the handwriting and...

Srivastava's report one sided, Collector not to write ACRs of Superintendent of Police: DGP

By Dheeraj Fartode Maharashtra's Director General of Police (DGP) Pravin Dixit has rejected the report into the spat between Collector and Superintendent of Police in Bhandara, that had stirred hornet’s nest among the Indian Police Service (IPS) cadre in State. Principal Secretary (Revenue) Manu Kumar Srivastava was appointed by State Government to probe the matter and he had submitted the report to Government and made certain recommendations. One of the recommendation which Srivastava made was to delegated powers of writing annual confidential records (ACRs) of SP's to District Collector. This particular recommendation had the IPS cadre seething with anger as they claimed it an unwarranted intrusion on their powers. DGP Pravin Dixit DGP Dixit when contacted by The Hitavada to ascertain his views said he had read the report and found it to be totally one sided. Further he disclosed that the particular recommendation about ACR was also summarily rejected. Dixit said ...