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4,000 cops on road to keep vigil on revellers during new year celebration

Police Nakabandi City police bosses took a review of the security arrangements for the new year eve and has instructed the staff to keep a tight vigil on the streets. Special arrangements will be in place at Futala lake side and on West High Court, the hot spots for the new year revellers. To ensure that road romeos do not spoil the party, city police have decided to enforce nakabandi on the popular streets. The policemen would be on street from 6 pm to 6 am, ensuring that they are on spot to tackle any eventuality. Field units have been told to crackdown on rash driving, especially on drunken driving. Every police station has carved out special force for deployment in their jurisdiction that are frequented by revellers. Charlie Commandos and crack teams would patrol on city street throughout the night, informed a senior police officer. Joint Commissioner of Police, Sanjay Saxena told ‘The Hitavada’ that leaves of all the policemen were cancelled and around 4,000 police

Crime branch nabs 5 for robbery in Sonegaon area

By Dheeraj Fartode Crime branch sleuths on Sunday busted a gang of thieves involved in robbing an elderly woman- Shashikala Jaiswal, in Sonegaon to the tune of Rs 15 lakh including gold and cash. Accused have been identified as Vishal Madanlal Ramteke (22), Samyak Dhnyaneshwar Gajbhiye (26), Vikas alias Vickey Mohan Rahangadhale (26), Rajesh Itwari Shahu (23), and one juvenile delinquent. Police said that accused Vickey was driver with Jaiswal and had left job five moths ago. They got the clue when Rana Pratap Nagar police reported that said Vickey was caught by them in a vehicle theft. Crime branch conducted a raid at the residence of Vickey and nabbed him. Police said that the accused spilled the beans during interrogation and admitted about his involvement in the robbery which occurred on December 17 at Sonegaon. It is learnt that Vickey with other four culprits had made plan to rob Shashikala Jaiswal. Three youths opened the door and entered the house. As the elderly la

Fog hits rail traffic on Grand-Trunk route and Howrah-Mumbai route

Train in fog By Dheeraj Fartode Rail traffic remained disrupted on Saturday due to heavy fog. Several trains on both Grand-Trunk route and Howrah-Mumbai route are running late by several hours. Gondwana Express is the worst affected train, which is running late 20 hours behind schedule. A senior railway official said that the impact of fog is most severe on trains moving through north India. 12406 Nizamuddin-Bhusawal Gondawana express is running 20 hours behind schedule. 12724 New Delhi-Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh Express, 12409 Raigarh-H Nizamuddin Gondawana Express, 12723 Hyderabad-New Delhi Andhra Pradesh Express are running late by 10 hours. 02746 Puri-Shree Sai Nagar Special Express, 12616 New Delhi-Chennai Central Express, 12295 Banglore-Patna Sampark Kranti Express, 12296 Patna-Bangalore Sanghamitra Express, 12616 New Delhi-Chennai GT Express are reaching 8 hours late at Nagpur station. Several other trains which were running late were 16688 Jammu Tawi-Tirunelveli Nav

Police downscale security of former minister

By Dheeraj Fartode City police have decided to downscale ‘Z’ category security cover of former minister Satish Chaturvedi to a modest X category under which only few police personnel are deployed without usual pomp and show. Special Branch (SB) of City police has sent a proposal to state government to provide X-category security for the minister instead of existing Z-category due to lack of any security threat to him. Chaturvedi enjoyed security cover for one decade. Satish Chaturvedi BJP MLA Krishna Khopde had formally complained to Special Branch demanding downscaling of security cover provided to Chaturvedi. Khopde is president of City BJP and is fighting a bitter political and legal battle in East Nagpur with Chaturvedi and his loyalists. Chaturvedi has recently floated Hanuman Sena with the help of former aides of Khopde to counter him politically. Police Inspector of SB M A Patil in his letter to MLA Khopde said that the police had reviewed the security cover for

Fog affected train movement on Grand Trunk route

By Dheeraj Fartode Movement of mail and express trains on Grand Trunk route was badly affected due to foggy weather condition. Most of the Delhi bound passenger trains originating from Delhi were running late on Monday causing hardship to the passengers at Nagpur station. According to Railway officials, 12 trains are running behind their schedule. The worst affected trains include: 12295 Banglore-Patna Sanghamitra express and 12406 H. Nizamuddin-Bhusawal Gondawana express. Both trains are running late by eight hours. 12724 New Delhi-Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh express, 22694 H. Nizamuddin-Banglore Rajdhani express are running four hours behind the schedule. Other trains including 12810 Howrah-CST Mumbai Mail is running late by 1.30 hours, 12622 New Delhi-Chennai Tamilnadu express is late by 5 hours, 14260 Bhuwneshwar-Chennai express is late by three hours, 12102 Howrah-LTT Dhnyaneshwari express is late by 1.45 hours, 12722 H. Nizamuddin-Hyderabad Dakshin express is behind

AAP membership drive in: Lukewarm response to Arvind Kejriwal’s outfit

By Dheeraj Fartode India Against Corruption (IAC), which had attracted huge turnout last year at RBI square during Anna’s agitation, could enthuse a very few during the launch of it’s political wing ‘Aam Admi Party (AAP).’ Only a handful of youngsters bothered to attend the programme organised to launch AAP in city and as against the targetted 25 full-timers, the party could convince only 10 youths to become political activists on full-time basis. Due to such lukewarm response, even all office-bearers could not be named for city unit on Monday. A two-day District summit and election progarmme for district unit was organised by the party at Saikrupa hall. AAP Addressing a press conference, member of national executives Mayank Gandhi stated that party was declaring list seven executive members along with convenor Devendra Wankhede, Secretary Rajesh Puglia and Treasurer Girish Nandgaonkar as it was in the process to enrol more members. The party had announced 50 per cent reserv

SIT for Irrigation scam: Maharashtra CM evasive on legal status

By Dheeraj Fartode THE much-hyped Special Investigation Team (SIT), constituted by State Government to look into Rs 70,000 crore irrigation scam, may turn out to be a toothless tiger. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, on Friday, ruled out an inquiry under Commission of Inquiry Act and was evasive on legal status of SIT. Chavan’s statement is seen as an anti-climax, especially after he had set off political storm in State questioning only 0.1 per cent irrigation creation despite spending Rs 70,000 crore in last 10 years. Interestingly, despite SIT’s ambiguous legal status, the Opposition also blew its trumpet claiming that SIT inquiry into irrigation scam was their victory. At customary post-session press conference, Chavan seemed defensive on matters related to Water Resources Department. Asked why the Government announced SIT and did not order judicial probe, Chief Minister played cautiously and said, “I will not answer this question.” Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who