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City police starts exercise for total revamp of Commissionerate

City police to have new zone for upcoming police stations By Dheeraj Fartode A massive exercise to reorganise jurisdiction of Nagpur Police Commissionerate, including constitution of a new zone after addition of three police stations from Nagpur Rural Police, has been undertaken by the city police. Commissioner of Police (CP) Sharda Prasad Yadav has directed officers to study the crime scenario and suggest modalities for demarcation of zones so that an effective policing can be carried out in the Commissionerate. After studying the pros and cons final proposal will be put-up before Director General of Police (DGP) for approval from State Government, it is learnt. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP Detection) Ranjan Kumar Sharma told The Hitavada on Tuesday that the zones would reorganised after observing type of crime and population ratio. The three police stations -- Kamptee, Old Kamptee and Hingna, hitherto under Nagpur Rural Police, are now merged in the Nagpur Pol...

Sonegaon Police book liquor baron for evading VAT

By Dheeraj Fartode Sonegaon Police booked six directors of Vidarbha Bottlers Pvt Ltd for Value Added Tax (VAT) evasion worth Rs 17.49 crore. The firm deals in production of country liquor. The company duped Department of Sales Tax by showing nil liability for 2013-14 and 2014-15. On the contrary, the company was sold manufacture country liquor and earned profits. The accused are identified as Amrish Suresh Jaiswal, Sanju Suresh Jaiswal, Suresh Bhayyalal Jaiswal, all are residents of Chhaya Vila, 14-C, Dhantoli; Vaibhav Jaiswal, Vishal Jaiswal, Devilal Jaiswal, all are residents of Ram Nagar. A senior officer of Sonegaon police station informed that the company had showed decreasing sale in financial year 2011-12 and 2011-13 and nil since in year 2013-14 and 2014-15 in returns filed at the department. The fraud came to fore when the returns were cross checked by the department with State Excise Department. It can be mentioned that a Sub-Inspector level officer...

Nagpur police to set-up water bottling plant

All police stations, offices of senior officers and other branches to receive water from centralised plant that would have state of art technology to weed out impurities By Dheeraj Fartode Now, police to sell water in city! Sounds baffling, but the idea has taken shape and an Rs. 35 lakh bottling plant is in offing at office of Commissioner of Police. A water purification plant having capacity of 1.20 lakh litres per day is planned that will cater to requirement of commissionerate. The plan is to supply water to all police station, offices of senior officers and other units of city police through the central bottling plant. The Commisionerate has sent the proposal for approval to office of Director General of Police, Maharashtra. The idea is said to be brainchild of Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP Detection) Ranjan Kumar Sharma. DCP Sharma told The Hitavada, all police establishment including Police Stations, Offices of ACPs, DCPs, Addl CPs and all branches would rece...

Laxmi Bar murder : Ajni police fails to make headway after nine days

DB squad of Ajni Police Station under fire for shoddy investigation style By Dheeraj Fartode Investigation skills of Ajni police are under scanner as they have failed to trace the accused involved in murder of Vinaychandra Ganvir alias Pappu. Nine days have passed after Ganvir was stabbed to death outside notorious Laxmi Bar at Medical Square on March 11. But till date the police have failed to make any headway in the investigations. The cops claimed to have interrogated more than forty to sixty history-sheeters known to have base in the area but still concrete lead eludes them. Sources informed that the four accused in the murder case were captured in the CCTV footage and pictures of two of them were clear but still Detection Branch (DB) squad could not pinpoint the accused persons. The pictures have been circulated throughout the city police jurisdiction but no one could identity the two youth seen stabbing Ganvir. Sources further informed that DB squad of Ajn...

Cops to ask hoteliers, shops for character certificate of staffers

By Dheeraj Fartode Alarmed by violent tendencies displayed by a staffer in Skylark hotel firing case, the City police has decided to check antedencents of all employees working at hotels, shops, restaurants and malls. Joint Commissioner of Police (Joint CP) Rajvardhan on Thursday conducted a meeting of all Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCPs) and ordered them to check whether any criminal is working at any of these places? A senior police officer informed The Hitavada, Skylark firing case has raised eyebrows of senior police officers. It also revealed the unpleasant truth of many criminals covertly or overtly working with many of the commercial establishments and some anti-socials disguising as employees are also carrying unlicenced guns. Sensing a grave danger to public peace and tranquility, Nagpur Police have decided to scan all employees. Most of these establishments witness high attrition rates and many novices and unknown persons are offered the jobs direc...

Skylark hotel firing: Accused arrested from Amravati

Victim in firing case succumbed to the injuries on Thursday By Dheeraj Fartode Tehsil police on Thursday arrested accused in the Sylark firing case from Amravati. “Accused Ramjan Shaha, a resident of Motibagh fled the city on Monday and was hiding at his relative’s house under the jurisdiction of Nagpuri Gate Police Station of Amravati,” informed Spokesperson of Nagpur City Police and Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP Detection) Ranjan Kumar Sharma. However, cops are yet to know about exact reason behind the firing. Meanwhile, victim Vivek Ratan Jain (42), a resident of TV Tower area, succumbed to bullet injuries on Thursday afternoon. DCP Sharma further stated that the accused was taken to the city at 4 pm. If believe to the statement of accused Ramjan, the firing was unintentional. The trigger was accidentally pressed during fun. Police Inspector of Tehsil Police Station S V Khandekar said that Ramjan is notorious goon. Body offences are regi...

DGP ask officers to puts on hold Dance bar licence

In a letter, DGP asked officials not to grant licences in a hurry as government is bringing up a new legislation By Dheeraj Fartode Hopes of bar owners in Maharashtra of getting licenses to restart lucrative business of staging dances of bar girls have been halted following a clear directive from office of Director General of Police (DGP) to put on hold all applications or at best adopt go slow approach. The DGP has directed field units not to process applications for license as of now since Maharashtra Government is coming-up with new legislation to ban dance performances by bar girls. Meanwhile, six bar owners in second capital have applied to Nagpur Police, seeking license to stage performance of female dance troupes. Dance bar in city could never pick momentum after a spate of raids in 2001 by then DCP Sanjay Kumar and DCP Kulwant Kumar under the leadership of then Commissioner of Police Omprakash Bali after the High Court had asked the cops to take stern act...