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Special Cells to Probe Crime Against Women 17 A Initiative www.newmediacomm.com Cover Story AN ISO 9001: 2008 (QMS) Company
Curtain Drawn on Kasab Saga Death of a Terrorist 18
Tribute
Remembering the Bravehearts… 26
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A Caring Supercop Calls for a Mass Movement 38 Interview
Concerted Effort Vital to Curb Corruption 42 Opinion
Crime against Women Heroes & Villains in Reel 45 & Real Life
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Saluting the Spirit of Execllence
Passage of time has further deepened our reverence for your memory. On the third anniversary of The PROTECTOR magazine, we at New Media pay a tribute to your vision, which has been our guiding spirit as we strive to carry on your mission. A tinge of grief that still lingers in our hearts over your passing away into the realm of eternity six years ago on 12 October 2006, strength- ens our resolve to reach the goals you had set for us. What began 10 years ago as a tiny outfit with a single magazine, New Media has grown into India’s largest bilateral trade magazine pub- lishing house today, mainly because of the strong foundation you had laid for the organization. You had shared with us the sense of dedication and discipline with which you had served the Indian Defence Ministry with distinction, and you had inspired us to inculcate the same values as we strive to excel in our work.
You had also passed on to us your passion for perfection. New Media’s motto is Excellence has no Parameters. We rededicate ourselves to the task of carrying forward your legacy.
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Dear Reader, Greetings. The current issue of The Mumbai PROTECTOR marks the magazine’s third anniversary. In the last three years, the magazine has scaled new highs with each issue, striving to living up to its motto of Connecting Cops with Community and Promoting Peace. This year, the magazine’s Anniversary coincides with the conclusion of the 26/11 saga, with the hanging of the lone surviving Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab in Pune’s Yerwada Jail on 21 November 2012. The cover story presents a complete picture of the unprecedented tragedy, which the resilient Mumbai has since relegated to the dustbin of history and moved on nonchalantly with its characteristic din and bustle. The issue pays a tribute to the martyrs of the 26/11 attack, remembering their sacrifice with gratitude. The year 2012 ended for India on a tragic note. The nation was shocked with a sense of shame in December, following the rape and death of a young girl with a promising life and career, which triggered country-wide outrage. Sharing this sentiment in an exclusive interview, former supercop D.Sivanandhan calls for a mass movement across the country to curb crimes against women, children and senior citizens. The same sense of shock was shared by creative film personalities, in an article by veteran film journalist and author, in which they refuted the popular notion that cinema promoted violence and crime against women. The issue carries the recommendations of the Fifth National Conference of Women in Police (NCWP) as well as a report by Dr. P.M. Nair, Spl. DG, (CRPF) on the innovative police initiatives to curb human trafficking. In an analytical article, Tejdeep Kaur Menon, Addl. DGP, Andhra Pradesh, stresses on the need for breaking the gender barriers for women to move upwards. Social activist Aruna Roy tells cops to be pro-active in dealing with women but urges them to show care and concern. A write-up suggests that Public-private Partnership (PPP) mechanism is crucial to ensure cyber security. The magazine traces the glorious past of 310 years of policing in Nagpur. Dr. Rukmani Krishnamurthy and Ms Nisha Menon present a study on the challenging role of forensic science in unravelling the 21st Century Crime. The magazine carries plenty of police news and a photo feature of the 25th Maharashtra State Police Games 2013. An excerpt from the forthcoming book, titled “Dawood Ibrahim and the Gang Wars”, written by veteran crime reporter Sharafat Khan, traces the origins of the Mumbai underworld and its bitter and bloody gang wars. A feature on the 100 years of Indian cinema celebrates the spirit of creativity. We trust the anniversary issue of the Mumbai PROTECTOR, with its varied content and high quality of designing, meets the standards of a collector’s number.
Wish you happy reading
Satya Swaroop Managing Editor [email protected]
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RAJ BHAVAN K. Sankaranarayanan Mumbai 400 035 GOVERNOR OF MAHARASHTRA Tel. : 022-2363 2660 Fax. : 022-2368 0505
06 November 2012
MESSAGE
I am pleased to know that the Protector Magazine is bbringing out its 3rd anniversary issue covering vvarious issues related to policing.
DDuring the last three years, Protector has tried to highlight the genuine problems faced by the police force and find solutions to some of these problems through informed debate and by eliciting the views from experts and senior police officers.
I congratulate the Protector Magazine and convey my best wishes for the success of the 3rd anniversary issue.
(K. Sankaranarayanan)
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Chief Minister Maharashtra
22th November 2012
MESSAGE
I am happy to know that the Protector magazine is celebrating its third aanniversary. My congratulations to the Protector Magazine on this occasion.
InI the past three years, the publication has rendered immense service in sensitising tthe public on the issues of safety and security and fight against terrorism. The mmagazine has been successful in bridging the gap between the Police and the PPublic.
BBy presenting thought-provoking and analytical articles on policing, security preparedness, crime investigation, traffic management, forensic science, etc.,the Protector has been a great source of the much-needed information on the above- mentioned issues.
I am happy to know that the third anniversary issue of the magazine is devoted to the various challenges and issues facing the Police Department.
I wish New Media, publishers of the magazine, and its editorial team all the success in this venture so that it continues to serve both the Police and the Public as an effective source of information.
(Prithviraj Chavan)
Shri Satya Swaroop, Managing Editor, New Media Communication Private Limitd, 1 Akbar Villa, Marol-Maroshi Road, Marol, Andheri - (East), Mumbai-400 059
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HOME MINISTER MAHARASHTRA STATE
Date : 06 December 2012
I take this opportunity to convey my best wishes to The Protector magazine on its third anniversary. Since its launch it has been able to establish itself as one of a kind magazine that has dedicated itself to connecting cops with communities. EveryE issue of the magazine endeavours to cover issues that are most critical to thet country’s safety and security.
In November 2008, the city witnessed its worst ever terrorist attack. The city’s safety and security suddenly became a talking point. It was necessary at this juncture to make the people of the Mumbai city feel safe and secure. Protector was launched in 2009, and since then the magazine through its content has been consistently highlighting the work and the dedicated effort of the home department and the state police to ensure peace and harmony across Maharashtra and especially in Mumbai.
All the police initiatives to ensure round the clock preparedness of the safety and security of India’s commercial capital are effectively covered by the magazine and apprised to the readers through its pages. This makes the content of the magazine markedly different. It is a first of a kind initiative that focuses on the positive contributions of the police.
MANTRALAYA, MUMBAI 400 032, Tel. : 22 02 71 74, 22 02 97 42 CHITRAKUT (R). MUMBAI 400 006 Tel. : 23 63 15 05
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HOME MINISTER MAHARASHTRA STATE
Date : 06 December 2012
In order that the security mechanisms of the country function smoothly we need to have a strong police force. Here, I can say with pride that Maharashtra and Mumbai police is one of the best and finest in the country. Modernising policing methods and upgrading the skills of men and women in the police is of paramount importance to remain one of the finest forces of the country and this is what we are continuously working at.
Time and again PROTECTOR through its issues has been putting on spotlight issues like Women in Police, Community Policing and Police Reforms. I congratulate PROTECTOR for delving into such crucial topics and creating an informed reader base.
A lot of sweat goes into putting in place the editorial content and I take this opportunity to commend the publishers, New Media, and the editors of the magazine for their painstaking research and hard work put in.
(R.R.Patil)
MANTRALAYA, MUMBAI 400 032, Tel. : 22 02 71 74, 22 02 97 42 CHITRAKUT (R). MUMBAI 400 006 Tel. : 23 63 15 05
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MINISTER OF STATE FOR HOME (URBAN), HOME (RURAL) RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND FOOD AND DRUGS ADMINISTRATOIN
GOVERNMENT OF MAHARASHTRA Mantralya, Mumbai 400 032 www.maharashtra.gov.in
Date
Firstly, I would like to congratulate the Protector Magazine on its glorious
Third Anniversary and for emerging as one of the pioneering publications in
the country that focuses on the unseen achievements and sacrifices of the police
force in the State of Maharashtra and all over India.
It’s really good to see how The Protector Magazine helps in highlighting
the work and achievements of the police force and how they tackle issues on a
daily basis. And in providing vital information and news that would help general
public in a big way.
As a Minister of State I am proud of the courage and dedication that is put
in by our brave men and women of the police force and their relentless effort in
keeping things in order. Most of all I would like to thank The Editorial Team of
Protector and everyone who contributes in making The Protector Magazine for
what it is right now, as your team helps to motivate interest and inspire people
to take an interest in the police force of our nation.
Your contribution to our society is commendable and I only hope and wish to
see much more glorious years for The Protector Magazine in the future.
(Satej alias Bunty Patil)
______Phone No. : 022-2202 2924, 2202 3059 E-mail. : [email protected] www.buntypatil.com
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From the Desk of Pravin Dixit DGP & MD (Maharashtra State Police Housing & Welfare Corporation Ltd.)
Greetings!
My congratulations to the team of Protector and Publisher, New Media Communication on completion of three years of publication of the magazine. In the last three years of its existence the magazine has made a dedicated effort to spotlight the positive contribution of police. A co-ordinated effort between the police and the public is a must to counter crimes of these times. The nature of crimes has changed due to changes in external and internal environments. In addition to petty crimes the police face challenges of tackling terrorism and left wing extremism. And in doing so they need community help which comes handy. All that is possible however, only if the public has faith and trust in police. Most people are intimidated to even approach the police stations. Unless the public develops an implicit faith in police that they are their guardians and friends in resolving their problems it is difficult to solicit their support.
Protector as a magazine has gone a long way in projecting the police in a positive perspective by bringing to the fore issues that have been most crucial to the functioning of the police organization and while doing so helped in strengthening the bond between the cops and the communities. The magazine has gone from strength to strength and has been touching upon issues through its meaningful content. I too have been associated with the magazine several times. I am sure the magazine will continue the good work and enlighten the readers with its content.
(Pravin Dixit)
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From the Desk of Satyapal Singh Commissioner of Police, Mumbai
Dear Friend, Greetings, I am delighted to announce that the third anniversary issue of the Mumbai PROTECTOR, the magazine brought out exclusively for our Police force by New Media, is getting ready. The objective of the Mumbai PROTECTOR is to act as a platform of connectivity between the police and the public. The magazine has invoked an overwhelming response and in turn has proved that it is fulfilling its objective. I firmly believe that information is vital to promote peace and harmony in the society. I trust that the Mumbai PROTECTOR has helped to bridge the communication gap existing between the police and the public. The magazine has also consistently highlighted the various initiatives of the Mumbai Police in building confidence among the people. It is now time for celebration as well as reflection. It is the matter of celebration because the Mumbai PROTECTOR has carved a niche for itself in the world of media. Today, the magazine is circulated among the decision makers in the government and the corporate sector at both state and national level. For the Mumbai Police, it is a matter of reflection as to what the force has achieved so far, and I can say with immense satisfaction that the police force today is better trained, well equipped and highly motivated to protect this throbbing city of 16 million people, which we proudly call the commercial capital of India. We got accolades and all round appreciations for superb bandobast on the last journey of Shri Balasaheb Thackeray on 18th November 2012 and the secretly executed special operations for the transport of convicted terrorist Kasab for his ultimate destination a day later. We have made a pledge to keep Mumbai safe and we have kept the promise. You are well aware that every publication needs both substance and sustenance. While the Mumbai Police provides the substance for the Mumbai PROTECTOR, it is the public and corporate leaders that offer the necessary sustenance to the publication. In this context, I request you to enrich the magazine’s content through contribution of articles and support so that the Mumbai PROTECTOR carries out its avowed mission of helping the Mumbai Police in serving the society better. With warm regards,
Dr. Satyapal Singh
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From the Desk of K.P. Raghuvanshi Commissioner of Police, Thane
Greetings!
The Maharashtra State Police Games are a much looked forward to annual event. This time around the Thane Police played host to the Police Games in its 25th year. It was indeed a matter of great pride and privilege to be a host to such a grand event. The entire event involves a lot of co-ordination effort. We had several committees working very closely with each other in putting the entire event in place. It gives me satisfaction that the event was very suc- cessfully organized and I congratulate the various committees for making the event so spirited and memorable. The participating teams had come from all over Maharashtra and it was important that they were well taken care of. The enthusiasm of the participating teams was palpable and spirits very high. My congratulations to all the winning teams and all the individual par- ticipants. It was an indeed action packed last few months but really worth all the effort.
Thane City police did not have any infrastructure for organizing games par- ticularly of State level. In 2006, the games were organized at different private places and the inauguration and closing ceremonies were organized at Dadoji Konddev Stadium. DGP Maharashtra State – Shri. Sanjeev Dayal desired that Thane Police should develop the sports facility so that all the games may be organized at one place. Team Thane took it as a challenge and within a period of 70 to 75 days developed this present sports complex at Saket, Thane. And all the 14 sports events could be conducted here successfully including the Opening and Closing functions. For making this sports event a success, Team Thane is especially thankful to DGP- Sanjeev Dayal and all the other officers of DG office for their support and help. Team Thane is also thankful to all gov- ernment agencies particularly, Municipal Commissioner, Thane Collector and PWD for extending all their support. I would also like to be thankful to people representatives - all the MP’s, MLAs, MLC’s, Corporators and other Hon’ble citizens of Thane for extending all their help.
Special mention needs to be made about the contribution of Shri. Prabhu (Architect) who had prepared the blue print of the ground and Shri. Ninad who designed and constructed the entrance gate. The Thanekars deserve
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to be thanked for their overwhelming support and presence. The endurance shown by officers like Joint Commissioner of Police- Bipin Kumar Singh; Additional Commissioner of Police – Milind Bharambe and Additional Commissioner of Police - D. M. Phadtare and all the committee members who took an active interest in organizing the event was truly commendable. The infrastructure developed at Saket ground was so appreciated that Hon’ble Home Minister declared that we should try to develop it as a Sports Academy. This will be a test of endurance for Thane Police to complete the task in phase II.
It gives me an immense sense of pride to be a part of Maharashtra Police which is rated as one of the best among the country. The commitment of our police force towards their duty despite all odds is praiseworthy. It is their hard work and determination that makes the functioning of the entire force smooth and efficient.
Crime has been scaling new heights in recent times and job of policing is getting more challenging by the day. To take on these challenges with police efforts alone is not an easy task. It is being increasingly realized that community support is equally necessary. Improving cop-community relationship is therefore a continuous process and our constant endeavor. A feeling of safety and security is what we always seek and the only way we can achieve this is through healthy cop community interactions. Crimes will continue but through better community interactions it becomes simpler to bring the offenders to books since it is a difficult task to match the capacity of the police force to the population and the magnitude of crimes that occur in the city.
I congratulate the Editorial team of Protector (www.theprotector.in) and the publishers of the magazine and my best wishes to them on the occasion of the 3rd Anniversary issue of the magazine. Protector has through its content done a commendable job of spotlighting important subjects that are of concern to police and to the public. I am sure they will continue their good work of strengthening the bond between the police and the public.
K.P. Raghuvanshi
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Special Cells to Probe Crime against Women
Sanjeev Dayal, DGP (Maharashtra)
like railway stations, bus stands, malls, schools, colleges, parks and places of worship and all data should be collected about their numbers. Based on this data the proposal for additional manpower would be made. Police patrolling will have to be enhanced and anyone caught harassing women should be publicly named and shamed. Moreover, women police constables should be posted in shifts at these places to make them safer round the clock.
The circular also emphasized the need for installation of CCTVs at The DGP (Maharashtra) - educational institutions, places Sanjeev Dayal has announced of worship and advised senior the setting up of special units policemen to hold meetings with at Nashik, Aurangabad and the management of educational Amravati to investigate crimes institutions, places of worship, against women and ensure theatres and malls etc. and transparency in investigations convince them about their of crime. The unit commanders utility as safety measure. The will go to these places and try circular also advises providing of to understand their problems. complain booths and encouraging Appropriate action will be taken women to report complains. Such to handle the problems. drives should be conducted on a regular basis to create awareness In a circular to all the police among women. The circular also stations the DGP (Maharashtra) directs the police commissioners/ has issued guidelines to all the superintendent of police to police stations across the states establish women’s helpline within to control harassment of women three months. Having said this and make them feel safe in it is also the responsibility of the public places. Referring to the passers by as responsible citizens Supreme Court guideline, the to report such crimes either to the DGP said the police should be helplines or to the nearest deployed at all public places police station.
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A Victory for Mumbai Police & India’s Judicial System Curtain Drawn on Kasab Saga Death of a Terrorist ByBD Dev VaramV
By Dev Varam At 7.30 AM on 21 November prison, sending out a message 2012, India drew the curtain on that the return on terrorism is one of the bloodiest events death.The inaugural issue of The of its history by hanging Mumbai PROTECTOR (October- Pakistani terrorist November 2009) featured as its Ajmal Kasab cover story, the trial of Ajmal in a Pune Kasab, the lone survivor of a 10-member Pakistani ‘Fidayeen’ death squad, that attacked
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last days of Ajmal Kasab’s life the memories of the bravehearts moved quickly. On 29 August who laid down their lives fight- 2012, the Supreme Court rejected ing the attackers. Notable among Kasab’s plea seeking that the them were Ashok Kamte, Ad- death sentence handed to him by ditional Commissioner of Police the Bombay High Court be com- and Hemant Karkare, Chief of muted to life imprisonment. The the Anti-Terrorist Squad. Kasab, court observed that it was “left who faced 86 charges, was also with no option but to uphold the identified as the man who shot sentence.” Some 20 days later, as dead Assistant Police Inspector a last resort to cling to his dear Tukaram Omble, who overpow- life, the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror- ered the killer, taking in as many Mumbai on the night of 26 No- ist appealed to President Pranab as 30 bullets. A wounded Kasab vember 2008, killing nearly 166 Mukherjee for mercy. On 23 Oc- was subsequently captured. people over a horrifying 72-hour tober, the Union Home Ministry gun battle with Indian security urged the President to reject the On 25 February, 2009, Mum- forces. Nine other Pakistani men mercy petition. On 5 Novem- bai Police fi led a voluminous were killed during the fight- ber, 2012, President Mukherjee chargesheet running up to 11,280 ing. Kasab’s trial, which began rejected Kasab’s mercy petition. pages against the lone captured in April 2009, lasted full four After that the entire sequence terrorist Kasab and 37 others, years culminating in his hanging of events was kept secret till the most of them Pakistani nationals after he was awarded a death announcement of Kasab’s hang- including two suspected army- sentence. The wheel of justice ing and his burial within the men, for crimes ranging from has come full circle with Kasab’s Yerwada Jail premises. A week waging war against the country execution almost coinciding after President’s rejection of his to murders. A total of 2,002 with the fourth anniversary of mercy petition Kasab was told people including FBI officials the worst-ever terrorist at- about the decision to hang him. have been named as witness in tack on Mumbai and the third He expressed the desire that his the terror strikes in which 183 anniversary of the magazine. mother in Pakistan be informed people were killed. The 10 terror- Kasab’s execution, coming five about it. On 19 November, Kasab ists were selected out of a group days before the fourth anniver- was moved out of Mumbai’s of 32 and were given training sary of the Mumbai attack and high-security Arthur Road Jail to by LeT commanders in Paki- carried out in the hush of winter Pune’s Yerwada Jail, one of two stan for more than a year. The chill at Yerwada Jail, echoed in Maharashtra equipped to han- bulky document has also named in Mumbai, where the survi- dle execution by hanging. Two the nine terrorists who had vors and relatives and friends days later, on 21 November 2012, been killed in the standoff with of the victims, celebrated the the 25 year-old terrorist was security forces during the nearly grisly event. Events during the hanged and a few hours later, three-day siege. he was buried in an unmarked Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal grave, unsung and unwept. Nikkam, who argued for the In the history of Mumbai Police, state said the chargesheet con- streching past 150 years, the tained transcripts of telephonic chapter containing capture of conversations between the Ajmal Kasab and his trial will terrorists and their handlers in be written in the letters of gold. Pakistan during the nearly three- As Mumbai Police and the day siege. The 38 accused have citizens observed the fourth an- been charged under various Sec- niversary of the 26th Nobember tions of IPC, including waging terrorist attack, five days after war against the nation, murder Kasab’s hanging, the occasion and criminal conspiracy. Accord- was not without poignancy, as ing to the chargesheet, the attack
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by terrorists on November 26 These attacks were nothing but died. The terrorists also planted killed civilians from India, UK, an offshoot of the programmed RDX-based IEDs, of which two USA, Israel and other countries. and undeclared proxy war were placed in taxis in which Besides, four sailors from the against India by terrorist organi- they had travelled to the ‘M.V. Kuber’, an Indian trawler sations and their support agen- targeted sites. were also mercilessly killed by cies, it said. the terrorists, who sneaked into In a transparent trial, Kasab was Mumbai by sea route. The attacks were carried out given a lawyer to represent him, simultaneously by different in a case that was lost right from The chargesheet made it clear teams on locations where the the start, though the accused that the intention of the attack by citizens of Mumbai as well as denied all the charges. Subse- the suicide squad was to prove foreign nationals moved around, quently, Kasab was sentenced to that India was an enemy country like the five star hotels of Taj and death by the special anti-terror and it could enter the financial Trident, the former bearing the court, headed by Judge M. L. capital at will and carry out its brunt of it. Tahilyani on 6 May 2010, which plan. The ingress of the terror- was affirmed by the Bombay ists into the city of Mumbai is These attacks were launched High Court on 21 February 2011. conclusive proof of the meticu- through indiscriminate and Finally, on 29 August 2012, the lous preparation, planning and random firing from deadly AK- Supreme Court confirmed the training, the chargesheet said. 47 assault rifles and by lobbying death sentence on Kasab, refus- lethal hand grenades. The iconic ing to commute it to a life term. The terrorists targeted and at- CST station was the scene of tacked iconic targets in Mumbai, devastation, where scores of in- A bench of justices Aftab Alam the Financial Capital of India. nocent people waiting for trains and C K Prasad said, “This is a case of terrorist attack from across the border. It has a magni- tude of unprecedented enormity on all scales. The conspiracy behind the attack was as deep and large as it was vicious. The preparation and training for the execution was as thorough as the execution was ruthless.”
The court held 25-year-old Kasab guilty of waging a war against the country, saying the Novem- ber 26, 2008 Mumbai attack in which 166 people were killed
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crime were Paki- in like manner and by like means stani trained at dif- as a foreign enemy would do,” ferent centres in the bench said. that country, and the devastation Upholding the sentence, the which took place court said,”We can even say at various places in that every single reason that the city of Mum- this court might have assigned bai, were executed for confirming a death sentence by the appellant in the past is to be found in in furtherance this case in a more magnified thereof,” Justice way. “The route from Karachi Prasad writing a to Mumbai, the landing site showed a degree of deprav- separate but con- at Mumbai, the different ity on his part seen in very few curring judgement said. targets at Mumbai were all cases. In terms of loss of life and predetermined,” it noted. property, and more importantly The apex court noted that the Senior advocate Raju Ramachan- in its traumatising effect, the case primary and foremost offence stands alone, for awarding death that Kasab and his co-conspira- dran, who defended Kasab in penalty to Kasab who showed no tors committed was the offence the apex court as amicus curiae, remorse for his devilish act, the of waging war against the Gov- said he “bows down” to the apex court observed. ernment of India. “It does not court’s verdict. matter that the target assigned “I bow to the verdict of the “It is at least the very rarest of to the appellant and Abu Ismail rare to come before this court was CST Station where they court.... I took it (the opportunity since the birth of the Republic. killed a large number of people. to defend Kasab) as a sacred Therefore, it should also attract What matters is that the attack duty and I performed it to the rarest of rare punishment,” was aimed at India and Indi- the best of my ability,” said the bench said. The court dis- ans. It was by foreign nationals. Ramachandran, who was asked missed Kasab’s contention that People were killed for no other to assist the court. the trial was not fair because the reason than they were Indians; Former Solicitor General Gopal government did not provide him in case of foreigners, they were Subramaniam, who had ap- advocate during the time when killed because their killing on peared for the Maharashtra he was arrested and put on trial. Indian soil would embarrass government, also welcomed the India. Refusing to show any mercy to verdict saying it is “a victory of Kasab on account of hisyoung “The conspiracy, in furtherance justice and the Constitution of age and illiteracy, the apex of which the attack was made, the country.” court observed, “The offences was, inter alia, to hit at India, to Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal committed by the appellant hit at its financial centre; to try to Nikam, who had argued for show a degree of cruelty, give rise to communal tensions brutality and depravity as in and create internal strife and Ajmal Kasab’s death sentence very few other cases. It is already insurgency, to demand that India in the special court in Mumbai, seen above that the appellant should withdraw from Kashmir, described the terrorist’s never showed any repentance or and to dictate its relations with hanging as the victory of India’s remorse, which is the first sign other countries,” the bench said. impartial judicial system. In of any possibility of reform and an interview with the Hindu, rehabilitation.” It was in furtherance of those ob- Nikam remembered Kasab as an jectives that the attack was made, intelligent, but shrewd criminal, “I am more than certain that causing the loss of a large num- someone like he had never the planning and conspiracy to ber of people and injury to an witnessed in his career. commit the crime were hatched even greater number of people. in Pakistan, the perpetrators of “Nothing could have been more “He was not only intelligent,
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paid a tribute to the memories of those who died in the 26/11 attack on the country,” he said. Countering the claims of delay in executing the death penalty to Kasab, Nikam said that such criticism would be unfair to the hundreds of Indians who tirelessly worked and helped in his hanging. “This time span should not be called as delay, because the trial was on. We have delivered the justice,” said Nikam. but was specially trained to face death penalty the country has worse of the situations here. His case was the most crucial case in my career as I have never seen a criminal as shrewd as him,” said Nikam. “We have exposed Pakistan’s hand in the terror attacks against India through Kasab’s trial, which is our big- gest of achieve- ment,” he said.
“We gave him the fair trial and an opportunity to defend himself. But the truth prevailed in the end and he was hanged only after following proper judicial process. It’s a victory for India and its impartial judicial system,” said Nikam.
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Apart from his trial in the special is the beauty of our legal justice court, Nikam also assisted senior system, sanctity of our democ- counsel Gopal Subramanium in racy and the country,” he said. the Supreme Court. Refusing to divulge any details The chargesheet filed against of the operation of shifting Kasab was of 14,280 pages and Kasab from Mumbai to Pune, he was made available in Urdu said that the legal and religious also, apart from English, to help sanctity was followed during the Kasab to understand the charges operation. “The facility to hang against him. It was put up on a person is available only in two February 25, 2009. Around 657 witnesses were examined during the trial, which commenced on places in the state, in Pune and in April 10, 2009. The trial in the Nagpur and Pune was nearer for special court was completed us,” said Maria. on May 6, 2010, consuming 110 working court days. Inspector General of Police (Law and Order), Deven Bharti, also Rakesh Maria, chief of the Ma- congratulated the entire team of harashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad investigating officers to build a (ATS), called the entire process strong case against Kasab. Bharti of investigation and execution as held a key position in the crime labouring and painstaking. “To- branch during the investigation day he (Kasab) received justice, of the case. though he deserved none. This
Headley, Who Helped Plan 26/11 Attack, Gets 35 Years
David Coleman Headley, a US on 24 January 2013 for his role in one of his fellow co-conspirators, citizen of Pakistani origin, was providing surveillance infor- thus gaining a reprieve from sentenced to 35 years in prison mation and videos laying the what could have been a death groundwork for the sentence. Mumbai 26/11 terrorist attack in 2008 in which Among other information, 166 people were killed Headley told US officials of a and hundreds of others link between the terror operation injured. in India and Pakistan’s intelli- gence service, the ISI. He identi- Headley, who was ar- fied his ISI contact as “Major rested in October 2009, Iqbal, who helped plan and fund agreed shortly after- the Mumbai attacks, he said. wards to cooperate with US investigators and In light of his cooperation, pros- intelligence officials, ecutors did not seek the death and he testified against penalty for Headley. In addition,
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maim persons The terror targets included the in India, and Taj Mahal Hotel, Oberoi Hotel, six counts of the Leopold Café, a Jewish center aiding and called the Chabad House, and abetting the the iconic railway station. Head- murder of ley had provided surveillance of US citizens in each of those targets. India. Among the dead were Four months after the attacks, six American Headley returned to India to citizens. conduct surveillance of India’s National Defense College in Del- Headley hi and Chabad Houses and CST, attended a CST, an iconic railway station. series of train- instead of a life sentence, pros- ing camps in Headley was also asked ecutors urged US District Judge Pakistan in 2002 and 2003. He to provide surveillance in Harry Leinenweber to impose a later decided to change his name advance of planned attacks 30 to 35-year prison term. from Daood Gilani to David on the Danish newspaper Headley to allow him to conceal Morgenavisen Jyllands- During the sentencing hearing, his Pakistani ties and portray Posten, which had published a Judge Leinenweber called Head- himself as an American in India. controversial cartoon depicting ley a “terrorist” and rejected the Prophet Mohammed in a suggestions he had reformed Headley told investigators that derogatory light. The action his life. “I don’t have any faith he made five trips to Mumbai in prompted calls from Islamic in Headley when he says he’s a 2006, 2007, and 2008 to survey militants – including members changed person and believes in and videotape potential targets of Al Qaeda – for retaliation. the American way of life,” the for a planned assault team judge said. from the Pakistani terror group Headley travelled to Denmark Lashkar-e-Taiba. At one point he in January 2009 and produced In their sentencing used a GPS device to pinpoint videos that he turned over to memorandum, prosecutors potential landing spots for the a Lashkar member later that acknowledged that Headley assault team along the shores of month during a trip to Pakistan. played “an essential role in the Mumbai harbor. He returned to Europe in July planning of a horrific terrorist and August 2009 and produced attack.” “There is little question The attacks were carried out 13 additional surveillance vid- that life imprisonment would from 26 to 29 November 2008 eos in Denmark. Headley was be an appropriate punishment by 10 men trained by Lashkar- arrested at Chicago’s O’Hare for Headley’s incredibly e-Taiba. They were armed with International Airport in Oct. serious crimes,” they said. But assault rifles, grenades, and 2009 while preparing to board a they added that his extensive improvised explosive devices, flight to Pakistan to deliver the cooperation had been of and they killed indiscriminately. 13 videos. “significant value” to US anti- While nine of the terrorist squad terror efforts. Headley, 52, is were killed in gun fights with As part of his cooperation he unlikely to emerge from prison the India security forces, one – testified at the June 2011 trial of until he is well into Mohammad Ajmal Kasab – was alleged co-conspirator Tahaw- his 80s. captured alive. He was tried wur Rana of Chicago. Rana was Headley pleaded guilty in March and sentenced to death, He was convicted of providing material 2010 to all 12 counts in his indict- hanged in Pune’s Yerwada Jail support to the Denmark plot and ment. The charges included con- on 21 November 2012, after a providing material support to spiracy to bomb public places in prolonged four-year judicial Lashkar. He was sentenced last India, conspiracy to murder and process. week to 14 years in prison.
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Remembering the Bravehearts…
Mumbai city held several functions on 26 November 2012, marking the fourth Anniversary of the terrorist attack on the commercial capital. Police Gymkhana at Marine Lines where a 26/11 memorial has been erected in the memory of policemen who lost their lives during the attack, too organized a function. At the function floral tributes were paid by Union Home Minister - Sushil Kumar Shinde, Union Agriculture Minister - Sharad Pawar, Hon’ble Governor of Maharashtra - K. Sankaranarayanan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra - Prithviraj Chavan, Home Minister of Maharashtra - R.R. Patil, Police Commissioner of Mumbai Satya Pal Singh and family members of victims also paid tributes. A photo feature…..
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Saluting a Brave Hero & Friend
By Salman Sabuani
It has been four years since we Sangli police department, the are remembering the tragic notorious criminal Raju Pujari events in the history of terrorism was killed in a police encounter. in India. On the night of 26 Kamte came into media lime- November 2008 India witnessed light after an August 2007 it’s first major terrorist attack incident in Solapur when he which shook Mumbai and the arrested Ravikant Patil, a three- country for the next three days. time Member of the Legislative On that fateful day, the terrorists Assembly in neighboring Kar- with evil intentions entered India nataka. Patil and his supporters from the sea to hold Mumbai to were celebrating at the residence ransom. However, their evil de- A 1989 IPS batch officer of the of Patil’s brother Ratikant a Shiv signs were thwarted by the brave Maharashtra cadre, Kamte, Sena leader. A scuffle broke out police officers who lost their lives known for his daring in crisis when police tried to enforce the while they put up a brave fight in situations, was specially sum- law against bursting of crack- protecting the city. One of such moned on that fateful night to ers late in the night. Kamte hero was Ashok Kamte, who was deal with Pakistani terrorists sustained hand injuries in the felled by the terrorists’ bullets in holed up in Mumbai buildings. process of arresting Patil, who a narrow lane between St. Xaviers received multiple injuries. The During his police career, Kamte College and Rang Bhavan, oppo- incident created an uproar in had earned substantial following site Corporation Bank ATM, just political circles but the people of of ordinary citizens as he took on a stone throw away from Crime Solapur supported Kamte, who hardened criminals and politi- Branch office, along with Vijay told The Times of India: “Law is cians with criminal backgrounds. Salaskar and Hemant Karkare. equal for all and nobody has the Shortly after his taking over the right to violate it”.
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“He was a daredevil officer South India, where he had served who had gained popularity in Belgaum for a short period. matching, a Bollywood hero. This is a tribute to one of my He himself was on the roads closest friends who was flayed maintaining peace after the by the bullets of terrorists and a Khairlanji massacre. While other man who died fighting for the cities in the state witnessed country. I met him four days violence, Solapur remained earlier on 22 November and calm”, said Anand Salunkhe, he was showing me around a former member of Solapur his office decorated with his Municipal Transport. achievements. And just two Nearly 3,000 people turned up to days before I was to leave for pay their respects to Additional Haj that I got the shocking news Commissioner of Police Ashok that Kamte was killed in action During Mumbai’s occasional Kamte who was cremated in by terrorists. In the process, I communal violence, the areas Pune with full state honours. lost a truly great friend and the under his supervision remained Kamte was one of the most country one of its finest Police largely free of riots. He was respected and admired officers of officers. Though four years known to be a secular officer and the Mumbai Police force. News have passed, his memory lives equally loved and respected by of his death sent shock waves not on in my heart and will forever all communities. just across Maharasthra but across remain there.
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New Media & The PROTECTOR Committed to Creation of ‘A Safer Tomorrow’
The Mumbai PROTECTOR, ever since its launch on 1 October 2009 on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti at the Police Gymkhana, has actively promoted many initiatives of Mumbai Police & Maharashtra Police.
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Significantly, in 2010, New Media, publishers of the bimonthly magazine The Mumbai PROTECTOR brought out a compendium of speeches by eminent personalities and security experts, titled, Fight Against Terrorism, delivered during four anti-terrorism seminars organized by Mumbai Police. The book has since been in demand from various security agencies, including Maharashtra’s Force One, an outfit of combat-ready commandos.
New Media was also bestowed with the honour of re-launching Dakshata, the popular Marathi magazine of Maharashtra Police in May 2010. Home Minister RR Patil unveiled a new look Daksha- ta to mark the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Maharashtra.
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The Mumbai PROTECTOR, which has been identified as an effective communication voice of Mumbai Police, organized a seminar on Security – Towards a Safer Tomorrow - on 6 January 2012, to mark the magazine’s second anniversary. The publication also managed the regular Cop-Connect Blog for Commissioner of Police, Mumbai.
New Media, India’s largest bilateral trade magazine publishing house, had also been accorded the privilege of designing and print- ing a Brochure for the First National Seminar on Counter Terrorism, organized by Force One. Besides, New Media also published Minimum Yet another feather in New Media’s Security Requirements cap has been a Coffee Table Book for the Booklets useful for both Kolkata Police. law-enforcing agencies and common citizens.
In 2011, New Media designed and printed a Souvenir for Women in Police, followed by a Compendium for Women in Police, during the same year, for the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD) and the Union Home Ministry. New Media was entrusted a similar job again in 2012 to bring out a Compendium for Women in Police, which it did to the utmost satisfaction of BPRD.
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New Media has also expanded the magazine’s operations to other states, by bringing out The Kolkata PROTECTOR, The Hyderabad PROTECTOR, The Bihar PROTECTOR and plans to bring out the magazine at the national level from New Delhi.
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Curbing Crime against Children, Women & Senior Citizens A Caring Supercop Calls for a Mass Movement Dhanushyakodi Sivanandhan, Mumbai’s ex-Police Com- missioner, known for breaking the back of the underworld in Mumbai is hailed as the most dynamic IPS officer of his times. Famous for using strategy and intelligence in the effective maintenance of law and order, currently amember of the special task force in the National Security Council Secretariat (Prime Minister’s Office) for revamping India’s inter- nal and external national security measures, in this in-depth inter- view with Satya Swaroop, Managing Editor, he reveals the soft core sheathed under the hard-cop carapace. The PROTECTOR salutes Sivanandhan for launching the ‘Dial 103’ –24-hour Helpline for crime against children, women and senior citizens.
What are the contemporary if a girl child is being molested Amritsar or Wadala, the society issues that the police is fac- by relatives, they must approach is turning a blind eye towards ing today? the school counselors so that such mishaps. These are issues they can be protected better and to be addressed in an evolving Today all the good work done the wrong doers are brought to society like ours. Our GDP has by the police is swept under the books. Whatever I have been gone up, society is developing carpet and whatever the failures, propagating so far has now but with the information explo- are being highlighted by the become the law. Child abuse is a sion there is negative informa- media. Thus the media is doing very serious contemporary issue. tion being pumped through the incalculable damage in break- What about crime against internet and media. It is time ing the confidence of the law women? for us to gather and find ways enforcing agency. But there is no to protect the vulnerable parts alternative before the police than Another grave issue is abuse of of the society – the children, the to enforce the law and order on women, recently in Amritsar a women and the elderly. behalf of the government. police officer trying to protect Also a new law has been the honour of his daughter The most contemporary issue enforced against sexual was shot in the public. He was that we are facing is that of harassment of women in work in uniform when he was shot child abuse – particularly the places, such complaints must be and when he was taken to the Norway couple, for abusing dealt with in three months under hospital bleeding, the local the child the parents are behind IPC 505 section which is a small politician came and pumped two the bars – the father is given more bullets into him. This kind section and it does not include 20 18 months improsonment. It is of blatant abuse under political years of imprisonment or some very shocking! In the traditional cover must not be tolerated. such harsh punishment. Indian society, we assume that parents have the right to assault, In an Another case in Wadala, You have always advocated abuse and correct the child. Pallavi Purkayastha was mur- raising social conscience and Now the government has come dered in the most cruel and awareness and then supple- up with an act to protect the beastly way. The worst thing menting it with protective children from being abused by in the case was that at 1.30 am measures like the ‘103 the society – inside or outside the she went ringing the bells of her helpline’. house. I have been visiting 100s of neighbours and nobody came schools and colleges telling that forward to help her. Whether it is We have to relook at the society
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how it is behaving, we have to capital of the country more and leader. A good man changes teach children in schools as to more cyber-crimes are taking everything; a bad man comes how they should respect chil- place, more and more economic and brings a bad name quickly. dren, women and senior person crimes are being committed – Police has to be cultivated and along with teaching them how cheating, fraud, where banks they should be made to realize to be successful, competitive and and financial institutions are that they are a very important making pots of money making involved. These crimes do not part of the society and they and driving BMW orMercedes. use guns, knives or any weapons should not be a part of power and We have to launch a movement. I but in a bloodless way they take ego play. They should realize that was responsible for launching the away the money and life of a we are in police service and we Helpline 103 with NGO Akshara. person. We have to understand are not police authority. Police I want to start a movement where study and sensitize the police stations must receive aggrieved it has to be emphasized that to the crime committed in the people sympathetically and one person cannot be fighting economic and electronic front. deliver solutions when possible. alone for the honour of children, They should educate people and People should not be afraid of women and senior citizens – they encourage them to report cases going to the police for help. have to turn out in multitudes to instead of saying that they are counter the goondas. If 10 people not well-equipped. Then they It was commendable the come forward, what can one or will be able to do a proactive job way the Mumbai Police and than a reactive one. The future two goons do? Traffic Police handled the crime will be electronic and Would you say that the law economic for which we have to funeral of a big political and order situation in Maha- improve our capacity and more figure recently. rashtra is far better than the computer literate persons have The good name we earned in other states? to be hired and more cyber-crime managing the traffic and crowd cells have to be created. We are Maharashtra and other states are at that funeral was spoilt the going to celebrate cyber-crime running parallel in terms of law very next day with the arrest of awareness week which means and order. Maharashtra being a two girls for their Facebook post. that such cases will be registered more enlightened state, more and A senior police superintendent and taken to logical conclusion more people are coming out for has been suspended in the case. through investigation promptly. registrations. But the problem is The murder of the inmate that the quantity of police force is What is the best way to keep in Yerwada jail also showed inadequate. High time they filled the police motivated in such the police in bad light. the vacancies of over 5000 Sub adverse conditions? Inspectors. New graduates must That alleged terrorist, 7 Quateel be recruited with fresh set of If we get one good leader, it was killed in Yerwada jail and values, enthusiasm and energy. works like a magic wand, police the senior ADG was suspended. force looks upto a capable What is the face of crime in These are bad examples that future? police must learn from.
Maharashtra being What are your views about the financial the Ajmal Kasab case?
Kasab case was handled most admirably. We have proved that we are no banana republic going in for any hasty revengeful act. We gave him protection, gave him medical supportand we gave him a fair trial. The only thing is, it took four years. It
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could have been done faster. (chemical-biological-radiation) dination with the CRPF and the But we have proved to the hazard has to go a long way. local police and local Adivasis. international agencies that we We have to invest in that. are an excellent democracy. The Taliban already has access to It is an economic and political last ‘Operation X’, executedvery nuclear weaponry. We should problem, not a police problem. quietly – it was done very well. have presence of CBR counter Deprived and exploited people force in Mumbai itself and not must be liberated – that is the Is the proposed National in Talegaon, as it is now. They only solution. Grid about intelligence have to be an elite force flying in How is the morale of the sharing operational now? in helicopters. police today? NationalGrid is still being set Does the Mumbai Police It is very low because the num- up; a huge amount of money is have a helicopter? ber of police is not keeping in being spent on it. Meanwhile they pace with the growing popula- have set up MAC (Multi Agency The Mumbai Police does not tion, the resources available to Co-ordination Committee) have a helicopter yet, we should police are very low – the police which meets in Delhi now and have had it 20 years ago. We then and sharing intelligence hire it from Pawan Hans and station is built and maintained on regular basis. In my time, the helicopter is very useful in on the generosity of the locals, we started direct recruiting for saving the lives of policemen in resources like paper, petrol, elec- intelligence. Also there is a state- case of ambush and shootout. tricity are also provided locally. of-the-art intelligence academy in While the Police service is given How do you perceive the Pune called MIA. This is a path free, there are no proper funds breaking step taken by the state. Naxalite problem? Is there coming in from the state govern- any solution at hand for it? ments. Even basic problems like So are we geared up to face how to dispose a dead body, and avoid a 26/11 kind of The PM described Naxalism, where to get the funds for it – situation today? in a conference four years ago, government has to resolve this. as the biggest internal security YES! A resounding yes! I worked challenge of the country. As of I believe that instead of quantity in the National Security Advisory today, 40 per cent of the geo- we should opt for quality of Board for all the states as a part graphical area of the country police, more technology and less of special task force headed by is occupied by Naxalites. They police force. Investigation should Mr. Naresh Chandra. We are have been growing despite all be heavily based on science and ready to face any challenge, but the expenditure on development technology. Most importantly, we have a long way to go still. schemes and police action. We the Chief Minister and the Home In Mumbai and Pune we have should have dedicated police Minister must be from the same taken good steps to avoid 26/11 intelligence – SID – like Andhra party and not two different situation. If Pakistani commandos Pradesh. The police action has to parties as in the coalition, to take attack we are ready to tackle be carried out in complete co-or- quick decisions. them but if there is a bomb blast by anonymous bombers like in Zaveri Bazaar.
But let me emphasize that the next attack by Lashkar E Toiba orJaishe E Mohammed will not adopt the same modus operandi as 26/11, so the Police force and government cannot be satisfied with the bullet-proof jackets and vehicles they got, our capacity building in all the states for CBR
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Concerted Effort Vital to Curb Corruption
Raj Khilnani, IPS, DG, ACB
AfterA four months’ tenure as the Director General, AAnti Corruption Bureau, MMaharashtra State, Raj Khilnani, IPIPS, provides an insight into theth new techno-savvy and eefficiency-drivenf policies he has imimplemented. In this interview wwith Satya Swaroop, he looks bbaback at his 36-year-long IPS cacareer with pride and fondness. HHe reveals his involvement with ththe NGO – heartquest (DilKa PPrayas) – working for happiness fofor all. Excerpts from this heart- toto-heart interview…
What was the scenario when continuously improve our are in coalition politics where no you took over as the DG, performance. Ultimately we single party has absolute majority, ACB four months ago? are a prosecuting agency - so so they make adjustments and the test lies in the conviction two or more parties get together I came at a time when ACB was rate we are able to get and the for governance. So we don’t very much in focus for various convictions we can show. What operate in isolation, we operate reasons so I felt I had a special I have to say is that corruption in the context of the political responsibility to discharge. I is a very complex phenomenon scenario, the way the economy was also told by the concerned in our society and it is also there is operating and the way society political leadership that you in the western world and in the looks upon the problem, how are taking a seat that is more underdeveloped countries as people from different strata of important than other seats that well. It is everywhere and we the society. Corruption is after all are traditionally considered are not the worst example. But a matter of money and finance, more powerful. I am grateful that doesn’t mean we won’t do everybody has a stake in having for the opportunity given to me anything about it. it or not having it. There are and I would like to measure up so many dimensions, we are How do you perceive the to the expectations of the people basically police officers who come gravity of corruption in and the government. That is my and go, we are birds of passage India? commitment. – the only permanent staff is the How did you chalk out your Every country has peculiarities peons. Sometimes they know the plan of action? about its corruption problem – as movement of old files better! we have to consider our legal Is ACB deputation regarded I had to re-evaluate as to framework, the working of our as a promotion posting? where we stand. The challenge governance and the democratic before us is that we have to development stage we are in. We We come here in on promotion
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it’s an incentive deputation. We also have experts from other departments like accounts, PWD, forest, sales tax and an ex judge for legal advice, we hire experts for complicated investigations and we also coordinate with judiciary as ACB has designated courts. Do these designated courts really work faster?
We have a large number of cases so the pendency of cases is large depending on the geographical area, district to district. One of the reasons why our success rate is not high is that cases become Corruption Act is a very strong look at not only the bribe taker old and stale and after a passage Act. But we also have to be but also the bribe giver. It can of time the sting of the case is careful because many times be a giver’s trap also. One of gone and the witnesses are not people who file a complaint the main things he highlighted keen to bring culprits to book. have vested interests, like one was to look at the bribe giver How do you classify cases person came with a complaint and it was in the context of the in your department and against his father in law as he economic development also. He which of these is the largest had some family scores to settle. talked mainly about pilferage category of offenders? Revenge for some other purpose of public funds especially the is a strong motive and then we welfare measures – like the result We have a category of trap cases also have investigate how true is of rural development schemes is where we arrange a trap for the accusation. not commensurate with the huge government employee working governmental expenditure - that for money (bribe). Disproportionate assets cases are is one area where we are tying there in large number but they The maximum number of cases up nuts and bolts to be more can be long drawn. is the trap cases in which offence effective. is registered promptly and the What are the other challeng- person is arrested, or suspended es that you face in ACB? Much more important are from government job or even criminal misconduct cases like put behind the bars – it has more Another issue we battle with is government agency procuring impact in terms of action and number of vacant posts in the large materials for profit, such conviction. department – right now the post cases have to have strong of additional DGP is vacant, evidence. We also talked about In trap cases, we have voice we are a small force, special- coordination between agencies - recordings for which forensic ized police unit comprising 700 CBI is the coordinating agency for verification is required, we have members and we are short of 100 all the state ACBs. Resultantly we taken this up strongly and we of these. have been able to look into major are even going to forensic labs money laundering cases. There is outside the state. We are looking Do you see a strong political always room for improvement, more and more at technology for will to curb corruption now? coordination or investigation support. We had a conference on anti- and charge sheeting. We have As far as the law goes we are corruption last month where the been able to getting sanctions for on a strong footing, Anti- Prime Minister said we should prosecuting.
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zero crime rate. Isn’t that exemplary?
It’s their viewpoint, if it can be done nothing like it but it may not be possible every case every place. Like there can programs for zero tolerance for sickness but people will still fall sick! Are you satisfied with the way ACB is functioning under your guidance?
In terms of efforts being put in - we are satisfied, but by being satisfied I don’t mean that we are How is the state government unless you are in CID, here we sitting back and relaxing. dealing with the menace of not dealing with law and order How do you look back at corruption? situation but specialized crime. There is more of reading, a lot your illustrious IPS career of It’s the joint effort – no police more interaction with people. We 36 years? officer, political leader – the want to be accessible, we have a I joined the IPS in 1977, so I have home minister or the chief website and we get complaints as served for 36 years now. Through minister – alone can get rid of this emails. We also have panchayats my career I have mostly worked problem single-handedly. Not where government servant acts as in Police and sometimes in the possible for an individual – not a witness. vigilance departments in some even the Chief Justice can carry Do you think people have states. During this I also took out justice alone – all the elements more faith in ACB than the care of Railway security, which is of society have to come together police? very important. Railway crime is will determine how well we can relevant to the passenger on a day- go ahead in curbing corruption. Yes, people have more faith in to-day basis – their major concerns We have vigilance weeks. All the Anti-Corruption Bureau are faced - pickpocketing, bag that the police station. More and this shows the need for a spread lifting. Terrorist attacks are rare, more complaints are coming out mechanism for countering but a big issue nonetheless. corruption is the only way. forward as people are no longer tolerating corruption. You are associated with the How different is this post NGO - DilKaPrayas/ The from being a cop? The African nation of Heart’s Quest. What is the Rwanda has a zero tolerance aim of this NGO? It is very interesting; it requires for corruption; I was amazed a lot more reading. In the police to learn during my recent The NGO has a website entitled job you don’t read as much visit there that they have a heart-quest.org –subtitled happiness for all – the aim is to experience oneness because we have so much diversity in the society. Duality to unity is the journey through the heart. What makes you closer – why family unit is close , hearts are together. If whole humanity can operate from heartthe world would be one. That’s DilKaPrayas.
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Crime against Women Heroes & Villains in Reel & Real Life
By Uday Tarra Nayar
Is the portrayal and clothing molest the heroine. In most such of women in films in any way scenes the hero somehow man- responsible for the horrifying aged to reach the spot on time cases of rape in society is the and saved the heroine, he points new debate on social forums. It out. The scenes were nowhere is in many ways similar to the close to reality and they were never ending debate pertain- thrown in only to accentuate the ing to the increasing incidents conflict between the hero and the of violence in society. Are films villain and between good and with blood curdling violence in evil. In reality the rape cases their content responsible for all reported were completely the violence in society or is it different and horrifying. So the other way round, where the where is the question of inspira- violence in society provides the that cinema is always a target tion coming from films, he asks. inspiration for writers to write when reasons are sought for Another veteran J Om Prakash scripts incorporating the violent increasing incidents of violence says it is difficult to fathom the incidents reported in the daily and crime in society. There was a logic when films are held respon- news media?. period in Bollywood in the sible for all the evil that erupts Director Ramesh Sippy is among Sixties and Seventies when in society. On the one hand, it the veteran directors who practically every film had a is argued that mainstream films contend that it is unfortunate scene of the villain attempting to are highly unrealistic and silly
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his hands on the heroine, the girl is attired in public. If the timely arrival of the hero aborted finger is being pointed at the the attempt of the villain and depiction of women in films the heroine escaped with her it needs to be stressed that in chastity intact but completely Indian films women are seldom demoralized and dishevelled portrayed dishonourably and with the sleeve of her blouse torn. the highest pedestal is occupied by the character of the mother in In the present scenario most films. If physical attacks are Bollywood’s mainstream films shown in stories the punishments and on the other hand films are are based on scripts that offer meted out are also severe. No being accused of providing the loads of entertainment and villain escapes punishment and is impetus to crime in society, he laughs. How many films in killed in the end”. laments. recent times had rape scenes, asks veteran cinematographer Nihalani, who led the all India The majority of Bollywood Adeep Tandon. Apart from Producers body AMPTTP for movies being made today have Agneepath and Gajini there many years says filmmakers no villains eyeing the heroine were no blockbusters lustfully as they did in the yester that had gory violence, year films. Like the villain in he points out. If there Ganga Jamuna for instance who have been films with chased the heroine through all violent content in the rugged terrain of the location recent times, they have after he sees her having a bath been films that picked in the open enjoying the flow- plots and story ideas ing water in a river. It is a classic from true incidents scene that whips up the drama in life, he reasons. It and conflict in the script with- will not be a surprise out straying into vulgarity and if the Delhi episode offensive crudity. The hero hears finds its way into a her calls for help and is alerted realistic film and the by the munim and what follows director raises the pertinent have always co operated with is an action scene with the hero questions of safety and security the censor board when any giving the villain the thrashing for women and the complete lack excess shown in films was he deserves. of concern in the attitude of the ordered to be cut. ‘We have In the majority of scenes in the administrators, he points out. makers who are responsible and Sixties where the villain laid viewers who are mature today “It is very easy to pin and know that the clothes worn the reasons for all by the actors in item numbers pathological disorders are film costumes and are not fit in men that surface to be worn in real life. The way in crimes such as of dressing is an individual’s rape and murders personal preference. Nobody is on the impact of that naïve today. films”, says Pahlaj Nihalani. “There are Rajkumar Santoshi who received psychological reasons high praise for his film Damini behind every rape has repeatedly argued that his committed and it has film was a plea for changes to be very little to do with introduced in legal procedures the way a woman or to book perpetrators of the crime
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laws and it was with twin sister takes revenge and this purpose in mind seizes the rapist when all her that he wrote and efforts to get the help of the law directed Damini. enforcers fail.
Indeed , law enforcers Tanuja’s much applauded film and law makers was an eye opener that warned are ever so quick young women to be careful and to attribute the alert if they noticed peculiar increasing incidents behavior in anybody visiting of crimes such as the house or living in the rape and murder neighborhood. Dr Ron Sanchez to anything but the the celebrated American failure of the system psychologist who has written to take adequate extensively on sex offences measures to stem the says sex offenders who include of rape. In Damini the victim crime. One failure is rapists, eve teasers, lewd is a poor maid servant and the laxity of law when it comes to men in offices etc who stalk the perpetrators are from the the crime of rape. While laws are attractive women, do not need affluent social strata who have appropriately harsh for murder any provocation to commit the monetary power to hire a laws are not so when it comes to sexual crimes. They are mostly famous, unscrupulous lawyer to the crime of rape. impulsive, though some are argue in defense of the culprits. planned and calculated. They Tanuja Chandra’s award The heroine is almost ostracized often just seize an opportunity winning Kajol –Sanjay Dutt from her husband’s family for when a woman is alone or a starrer Dushman also dealt taking up the cause of exposing door is left unlocked and they with a subject that was socially the culprits, one of whom is her know that the woman, however relevant . It narrated the story of husband’s brother. old she may be, is alone inside. a young girl who is watched by The real issue he says is not the Damini’s highlight was the court a rapist and killer who visits her increasing statistics of rape and scene in the climatic portions of house frequently as a postman. who are the victims. The real the film where the loopholes in The film was a suspense thriller issue is how to stop them. And the law are cleverly maneuvered in which the brutalized victim’s by the defense lawyer the fact is that women all over to save his rich clients the world are exposed to the from conviction. danger as they go out to work , The film’s success at study and get groceries for the the box office rested home or anything that requires in the victory of them to get out of the safety of Damini’s lawyer who their homes. convinces the court Biologists have written about with evidences and testosterone affecting male passionate arguments attitudes and propensities that the poor maid to violence. But neither was indeed brutally psychologists nor biologists raped. have written about films and Santoshi felt the only the male violence depicted way to prevent the in them as the cause for the crime of rape was to increase in crimes against revise the ambiguous women.
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Thrust on Women & Children’s Safety at 5th NCWP
“Every crime has a social reason and social impact. Development, therefore, will prevent and help in dealing with crime. It is here that the role of police and the role of women police become very important….”
Recommendations c. Conduct focused research 8. Open structure for on best practices within the Promotion at every rank 1. Creation of Women and country and across the globe with seniority cum merit and Child Desk in each Police impacting the performance of not gender based criteria for Station to attend to Women women in policing. promotions. and Child complainants. 4. A Nodal Officer may be 9. Gender sensitization 2. MHA (Ministry of Home appointed within each State/ programmes should be Affairs) funded pilot organization to coordinate conducted for both men and projects pertaining to social with and assist the BPR&D women in police periodically development activities Central Committee and and continuously. carried out by women police to address issues related 10. Plan funds or Modernisation may be taken up in each to women in police of the grants may be allocated for state. States/CPOs. All women in development of infrastructure police may be made aware of 3. A Central Committee in for women in police and for their Nodal officer. BPR&D may be set up, Capacity building of Women comprising of a serving 5. BPR&D may identify training in Police (Gender Flagship police officer (nodal officer) seminars and opportunities Programme of Kerala). and Senior retired Women abroad relevant to women in 11. All Police tasks with public Police Officers to: police and ensure adequate interface may be allotted in participation. a. Monitor action taken on equal proportions to women various recommendations of 6. At least 4 women may be in police and adequate the NCWP. posted in each Police station training may be provided for in the country. them. b. Formulate a National Policy on Women in Police, taking 7. Open recruitment – All posts 12. Monitoring of enquiries best practice examples from to be meant equally for men under Vishakha Guidelines other countries also, including and women with physical to ensure time-bound and flexible and lateral movement standards differentiated as effective action. to accommodate life cycle. per recruitment rules.
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Women & Rule of Law Innovative Initiatives to Curb Human Trafficking
Dr. P.M. Nair, Spl. DG CRPF
Human Trafficking:
The ultimate violation of human rights, gross depravation of human dignity, modern day slavery. Types…
Trafficking for :
• Commercial Sexual Exploitation. • Exploitative Labour /Other forms of Exploitation.
Trafficking for Exploitative Labour
• Labour- Domestic/ Industrial/ Agricultural. • Entertainment (circus) etc. • Camel Racing/ Illegal Commercial Sexual Exploitation (Slave like conditions). adoption/ Begging, etc… Displaced (Abducted) 2. Deprivation of Right to Security (Physical& ECON). Trafficking for other types of • Criminally Confined. exploitation 3. Deprivation of Right to • Criminally Restrained from Privacy (Bonded Labour). Thought /Action. • Illegal adoption. 4. Denial of access to Health • Physically &Mentally • False marriage/ “Mail order Services. Tortured/Injured. bride”. 5. Denial of Right to Self • Sold/Purchased. • Organ Trade Determination (Resold). • Modesty Outraged/ Raped • Organized crime 6. Denial of Right to Return Repeatedly • Drug courier / Arms to Own Community – courier/ Counterfeiting Victim Of Sexual Perversions “Stateless.” courier 7. Denial of Right to Representa- • Militancy Naxalism. • Servitude. tion (Statelessness). • Debt Bondage. 8. Denial of Right to be Heard Trafficking for Commercial • Privacy Denied. before Decision Making. Sexual Exploitation (CSE) • Access to Justice Denied – No Redressal. What is Trafficking? • Brothel/Non brothel based/ • Criminal Conspiracy and • Generally misunderstood as • Multiple Abuse & Abusers. • New Forms & Dimensions PROSTITUTION. • Organized Crime. • Sex Tourism/ Façade of Mas- • Needs DE-MYSTIFICATION sage Parlor/ Beauty Parlor The HR Violation of those Traf- and Clarification of Concepts. • Pornography/ Cyber Sex. ficked, esp. Across The Borders • TRAFFICKING is not Prostitution. A Girl Child Trafficked Into 1. Deprivation of Right to Life Basket of Crimes & HR
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Distortions in Law Enforcement • Average 13000 arrested every year, 90% are females!! • 58 % were “ARRESTED” earlier. • Most got released by the BROTHEL OWNER. • 72% victims were “Convicted” earlier on charges of “Soliciting” • TRAFFICKERS and ABUS- ERS rarely arrested, easily bailed out, bailers are mostly the group of exploiters themselves. Violations Research) • Victimization of victims. • Displaced from Community. Situation was indeed vicious, • Transportation. • 70% trafficked victims are but for certain initiatives • Coercion/ Deceit/ Exploita- from SOCIALLY DEPRIVED which made a difference. tion/ Commercialization/ SECTIONS. …..a GREAT DIFFERENCE.. Commoditization /Servitude. • 67% brothel owners were Case Studies • Violation of Human Dignity. erstwhile VICTIMS of traf- ficking- VICIOUS CYCLE? • Exploitation of Vulnerability 1. How one woman DCP (Dy. • 62% REACHED BROTHEL / Organized Crime. Commissioner of Police) BEFORE 18 yrs and 23% could make a paradigm shift Three Elements of Trafficking before 16 yrs. First sexual in anti human trafficking in Sex Tourism experience for 74% at less NCT? than 18 years of age and for 2. How one woman Inspector • High level of demand- both 46% at <16: Alarming level of of Police could transform international and National incest and child abuse within the lives of many exploited clients- Globalization impact. family ambience!! • Destinations-not only women. international tourist Why Trafficking ? 3. How one young police officer destinations, but also local. addressed the organized • In the name of business • What are the root causes? racket of traffickers and promotion? Under the façade • Push & Pull factors. contained HT. 4. How empowerment of of massage/beauty parlours? Vulnerability Factors • The extent and spread: Case vulnerable women is making a silent revolution in the Anti Study of Freddy Peats • Ignorance of Rights/ Naxal front. Illiteracy. How Organized • Gender Discrimination. • Beyond Space and Time • Neglect/Abuse of children. • Borderless Crime • Economic Deprivation • Multi Stakeholders &Unemployment • Power and Profit. • Increasing Demand.
Who Organize ? Demand Factors
• Spotter / Recruiter • The very demand/ Commer- • Seller / Purchaser cialization of human beings • Transporter • Power /Authority • Abuser/ Exploiter. • Profit • Financier /Custodian • Anonymity Chhaya Sharma, DCP, Delhi Keeper/ Pimp Contractor / • Nexus/ Impunity What Chhaya Sharma did … Other Conspirators. • Poor/Distorted Law Enforcement. Who are The Victims ? (NHRC While posted as SHO ( Station
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House Officer) -under training, ect of Nalgonda District 2005-06. Ensured protection of rights Kamala Market for six weeks , of thousands of children. where victims were being “ar- • Opened a Bridge school for Ensured prevention of crime/ rested” for long as “prostitutes” children to prevent 2nd Commendable work in the and master trafficker was never generation trafficking. Rule of Law. arrested!!! • Trained vulnerable persons in source area giving them alter- Laxmi, Inspector, ACB, • Chhaya rescued 75 women& native source of livelihood. Hyderabad 65 children. Arrested • Aggressive law enforcement What Laxmi did … Bhakti Ram Pandey, master against offenders. trafficker. • Detailed interview of one rescued victim, collected intel- Bhakti Ram Pandey – A profile ligence about one trafficker. • Master trafficker in action for Systematically followed leads more than10 years, he was one after another. Source - never arrested nor caught!! (why??). Owns posh house in South Ex-Pt.II and hotel in Nepal. On an average, 500 girls from Nepal trafficked every year, 5000 in 10 years.
Chhaya Sharma’s impact… • Closed down 40 brothels • Bhakti Ram Pandey convicted under Section-18 (1) ITPA in 14 crimes, with minimum Mahesh Bhagvat closed down 40 seven years RI and in jail brothels in Eluru Range in 2010. since last 12 years. His deten- If business had continued as tion saved 6000 girls from usual in these 40 brothels… being trafficked- a colossal service to humanity. • Avg. no of women in these brothels = 200 i.e., @5 per Transit - Destination. Led to • Commendable initiative in brothel arrest of 20 traffickers and the Rule of Law. • Avg. “customers” per day in rescue of 75 women, Mr. Mahesh Bhagwat- IPS, Jt. one brothel= 10 including 27 children from CP, Hyderabad • Avg. income generated in Vani, Yeotmal, and Chandra- these brothels on a day @ pur districts. Personally car- Rs.300 per “customer” = ried out inter-state searches. 40x10x300 = 1,20,000 i.e. Rs.1.2 lakhs per day. Interstate searches: • Deducting 10% income going • Networked with SP/SHO/ to the VOCET, the trafficker’s NGO of all States.27 young gang earns Rs.1, 08,000 per women rescued from day, i.e. Rs. 32,40,000 i.e. Rs. Yavatmal & Counseled. 32 lakhs every month!!! Obtained their willingness Closure of 40 brothels means… to work, understood their a lot… core capability. Liaison with corporate sector, survey of job • Monthly loss of Rs.32 lakhs avenues. to traffickers. Trafficking to • Trained these 27 women as these 40 citadels of organized What Mahesh did… masons by an NGO, Prajwala crime/ human slavery at Hyderabad. All employed prevented. Rehabilitated victims of gainfully on an average of • Lives of thousands of traditional prostitution / custom- Rs. 8000/- salary per month. women and children saved. ary practices under ASARA proj- Job security. Commendable
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initiative in rescue and tifying vulnerable persons. adolescents by militants, rehabilitation. Counseling them/ knowing terrorists and extremists. • Life with dignity after rehabil- their core competence. • Empowers and Capacity itation. Sterling performance Planning empowerment / building of vulnerable in the Rule of Law. Skill building programmes. sections of society in the most challenging places. Synergizing Anti Human Be the change you want to see • Winning Hearts & Minds and Trafficking& and Anti Naxal in the world Mainstreaming of the un- Operations - Mahatma Gandhi. derprivileged and alienated • Naxals look for young men Empowerment / Skill Building masses. and women of very young Programmes • Protection of child rights and age. They are recruited by women’s rights. Ensures life coercion, abduction and • Support from MHA, GoI. of dignity for the vulnerable. force. Large number of men Associating with State • Multidimensional, multi and women trapped by them. Govts., local administration, stakeholder approach. It is a saga of exploitation- local NGOs and potential Synergy between Central physical/sexual/emotional employers. Professional & State Govts, NGOs, and financial. Training/ Care & Attention/ Corporate/Business houses. Skill Development- various • Rights-oriented paradigm Anti Naxal Operations vocations. in addressing LWE ( Left Wing Extremism) /Militancy • Encounters lead to losses on Employment after Skill from Talkers to Doers; Doers both sides. Naxals include Development to Performers; Performers many child naxals. Are they child naxals or child victims • Facilitating employment of to Achievers; Achievers to in need of care and attention? trained personnel in Corpo- Trend Setters; Trend Setters If they are child victims, is rate sector/Industrial houses/ to Reformers. encounter the solution? Government establishments/ • Bonzai Manager’ by • We are made strong by the Self-employment. Gopalakrishnan( Film 02) • The liking for sushi in Japan. difficulties we face, not by Impact of the Programme those we evade. • Raw fish, fresh, huge • Prevented Naxalism & quantity. Fighting Naxalism without Human Trafficking. • Big trawlers/ ships for trans- bullets • Skill building of youth portation. Fish dies during long transportation. Large • Undertaking market survey & provided sustained containers with sea water. of job opportunities. livelihood at their door-step. • Static fish tastes no good. • Associating with NGOs/Iden- • Prevented exploitation of • Solution: Innovative Management Trained and Employed 714 youths in one year’s time • Shark baby: fish live and SN Vocation Strength Total mobile, good taste !! Women Men • “Be a shark baby in public 1 Security Guards 296 103 399 service” 2 Motor Driving - 60 60 Out-of-the-Box initiative 3 Masonry - 45 45 • Sky is the limit, if one has 4 Nursing 30 - 30 commitment. 5 Beautician 30 - 30 • Outgoing approach. 6 House Keeping 60 - 60 Sensitivity to issues of 7 Computer Handling 30 - 30 women and children 8 Mobile Repairing - 30 30 • Sensitive responders can make a difference. And in- 9 Industrial stitching 30 - 30 deed a tremendous impact in Grand Total 476 238 714 Rule of Law.
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Breaking the Gender Barriers
Tejdeep Kaur Menon, IPS, Addl. Director General of Police, Andhra Pradesh
For women to move up the prospect of constables in the were called Haseens, and were rungs from that of a constable women police is far less than posted in the crime wing. Later is a continuous struggle. those of their counterparts in that year, 32 women were taken Gender specific recruitment is men police. in as police constables and six as increasingly a felt need in the head constables directly. Andhra Pradesh Police. There This was causing frustration is a growing demand from and demoralization in women Thereafter, between 1954 and different unit officers for greater police staff and the grievance 1960 nearly 100 women working deployment of women police to was brought to the DGP during as Class four staff, as peons and control law and order situations his field visits. Thus, there was attenders, were converted as and allied duties in the police an urgent need to augment women police constables. force. But it is well understood the strength of women police No fresh initiatives in that the present women police in the districts and allied recruitment were made strength is inadequate to deal units. According to the service until 1971 when 18 women with the demands of the present rules, there is a separate cadre were directly recruited as scenario of law and order for Women CIs, Women SI, police constables and after prevailing in the state. Women ASI, Women HC and training appointed in the Women PC and they cannot be The current strength of the state capital Hyderabad and promoted against the posts of women police force is skewed the two rapidly developing Men CI, SI, ASI and HCs. in the sense that while there towns of Vijayawada are 0.4 posts for promotion for Gender specific recruitment of and Visakhapatnam. The each civil constable (male PC), women began in 1950 when appreciation of the need for there are only 0.05 promotion the Hyderabad Police brought women in the police was being posts available for each women on board sixteen women felt. In 1974, six were directly PC post. Thus the promotion constables, who after training recruited as Head Constables and another 48 as constables in the following year. This is largely because recruitment was an adhoc approach without any foresight on womanpower planning which was at that time true of not just the police force but in other fields of human enterprise too. This is why in the next phase of recruitment, four years later; just ten women were taken in as Head Constables in 1979.
The tipping point and the first
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semblance of planning in enlist- ing women came in 1981, when a conscious decision was made to recruit women keeping in mind the role that they can play in a police force. This was a positive fall out of the growing appreciation for gender parity and opening up of new vistas of professional growth for women.
It was also the need of the hour in handling women protestors especially mobs with women, arresting women accused, escorting them to court and jails and handling crime against women and children and protecting women VVIPs. Consequently, for the first time 115 women were directly recruited as women constables in 1982. From among them, 13 who have put in 30 years are A similar story of adhoc on board in 2000, nine in 2007, still at work. They carry the planning is equally evident in 23 in 2010 and three in 2012. In distinction of being the longest the direct recruitment of women all, there are 37 of them without serving women in the Andhra sub inspectors. The first was any preferential reservation for Pradesh Police. But they have in 1950 – just one and the sole women at all. had no opportunity in career recruit Annamma Mathews – The 23 direct recruit DSPs of 2010 progression. who was posted in Hyderabad, retired as a Deputy Superinten- share a deep passion to serve A much larger number, 552, dent of Police without having the deprived, disadvantaged were enlisted as women con- the opportunity to register and and the needy. They come stables in 1984. Just ten of them investigate even a single case ! from heterogeneous academic are still at work. Recruitment and vocational backgrounds. was reduced to a trickle with 18 Then, no attempt was made These women are academically in 1985 and 15 in 1987 joining as for 38 years and, thereafter, highly qualified with 1-Medical women constables. While all 18 recruitment is as they say in fits Doctor, 3-MBAs, 2-Engineering of the 1985 batch are posted at and start – in 1989 – 12; 1996 – Post-graduates, 1-Lawyer, Visakhapatnam, only five of the 12; 1998 – Two; 2002 - 31; 2004 6-Engineers, 1-MCA, 2-Qualified 15 who joined in 1987 are – 20; 2007 – Five; and 2009 – 26. Teachers, 4- Postgraduates and working now. The five women sub inspector 3-undergraduates. Most of them recruits of 2007 were also the had flourishing careers prior to The biggest ever recruitment first to join the Armed Reserve. joining their present job. They was in 1991 – 674 as constables – have completed their training and smaller numbers every year While no gender specific at the Andhra Pradesh Police for the next four years – 28 in direct recruitment of women Academy. 1992, 31 in 1993, 18 in 1994, and as Deputy Superintendents of 126 in 1995. This was followed Police has been provided for, During the course of their by a long lull of 13 years until over the years, some have been induction training, they were 31 were taken in as women enterprising to break the barrier, imparted training in indoor constables in 2008. and become DSPs. Two came subjects like IPC, Cr PC, Indian
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Evidence Act, APPM, Special Rt. No.84, Home (Ser. III), dated vancement opportunities since and Local Laws and Outdoor 17.01.2012 fixed the strength in 2012. Beginning, this year, the subjects such as PT, Squad each cadre to adjust the ad- Andhra Pradesh Police has Drill, Arms Drill, Lathi Drill, ditional strength of Women provided for career planning Mob Operation, Map Reading, Inspectors-73, Women Sub-In- by creating specific strength of Weapon Tactics and Field Craft. spectors-250, Women Assistant women police in each cadre. It They have also completed a Sub-Inspectors-309, Women will be : fortnight long Military Attach- Head Constables-557 and ment programme at the Madras Women Police Constables-2072, 73- Women Inspectors Regimental Centre, Wellington. within the total strength of the 250 Women Sub- Inspectors All of them are posted as SDPOs existing Police Force. This has across the state, one in each set right the injustice that has 309 Women Asst. Sub- district and this is a distinction prevailed since 1950. Inspectors for the first time in the country. 557 Women Head Constables This is a bold initiative of the However, the zig zag pattern in and Andhra Pradesh DGP Shri. V. recruitment, be it women police constables, direct recruit Sub Dinesh Reddy, IPS, to give 2072 Women Police Constables. gender parity. Inspectors or Deputy Superin- tendents of Police, points to a This is a major milestone for it Vide G.O. No. 412, Home (PSC) serious policy deficit in woman has been impressed on the state Dept, dated 25.09.2009, all police career planning. It has government that providing women police stations in the never been contemplated to specific posts for women police districts have been notified and provide a career path for these personnel is essential. This is these stations are required to women and, in turn, these how a government order was investigate the cases of atrocities women have never sounded the issued in January 2012 convert- against women for the entire bugle demanding advancement. ing 4646 posts for men in the police district. Hence there is a police as posts in an exclusive need to fix the cadre strength A quantum leap is the recruit- for women police cadre. It has of WGs, WSIs, WASIs, WHCs ment of 2976 civil women con- also enabled for the first time and WPCs in the units which is stables and 94 as the AR women in the history of the state police in conformity with the require- constables in 2012. However to create a cadre of women ASI ment of women police in the the unproductive pattern can be that motivates the lower rung Police Department. And which seen in the recruitment of AR constabulary to look forward to brings the promotion prospects Women - advancement. of women cadre on par with 1) 55 for Hyderabad their counter parts in Civil Consequently, women police Police (Men). 2) 18 for Cyberabad career progression was set into motion taking up the three On taking charge as the ADGP 3) 11 for Vijayawada months Pre-Promotion training (Training) I took the initiative 4) 10 for Visakhapatnam of 637 Women Police Constables under the guidance of the DGP, in five police Training Colleges Andhra Pradesh, Shri. V. Dinesh Clearly such recruitment is in Andhra Pradesh. Of them, Reddy to propose to govern- restrictive and only catering to 29 are above 50 years of age ment to fix the cadre strength the lowest rung with no further and 433 are above 40 years of of women police in each cadre career advancement laid down age, languishing without even within the total sanction of G.O. for the women in the Armed a single promotion since joining Ms. No. 281, Home (Ser. III) Reserve. This issue is now being the department. With a glimmer dated 20.11.2007. addressed and the anomaly of hope, at last, these 637 proud being corrected. At the behest of the DGP, women Head Constables will the Government of Andhra A landmark change, has been come out of the Police Training Pradesh agreed and vide G.O. the opening up of career ad- Colleges on August 7, 2012.
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Women Police & Social Development Be Proactive, but Show Care & Concern
Aruna Roy, Political & Social Activist
The first thing I want to plead with all of you and with everybody is that not all women are tall, some women like me are short too and podiums are always made for men! So I will stand to one side of the podium and speak.
I used to be in the IAS very long ago. Posted in Delhi, in the Parliament Street court, there was a colonial chair and the colonial desk which I am sure that do not exist anymore. If I sit on that chair, my nose will be barely seen! I felt the same behind this podium!
Aruna Roy is a social and political activist who It is a joy to be with women in uni- founded and heads the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti San- form. Being out of it myself makes no gathana (“Workers and Peasants Strength Union”). difference. Between you and me- we Born in Chennai, she served in the Indian Admin- have many things in common. We are istrative Service from 1968 to 1975. She resigned in different and that is what makes life so interesting. I remember when I went for order to devote herself to social reform. She is a my IAS interview, I was asked by the prominent member of many campaigns and one of committee that sits in the UPSC, why the founders of the movement for Right to Informa- I haven’t opted for the police. I admit tion in India. The movement has been credited for that the thought never even crossed my getting Right to Information laws passed in several mind at that time. But thinking about states, including the Rajasthan Right to Informa- it later, I don’t think there is much dif- tion Act passed in the year 2000. The RTI move- ference between IAS or IPS one way or ment and campaign also played a crucial role in the the other. Whether I sit on a dharna, or passage of strong national legislation for the Right at a police station to meet a SHO, we in to Information in the year 2005. She was awarded the Mazdoor Kissan Shakti Sangathana the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community who work in various campaigns in Leadership. In 2010 she received the prestigious Lal Rajasthan & Delhi, had made friends Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in with the police. Police have understood that we have not come to fight with Public Administration, Academia and Management. them and our fight is actually with the She has also been a member of different public persons behind the scene. hearings, tribunals and people’s commissions in- cluding the “Concerned Citizens Tribunal”, which I really do feel sorry generally for the investigated the organized violence and killings of police especially for my women friends innocent people in Gujarat in 2002. Excerpts from in the police, that you sometimes her speech at 5th NCWP-2012, Thrissur, Kerala. become the baton that the government use to beat us with and we all end up
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fighting you rather than fighting with the cause. Mazdoor Kissan Sena does not take financial help from anywhere but only from people, so that poor people get rice and wheat. Sometimes we get money from the police constables and other officers in the Police, but they say to us that it should not be publicised. So there is a good side and a bad side to it.
As soon as you mention about the police you think of either police in Bollywood films or of the hor- I am a lower being. Somehow in progressive states like Kerala ror that we have created in our our thinking and attitudes we where women cannot enter some minds about the police. Police is are getting more and more nar- temples. often stereotyped and I think that rower. I was talking to my friends it is extremely important that we from Haryana how narrow our In Kerala again, very sorry to say, create the image of a protector in identities get, we say not only that women get lower wages than police, a person who looks and we are from Haryana but from a men. I am always shocked when sounds like a friend, who will be particular caste, from a particular I come to Kerala, which I admire of help to people rather than as sub caste and then there will be so much- it is one of the states somebody from whom people run honour killings! Just because a girl I like to be in- but then with all away. May be because I was in the ran away with a boy who was of its equality, with all its political IAS I never feared police. I always lower caste, her father took her understanding and everything feel reassured seeing police, may life with a sword and said that he else, women for the same work be because I have friends among was proud that he did it. He is in get a lower wage and it is justified many Dy.SPs and Addl. SPs and jail but the rest of his family say and is against the Constitution but SPs. But I do think that the police that he did the correct thing. still there. is a much maligned service and it So I think we know what it means is criticised for more than it share. As police officers you have many children. So you will have to to be discriminated against, Women Police and Social Devel- prove not only the power of your but as police officers are you opment is the topic on which I ‘khakhi’ but you have to prove discriminated against? You are, was asked to speak. I think for that you are women and to bring that is why such conferences exist. anybody now in India social the two together and see the No matter you have this uniform development is getting more and world as women is a big task. I but an understanding has to more difficult, it is not just for the am always proud to be a woman; be developed into something police activities, administration, we can feel sympathy and feel much stronger in terms of politicians and for private busi- compassion. From my mother political action for us and public ness. We are getting smaller and and my grand mother and many statements by you. You have to go smaller in our minds. There are so other women in my family I have to the press and raise the issues. many ways in which one is identi- learnt that women are strong, that In the way in which you deal with fied. When I was a young girl in women can and always dwell in us and the way you listen to us Delhi University we were told the many layers. As police officers and the way you solve our issues girls shouldn’t work and women you have something very pre- and problems. You should make should never get in to the IAS, cious and significant in you that statements louder than perhaps and men should not be deprived is you were born in this gender, what the Television says and you of the job just because a woman you can understand and preserve know what the problems are. wanted to get it! Now the identity all the feminine qualities, under- I am told that you do better than of a woman is shrinking more stand discrimination. There is men at job. Why should it be and more. I am a woman and so discrimination even in the most
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better than a man, it should be there were riots there. I know the to harm the minority and stood the best women can be at any work of one police officer, N. R. firm, all alone, with just his pistol job. Because men are not the best, K. Reddy who stopped an entire and his courage! He showed extra some men are absolutely rough village going up in flames. He ordinary courage because it was and rude. I can say with convic- himself took out his pistol because the ruling party he was working tion that all men are not excellent. all the other cops ran away, his against, but he did it and because So I would like you to be better constables ran away and he just of him the whole town was saved. than men in general and in plural, took out his pistol and he said to I think women officers in general so also to be a good police person. the advancing mob to go away or are politically neutral and do I think you have to define what a he will fire. He did not allow them deeds like these. good police is. The po- lice person is a friend and stands for the rule of law, is compassion- ate and helpful.
If you are in police you will have to pro- tect. If we can reaffirm these values in the so- ciety, the Indian Police will really change its image and the social development you talk about will be much more possible because when you go into community, you will be welcomed. It does not matter that only a good police officer is recognized. Police is loved in many places, they are looked up, but you need to cre- ate an image use its strength to deal with the democracy in the society, to deal with caste issues in the society, to deal with gender issues in the society, to deal with issues of minorities in the society. You re- ally have to break the stereo type and who better than women to break the stereo type. I always remember when the famous Babri Masjid was broken in Ayodhya,
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There are issues of great concern possibility of violence because of political for a woman. When for women officers. As young, caste, of gender or due to social you are threatened to be burnt competent and mature women and moral prejudices. by your family, you do not go police officers you can fight effec- to a police station to complain tively against injustices. You can As part of empowering our social against them because this is kindle the comparison, the feeling development, we should stand your personal life. But if you of forgiveness. I don’t know how strong against moral policing. underestimate the political issues many of you have beaten people. We could all be victims of moral you can’t be saved. There are If and when you beat, have you policing and there is no question so many other things that are thought why you beat? When I whether we are women in the personal which becomes political was a district magistrate, at court government or women out of for us; so we should understand listening to testimony of women government. A section of people the need for crossing barriers, for who had been picked up from the cannot decide or plan an attack on breaking and pushing boundar- street and sent to Nari Nikethan, another set of people belonging to ies for stretching things. there were very few women one caste or based on some norms officers or none accompanying the or culture. What often happens We live in a democracy and women victims. is they make statements such as please remember one thing- don’t the state in which I live and in ever react to something that Stories that were told to me were the neighboring state from where is truthful because that is the horrifying. At such times we you come, so you become an ‘X’ beginning of a great change. Let have to handle them with care community or ‘ Y’ community or me quote my favorite writer and and concern. We should at least ‘Z’ community. Can’t women as the poet who is a South African listen to the sufferings narrated by one community stand together whose writings influenced women so that that we could do against all atrocities on us? Why Mahatma Gandhi. The 3 sentences something positive for them. Your should they tolerate people have become a mantra for me. He social development and your castigating them as feminists? said that democracy is speaking participation in that are also to truth to power. Meaning that see that mobs that come together About feminism there are two democracy speaks truth to power, to do the most horrible things wonderful sayings, I the first making truth powerful and power on other human beings should one like very much. My life is a truthful. When we speak truth be stopped and if it is done on revolution because as a woman to power, which is an assembly women is doubly worse! In Guja- I struggle every minute, I fight of hundreds and thousands of rat when we were on two weeks for equality in my family I fight people on the street, what we tour for hearing of the testimonies for equality in society and fight do is create power. You may of people who suffered, we heard for equality in the eyes of the not have the same public face as that a young woman was gang law, I fight for equality every- politicians; you are civil servants raped at 11 in the morning on a where. In this revolution all of behind the barriers. But you too street in Ahmedabad with 600 us are one because we are born get to come to contact with people people watching it! I consider it women. Your uniform and my and on such occasions, speaking most woeful. When paralysis sets activism come much later. My truth is as essential for you as it in among the public, that’s when age comes later, your youth is for us. Sometimes for the sake something horrific happens We comes later, what you first see of protection, if you use violence, became worse than criminals is that we are women and if that then I understand that, but you when we watch crimes taking bonding become stronger I think should not be forced to be in a place in front of our eyes and do many things can be conquered. violent frame all the time. In some nothing to stop it! We became sa- Feminism has been a wonder- cases you may have to resort to dists! When you, as police officers ful thing and it is also steeped dialogues which will end have the opportunity to break in slogans that do not remain sometimes in greater unity of that crowd you should be brave as just slogans. Slogans encap- women fighting for peace, and do it. I may have the courage sulated in 4 or 5 words convey fighting for change without blood, but I cannot act. Your position great thoughts! The second thing fighting for change in a manner in and authority give you the power that I like about feminism is the which you bring about those lost to act proactively, if there is any slogan- that personal is values that we all stand for.
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Face-To-Face
Nashik Police – A year that was….
A healthy police-public interaction goes a long way in changing the law and order scenario, believes Kulwant Kumar Sarangal, Commissioner of Police, Nashik. In a brief chat Sarangal shares about policing initiatives in Nashik last year with Jyoti Pathak.
A good harmonious relation- The incidence level has also that people have faith in senior ship with the public paves the improved. The access of senior formations and once the senior way to a better feedback from police formations to the masses officers look into complaints them and helps in policing. The has improved but police station personally, people feel satisfied principle was realized by the level accessibility needs atten- and in the process the image of Nashik police and several initia- tion, especially handling of com- the police improves and now the tives have been put to action plaints at senior police inspector Nashik police plans to take this with full gusto. Great success level. Public has embraced these forward to Police Sub Inspector measures with all the fervor has been achieved in the process level. and responded with being more and the city has witnessed a trusting of police. Police presence makes all the sea change in the law and order difference in building confi- situation with these initiatives. It has been amply demonstrated dence of the people and they
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feel safe and the importance of Being competent enough to be society was organized. Police community policing need to be able to switch over roles from the station visits for school children reinforced. An All Out opera- office functions to that of to familiarize them with the tion has been devised where all supervisory at the DCPs and working of police, imparting the police personnel of all the ACPs level is important. It is them weaponry knowledge ranks from constable to commis- pertinent that due importance and other articles of interest to sioner of police are on the field is given to police station visits, children was also part of the for at least four working hours. supervision over investigation programme. Police Band Police presence on the roads has and prosecution sanctions. An- Displays were also organized for improved considerably leading other area which needs attention the public. Special drives were to lesser street crimes. Combing is to able to cater to law & order organized to meet the complain- and detentions have led to lesser requirements through Special ants in cases pending investiga- incidents of house breaking Branch (SB). Intelligence gather- tions or trials. College students and thefts. Police patrolling and ing with the help of informers is were apprised by the police of- nakabandhi has increased, thus necessary to improve our source ficials on traffic, safety & security a total professional approach has of intelligence on various issues issues and interactive sessions been enforced. Regular public including terrorism. for the housing societies were meeting are being conducted Service deliveries like character conducted. Special programmes in the slums to understand the verifications & licence were organized to return the problems of slum dwellers. issues need to be addressed muddemal(lost property) to These measures have improved expeditiously. Application complainants after completing public interface. enquiries and work of pairavi legal procedures. officers is often neglected and “Commissionerate system by The celebration of the Raising needs attention. implication implies a personal Day encapsulated the spirit of touch and involvement of senior Raising Day Celebrations community policing by Nashik formations in managing day police. to day policing affairs. This Raising Day was celebrated Success of this kind is possible is where we feel the need to between Jan 02- Jan 08 with great only through good team increase the involvement and enthusiasm in Nashik. Several work and therefore healthy positive intervention at the programmes were organized interactions between all the level of PIs, APIs and PSIs”, says to mark the occasion. Seminar on the topic Generation Next levels will go a long way in Sarangal. involving various sections of the achieving the targets.
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News
Police in News By Jyoti Pathak
Operation Mrityunjay Hi tech gear for On Jan09, 2013 at an event Navi Mumbai cops held at Shanmukhananda Hall in Sion, Mumbai Police Commissioner Satya Pal Singh launched Operation Mritunjay an initiative to make the citi- zens alert and equip them to counter and prevent crimes on the streets. The Navi Mumbai police plans to objective of the initiative go for bullet proof jackets and was to make youngsters helmets soon if all goes well as familiar with the rules per plans. Purchase of 2000 light and methods to prevent weight bullet proof helmets and crimes on the streets. The jackets is on the anvil for all police hopes this initia- police personnel across the state. tive would be yet another This would aid the police in step towards improving its interaction with public making counter insurgency operations. them more accessible. The same programme was successfully All these sophisticated gears will implemented by him in Nagpur and Pune. The horrific gang be imported from United States, rape in Delhi has set the police machinery in action and several Israel and Germany based measures are being devised on an ongoing process. firearm companies.
Millions join Balasaheb Thackeray’s last journey The Mumbai city came to a their departed and much revered standstill with the announce- leader. The entire Mumbai police ment of the passing away of Shiv of all ranks was in action to make Sena supremo & patriarch but it a very peaceful occasion and the adulation that he enjoyed they did it with all gusto. They with the masses was evident on deserve all the praise for manag- his funeral. Millions thronged ing an unprecedented turnout the streets to pay their tributes to that became a historical moment.
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K.K. Pathak takes over as Commissioner of Police – Nagpur
On December 01, K.K. Pathak who was holding the position of ADGP (Admin) - Maharashtra took over charge as Nagpur CP from his predecessor Ankush Dhanvijay, who retired after three decades of service in the department.
Law Enforcers in Mumbai on Mumbai to gets it an alert mode own women commandoes The heart wrenching crime inci- dents against women especially Mumbai police is training the gang rape incident in New its own set of women Delhi has set the law enforcers commandoes an elite group across the country into action of 43 women at the premises and alert mode. The commis- of Bhabha Atomic Research sioner of police (Mumbai) Centre who will tackle Satyapal Singh also announced crimes against women. The some actions that would training comprises of Physical improve safety conditions of women. According to CP- Mumbai, Training Prepatory (PTP), cases which involve women will now be directly supervised by se- training in self defence and in nior officers of the rank of DCP of the respective zone, and action using the body. The trainers will be taken in a time-bound manner. Assault cases which can be will use props like scissors, dealt within two/ three days are usually delayed will now have to punching bags, climbing be expedited. Phone numbers of women officers will also be prom- ropes and monkey crawl inently displayed at police stations and beat chowkies to make infrastructure. Based on their them more accessible to women. Women generally do not report capabilities and previous crimes against them. In order to encourage them to report crimes training experience they have around 4000 more complaint boxes will be installed in addition to been divided into batches 1000 that are already installed at all the police stations. Boxes will and given specific trainings. also be installed in public places and education institutions. The Mumbai police hope that these trained women Increased interaction will be encouraged between women’s commandoes will be able organizations and police officers. DCP of each zone and senior to teach girls in self defence inspectors will periodically meet women’s organizations to techniques and they will sent understand their problems as well as to spread awareness. All to 262 schools and may even these measures should be able to dispel the panic caused by the be posted outside schools Delhi incident. Mumbai police aims to deploy at least 5 women and colleges. More women constables across all police stations in the city. Following this constables will be introduced decision a woman police constable would escort a woman after this batch is successfully complainant for lodging any complaint.About 8-10 women police trained. The recruits were constables have already been added in each police station.The chosen either by their seniors additional woman police staff have been pulled out from Naigaon or chose to be part of it of police HQ where about 14000 male and female constables are in their own choice. The training reserve . This move shall be a positive step towards countering focuses on both mental increasing atrocites on women and more woman complainants attitude and agility. will feel encouraged to approach the police stations.
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Mobiles for Strong bandobast ensures safe New Fishermen Year Celebrations in Navi Mumbai A strong bandobast was and Thane Belapur Road. All organized by the Navi Mumbai nakabandis were supervised police along with traffic officials throughout the night by all the to avoid any untoward incident senior officials of the police and that may occur in Navi Mumbai traffic department. Nakabandis during New Year celebrations. were also set up near places like As part of the drunken driving mini seashore, sagar vihar and campaign Navi Mumbai police near big hotels at Vashi. Apart officials with traffic officials from breath analysis people were stationed at all entry and were also booked for riding exit points of the city. There without helmet and seat belt. In have been many accident order to ensure women’s safety cases in the recent past at Navi on the occasion 300 women In its ongoing effort to Mumbai and therefore to ensure constables were deployed on the strengthen coastal security, utmost safety for the motorists street to check trouble mongers. security agencies are providing five traffic constables and ten Two woman constables were fishermen associations with constables from the police deployed at every major mobile phones. Coastal Security department were posted at nakabandi in the city and near has always been a matter of major junctions like Palm Beach pubs and hotels. All these grave concern to the authorities Road, Sion Panvel Highway decisions worked well. following 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai. All the fishermen Navi Mumbai traffic police observes associations have been provided with two phones, so that they Road Safety Week can help the police as informers. Road Safety week was inaugurated by the Navi Mumbai Police on There are about 70 registered January 03, at Agril Kohli Bhavan in Nerul. The event was attended associations but of these only 25 by several city residents, NGO members and school students from are active. Biometric cards which 14 schools of Navi Mumbai. The event was inaugurated by Ganesh serve as electronic identification Naik- Thane Guardian Minister. Also present at the event were cards for individual fishermen A.K. Sharma- commissioner of police- Navi Mumbai, Vijay Patil- has already been supplied to deputy commissioner of police( traffic), Fateh Singh Patel, additional them. The fishermen associations commissioner of police and Srikant Pathak, deputy commissioner with the cops have regular of police( crime) – and other senior officers of RTO police and traffic meetings and have been department. The objective of the event was to make people more working towards the security. aware of traffic rules and regulations. Often youngsters flout rules They have also been trained to causing road accidents and putting their own and others lives at risk. conduct security searches. These A booklet on road safety along with a CD on traffic acts and laws was associations keep a tab on any distributed among the students and staff of the traffic department. untoward or suspicious activities It is important that each and every individual understands the of any new person. importance of traffic rules and hazards of not following them.
Justice J.S. Verma demonstrations asking for reforms in archaic rape laws. A three member committee led by Justice J.S. Verma, former Committee advocates Chief Justice of India was therefore formed to review the tough laws on sexual existing laws. The committee completed its review of the existing laws and prepared its report within a tough 30- offenders day deadline and released it on January 23. The committee The outrageous rape of the 23 received about 80000 suggestions both from India and abroad. year old medico in December in The panel came up with some dramatic and tough suggestions Delhi and her subsequent death for sexual offenders which were applauded by all the sections led to a huge outcry, protests and of the society.
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Police officials presented President’s Police Medals at Raj Bhavan
At a function at the Raj Bhavan The Governor of Maharashtra K.Sankaranarayanan on January 03, presented the Police medals for gallantry; Police medals for distinguished services and Police medal for meritorious services to 92 police officers and other police personnel.
The recipients of President’s police medal were Pravin Dixit, MD-MSPHWCorp.; K.K. Pathak, Patil; Minister of State (Home) -Satej Patil, DGP Commissioner of Police, Nagpur city;Bhagwant ( Maharashtra)- Sanjeev Dayal; Commissioner of D. More, ADGP- Railway, Mumbai; Ashok .G. Police (Mumbai ) -Satyapal Singh and other high Dhivre, ADGP-CID, Pune and others. ranking serving and retired police officers also The Chief Minister (Maharashtra) - Prithviraj graced the occasion. The families of the officers Chavan; Deputy Chief Minister (Maharashtra) - were also witness to this proud moment. Ajit Pawar, Home Minister (Maharashtra) - R. R.
First of the five fast track courts inaugurated
The chief justice of India Alta- assault pending in the respec- mas Kabir inaugurated the first tive courts would be assembled of the five fast-track courts to there and trial would continue deal with cases related to sexual from their next date of hearing. offences against women. Soon Adjournments would be for a rest of the four fast-track courts smaller span such as a day or dealing with sexual offences in two and trials will proceed on a the other district courts in the day to day basis. Judicial capital would start function- officers have been identified for ing. The existing cases of sexual the fast-track courts.
Raising Day celebrations in Maharashtra
Raising day of Maharashtra Police was them understand about functioning of police celebrated from Jan 02- Jan 08. The celebrations and the different departments of police. The are held to mark the ceremonial handing arrangement was in collaboration with Helping over of the police flag to the police chief of to Educate Associate Rehabilitate & Teach the state by the first prime minister of India (HEART) foundation. The foundation helped Jawaharlal Nehru. Several functions were the department in arranging students of the organized to celebrate the occasion in Mumbai school from the neighborhoods like Radcliffe & Navi Mumbai. At Navi Mumbai, a series of school, DPVN school and Bonny school. Other activities were organized to enhance police than that the department had chalked out & public interaction. At Belapur, in Navi several other programmes like school visits to Mumbai school students were invited to impart training on traffic rules to students, and the police stations near the school to make seminars were organized at unit head quarters.
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Cyber Security PPP Mechanism Crucial to Curb Crime
Salient Features of the JWG This JWG included Set up a permanent Report on Cyber Security representatives of both govern- mechanism for private ment and private sector. public partnership; 1. One of the primary challenges facing both government as well 2. The JWG had constituted d) Identify bodies that can as industry is to ensure the secu- five Sub-Groups to flesh out play a wider role in fund- rity of their computer networks the details of such engagement. ing and implementation and systems. Cyber security can- These five Sub-Groups submitted in the public and private not be achieved in isolation by their reports to the JWG on 16 sector; either government or industry August, 2012, which thereafter e) Identify areas where both alone. It requires joint efforts and finalized its recommendations. private and public sector collaboration. Following discus- 3. Guiding Principles can build capacities for sion with representatives of the cyber security; private sector on their role in The JWG has identified the enhancing cyber security, it was following guiding principles and f) Put in place appropriate decided to set up a Joint Work- objectives that would underpin policy and legal frame- ing Group (JWG), under the the public-private partnership works to ensure compliance chairpersonship of the Deputy (PPP) in cyber security: with cyber security efforts; National Security Advisor, to work out the details of the Road- a) Given the diverse stake- g) Promote active PPP map for cyber security coopera- holders in cyber security, cooperation in international tion that needed to be evolved. institutional mechanisms forums and in formulating should be set up to pro- India’s position on global mote convergence of cyber security policies; efforts both in public and private domains; h) Establish India as a global hub of development of b) Use existing cyber security products, institutions and orga- services and manpower; nizations to the ex- and tent possible in both private sector and i) Promote indigenization and government and cre- work on joint R&D projects ate new institutions to meet the cyber security where required to needs of the country. enhance cyber 4. “Roadmap” for PPP on Cyber security; Security Issues c) (1) Institutional Framework
On the basis of these guiding
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principles, the following coordi- (b) There has to be a concerted ment Agencies (LEAs) in nation and oversight structure is effort to increase the num- cyber crime investigations proposed: ber of cyber security profes- and cyber forensics. Private sionals and equip them to sector may be associated (a) There should be a perma- efficiently meet the chal- with establishment of train- nent Joint Working Group lenges of Cyber Security. ing facilities and provide (JWG) under the aegis basic and advanced level of the National Security (c) Ministry of Communication trainings to the LEAs. Council Secretariat (NSCS) and Information with representatives from Technology (MCIT) (h) Government and private Government as well as and Ministry of Human sector may fund research Private Sector. Resource Development & development for (MHRD) and the private development of indigenous (b) This JWG will act as an ad- sector may jointly establish cyber security products visory body and coordinate a cyber security capacity and solutions that meet Public-Private Partnership building framework. international standards and (PPP) on cyber security. address the global market. (d) Establishing a competency (c) A Joint Committee on framework to assess skills (3) Security Standards and International Cooperation required, identify gaps, Audits and Advocacy (JCICA) will and devise strategies and be set up as a permanent programmes for capacity- Given the role of security advisory committee of the building. This may include standards and audit in enhanc- JWG in promoting India’s designing security certifica- ing the level of preparedness and national interests at various tion schemes for IT profes- assurance in cyber security, the international forum on sionals and advising cyber private sector would be an active cyber security issues. security related curriculum partner in undertaking the following activities: (d) The composition of both JWG for formal sector (B. Tech, M. Tech., MBA etc). and JCICA will be finalized (a) Define baseline security in consultation with (e) Work towards establishing standards and practices/ industry associations. a multi-disciplinary Centre guidelines for the critical sector organizations both (e) The private sector will set of Excellence (COEs) in the public and private up Information Sharing & in Cyber security areas sectors. The standards Analysis Centres (ISACs) in including best practices, may be developed by a various sectors and cooper- forensics, cyber crime MCIT led body with active ate with the sectoral CERTs investigation, studies, involvement of the industry at the operational level. research and international frameworks/ institutions. and academia. (2) Capacity Building (f) MCIT and private sector (b) Define enhanced standards (a) Critical shortage of cyber should jointly run cyber and guidelines for organi- security professionals need security awareness zations that fall in the high to be tackled in mission campaigns for the general risk category i.e. the critical mode with innovative public, teenagers, children, information infrastructure recruitment and place- etc. organisations. ment procedures along with specialized training (g) Ministry of Home Affairs (c) Laying down of security of existing manpower. This (MHA) and MCIT may standards and guidelines programme may be imple- setup training facilities for for acquisition of IT mented in PPP mode. training of Law Enforce- products and services.
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(d) Develop protection profiles, capturing users’ cyber security concerns, to aid the procurement of IT products as well as compliance verification of IT products prior to deployment.
(e) Work jointly towards the establishment of Institute of Cyber Security Profession- als of India (similar to ICAI for CAs). This could be an autonomous institution un- der the patronage of MCIT.
(f) Make cyber security audit mandatory by appropriate amendment in the listing requirements under the Companies Act.
(4) Testing & Certification as certificate issuing body ing Nation’ to a ‘Common The following measures may for IT products. Criteria Certificate Autho- be taken for enhancing testing rizing Nation’. (c) Development of skills and & certifying facilities to address competence of evaluators, 5. Pilot projects the growing concerns relating to validators and certification supply-chain vulnerability: As the first step towards the body personnel for implementation of the above (a) Establishment of National successfully running the recommendations, four pilot Testing and Certifica- National Testing and projects have been identified for Certification Scheme. tion Schemes, under the early implementation: supervision and oversight (d) Establishment of private (a) Setting up of a pilot testing of appropriate empowered owned testing labs, lab, entities under the MCIT. duly accredited by (b) While action is underway the certification body; (b) Conducting a test audit, for establishment of Tele- Government may provide (c) Study vulnerabilities in a com Testing and Certifi- the necessary incentives sample Critical Information cation Centre in telecom for the private sector for opening testing labs. Infrastructure, and sector, there is a need for establishment of an inde- (e) Encourage active participa- (d) Establishment of a multi- pendent government certi- tion in the communities of disciplinary Centre of fication body for IT prod- interest for defining protec- Excellence (COE). ucts under the MCIT. The tion profiles for addressing 6. The permanent JWG (to be certification body should the security requirements constituted) will work out the be separate from the testing of specific sector. facilities. In the interim, Action-Plan for implementation Standardisation Testing (f) Take necessary steps to of the recommendations. transition from a ‘Common and Quality Certification National Security Council (STQC) may be authorized Criteria Certificate Consum- Secretariat
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Technology
Cyber Safety Month in Mumbai ICE Software Launched at Umang
By Jyoti Pathak
With the increasing usage studded event for Mumbai cyber crime. Awareness, training of internet, popularity of police called Umang the Mumbai and e-learning initiatives will be social networking sites and e commissioner of police, Satyapal organized for housing societies. commerce websites, cyber crime Singh announced the launching A detailed programme has been has been growing manifold. of one month of Cyber Safety chalked out (table on next page) The menace of crime has been Initiative month in association spreading its wings all over and with NASSCOM – (National The gruesome and outrageous the vulnerable and the innocent Association of Software and rape of the 23 year old medico people fall an easy prey. It is Services Companies), to spread at Delhi has exposed the very important that the internet awareness about cybercrime in vulnerability of women to users of all age groups are aware the month of January 2013. crimes. The large scale protests and educated enough about regarding the safety and security The initiative will involve the cybercrimes that may occur of women has become the participation of major IT anytime. Keeping all this in view talking point for the nation. companies, police force, general since the last few years Mumbai Several measures are being public, BPO’s, schools, colleges, Police has been observing one devised by the law enforcement travel companies, e commerce week of January as Cybersafety agencies to protect women and websites etc. Booklets and week when intense training Mumbai police too has been brochures will be distributed at and awareness workshops are working on it. carried out. This time around all public places. Messages will the one week programme has be aired on public forums like Almost always we are caught been extended to one month. cinema halls, to highlight the off guard by emergency On Jan 05, 2013 at the star ‘Do’s and Don’ts in order to fight situations and exposed to being
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Sr. Date Day Time Event Title Venue Audience Responsibility No. 1 05/Jan/13 Saturday 07 pm – Umang Sports Com- Police / Mukund Pawar 12 pm plex, Andheri Celebrities 2 09/Jan/13 Wednesday 02 pm – Sr. Police officers Prerna Hall, Police Vijay Mukhi 05 pm training Police Club 3 11/Jan/13 Friday 10 am – Cyber Safety Prerna Hall, Service Tax Rajiv Vaishnav 01 pm Awareness Police Club officers (Service Tax officers) 4 16/Jan/13 Wednesday 10 am – Training Program Prerna Hall, Police Vijay Mukhi 01 pm Sr Police Officers for Police Club officers school / college 5 17/Jan/13 Thursday 04 pm – Police interaction Prerna Hall, Closed door Vijay Mukhi 06 pm with ethical hackers Police Club meeting between Police and Hackers 6 18/Jan/13 Friday Cyber Safety Aware- Patkar Hall, SNDT Rajiv Vaishnav ness (SNDT students) SNDT campus students 7 18/Jan/13 Friday 10 am – Cyber Safety Schools / Students Police team 01 pm Awareness Schools / Colleges Colleges 8 18/Jan/13 Friday 4:30 pm – Discussion with CGs Shayadri State Consul AIAI 06 pm Guest House Generals 9 19/Jan/13 Saturday 05 pm – Housing Colony Kalpataru Society Vijay Mukhi 06 pm Society Residents 10 28/Jan/13 Monday 04 pm – Discussion with Prerna Hall, Tourism Manoj Gursahani 06 pm Tourism industry Police Club Industry 11 01/Feb/13 Friday 04 pm – Cyber War / Social AIAI 07 pm Media interaction 12 01/Feb/13 Friday 07 pm – Closing Ceremony Shayadri State Police & Rajiv Vaishnav, 09 pm Guest House Industry Vijay Mukhi victims of crime as they befall NASSCOM and Mumbai Police. send SOS distress message. on us without warning. As first The mobile app ICE (in case • It provides tips on personal responders to any emergency of emergency), developed by safety and cyber safety. situation until the arrival of KPMG, is a great step and one Law Enforcement Agencies of the many other measures by • It provides easy access to and Emergency Response Mumbai police towards ensuring guidelines for disaster pre- agencies we have to react. If we safety of women and children. paredness, first aid, police have aids to counter attacks or The objective of the app is to and ambulance phone response procedures to protect create public awareness about numbers. ourselves we can minimize the the preparations for the first • It helps in finding nearest impact of any assault. response in case of identified hospital automatically based emergency situations. This app Another important on your GPS location and will allow a person in distress announcement at the Umang hospitals across major cities to send out immediate text therefore was the launch of in the country. alerts to specified contacts. The mobile app ICE (In case of • Stores critical information BlackBerry and iOS versions will emergency) software of Mumbai useful during emergency be released soon. Police in association with KPMG such as: India by Sri. Amitabh Bachchan. Key Features of ‘ICE - Mumbai • Contact details of Family The launch of this software is Police’ include: members, Doctors and SOS part of the Cyber Safety month contacts. initiative of the Mumbai police. • It is a first of its kind multilin- KPMG India is the Knowledge gual app which is available in • Current and past medication, Partner for the Cyber Safety English, Hindi and Marathi. Blood group, Allergies etc. Month initiative organized by • With just one touch one can
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Those who say that Police as an ment of society for institution had been started all its development and over India by the Police Act of maintenance of hu- 1861 and therefore, was a gift of man rights. the British Raj, need to read our ancient texts. In ancient India, The purpose of this there used to be ‘Swadanda’ small article is to (King’s personal army) and examine the police ‘Oandabal’ (State Police). The lat- organization and ter received orders straight from structure in the City the Sabha (representative body) of Nagpur for the last 300 years. His- and not the king, to punish tant places. The duty of Harkaras tory of Nagpur Police has been criminals and prevent the king was to contact Kamavisdars and divided in three parts. Nagpur from interfering with the liberty Patels to prevent crime and ap- Police upto Bhonsale Raj and of the people. Indians had the in- prehend offenders. genuity of coining specific terms Annexation, Nagpur Police after for specific function or office. 1861 and after 1903, these being Kotwal was the corner stone of the important landmarks. Police establishment. He used to ‘Nara’ (as different from Pu- Police in Gond and be employed by the Patel though, rusha, Manushya etc.) were Bhonsale Kingdoms normally, his post was hereditary. local police and ‘Narapati’ was His services could be terminated Magistrate in Vedic Constitution. ‘Policing in Gond Kingdom and if any default was committed by The problem of balancing state Bhonsale Raj had five elements him. He knew the name and rent power and individual liberty has based on ancient Indian and of each field, house owners and been a perennial issue and the medieval police tradition, viz. could identify strangers com- ancient Indians had their own police under revenue authorities, ing to his village. He was also peculiar solutions. ‘Paripalan’ village kotwals and city Kotwals. utilized to call people to feasts, (protection) was the very basis community responsibility, penal marriages, etc. He would invite of a state. Its power was toler- provisions suitable to social people for ‘panchayat’. wait on ated because it ‘hindered the structure and espionage. Medi- the travelers, arrange supplies hindrances’ to good life, includ- eval political structure was feu- they needed and, also report ing self realization and ‘swaraj’. dal in nature, and economy was to Patel. He used to summon Even today, we are struggling purely agricultural. Society was the people if and when Patel so to transform Ruler’s Police to hierarchical with little religious required. He or some member ‘People’s Police’, emphasizing or caste conflicts. There was a of his family was expected to be that police is an essential instru- practice of dividing the whole on night watch to protect people territory into Parganas consisting from thieves. He was adept in of a number of villages. In each tracking thieves from one village of them Gonds had zamindari to another and catching them. He establishment of Deshmukhs was given assistants in larger vil- and Deshpandes. Bhonsales had lages called Tarar. Emoluments of replaced them with their own Kotwal were mostly in kind, i.e. revenue administrators called he was given a small piece of land Kamavisdars and Patels includ- as enam, a ‘Kudao’ grain from ing ‘Bara Baluties’ with a Kotwal. each plough. ‘Khursoot’ or the In big villages Havaldar was privilege of collecting sweepings appointed under Patel to deal from Khallas or thrashing floors, with police matters. There used as well as hides and carcasses of to be a large establishment of dead animals. In some districts he Harkaras scattered over the Nag- used to get some pies at festivals pur Province. along with ‘See or marriages and enjoyed the bandies’ a small army at impor- right of taking a handful from
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each basket carried to Bazar. they been properly supported in the caste system so much so by their superiors, in this branch that if a Brahmin was found in Tarar had a petty grain allow- of their duty”. This is a remark public place without applying ance from each Kisan. Patels coming from the Imperial ruler the ‘Gandha’, i.e. Tilak on fore- were responsible to see that these who was more interested in head, he was fined Rs. 5. Once in officials were not careless and taking over the reins of Bhonsale 1771, a Sahookar (Money lender) that they were punctually paid power. On various other testimo- named Naroba Naik Kanade had for their services. Patels used nies. even from British agents, employed a cook in his house to have shares in the revenue it can be said that the people who was later found to be an collection. Kamavisdars used of Nagpur province in general, untouchable. Naik used to make to receive Rs, 200 to Rs. 500 per were satisfied with the prevail- offerings to his deity from the year and also received Nuzzurs ing law and order and dispensa- food so cooked, perform the ritu- and various contributions from tion of justice. People enjoyed als of ‘Vaiswadev and Naivedya’ their Parganas. In particular the liberty of their times under the before taking meals. When this collections and disbursement feudal and hierarchical system. news reached the Raja, Naik was of Burguns were a great source fined Rs. Three, to hush up the of profit to him. Havaldars Jenkins has favourably com- matter. George Foster, a visit- and Harkaras were paid by the mented on the prevalent criminal ing British Diplomat, narrated Government About the police justice and has given a list of another story. The kingdom was machinery, Richard Jenkins, crimes and the nature of punish- highly indebted to one Udepuri the Resident at Bhonsle’s Court ment. It seems, in times of great Gosai to the tune of Rs.50 Lakhs. remarks, that there were “ample need and in exceptional cases, When Udepuri started nagging means for preventing crimes and Bhonsles exploited rich people. for the return of loan, one of apprehending offenders, had They were orthodox believers his disciples was deliberately
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looting. They used to suddenly a minor. Bankabai was recog- attack weaker states and plun- nized as the Regent and guard- der wealth. In Nagpur territory, ian of the adopted son during mud forts were built in most of his minor status. The Resident the villages to ward Pindharies was advised against “sudden off. In 1809, a Pindhari Chief innovations”. Officers of the Karim Khan with 15000 men Bhonsale regime in the Para- and 50 guns had moved towards ganas were retained but British Nagpur, and only the combined officers called Superintendents army of the British and Bhonsale were appointed to supervise the could repulse them. They con- woking of the districts including tinued to attack Nagpur every that of the Patels. For imparting year. Many a time, markets in criminal justice, Kamavisdars Nagpur were plundered, houses continued trying offences, but of burnt and territories devastated. minor description with specified In 1817 the Governor General powers. Superintendents and implicated in the murder of his decided to curb the evil with the the Resident’s powers were also keep. Mudhoji sent sepoys to help of Scindias and Bhonsale. specified. arrest him and in the ensuing A big cavalry operation was For capital punishment a written scuffle the disciple was killed. launched and by 1819 Pindharies order from the Raja was essen- Mudhoji threafter threatened were exterminated. tial. Such punishments as mutila- Udepuri of dire consequences Pindharies had created a law tion which had been common and demanded back the promis- and order problem that had in Bhonsale Raj were abolished. sory note to settle the matter. The to be settled with the help of a Provisions of criminal code of note was returned unpaid and Bengal were adopted to define Udepuri had to leave the City. combined army. Their menace various crimes and prescribe Such tactics to fill in the empty was one of the causes that forced punishments. Administration of coffers of the State were cer- Bhonsales to sign Subsidiary the City as the capital was kept tainly objectionable but the same Alliance with the British in 1816. separate for revenue collections, diplomat also described Mudhoji Jenkins, the first British Resident, policing and judicial matters. as “known to be highly judicious suggested reforms in administra- tion including introduction of and very popular amongst the There existed a system of ‘Khan- farmers, the entrepreneurs and Police to tighten the grip over sumari’. i.e. census in Bhonsale the traders. But in politics he was Bhonsale Raj. Appasaheb Bhon- Raj. It was annual enumera- very cruel and treacherous” sale revolted but was defeated tion of houses in each district in the Battle of Sitaburdi in 1818 with the specification of castes, The Problem of Pindharies and had to flee from Nagpur to profession and other particulars continue his fight against the In Indian history, mention of for adjusting the Pandhari dues imperial power from outside. (House Tax) to Government. Pindharies is found as early as In 1819 the Resident conducted 1689 but they attracted attention British ‘Superintendency’ census and it is on record that quite later. They were so called and Police Reforms (1819-26) mainly, the police officials were due to their plunder of shops employed for the task. The Su- of intoxicating drink Pinda. Thereafter for about 7 years, the perintendent of Police. Nagpur Marathas, mainly Scindias and British Resident Jenkins took was entrusted with census for Holkars, used these freebooters over the reins of administration. Nagpur City. to annihilate their enemies by The Company Government in giving them grants of land north England was not in favour of Nagpur Police After Resto- of Narmada river. Pindharies immediate annexation of the ration of the Territories to proliferated by recruiting men territory for political reasons and Raja, Raghuji, the III with the sole qualification of directed the Resident to look af- having a horse, a sword and ter administration pending take When Raghuji III became major in united with the sole purpose of over by Raghuji the III who was 1826, he was seated on the throne
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and British officers were with- to obtain confession was termi- police force unless some correc- drawn. Raja appointed his own nated from service and fined on tive measures were adopted. It ministers and for Police Dept. he public complaints. There were was feared that the Police might appointed Salauddin, who had cases of persons voluntarily ap- ‘recompose themselves at the worked in the same Dept. under proaching the British police and cost of the people and might British Superintendence and was confessing crimes. Such persons connive at robberies, when their “a very active man in that Dept.” were convicted and sent to jails own situations would not be In the places of British Super- without further enquiries. worth holding for the wages’. intendents, natives of the rank, called Soobahs or Ziledars were The Raja did not disturb the The forecast did come true and appointed in Chanda, Bhandara. police establishment. Nagpur the police became slack and cor- rupt. The Sanskrit proverb, ‘Raja Chindwara and Chattisgarh Dis- Police received high praise Kalasya Karanam’ explains the tricts. The same officers who had from the British officers. On situation. Raghuji had almost be- worked under Jenkins were em- 12th March, 1833, the Resident come desperate for being unable ployed under them maintaining reported to the Governor Gen- to be get an heir to the throne. continuity in administration. In- eral. “It is to the credit of Raja’s He fell into bad company, devel- dian officers of status and capac- administration that the tran- oped bad habits as well as sick- ity were appointed in the Courts quility has not in any material ness in later years and neglected for dispensing justice. The area degree - even partially disturbed. administration. After his death, where the Resident lived and Security to person and property adoption of a male child by his the adjoining army area, viz. Sit- is better than Nizam’s territory. queen was not accepted by the aburdi was outside the jurisdic- The policing is very efficiently British rulers and the Company tion of the Raja. They had their conducted and that the victims Government annexed Nagpur own police. The crimes commit- of public outrages within the Kingdom. ted in this area were tried by the Nagpur territories are very Resident and his assistants, even rare.” Later in 1839, Resident The Thugee and Dacoity if the criminal was from outside Cavendish wrote, “The police of the jurisdiction of the Residency. this country is excellent... I have A French traveler in the 17th There used to be large number of never seen a better Police even in Century wrote that the ‘most counterfeiting cases. There were our own provinces…” However cunning’ robbers in the world deaths in prison, but no inquiry he added that because of the were living in India. It is be- was ordered. However, old re- sinking finances, the Police were lieved that the thugee was cords show that a Fouzdar who not paid regularly and there was introduced into India by some had used third degree methods a danger of deterioration in the wild Mohammedan tribes of
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Persian origin. But it enveloped within its fold people of diverse religions and castes. The Thugs claimed divine origin from the order of Goddess Kali or Fa- tima, wife of Ali. They used to waylay travelers, strangulate them and bury in remote places. For eradicating this menace a special officer was appointed by the Govt. of India. Since these criminals did not necessarily belong to a particular state, they were considered as International criminals and their trial was dent) about 700 in number, was pervision which led to rampant taken over by the British agents. divided into seven Companies extortion and corruption. Beams All the States were required to each commanded by a Subedar. inform us, “the Daroghas of the contribute to meet the expenses All of them worked under Kotwal old type, ruled as little kings in incurred on apprehension and or Daroga of the City. The City their own jurisdiction and reaped subsequent imprisonment of the Jail under Kotwal was in the im- a rich harvest of bribes from all thugs and dacoits. In Nagpur, mediate charge of Subedar of the classes. He describes a good spec- agent Frazer was appointed on 2nd Company. The Jail guard was imen of Darogha,” a tall portly a consolidated pay of Rs.390 for composed of 100 men deputed Mohammedan, grey beard, with which sanction of the Nagpur from the seven companies. smooth sleek look, crafty as a Darbar was obtained. The Thugs fox, extremely polished in man- and Dacoits were initially tried Mofussil Police had more than ner, deferential to his superiors, at Calcutta and after 1849 by the 400 men distributed in 25 Parga- but haughty and tyrannical British agents at Nagpur. If the nas in the Nagpur Collectorate to his inferiors. With his huge subjects of the Raja of Nagpur and presided over by a Kamavis- scarlet turban laced with gold, were involved, permission of dar, equivalent to Tahsildar on an his sword, long riding boots, he the Raja was sought and granted average pay of Rs. 61.50 p.m. The bestrode a gaunt roan horse with “to hold sessions for the trial of District Police and the fouzdari gray eyes, a pink nose, and a long Thugs and dacoits arrested and duties of the collectorate were flowing tail”. There were 112 convicted at Nagpur”. generally under the Daroga on a Thanas and Nakas and the rates salary of Rs. 200 p.m. with a large of pay varied from Rs. 5 to Rs. 15 The City of Nagpur had popula- establishment of Mutsaddies. a month. (Grains were sold at the tion of about 1, 40,000 and the Station houses and outposts were rate 18 or 20 sears or about 14-15 police force (excluding the area of located at convenient places. KG for a Rupee). Sitaburdi directly under the Resi- There was near total lack of su- To be Continued...
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Unravelling 21st Century Crime A Challenging Role for Forensic Science
Dr. Rukmani Krishnamurthy, Chairperson, Helik Advisory Ltd. The word forensic originated every criminal can be connected Member of Academic from the Latin word “Forensis” to his crime by contact traces Council, Gujarat which means deliberations “In carried from the scene of crime Forensic Science Open Court”. In modern use the or left by him at the scene of term “Forensic” is effectively a crime. university, Gujarat synonym for “legal” or “related Ex. Technical Adviser, Evolution of Forensic to courts” and is now more Science Institute of Forensic closely associated to the scientific Science, Higher and field which equates to the word While forensic science has Technical Education “Forensic Science”. evolved and improved over Dept., Govt. of the years, forensic analysis has Forensic Science is the applica- Maharashtra. been documented at least as far tion of various physical and Ex. Director, back as Archimedes (287 - 212 social sciences to provide Directorate of Forensic BC). The “Eureka” legend of scientific evidences to the court Science Labs, Home Archimedes can be considered of law. It involves using of all the Dept. Govt. of an early account of the use of available scientific techniques Maharashtra forensic science. In his case, in solving crimes and ensures Ex. Senate member, by examining the principles of providing the best possible water displacement, Archimedes University of Mumbai, evidences to pin down the actual was able to prove that a crown Mumbai culprit. was not made of gold (as was One of the most important fraudulently claimed) by its den- figures in the history of Forensic sity and buoyancy. Science was Sir Edmond Locard (1847-1915) who established the unique con- cept of “Principle of Exchange” During this era of 1847- 1915 which forms the basis of forensic science was mainly forensic examination of the clue confined to criminal investigation materials. The principle states and examination of chemicals. that “Whenever two objects During the same time a Span- come into contact, they always ish born scientist Mathieu Orfila leave a trace on the other” and founded the science of toxicology Ms. Nisha Menon, it is impossible for a criminal to and wrote an exhaustive book on Principal Scientist, Helik act, without leaving traces of his poisons describing its effect on Advisory Ltd. presence considering especially the living body, the symptoms the intensity of a crime. Hence of illness they produce, the signs
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they leave in the dead body and enabling the nabbing of original common man. Forensic services ways of identifying them. perpetrators and acquittal of thus became the need of the hour the innocents. Various chemical to counter and control these (1877-1966) methodologies along with latest crimes. During this period many impor- instruments were employed for (2006) tant principles were discovered finding the nature and compo- by the scientists the most im- nents of the materials found at Scams running into crores of portant being the “Principle of the crime scenes. For example, rupees with the use of high end Exchange”. During this period gas chromatography and mass technology to cheat the common the first forensic science labora- spectrometry for separation of public with fake schemes on tory was established at Lyon in volatile substances, high pres- the internet, phones and other 1910 by Sir Edmond Locard. sure liquid chromatography for available media were exposed the separation of drugs com- during this phase .All this (1970’s) bined with mass spectrometry. pointed towards the extreme This period witnessed increase in The concept of reconstruction of need for forensic experts. crime rate and growth in forensic crime scene was also started by These scams gave rise to science laboratories as well. the investigation agencies during new forensic techniques like Many laboratories were this phase. BEOS profiling, polygraph, established in various parts (2001-2008) forensic voice analysis, tape of the country to counter the authentication, digital and cyber increased crime rates. During this period Mumbai forensics to counter these high (1980’s) city became a major target for tech crimes. the terrorists and witnessed This period saw one of the a number of attacks at public Dr.(Mrs.) Rukmani Krishna- major breakthroughs in the places which killed hundreds of murthy, Director, Directorate form of DNA fingerprinting innocent people raising serious of Forensic Science Labs, Home technique developed by Sir concerns about the safety and Dept. Govt. of Maharashtra was Alec Jeffrey. The technique security of the common public. awarded the Best Director by since it’s introduction in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. Because of these attacks, mid-1980s, has revolutionized of India for utilizing the mod- forensic science and the ability The Government of India ernization funds to establish six of law enforcement to match sanctioned funds for immediate world class FSL’s in Maharash- perpetrators with crime scenes. modernization of the forensic tra. Within a span of two years Thousands of cases have been laboratories and the police these FSL’s provided techniques closed and innocent suspects force. All the major FSL’s in like DNA testing, Brain Signa- freed with guilty ones punished the country like Gujarat DFSL, ture Profiling, Narco-Analysis, because of the power of a silent Maharashtra DFSL, HP FSL, AP Lie Detection, Cyber Forensic, biological witness at the crime FSL were modernized under Tape authentication, Speaker scene. The first computerized this scheme with remarkable identification & Forensic Clini- database was established for achievement. The main target cal Toxicology to counter hi-tech recording and storage of forensic was to develop and modernize crimes. evidences during this period. forensic investigations related to 21st CENTURY: explosives and terrorists. (1990’s) (2003-2006) The increase in scams and With constant advancement crimes called for urgent need to and progress forensic science The phase saw rise in white upgrade the quality of forensic emerged as an important and collar crimes, day to day criminal services with intense research powerful scientific tool in the activities like frauds, forgeries to substantiate laboratory criminal justice system, and usage of technology to dupe conclusions and reach out to the
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masses. All this was facilitated lenge when the forensic sci- is on the rise and security aspects with national and international entists observed constant are at a very nascent stage. conferences on forensic science. advancement of the crimes and decided to develop techniques Screening every individual at The increased awareness led not only to control these crimes major places is almost an impos- to greater public acceptance of but to prevent them from hap- sible task and simultaneously forensic techniques which in pening in future. This branch of vulnerability to terrorist activi- turn called for better funding forensic science, which aimed ties increases due to lack of neg- to the forensic laboratories and at preventing crimes rather ligence and awareness amongst additional experts in order to than just solving them, is called the common masses. However stem the mounting back logs. Preventive Forensic. Increas- this branch has a huge challenge of dealing with all these issues The general public became aware ing incidents of crime has set thus hoping to avert any further of forensic science through an alarm to the entire forensic attacks by the terrorists. media, newspapers, television fraternity across the country to serials, movies etc. An utter need take a step forward in educat- Forensic Need of Common for education accompanied with ing masses about forensic, not Man only its use but its misuse in the R&D in Forensic Sciences with society as well. advanced technology and skilled Considering the huge pendency in the Government lab the com- experts was felt. Preventive forensic dealing mon man has to struggle for the with terrorist attacks in our Dr.J.M.Vyas, Director General- country should start creating forensic services. This pendency Gujarat Forensic Science database of the terrorists also affects further research and University, established one of which could help reveal their development in this field keep- the first Forensic University future plans through different ing the experts busy in solving catering to the urgent need of technological progress made pending cases. Hence there is skilled Forensic Scientists. Govt. in the field wherein a complete fast growing need for public of Maharashtra took this as a psychological profiling private forensic science institutes challenge and appointed Dr. using various tests could be for individuals and organiza- (Mrs.) Rukmani Krishnamurthy prepared along with tapped tions who wish to resolve their as Technical Adviser to The voices, the explosives used, internal disputes without police Institute of Forensic Science, modus operandi, DNA profiles intervention and also due to the Higher & Technical Education and other different forms of difficulty in approaching Gov- Dept. Maharashtra State, in 2009. evidence which can be stored ernment laboratories due to set She has started Diploma Course to prevent further terrorist procedures. in Forensic Science & Related attacks. Taking this concept further Laws; Digital, Cyber Forensic Increasing incidents of crime HELIK Advisory Ltd., the first & Related Laws. Three years such as terrorist activities, premier ISO certified organiza- B.Sc. and two year M.Sc in financial crimes, white tion in forensic and allied scienc- Forensic Science at Mumbai, collar crimes, scams of huge Aurangabad and Nagpur, Board es was formed. The organization magnitude have set a strong of Studies for Forensic Science has come up with an innovative challenge to the entire forensic have been approved by the combination of forensic solutions fraternity across the country to Academic Council of Mumbai, and technologies for the corpo- take a step forward in educating Aurangabad, and Nagpur rate houses, medium/small scale masses about forensic- its use University and the courses are enterprises, institutions, entre- and misuse in the society. affiliated to the Universities. preneurs, businesses, judiciary, police, defense and individuals ERA of Preventive Forensic Preventive forensic has a major role to play in developing coun- with its latest technology and This tenure saw a new chal- tries like India where population equipments.
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can help uncover hidden crimes, convict the guilty, and exonerate the innocent. Sophisticated science now plays a key role in identifying victims of crimes, accidents, disasters, and wars- and provides reassurance, closure, and emotional support for bereaved survivors.
Technological advancements are Helik at a Glance the key to success and moving aggressively to bring latest The very concept of these for setting up of six world class forensic technology to India innovative services was Govt. forensic laboratories and is the prime motive of Helik. conceived and imbibed keeping three Govt. Institutes of Forensic Some of the new technologies in mind the standard practices Science in Maharashtra. and area where Helik did a of forensic and allied sciences path breaking upgradation in in developed countries, where Helik Forensic Experts are core solving complicated cases are high grade private research Forensic scientist who have highlighted below : institutes are the main source worked in Govt. Forensic Labs RSBY has been launched by Min- for providing forensic and allied and trained in most of the istry of Labour and Employment, services to the potential clients Central Forensic Science Labs, Government of India to provide including law enforcement MHA, Govt. of India. health insurance coverage for agencies and judiciary. New technologies and methods Below Poverty Line (BPL) fami- Helik is spearheaded by an are transforming the field of lies. In view of the gaps prevalent eminent and renowned forensic forensic science. Given the in previous systems of delivering scientist Dr. (Mrs.) Rukmani sensitivity and complications health insurance schemes to the Krishnamurthy, Ex-director, involved in applying forensic poor, various insurance com- Directorate of Forensic science to solve cases, forensic panies has partnered with third Science Laboratories, Govt. scientists need to adhere to party vendor for enrollment of of Maharashtra; Ex-Technical rigorous procedures and BPL families and issue biometric Advisor, Institute of Forensic standards to ensure that their cards. Science, Higher & Technical results are valid and reliable- Education Dept., Govt. of and can withstand scrutiny Fraud has been reported, in the Maharashtra. Academic Council in courts of law and public form of false enrolment, fake Member, Gujarat Forensic opinion. Used carefully and persons; duplicate biometric and Science University, responsible evenhandedly, the new forensics demographic details at places
HELIK EXPERTS AT CRIME & FIRE SCENE RSBY (Forensic De-duplication of large database of Biometric – identity)
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Helik Digital Finger Print Dept where enrollment is done by a over six crore (60 million). The malpractice of fake and third party vendor. These fake Bogus/ ghost card is a big men- forged academic certificates enrollment results into false ace in the PDS which needs to be is creating a menace in the insurance claims and causes tackled effectively to ensure food education sector. Frequently enormous loss to govt. Fake security for the needy and to stop incidences of fake mark sheet claims have affected the actual large scale diversion in PDS. are busted. It not only harms beneficiaries who have been the education system but also Issues of concern include the deprived of their facilities. hinders the growth of eligible veracity of the information students and individuals who regarding applicant’s income, There is an utter requirement take education as a way forward residence and number of family of forensic services which is in their career. The authenticity members, category and criterion required to cater to these special of the education due to such of people to who ration cards are segment which the ministry malpractices is at stake if not issued, continue the ration card of labor addresses. Helik has curtailed immediately. unearthed major frauds related even after the person’s death and to RSBY enrollment through lift commodities in his/her name Helik in the process of curtailing forensic De-duplication and data at cheaper rates from the public this menace has come up with sanitization with latest forensic distribution system and sell it at new solutions and methodolo- technology which has assisted a premium in the market. gies which is being considered by various state govt. which the govt. to curb the fake claims Helik has developed a unique include quick Forensic screening design and methodology to curb Fake ration card of the mark sheet, digitalization this menace by incorporating a and database management of Fake ration card is a big racket, fully scientific and automated the existing records, categori- system, with forensic de- and is probably robbing many zation of the existing security duplication of demographic and needy people of their share of ra- feature, detailed forensic analysis biometric entries at enrollment tion. The biggest problem is that of dubious marksheets - Mark level and on-site verification the number of fake ration cards sheets can be examined to detect is much more than the estimated Fake Marksheet alterations, additions, erasures number of poor households of and obliterations, and the paper,
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ink and printing substrate can be efficiency for a research study targets frequently go. This may examined to distinguish between during the FRR test conducted seem like trivial information, but fake and genuine. for Certification of Aadhaar actually has a great impact in a Authentication Devices. private investigators’ process Simultaneously, for new mark of investigation. Starting your sheet Helik has designed formats During the research study it was investigation with social network observed that there were various and templates where incorpo- intelligence can help minimize shortcomings and lack of techni- ration of digital fingerprints, costs before going out imme- cality in the testing procedures biometric identity on the mark diately on surveillance. Simi- which appeared inappropriate sheet of the individuals, forensic larly, social network intelligence as per the standard norms. The authentication stamp of genuine uncovers useful data if you are investigation proceeded in two mark sheets and certificates with completing an asset investiga- stages -where the documentation an electronic format is saved tion, due diligence, or a elaborating the testing with its with a secured server. background investigation. methodology and specifications Forensic Stylometry were analyzed and compared Forensic Psychology for cor- porate and individual frauds Email has become the most with standard international procedures and second was the popular internet application and There have been various instanc- site visit where actual tests were with rise in its use, there is an es where thefts and corporate being conducted. inevitable increase in the use of frauds were unearthed using email for criminal purposes. It is Social Media Investigation forensic psychology technique, possible for an email message to which not only maintain the Social Networking websites be sent anonymously or through confidentiality of the clients but are growing rapidly and they spoofed servers. Forensic stylo- also deeper problems were iden- have proven to be a great way metric authorship analysis is a tified and rectified. Some case for friends, families and busi- new and upcoming field with work types include: the application and develop- ness colleagues to connect. ment of techniques which can Not only has the popularity of - A 37 years old female was determine whether two samples social media websites dramati- referred for forensic psychologi- of text were written by the same cally increased, they also store cal evaluation by her husband author or, conversely, whether a a tremendous amount of data seeking help to find out about sample of text attributed to one and detailed information on the missing jewels and cash from author is the genuine work of people who use them. Social home. Case related interview that author. Helik with the help network services are increasingly was conducted to seek de- of this new technique has solved being used for legal and criminal tails about the sequence of the various cases related to anony- investigations. This data is being events that occurred. During the mous emails received by various mined and information reviewed Forensic Psychological Evalua- corporate. to provide valuable insight on tion, client confessed of giving a person’s whereabouts, their away her jewels to a person Research on actual work- families, friends, lifestyle, work with whom she had developed ing method and efficiency history, social schedules, etc. All a relation which was emotional of biometric base live scan this aids in background, civil and and trustworthy in nature. The acquisition devices criminal investigations. family was suggested remedies to the client to deal with feelings Helik, in the process of devel- Performing investigations on of guilt, betrayal, sadness, fear oping a digitalized process of individuals through social net- and marital counseling to help fingerprint based biometric iden- works alone does not guarantee the couple resolve the issue tity was to generate a database 100% accuracy; however this will effectively. of available biometric devices, help start background check by their actual working method and learning where clients or case - In an another case a leading
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Helik Psychology Dept. security company whose one of of the candidates into the All these difficulties can be the main roles was to feed cash company. Currently Helik is overcome with the help of digital in ATM machines found that a well equipped with technology forensic. The right use of latest few of their employees have in- of psychological profiling and tools and techniques help us to dulged in cash mismanagement polygraph examination and is in resolve such crimes in digital while transferring cash from the process of initiating newer world and also helps to pros- security van to ATM Machines. technologies such as silent talker, ecute the offenders in the court integrity testing for profiling and of law. - They suspected one employee preventive forensic. and referred him for Polygraph Most of the time there is Examination. Psychological Scope of Digital Technology difficulty in solving cases either Profiling and Polygraph due to insufficient evidence Examination was conducted on Digital forensic is a broader or poor evidence collection. the subject who was found to concept which is mainly related The blend of latest tools and be guilty and also gave leads to the illegal crimes happen- technologies and the finest to the company. The Company ing on computer. Various laws professional talent helps us to took forward the results and have been imposed to check tackle these kinds of difficulties. adapted psychological profiling the crimes but they still exist. and polygraph examination It becomes difficult to trace the At Helik Advisory Ltd we re- during the recruitment phase criminals due to lack of evidence. ceived a case with digital evi- dence which was unsuitable for forensic examination and it was difficult to analyze and process the evidence further. The case was accepted as a challenge and due to the highly capable experts and their capability to think out of box, we were successful in solv- ing such a case without violat- ing forensic rules. Techniques for noise reduction, recovery of deleted data,e-mail communica- tion from smart phones, forensic face recognition, authentication of audio/video recordings, voice identification, image enhance- Helik Digital Dept (Cyber, Voice, Mobile, Tape etc) ment etc were used.
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25th Maharashtra State Police Games-2013 By Jyoti Pathak
The much awaited event- The by the Thane police at the Thane organized event on Jan11, 2013 25th Maharashtra State Police Police Commissionerate, Saket by Ajit Pawar- Deputy Chief Games kicked off this year on this year. The games were Minister of Maharashtra. The January 07, 2013 and was hosted formally declared open at a well other guests of honor included
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Satej Patil-MoS- Home, Rural Development and Food & Drug Administration and Ganesh Naik- State Excise and Non Conventional Energy Minister. The well organized event was also attended by the families of the police officers and other guests. A warm welcome speech by Sanjeev Dayal, DGP Maharashtra followed the march past by players. The ceremonial arrival of torch, lighting of sports flame and oath by athletes marked the opening of the games. Cultural programmes enthralled the spectators adding to the flavor of the event.
The entire event was a co-ordinated and collaborative effort of several committees that worked successfully in making the event memorable and a grand success. All the committees were introduced at the opening ceremony. Each of the committees had a chairman with members to support and are as stated below : The organizing committee was chaired by Sanjeev Dayal, DGP Maharashtra and included , K.P. Raghuvanshi , C.P.Thane city; Rakesh Maria, Addl. D.G., ATS, Mumbai; R.R. Mangaoankar, Addl. D.G SRPF; Sukhawinder Singh, Spl.IG, Konkan range; Pramod Sail, Asst. Sports officer, M.S. Mumbai- as members; Bipin Kumar Singh, Jt. CP., Thane city as organizing secretary & Archana Tyagi, Spl IG, Admin, Mumbai as joint organizing secretary.
The other committees that assisted in organizing the event were inauguration, accommodation/ transportation and reception committee, food & entertainment committee with Bipin Kumar Singh, Jt.
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C.P. - Thane city as chairman. Dnyaneshwer Phadatare, Addl. C.P. Admin- Thane city looked after and was the chairman of -sports ground, sports equipments and prize distribution committee. Prabhat Kumar, C.P Railway Mumbai was the chairman – competition committee. The jury and appeal committee had Rakesh Maria Addl. DG -ATS as chairman. The shooting competition committee had Sattyanarayan Chaudhari, Asst. Commandant SRPF- Group 8, Goregaon as chairman. Organizing committee (for invitees and their family) had Milind Bharambe, Addl. CP, Crime, Thane city as chairman. Advertising and external liaison committee had Dr. Shrikant Paropkari, DCP, Traffic Branch, Thane city as chairman.
Participating teams were from all over Maharashtra and included teams from: 1). Amravati Range 2).Aurangabad Range 3). Kolhapur Range 4). Konkan Range 5).Mumbai City 6) .Nagpur City 7).Nagpur Range 8).Nanded Range 9). Nashik Range 10). Pune City 11).Railway Range 12).S.R.P.F. Range13).Thane City and 14). Training Directorate.
The spirited 25th Maharashtra Games came to an eventful end on Jan 13, 2013. A grand ceremony marked the closing of the event at the Thane Police Commissionerate Sports Complex, Saket, at the hands of R.R.Patil, Home Minister -Maharashtra in the presence of Ganesh Naik, Minister of State -Excise & Non Conventional Energy and Guardian Minister, Thane; Vasant Davkhare-
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Deputy Chairman, Legislative Council- M.S. and Satej Patil, Minister of State for Home, Rural Development & Food and Drugs Administration. Police band display, march past, laser show & fire works were the highlights at the event. Spl. IGP (Admin) apprised the guests on the details of the police games. DGP Maharashtra and the Chief Guest also addressed the invitees, congratulating the winners and the organizing committee for the team effort. The event concluded with the prize distribution ceremony. Mumbai Police walked away with the trophy at the Police games. The event thus closed in high spirits, leaving beautiful memories and a promise of yet another eventful year.
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE S.N. NAME DESIGNATION 1 SHRI. SANJEEV DAYAL, D.G., M.S. CHAIRMAN MUMBAI. 2 SHRI. K.P. RAGHUVANSHI, C.P., THANE MEMBER CITY 3 SHRI. RAKESH MARIA, ADDL. D.G., ATS, MEMBER MUMBAI 4 SHRI.R.R. MANGAOANKAR, ADDL. D.G., MEMBER SRPF, M.S. MUMBAI 5 SHRI. BIPIN KUMAR SINGH, JT CP., ORGANIZING THANE CITY SECRETARY 6 SMT. ARCHANA TYAGI, SPL IG, ADMIN, JT.ORGANIZING M.S., MUMBAI. SECRETARY 7 DR. SHRI. SUKHAWINDER SINGH, SPL. MEMBER IG, KONKAN RANGE 8 SHRI. PRAMOD SAIL, ASST. SPORTS OF- MEMBER FICER, M.S., MUMBAI
1) INAUGURATION COMMITTEE S.N. NAME DESIGNATION 1 SHRI. BIPIN KUMAR SINGH, JT CP., CHAIRMAN THANE CITY 2 DR. SHRI. SUKHWINDER SINGH, SPL. IG, MEMBER KONKAN RANGE 3 SHRI. MILIND BHARAMBE, ADDL. C.P., PRESIDENT CRIME, THANE CITY 4 SHRI. S.D. KUMBHARE, S.P. THANE MEMBER RURAL 5 SHRI. SHRIDHAR NIKAM, DCP, H.Q. MEMBER THANE CITY 6 SHRI. SANJAY YENPURE, DCP, NEW MEMBER MUMBAI 7 SHRI. ASHOK DUDHE, DCP, ZONE - 1, MEMBER THANE CITY 8 SHRI. CHENIGUNDA, PRINCIPAL, SRPF, MEMBER TRAINING CENTER, NANVIJ, PUNE 9 SHRI. R.S. MHASAKAR, ACP. H.Q. 2, MEMBER THANE CITY 10 SHRI. B.G. YASHOD, ACP, CRIME MEMBER BRANCH, THANE CITY 11 SHRI. Y.R. BAGWAN, P.I. THANE RURAL MEMBER 12 SHRI. S.H. PANHALE, P.I. S.B. THANE CITY MEMBER 13 SMT. SURADKAR, P.I. MUMBRA PS, MEMBER THANE CITY 14 SMT. BANSODE, P.I. WAGLE ESTATE, MEMBER THANE CITY 15 SHRI. DHUMAL, API. THANE RURAL MEMBER
2) ACCOMMODATION/TRANSPORTATION AND RECEPTION COMMITTEE S.N. NAME DESIGNATION 1 SHRI. BIPIN KUMAR SINGH, JT CP., CHAIRMAN THANE CITY
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2 SHRI. DNYANESHWER PHADATARE, CHAIRMAN ADDL. C.P., ADMIN, THANE CITY 3 SHRI. S.D. KUMBHARE, S.P., THANE MEMBER RURAL 4 SHRI. ASHOK DUDHE, DCP, ZONE - 1, MEMBER THANE CITY 5 SHRI. P.M. MOHITE, S.P. HSP, M.S. MEMBER MUMBAI 6 SHRI. M.K. BHOSLE, DCP. ZONE - 2, MEMBER THANE CITY 7 SHRI. BALASAHEB PATIL, ZONE - 5, MEMBER THANE CITY 8 DR. SHRIKANT PAROPKARI, DCP, TRAF- MEMBER FIC, THANE CITY 9 SHRI. SANGRAMSING NISHANDAR, ADDL. MEMBER S.P. THANE RURAL 10 SHRI. B.N. KAMBLE, ACP, NAUPADA PS, MEMBER THANE CITY 11 SHRI. SHIVRAJ PATIL, ACP, BHIWANDI, MEMBER THANE CITY 12 SHRI. C.N. THORAT, SR. P.I., THANENA- MEMBER GAR PS, THANE CITY 13 SHRI. ASHOK JAGTAP, SR. P.I. NARPOLI MEMBER PS, THANE CITY 14 SHRI. C.B. PAWAR, MTO, THANE CITY MEMBER 15 SHRI. C.V. JOSHI, P.I. CRIME BRANCH, MEMBER THANE CITY 16 SHRI. DABADE, P.I. TRAFFIC, THANE CITY MEMBER
3) SPORTS GROUND, SPORTS EQUIPMENTS AND PRIZE DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE S.N. NAME DESIGNATION 1 SHRI. DNYANESHWER PHADATARE, CHAIRMAN ADDL. C.P. ADMIN, THANE CITY 2 DR. SUDHAKAR PATHARE, DCP. EOW., MEMBER THANE CITY 3 SHRI. SHRIDHAR NIKAM, DCP, H.Q., MEMBER THANE CITY 4 SHRI. ASHOK DUDHE, DCP, ZONE - 1, MEMBER THANE CITY 5 SHRI. BALASAHEB PATIL, ZONE - 5, MEMBER THANE CITY 6 SHRI. NIRANJAN VYANGANKAR, COM- MEMBER MANDENT, SRPF GROUP 11, MUMBAI 7 SHRI. ANIL PATIL, ACP, TRAFFIC, THANE MEMBER CITY 8 SHRI. V.B. MORE, ACP, VARTAK DIV., MEMBER THANE CITY 9 DR. SANDEEP PAKHALE, ACP, BHIWANDI, MEMBER THANE CITY 10 DR. RAMESH POSAM, DIST. SPORTS MEMBER OFFICER 11 SHRI. S.H. PANHALE, P.I. S,B, THANE CITY MEMBER 12 SHRI. A. MULLA, P.I. THANE NAGAR PS, MEMBER THANE CITY
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13 SHRI. KULKARNI, P.I. RABODI PS, THANE MEMBER CITY 14 SHRI. VILSAN SIRIAL, RPI, HQ, THANE MEMBER CITY
4) COMPETITION COMMITTEE S.N. NAME DESIGNATION 1 SHRI. PRABHAT KUMAR, C.P., RAILWAY, CHAIRMAN MUMBAI 2 SHRI. DNYANESHWER PHADATARE, MEMBER ADDL. C.P., ADMIN, THANE CITY 3 SHRI. SHRIDHAR NIKAM, DCP, H.Q. 1, MEMBER THANE CITY 4 SHRI. SANJAYSING YENPURE, DCP, NEW MEMBER MUMBAI 5 SHRI. SATTYANARAYAN CHAUDHARI, MEMBER ASSTT. COMMANDENT, SRPF GROUP- 8, GOREGEON 6 SHRI. B.N. SHIRSAT, DCP, RAILWAY, MEMBER MUMBAI 7 SMT. ASHWINI SANAP, ADDL. S.P., MEMBER RAIGAD 8 SHRI. VILAS SHINDE, ADDL.C.P., SID, MEMBER MUMBAI 9 SHRI. JAVED ANWAR, ASSTT. COMMAN- MEMBER DENT, SRPF GROUP - 4, NAGPUR 10 SHRI. DIDAAR SINGH, ACP, MUMBAI MEMBER 11 SHRI. HEMANT PATIL, PRINCIPAL, PTS, MEMBER MAROL, MUMBAI 12 SHRI. PRAMOD SAHIL, ASSTT. SPORTS MEMBER OFFICER, M.S., MUMBAI 13 SHRI. VILSAN SIRIAL, RPI, HQ, THANE MEMBER CITY 14 SHRI. KAILAS NAYANEET, RPI, RAILWAY, MEMBER MUMBAI
5) FOOD AND ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE S.N. NAME DESIGNATION 1 SHRI. BIPIN KUMAR SINGH, JT CP., CHAIRMAN THANE CITY 2 DR. SHRI. SUKHWINDER SINGH, SPL. IG, MEMBER KONKAN RANGE 3 SHRI. MILIND BHARAMBE, ADDL. C.P., MEMBER CRIME, THANE CITY 4 SHRI. S.D. KUMBHARE, S.P., THANE MEMBER RURAL 5 SHRI. PRAVIN PAWAR, DCP, CRIME MEMBER BRANCH, THANE CITY 6 SHRI. P. G. KENDRE, ACP, CRIME MEMBER BRANCH, THANE CITY 7 SHRI. ASHOK JAGTAP, SR. PI, NARPOLI MEMBER PS, THANE CITY 8 SHRI. NILEWAD, SR. P.I. KALWA PS, MEMBER THANE CITY 9 SHRI. VILSAN SIRIAL, RPI, HQ, THANE MEMBER CITY
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6) JURY AND APPEAL COMMITTEE S.N. NAME DESIGNATION 1 SHRI. RAKESH MARIA, ADDL. D.G. ATS, CHAIRMAN MUMBAI 2 SMT. ARCHANA TYAGI, SPL IG, ADMIN, MEMBER MS., MUMBAI. 3 SHRI. MILIND BHARAMBE, ADDL. C.P., MEMBER CRIME, THANE CITY 4 SHRI. SANJAYSINGH YENPURE, DCP, MEMBER NEW MUMBAI 5 SHRI. R. G. DHABHADE, SP. INTELLI- MEMBER GENCE CELL, ATS, MUMBAI 6 SHRI. PRAMOD SAIL, ASSTT. SPORTS MEMBER OFFICER, M.S., MUMBAI
7) SHOOTING COMPETITION COMMITTEE S.N. NAME DESIGNATION 1 SHRI. SATTYANARAYAN CHAUDHARI, CHAIRMAN ASST. COMMANDENT, SRPF GROUP- 8, GOREGEON 2 SHRI. GHUGE, SR. P.I. VARTAKNAGAR PS, MEMBER THANE CITY
8) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (FOR INVITEES AND THEIR FAMILY) S.N. NAME DESIGNATION 1 SHRI. MILIND BHARAMBE, ADDL. C.P., CHAIRMAN CRIME, THANE CITY 2 SHRI. S.D. KUMBHARE, S.P. THANE MEMBER RURAL 2 SMT. SURADKAR, P.I. MUMBRA PS, MEMBER THANE CITY 3 SMT. BANSODE, P.I. WAGLE ESTATEPS, MEMBER THANE CITY 4 SMT. ANDHALE. API, CRIME BRANCH, MEMBER THANE CITY 5 SMT. ADNAIK, PSI, CRIME BRANCH, MEMBER THANE CITY
9) ADVERTISING AND EXTERNAL LIAISONING COMMITTEE S.N. NAME DESIGNATION 1 DR. SHRIKANT PAROPKARI, DCP, TRAF- CHAIRMAN FIC BRANCH, THANE CITY 2 SHRI. P.G. KENDRE, ACP, CRIME MEMBER BRANCH, THANE CITY 3 SHRI. C.V. JOSHI, P.I. CRIME BRANCH, MEMBER THANE CITY 4 SHRI. RAUT, P.I. CRIME BRANCH, THANE MEMBER CITY 5 SHRI. FATTESING PATIL, P.I. , LCB, THANE MEMBER RURAL 6 SHRI. SAMBHAJI KHARAT, DIST. RTI MEMBER OFFICER
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GAMES RESULTS (MSPG 2013)
Dt- 07/01/2013 ABAD.R BEAT NAND.R, (10 pts, 3rd TRG DIR – Junaid khan (1:24:94) 3.2min) 1) FOOTBALL 50 Mtrs. Back Stroke. THANE CT BEAT ABAD R By (7-6 l 1st MUM CT – Jagdish Kasdekar (34:30) 8) KHO –KHO (Women) goals) l 2nd MUM CT – Vinayak Kadam (34:97) ABAD.R BEAT NSIK.R, (1 ing, 20 pts) PUNE.CT BEAT RAIL.R By (1-0 goals) l 3rd THANE CT – Satappa Barge (35:27) NAG.R BEAT TRG.DIR, (BYE) 9) ATHLETICS 100 Mtrs. Butterfly. NAG.CT BEAT KOP.R By (4-2 goals) (Men ) 5000 Mtr 1st MUM CT – Vinayak Kadam NAND.R BEAT KOKN.R, (8-6 goals) Gold- THANE CT- Tanaji Gade (1:12:11) AMR.R BEAT NSK.R, (2-1 goals) Silver- NAG.R- Vinod Chavan 2nd MUM CT – Sameer Patil (1:16:05) 3rd TRG DIR – Junaid khan (1:16:66) 2) HANDBALL Bronze- SRPF.R- Shatrughna Dharav NAG CT BEAT ABAD.R By (40-29 (Women) 5000 Mtr 200 Mtrs. I. M. goals) Gold- KOP.R - Jayshri Borge 1st MUM CT – Sameer Patil (2:42:98) PUNE CT BEAT SRPF.R By (36-32 Silver- NAG.R - Seema Akhtar 2nd TRG DIR – Junaid khan (2:46:41) goals) Bronze- KOP.R - Meenatai Desai 3rd MUM CT – Shrikant Palande (2:48:66) KOP.R BEAT KOKN.R By (37-31 goals) (men) HIGH JUMP 4 × 400 Mtrs. Medaly Relay Gold- KOP.R - Kiran Jadhav 1st MUM CT – (5:12:87) 3) KABADDI (Men) Silver- MUM CT- Bhaskar Gaikwad 2nd SRPF.R – (5:26:14) NAG.R BEAT RAIL.R , (19-9 pts) Bronze- KOP.R- Chetan Mahajan 3rd AMR.R – (5:41:12) ABAD.R BEAT AMR.R, (40-19 pts) KOKN.R BEAT NAG.CT, (21-11 pts) (Women) SHORT PUT Gold- KOKN.R- Rupali Patil Dt- 09/01/2013 4) KABADDI (Women) Silver- NSK.R- Swati Pardhi 1) BASKETBALL NSK.R BEAT ABAD.R,(31-22 pts) Bronze- KOP.R- Sarika Deshmukh ● MUM.CT BEAT NAG.R, (58 - 40 pts) 5) WRESTLING (55Kg) (Men) HAMMER THROW ● NAG CT BEAT THANE CT, (44 - 40 pts) 1st MUM CT- Mhatre Lakhan Gold- PUNE CT- Malhar Daundkar ● NAND.R BEAT NSK.R, (60 – 55 pts) 2nd MUM CT- Jadhav Dipak Silver- KOKN.R- Hemraj Diware 2) HOCKEY 3rd SRPF R – Mali L. D. Bronze- SRPF.R- S.L. Pawar ● NSK R BEAT NAND.R, (10 - 5 goals) 4th SRPF R- Sonawane Sandip 10) WRESTLING ● SRPF R BEAT RAIL R, (5 - 2 goals) 6) WRESTLING (60 Kg) (60Kg) ● MUM CT BEAT NAG CT, (3 - 2 goals, 1st KOP.R- Patil Dilip Gold- KOKN.R – Kishor Gaikwad Tiebreaker) 2nd MUM CT- Patil Yuvraj Silver- MUM CT- Rajaram Mote 3) VOLLEY BALL 3rd SRPF R- Kudle K. D. Bronze- PUNE CT – Sachin Kumbhar KOKN.R BEAT AMR.R, (3 - 1 Sets) 4th SRPF R- Sul U. N. Bronze- KOKN. R.- Amol Thakare 4) FOOTBALL (74Kg) Dt- 08/01/2013 MUM CT BEAT THANE CT, (3 - 0 Gold- MUM CT – Pradip Jadhav goals) 1) BASKETBALL Silver- THANE CT- Tanaji Shinde NAG R BEAT PUNE CT, (3 - 0 goals) PUNE CT BEAT KOKN.R, (77-38 pts ) Bronze- NAG CT – Mohmmad Ansari NAG CT BEAT NAND R, (2 - 1 goals) KOP.R BEAT AMR.R, (77-16 pts) Bronze- MUM CT- Jaywant Patil SRPF R BEAT AMR R, (2 - 1 goals) 2) HOCKEY (120Kg) 5) HANDBALL RAIL.R BEAT ABAD.R, (10-0 goals) Gold- PUNE CT – Tushar Dimble MUM CT BEAT NAG CT, (40 - 26 NPUR.CT BEAT AMR.R, (6-0 goals) Silver- NAND. R - Sambhaji Shinde goals) KOP.R BEAT KOKN.R, (6-0 goals) Bronze- PUNE CT – Pravin Gade KOP R BEAT PUNE CT, (29 - 28 goals) NAG.R BEAT THANE CT, (7-0 goals) Bronze- KOP. R- R.B. Patil THANE CT BEAT NAND R, (15 - 9 3) VOLLEY BALL 11) SWIMMING goals) KOP.R BEAT NSK.R, (3-2 Sets) 50 Mtrs. Breast Stroke. NSK R BEAT AMR R, (26 - 7 goals) NAG.R BEAT THANE CT, (3-0 Sets) 1st MUM CT – Shrikant Palande 6) KABBADI (Men) PUNE CT BEAT ABAD.R, (3-0 Sets) (33:23) ● MUM CT BEAT NAG R, (15 – 4 pts) RAIL.R BEAT SRPF.R, (3-0 Sets) 2nd MUM CT – Vishal More (35:53) ● KOKN R BEAT ABAD R, (28 – 10 pts) 3rd THANE CT – Satappa Barge 4) HANDBALL ● (38:51) PUNE CT BEAT THANE CT, (9 – 4 pts) THANE CT BEAT NPUR.R, (40-24 KOP R BEAT NSK R, (26 – 17 pts) goals) 100 Mtrs. Free Style. 7) KABBADI (Women) NAND.R BEAT RAIL.R, (14-10 goals) 1st MUM CT – Vishal More (1:02:86) 2nd MUM CT – Shrikant Palande (1:04:98) MUM CT BEAT NSK R, (52 – 17 pts) 5) KABADDI (Men) 3rd TRG DIR – Junaid khan (1:05:79) NAG CT BEAT RAIL R, (15 – 12 pts) PUNE CT BEAT NAND.R, (31-20 pts) 1500 Mtrs. Free Style. PUNE CT BEAT NAG R, (17 – 15 pts) THANE CT BEAT SRPF.R, (27-15 pts) 1st TRG DIR. – Junaid khan (21:41:07) THANE CT BEAT KOP R, (29 – 16 pts) 6) KABADDI (Women) 2nd MUM CT – Harshal Gaikwad 8) KHO- KHO (Men) RAIL.R BEAT KOKN.R, (19-11 pts) (22:22:75) THANE CT BEAT NAG.R, (1 pt, 7.5 PUNE CT BEAT AMR.R, (26-22 pts) 3rd MUM CT – Ajinkya Palande (23:02:14) min) KOP.R BEAT NAND.R, (63-14 pts) 100 Mtrs. Breast Stroke. NSK R BEAT NAG CT, (1 ing, 6 pts) 7) KHO – KHO (Men) 1st MUM CT – Shrikant Palande KOP.R BEAT AMR.R, (1 ing, 6 pts) SRPF.R BEAT RAIL.R, (1 pt, 7.5min) (1:20:57) 9) KHO – KHO (Women) PUNE CT BEAT TRAI.DIR, (1 pt, 7min) 2nd THANE CT – Satappa Barge (1:24:91) KOP R BEAT NAND.R, (1 ing, 2 pts)
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KOKN R BEAT THANE CT, (1 ing, 4 pts) Spring Board Diving (66 Kg) PUNE CT BEAT AMR R, (1 ing, 4 pts) 1st SRPF.R – Ganesh Mane (158:95) 1st KOP R – D. Patil ATHLETICS 2nd SRPF.R – Anup Chavan (133:50) 2nd MUM CT – Y. Patil 10) (Men) 10,000 m Run 3rd NSK R – Shirish Chavan (120:50) 3rd SRPF R. – Kudle 1st RAIL.R - Umparikar High Board Diving 3rd SRPF R. – Sul 2nd KOKN.R - Surve 1st SRPF.R – Ganesh Mane (141:40) (74 Kg) 3rd SRPF.R- Dharav 2nd SRPF.R – Yogesh Ghadge 1st MUM CT – Jadhav (48:85) 2nd THANE CT – Shinde 11) (Men) 110 m Hurdles 3rd NAG CT – Shaikh 1st KOP.R – Yenapure 4 × 100 m - Free Style Relay 3rd MUM CT – J. Patil 2nd RAIL.R - Arbhavi 1st MUM CT – (4:38:24) 3rd KOP.R – A. Patil 2nd SRPF.R – (4:44:85) (84 Kg) 3rd KOKN R – (4:46:20) 1st PUNE CT – P. Patil 12) (Women) High jump 2nd SRPF R – Chavan 1st KOP.R – Jadhav 3rd PUNE CT – T. Shinde 2nd NAG.R - Birju Dt- 10/01/2013 3rd SRPF R – Dhadas 3rd KOKN.R – Tadvi 1) BASKETBALL (96 Kg) 13) (Women) 100 m Run RAIL.R BEAT ABAD.R, (83 – 57pts) 1st PUNE CT – Jadhav 1st NAG.R – Birju KOP.R BEAT PUNE CT (76 – 42 pts) 2nd KOP R – K. Patil 2nd KOP.R – Jadhav MUM.CT BEAT NAG.CT, (66 – 19 pts) 3rd PUNE CT – Redke 3rd KOKN.R – Panchgane SRPF.R BEAT NAND.R (90 – 49 pts) 3rd KOP R – Powale 14) (Men) Shot Put 2) HOCKEY (120 Kg) 1st KOP.R – D. Patil KOP.R BEAT NAG.R, (4 – 1 goals) 1st PUNE CT – Dimble 2nd SRPF.R – Khopde PUNE CT BEAT NSK.R, (8 – 1 goals) 2nd NAND R – Shinde 3rd MUM. CT – More SRPF.R BEAT MUM.CT, (2 – 1 goals) KOP.R BEAT PUNE CT, (5 – 2 goals) 3rd PUNE CT – Gade 15) (Men) 400 m Run 3rd KOP R – R. Patil 1st SRPF.R – Lingde 3) VOLLEY BALL 09) Judo 2nd SRPF.R – Yadav MUM.CT BEAT KOP.R, (3 - 1 Sets) 3rd RAIL. R – Lahange PUNE CT BEAT NAG.R, (3 - 0 Sets) 1) - 60 KG ( Men ) ● Gold - AMR.R – Yogesh Karendikar 16) (Women) 400 m Run RAIL.R BEAT KOKN.R, (3 - 0 Sets) ● Silver - AMR.R - Naresh Kalami 1st RAIL. R- Bhanga NAG.CT BEAT NAND.R, (3 - 0 Sets) ● Bronze – KOP.R – sachin kumbhar 2nd MUM. CT – Morde 4) HANDBALL - Semi Final ● Bronze – SRPF.R – V.M.Shimpi 3rd NAG. R – Shiganjude KOP.R BEAT MUM.CT, (43 – 40 goals) 2) - 66 KG ( Men) WRESTLING NSK.R BEAT THANE.CT, (45 – 30 goals) ● Gold - NAG.R – Abhay Danoi (84 Kg) ● Silver - NSK.R - Satypal Shinde 5) KABADDI (Men) – Semi Final 1st PUNE CT –P. Patil ● Bronze – Pune CT – B.Dhapse KOKN.R BEAT MUM.CT, (7 – 6 pts) 2nd SRPF R - Chavan ● Bronze – NSK.R – Shriram Warangase KOP.R BEAT PUNE.CT, (4 – 3 pts) 3rd PUNE CT – Shinde 3) - 73 KG ( Men) 3rd SRPF R.- Dhadas 6) KABADDI (Women) – Semi Final ● Gold - TRG DIR – Santosh Mane MUM.CT BEAT NAG.CT, (20 – 15 pts) (96 Kg) ● Silver – MUM CT - Jayant Patil PUNE.CT BEAT THANE CT, 1st PUNE CT – Jadhav ● Bronze – PUNE CT – S.Waghmode (18 – 12 pts) 2nd KOP R – K. Patil ● Bronze – AMR.R – S.Ramesh Halme 3rd PUNE CT – Redke 7) KHO –KHO (Women) 4) - 48 KG ( Women) 3rd KOP R.- Powale MUM.CT BEAT NPUR CT, (1 ing, 21 ● Gold - TRG DIR – Soniya Raghvan pts) SWIMMING ● Silver - THANE CT - Adika Salunke KOP.R BEAT ABAD.R, (1 ing, 4 pts) 400 m - Free Style ● Bronze – NAND.R – Reshma Jamadar KOKN.R BEAT RAIL.R (1 ing, 4 pts) 1st TRG DIR – Junaid khan (5:18:71) ● Bronze – PUNE CT – Shridevi Falke PUNE CT BEAT NAG.R, (1 pt, 2 min) 2nd MUM CT – Ajinkya Palande 5) - 52 KG ( Women)
(5:29:25) 8) KHO –KHO (Men) ● Gold - THANE CT- Shital Kamble
3rd MUM CT – Harshal Gaikwad MUM.CT BEAT SRPF. R, (1 ing, 4 pts) ● Silver - KOKN.R – Swapnali Gavas
(5:46:51) NSK. R BEAT THANE CT, (1 pt, ● Bronze – MUM .CT – Vrushali Rajpure 2.1min) ● 50 m - Breast Stroke. Bronze – KOP.R – Jayshri Mali 1st MUM CT – Shrikant palande KOKN.R BEAT KOP.R, (5 pts) 6) - 78 KG ( Women) PUNE CT BEAT ABAD R, (2 pts, 3.2 (0:33:32) ● Gold - KOP.R – Sangita k min) 2nd MUM CT – Vishal More (0:35:53) ● Silver - TRG DIR - Varsha.B
3rd THANE CT – Satappa Barge 8) WRESTLING ● Bronze – NSK.R – Meenakshi.T (0:38:51) (55 Kg) 7) +78 KG ( Women)
100 m - Back stroke. 1st MUM CT – Mhatre ● Gold - NSK.R – Shabnam Shaikh
1st NAG CT – Ashi Dakhore (1:19:50) 2nd MUM CT – Jadhav ● Silver - THANE CT - Anita Patil 2nd MUM CT – Jagdish Kasdekar 3rd SRPF R. – Mali (1:20:01) 3rd SRPF R. – Sonawane Dt- 11/01/2013 3rd THANE CT – Satappa Barge (1:22:41) (60 Kg) FOOTBALL, (Semi Final) 50 m - Butterfly 1st KOKN R – Gaikwad MUM.CT BEAT NAG.R, (5 – 4 goals, 1st MUM CT – Vishal More ( 0:29:50) 2nd MUM CT – Mote Tiebreaker) 2nd MUM CT – Sameer Patil (0:30:13) 3rd PUNE CT – Kumbhar BASKETBALL, (Semi Final) 3rd AMR R – Amit Gore (0:30:42) 3rd KOKN R. – Thakare KOP.R BEAT RAIL.R (74 – 58 pts)
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SRPF.R BEAT MUM.CT, (68 – 64 pts) 1st RAIL. R – Bhanga ATHLETICS HOCKEY, (Hard line) 2nd PUNE CT – R. Patil 1500 m RUN (Women) Final 3rd PUNE CT – Vharga 1st - KOP. R – Borge PUNE CT BEAT MUM.CT, (2 – 1 DISCUS THROW (Women) 2nd - NAG. R – Akhtar goals) 1st AMR. R – Bendre 3rd MUM CT – Sul VOLLEY BALL (Semi final) 2nd KOKN. R – Patil 1500 m RUN (Men) – Final MUM.CT BEAT PUNE CT, (3 - 0 Sets) 3rd KOP.R – Pawar 1st - SRPF. R – Dharav RAIL.R BEAT NAG.CT, (3 - 2 Sets) 400m HURDLES (Men) 2nd - THANE CT – Gade HANDBALL, 1st RAIL. R - Hatkar 3rd RAIL. R – Umparikar NSK.R BEAT KOP.R, (28 – 27 goals) 2nd KOP.R – Yainapure LONG JUMP (Women) – Final (Final) 3rd SRPF.R – Yadav 1st PUNE CT - Vhargar MUM.CT BEAT THANE CT, (39 – 25 400m HURDLES (Women) 2nd RAIL. R – Bhanga goals) (Hard line) 1st NAG. R - Akhtar 3rd KOKN. R – Pachangane KABADDI (Men), 2nd MUM CT – Ghadge JAVELIN THROW (Men) – Final MUM.CT BEAT PUNE.CT, (18 – 12 3rd KOP.R – Borge 1st KOP. R – Shirtode pts) (Hard line) 800m RUN (Men) 2nd SRPF. R – Benke KOP.R BEAT KOKN.R, (16 – 5 pts) 1st MUM CT - Dagde 3rd RAIL. R – Warute (Final) 2nd KOKN. R - R. Patil WEIGHT LIFTING – (Men) KABADDI (Women), 3rd NSK. R – Pawar 56 kg NAG.CT BEAT THANE CT, (28 – 8 800m RUN (Women) 1st PUNE CT – Sapkal pts) (Hard line) 1st KOP. R – Borge 2nd MUM CT – Jagtap MUM.CT BEAT PUNE.CT, (36 – 9 pts) 2nd NAG. R – Akhtar 3rd NAG. R – Chaware (Final)] 3rd KOP.R – M. Patil 62 kg KHO – KHO (Men), (Semi Final) 400 x 100 m RELAY (Men) 1st MUM CT – Chaudhari MUM.CT BEAT PUNE CT, (1 ing, 10 1st - MUM CT 2nd KOP. R – Padwale pts) 2nd - SRPF. R 3rd MUM CT – Pawar NSK.R BEAT KOKN.R, (1 pt, 2.10 min) 3rd - KOP.R 69 kg 1st MUM CT – Salvi KHO –KHO (Women), (Semi Final) 400 x 100 m RELAY (Women) 2nd MUM CT – M. Mahajan MUM.CT BEAT KOP.R, (1 ing, 19 pts) 1st - MUM CT 3rd THANE CT – V. Mahajan PUNE CT BEAT KOKN.R, (4 pts) 2nd - PUNE CT 3rd - RAIL.R 77kg JUDO 1st MUM CT – Ghagre – 81 kg (Men) 2nd THANE CT – R. Patil 1st - AMR. R – Bhagat Dt- 12/01/2013 3rd MUM CT – Gaikwad 2nd - THANE CT - Kale FOOTBALL, (Semi Final) 3rd – SRPF. R - Nandgude NAG.CT BEAT SRPF.R, (2 – 0 goals ) 85 kg 1st MUM CT – Barge 3rd – KOP. R. – S. Patil BASKETBALL - 90 kg (Men) 2nd RAIL. R – Kadam RAIL.R BEAT MUM.CT,(59–58pts) – 3rd THANE CT – Budhakar 1st - KOP. R - Trimbake Hard Line 94kg 2nd - SRPF. R - Liman KOP.R BEAT SRPF.R, (78 – 59 pts) 1st RAIL. R – D. Patil 3rd – AMR. R - Thorat – Final 3rd – NAG. R – Lende 2nd THANE CT – Mhatre – 57 kg (Women) HOCKEY (Final) 3rd KOKN. R – R. Patil 1st - PUN.CT - Goranti SRPF.R BEAT KOP.R, (3 – 2 goals, 105kg 2nd - THANE CT - Chate Tiebreaker) 1st MUM CT – Mohite 3rd – KOP. R - Desai VOLLEY BALL 2nd SRPF. R - Gaikwad 3rd – MUM.CT - Uttekar NAG.CT BEAT PUNE CT, (3-1Sets) – 3rd MUM CT – Shinde ATHLETICS Hard Line $105kg CROSS COUNTRY – 12 km (Men) MUM.CT BEAT RAIL.R, (3 - 0 Sets) 1st MUM CT – More 1st SRPF. R - Dharav – Final 2nd MUM CT – Gonjari 2nd RAIL.R - Gurav KHO – KHO (Men) 3rd SRPF. R – Bahirgunde 3rd RAIL. R – Umparika KOKN.R BEAT PUNE CT (1pt,6.40 BEST WEIGHT LIFTER CROSS COUNTRY – 8 km (Women) min)–Hard Line Rajendra Ghagre – MUM CT 1st KOP. R - Desai MUM.CT BEAT NSK.R, (1 pt, 7 min) 2nd KOP.R - Borge – Final BEST TEAMS 3rd NAG. R - Akthar KHO –KHO (Women) 1st MUM CT TRIPLE JUMP (Men) KOP.R BEAT KOKN.R, (1 ing, 3 pts) – 2nd THANE CT 1st KOKN. R - Bhoir Hard Line 3rd RAIL.R. 2nd THANE CT - Sawant MUM.CT BEAT PUNE CT, (1 ing, 10 4th PUNE CT 3rd KOP. R - Jadhav pts) – Final BOXING – (Men) 200m RUN (Men) 5km WALKING (Sr. Officers) 49 kg – L.W. 1st SRPF. R - Lingde 1st – Shri. Prasad – ASP, Sangli 1st MUM CT – Thakur 2nd THANE CT - Yedge 2nd - Shri. Rathod – DCP, Thane 2nd MUM CT – Metkari 3rd NAG CT – Kutti 3rd - Shri. Dhumal – P. DySP, 3rd SRPF. R – Gaikwad 200m RUN (Women) Chandrapur 3rd KOKN. R - Dike
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52 kg - F. W. - 73 kg ATHLETICS 1st NAG. R – Dhalse 1st - TRG.DIR – Mane Marathon (Men) 2nd MUM CT – Baviskar 2nd – MUM CT - J. Patil 1st NSK. R – S. shinde 3rd SRPF. R. – Taldalekar 3rd – PUNE CT – Waghmode 2nd MUM CT – U. Gavhane 3rd KOKN. R - Mhatre 3rd – AMR.R – Halame 3rd NAG. R – V. Tadvi 56 kg – B. M. – 81kg 3000 m Stipple Chase. 1st AMR. R – Bhagat 1st MUM CT – Bhalerao 1st SRPF. R – S. Dharav 2nd THANE CT – Kale 2nd NSK. R – Pand 2nd NSK. R - U. Rote 3rd SRPF. R – Nandgude 3rd NAG. R – Ramdhan 3rd SRPF. R – B. Bhoir 3rd MUM CT - Tadvi 3rd KOP. R – S. Patil 4 x 400 RELAY (Men) – 90kg 60kg – L. W. 1st SRPF. R 1st KOP. R – Trimbake 1st THANE CT – Pagare 2nd KOKN. R 2nd SRPF. R – Liman 2nd KOP. R – D. Swami 3rd KOP. R 3rd KOKN. R – Satambekar 3rd AMR. R – Thorat 4 x 400 RELAY (Women) 3rd SRPF. R - Satpute 3rd NAG.R – Lende 1st NAG. R 64 kg – L. W. - 100 kg 1st NAG. R – Golar 2nd MUM CT 1st KOP. R – Jagtap 3rd KOP. R 2nd MUM CT – Gharwadne 2nd SRPF. R – Hajare SENIOR OFFICERS SHOOTING 3rd MUM CT – S. Shinde 3rd MUM CT – Dige COMPETITION 3rd SRPF. R - Pradhan 3rd PUNE CT – Landge 1) OVER ALL BEST SHOOTER 69 kg +100 kg 1st NSK. R – Malode Shri Milind Bharambe - Addl.C.P., 1st MUM CT – Sonawane 2nd NAND. R- S. Shinde Thane City 2nd MUM CT – Chaudhari 3rd MUM CT – Avhad 3rd KOP. R – Kamble 15 Yard SQUATING 3rd SRPF. R – S. Kadam 3rd SRPF. R – Patil 1st. Shri Milind Bharambe - Addl.C.P, Thane City 75kg – M. W. JUD0 (Women) 2nd. Shri.P.K.Jain - Addl.D.G, MS Mumbai 1st SRPF. R – Bhoite - 48 kg 3rd Shri.Somnath Gharge – DCP, 2nd KOP. R – Prakash 1st - TRG.DIR – Raghvan Aurangabad 3rd NAG. R – Zuware 2nd - THANE CT - Salunkhe 3rd MUM CT – Thakre 3rd – NAND.R – Jamadar 25 Yard QUICK REFLEX 81kg – L. W. 3rd – PUNE CT – Palke 1st Shri N. B. Vaingankar – Commdt, 1st PUNE CT – Sathe - 52 kg (Women) SRPF Gr XI 2nd THANE CT – Ambawne 1st - THANE CT- Kamble 2nd Shri Milind Bharambe - Addl.C.P., 3rd SRPF. R – Shaikh 2nd - KOKN.R – Gavas Thane City 3rd MUM CT – Gaikwad 3rd – MUM .CT – Rajpure 3rd Smt. H. Varayeet - D.C.P., Mumbai 3rd – KOP.R – Mali 91 kg – H. W. 50 - 30 Yard ATTACK FIRE 1st KOP R. – Mulla – 57 kg (Women) 1st Shri.Vivek Phansalkar - Jt.C.P., 2nd MUM CT – Sarwade 1st PUNE CT – Goranti Mumbai 3rd KOP. R – Kokne 2nd THANE CT – Chate 2nd Shri Milind Bharambe - Addl.C.P., 3rd KOP. R – Jadhav 3rd KOP. R – Desai Thane City + 91 kg – S. H. W. 3rd MUM CT – Uttekar 3rd Smt. Arti Singh - S.P., Bhandara -63 kg (Women) 50 Yard SNAP 1st TRG. DIR – Gaikwad 1st TRG. DIR – Tule 2nd MUM CT – Avhad 2nd KOP. R – S. Patil 1st Shri Milind Bharambe - Addl.C.P., 3rd KOKN. R – Tayde 3rd NSK. R – S. Sable Thane City 3rd NAG. R – Mahale 3rd THANE CT – S. Salunkhe 2nd Smt. Arti Singh - S.P., Bhandara -70 kg (Women) 3rd Shri.Chaitanya BEST BOXERS. 1st TRG. DIR – Jaybai S. Dy. S.P.,Chandrapur Jagtap – KOP. R 2nd MUM CT - Valke 25 m CENTER FIRE BEST TEAMS 3rd KOP. R – G. Salunke 1st Smt. H. Varayeet - D.C.P., Mumbai 3rd MUM CT – Indulkar 2nd Shri Milind Bharambe - Addl.C.P., 1st MUM CT -78 kg (Women) Thane City 2nd KOP. R 1st KOP. R – S. Kamble 3rd Shri. Bipin Kumar Singh - Jt.C.P., 3rd SRPF. R 2nd TRG. DIR – Bambe Thane City 4th KOKN. R 3rd NSK. R – Tonde 25 m DUELLING FIRE JUDO – (Men) +78 kg (Women) 1st Shri Milind Bharambe - Addl.C.P., - 60 kg 1st NSK. R – Shaikh Thane City 1st - AMR.R – Kardilkar 2nd THANE CT – A. Patil 2nd Shri Sanjay Kumar – C.P., 2nd - AMR.R - Kolami 3rd PUNE CT – T. Bhalerao Aurangabad 3rd – KOP.R – kumbhar 3rd Shri.P.K.Jain - Addl.D.G, MS Mumbai 3rd – SRPF.R – Shimpi Dt- 13/01/2013 - 66 kg FOOTBALL 1st - NAG.R – Dandi NAG.R BEAT SRPF.R, (2 – 0 goals) 2nd - NSK.R - S. Shinde (Hard line) 3rd – PUNE CT – Dhapse MUM.CT BEAT NAG.CT, (1 – 0 goals) Inputs from 3rd – NSK.R – Waranguse (Final) http://thanepolice.org/mspg/index.htm
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Crime
Stories from the Mumbai Underworld
Smuggler King- Haji Mastaan gave Mumbai’s first-ever killing contract and Dongri’s famous don, Karim Lala executed it. However, in a botched attempt, the targeted victim, Yusuf Patel, then a rising star in the smuggling world, escaped with a bullet wound while his bodyguard was killed. That was the first of the Mumbai underworld gang wars. Then many more followed. The gangs bitterly fought for the control of shady businesses such as smuggling, extortion, liquor, matka, etc., fiercely guarding the areas they controlled in India’s richest metropolis. Gangsters and shooters killed each other and those victims who refused to pay. Younger dons seized control from the older ones. Then there was the rise of a gangster called Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, son of a humble Mumbai police constable, who became India’s most feared don of all time. And Dawood Ibrahim, who lives abroad, is India’s most wanted criminal today. Veteran crime reporter and magazine editor, Sharafat Khan, in his forthcoming book ‘Dawood Ibrahim and the Gang Wars’, presents, the darkest shades of the city’s underbelly, their origins and growth, through a lucid account of the stories within stories of the Mumbai underworld. ‘Crime Reporting is My Passion’
In an interview with The PROTECTOR, Khan, who is the Editor of the weekly Hindi magazine, The BOMBAY PRESS, devoted to the coverage of crime, talks about his passion, namely crime reporting. Excerpts…
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Why does crime reporting Rajan gang, for writing against ers, industrialists and people appeal to you and why did the don, based in Malaysia. from Bollywood. you choose it over political Did Dey cross the Lakshman So, the underworld will or general reporting? Rekha, by getting closer to remain forever... Since the beginning I was the underworld? Yes. Extortion will continue; interested in crime reporting. As No. The reporting is dangerous either by small hoodlums or a youngster, I was inspired by a in itself. If you write the truth, big gangsters like Chota Rajan. senior journalist Usman Ghani it can go against the police or Another gangster- Chota Shakil and used to in fact read his crime the underworld. That is why based outside of India is also stories since childhood. I was so sometimes police get angry and extorting money these days. impressed by his writings that I sometimes the underworld over decided to take up the profession some report or the other. You have named your book- of crime reporting. Dawood Ibrahim and the These days, Dawood lives in Gang Wars. But there are For which paper was Usman Pakistan or Dubai. Chota no more gang wars like they Ghani writing? Rajan lives in Malaysia or used to be in the past. In those days Usman Ghani Thailand. Is the underworld Yes. That’s true. In the 80’s when was writing for a paper in Mumbai or not? Or has the gang wars started, there called Aaj. He was a freelance it become history as some were many. And such gangs are journalist and used to write for people think? not there anymore. The gangs many publications, including It is totally wrong to think that have become extinct. Some died Hindustan, Urdu Times and the underworld is inactive in fighting among themselves, and Akbar-e-Alam. And his writing Mumbai, as some people may some died in police encounters. style was very good and unique. think. Underworld is very much And some well known I would read his every report there in Mumbai. The proof is underworld dons have settled very enthusiastically. the activities of Chota Rajan, for down abroad like Pakistan, You have opted for a danger- instance. Only a few days back, Malaysia and Indonesia etc. That ous profession. In your writ- Chota Rajan had reportedly is why the gang wars ended. ing you might have occasion- demanded Rs 50 lakh extortion ally angered the underworld money from a builder in Navi What is next after this book? or the police. Isn’t crime Mumbai. He was given two Will you continue with reporting, a dangerous field? telephone numbers. When the crime reporting? Crime Branch investigated the Even after the book is published, Yes, it is. But it is also thrilling numbers, they turned out to be I will continue with crime and adventurous. Sometimes I the old telephone numbers of reporting. I have my weekly- had to talk to the police and at Chota Rajan. This means, that BOMBAY PRESS, which is other times to the underworld. even today, Chota Rajan’s gang crime-based, I will develop it Sometimes the underworld is active and underworld is pres- and take it forward. It is my would get angry. Of course ent in Mumbai, and it is getting duty, wish and passion. some crime reporters lost their extortion money from the build- lives. I remember one incident. Natiq, the editor of the Urdu paper Rajdaar, who published reports against the Pathan gang, was killed. Another crime reporter, Baljeet Parmar was shot at. He escaped with a bullet wound in the hand. More recently, there was the murder of J.Dey, an ace crime reporter. He was shot dead by the Chota
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Following is a chapter from Gang Wars the forthcoming book – Dawood in the Ibrahim & the Mirror Gang Wars by Sharafat Khan. of the Past
Mumbai’s Byculla is a thickly populated area. Dagdi Chawl is situated in the very neighborhood of this locality; so also Rama Naik‘s 144 Tenement Building. Arthur Road Jail is also very close. It’s this area that gave birth to many a dreaded don of Mumbai- Amar Naik, Babu Resham, Arun Gawli, Kundan Dubey, Bada Rajan, company came and fought with from Tardeo to Byculla and Parasnath Pandey, ‘Hayward’, them and started to demand stand in front of Lal Jetha Chawl Salim Gurda and many more ‘Hafta’ (extortion money) from and abuse Rama Naik and his gangsters like them.The two them. Until then nobody in family members. brothers- Jabbar Zabardast and that area had ever paid any Fed up with this everyday Sattar Zabardast were the first extortion money to gangsters intimidation, Rama Naik in the Byculla area who together nor had there been any such formed his own gang. with formed a gang. There were many tradition. Even intimidation was Hayward, Babu Resham, Ashok members in that gang, whose limited to their lanes and the Choudhury (alias) Chota Babu, job was to pick pocket and steal. neighborhood. Bada Rajan and Arun Gawli In Byculla, their operations and started looking for Dubey, spread up to Hains Road, Saat In those days, Amar Naik had Shashi Rashim and Parasnath Rasta and Esbridge and they a liquor and matka joint in Pandey. One day when Rashim intimidated and threatened the Byculla’s Cross Lane. Close to was buying sugarcane pieces people in that locality. For a long this joint was Lal Jetha Chawl, from a hawker at Bombay time these hoodlums ruled the in which Rama Naik and his Central, Rama Naik’s gang locality like lords. But the Rama four brothers – Shekhar, Hari, Dinesh (alias) Dhanya and hacked him to death with Suresh - lived. Rama Naik was swords and choppers. Parasnath the youngest of the brothers. Pandey too lived in Byculla. He One of Rama Naik’s elder was a dreaded gangster in his brothers, Suresh, had for some area. Even the tough hoodlums reason developed enemity with were scared of him. the Tardeo hoodlum, Kundan However, Arun Gawli did not Dubey. Due to this enemity, want anyone else to lord over in Dubey killed Suresh Naik. Even his area. One day, Pandey was to after this, Dubey would come meet a man named Usman Ghani
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Kelewala, who ran a matka After coming out of jail, Rama joint was also killed. And after Naik, trained a man called David that, Salim Gurda in Moreland Pardesi in firing a pistol and Road and Salim Gardwale in got him ready to kill Amirzada. Madanpura. They sold brown During the hearing of the Sabir’s sugar and refused to pay the murder case, Amirzada was extortion money to Rama Naik. brought to the sessions court. He was standing in the dock at the Amar Naik gang was blood sessions court when Pardesi shot thirsty. They used to kill people him. Pardesi tried to run but sub- even over small matters. at Lesie Cement Chawl in front inspector Ishaq Bagban shot him Meanwhile, one hoodlum, in the leg and arrested him. of the Church. This news reached Prabhakar Dhuri, from Rama Rama Naik’s company. Rama Naik’s gang went to Amar Naik During police interrogation, Naik, along with Hayward, Arun to demand extortion money. Pardesi revealed that the Gawli and Babu Resham reached Instead of paying the extortion contract money and the pistol the spot and killed Pandey. Police money, Amar Naik killed Dhuri were given to him by Bada Rajan arrested Rama Naik and his and fled. to kill Amirzada. Police arrested associates and after a trial, they Bada Rajan from Chembur. were sentenced to life and Rama When Rama Naik was in jail After presenting him in the Naik gang became famous with doing life time, police inspector Esplanade Court, the police were this. Now, the Rama Naik gang Lomte, arrested Dawood bringing Bada Rajan back to the did not want any of its enemies Ibrahim and his associates Iqbal Crime Branch lock-up, when to be in this locality. When Rama Tempo and Sher Singh in some Chandrashekhar Shefali from the Naik and his associates came out connection and put them in the Pathan gang, wearing a Naval on a parole, they targeted a man Crime Branch lock-up. In the same uniform, made him his target. called Gopi Kanjari and slit his lockup, friendship developed Police had no suspicion about throat. between Dawood Ibrahim’s gang Shefali and Rajan was dead on and Rama Naik gang. After this, Rama Naik gang the spot. started extortions. They killed In the meantime, two gangsters During the interrogation, Shefali Sudhir Shetty, a hotel owner, - Amirzada and Alamzeb - killed revealed the name of Abdul in front of Palace Cinema, for Dawood’s brother Sabir at a Kunju, who lived in Chembur. refusing to pay the extortion petrol pump in Prabhadevi. The Police arrested Kunju. An attempt money. Soon after, Solanki, a same people kidnapped film was made on Kunju’s life when former corporator, was killed. director-producer Mushir Riaz he was in police custody, but he Then they killed Yusuf Lamba, and demanded a hefty ransom. escaped. After a few years, Abdul a resident of Saat Rasta. Lamba In connection with both Sabir’s Kunju was released on bail. was in the ‘havala’ (money murder and Riaz’s kidnapping, One day Kunju was watching a laundering) business. Noora police arrested Amirzada. football match in Chembur when In due course, Dawood and his he was murdered by the Rama gang were released on bail and Naik gang. Amirzada was shifted to jail, Now, Rama Naik gang’s search where he had a confrontation for Alamzeb began. But Alamzeb with Rama Naik over some issue. left Mumbai and started living Amirzada slapped Rama Naik. in Ahmedabad in Gujarat state. From here onwards enemity After Alamzeb had left the field, between Amirzada and Amar Rama Naik and Dawood Ibrahim Naik started. When Dawood became the uncrowned kings of came to know of this, he made Mumbai’s underworld. efforts and secured the release of Rama Naik and his associates. (Translated from Urdu by Dev Varam)
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100 Years of Indian Cinema Celebrating the Sprit of Creativity
By Uday Tarra Nayar
The year 2013 is likely to be Bollywood’s very special year in more ways than one. Being the hundredth year of Indian Cinema, which began its journey as a feature film industry on May 3, 1913, when Dada Saheb Phalke released his film Raja Harishchandra at the Coronation Theatre in Bombay to an awe struck overflowing house, Bolly- wood is going to be at the centre of attraction world over.
Secondly, befitting the occasion, the 60 odd films lined up for release are going to be watched avidly by cinema buffs as some of them are really big in terms of star cast, budget and technical wizardry and some of them are innovative and arresting in terms of content and some of them are likely to break new paths in mass entertainment.
Thirdly, it is going to be a year of celebrations galore to mark the hundredth year and event organizers are going to have a field day putting up shows and felicitation ceremonies that will compete with one another in glitz and glamour.
Once again it will be Ranbir
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March will have the screens sizzle with Himmatwala starring Ajay Devgan. The film’s highlight will be its action directed by Jai Singh Nijjar, a protégé of the legendary Action Director Veeru Devgan. According to Nijjar it will be after a long gap of time that a hero will be fighting a live tiger in a film. Years ago, Dharmendra wrestled with a lion.
Kapoor’s year of surprise February will usher in the first The next big releases are lined triumphs. The choosy actor has Akshay Kumar starrer of the up in August, which will see three exceptional starrers lined year—Neeraj Pandey’s Special three mega budget films opening up for release this year. They Chhabis produced by the rising with much fanfare. The first , are Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani Corporate production house, Once Upon A Time in Mumbai, directed by Ayan Mukherji, Viacom 18. The month will is the second part of the highly another directed by Abhinav also see the release of ABCD admired first part with the same Kashyap and one more by ( Anybody Can Dance) an title starring Ajay Devgan. The Anuraag Kashyap. experiment in giving dance second part will be a continuation loving audiences a full fledged of the same story and director As far as the releases of the dance filled film featuring Milan Luthria assures that it will year are concerned, the year is Prabhu Deva, Ganesh Acharya, be as good if not better than the likely to get a kick start from the Remo D’Souza and other dance first part. The second release, Sher January release, Race 2, slated experts. In the sixties, it may Khan stars the current Bollywood for Republic day opening. Its be recalled V.Shantaram had Badshah Salman Khan and it producer Ramesh Taurani who tried a similar experiment with is directed by Sohail Khan. The heads the large music company, the brilliant Jhanak Jhanak third stars Amitabh Bachchan Tips, says; “We are looking Payal Baaje featuring Sandhya and Ajay Devgan and Kareena forward to our film earning Rs and Gopi Krishna, the Kathak Kapoor. Titled Satyagraha it has 100 crores which has become exponent. The difference is that director Prakash Jha at the helm the benchmark for a big star Shantaram filled his fabulous for UTV Motion Pictures. cast film. It is not a make believe colour film with classical dance November will have the excite- situation. The business is now and gorgeous classical music ment of the release of Krrish transparent and it is evident in while ABCD is appropriately 3 and December will have the the collections of films. When filled with modern dance forms. a film is released with a huge thrill of the release of Dhoom 3. number of prints, say 3500 prints, it is possible to garner that kind of collections in 6 weeks.”
Race 2, is directed by Abbas and Mustan who are known to be masters of the mystery and suspense genre. The star cast is led by Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone who proved to be lucky as a pair twice—first in Love Aajkal and second in Cocktail.
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While all the above mentioned treading the unbeaten path. Interestingly, Amitabh Bachchan films have their release dates and Jaya Bachchan will be blocked in cinema houses there Promising new directors of 2013 seen together in Garden House are around 25 films that are are Aditya Datt who directs the directed by Soorjit Sarkar if it progressing towards completion formidable actor Paresh Rawal in gets ready by year end. Mira and heading for release in 2013. Table No 21 and Vinnil Markan Nair is said to be trying to They include the Shah Rukh who directs Vivek Oberoi in get cinemas for releasing The Khan starrer Chennai Express, Jayantabhai Ki Luv Story while Reluctant Fundamentalist. Salman Khan starrer Kick, Aamir already established directors Khan starrer PK , Ajay Devgan like Tigmanshu Dhulia, Ayan It is now well known that starrer Singham 2, Sunny Deol Mukherji, Rajkumar Gupta, 2013 is going to witness the starrer Ghayal 2 and Saif Ali Anurag Kashyap, Abhishek opening of maximum number Khan starrer Bullet Raja. Kapoor, Sujoy Ghosh and Soorjit of sequels. The fact, however, Sarkar also are in the fray for is that practically all of them From the point of view of recognition once again. are merely called sequels bigness therefore 2013 is sure to while all of them are new films be remembered as the year of In many ways 2013 is also a year with new story lines. They big film releases. It will also be of star directors releasing their are simply labeled as sequels noted for the films that will once ambitious films. Like Sanjay for marketing purposes as again prove that good content is Leela Bhansali is expected to the success of the first part all that viewers want. If the year release Ram Leela, Raj Kumar invariably helps to get the 2012 had 8 directors giving the Hirani will release PK, Rohit audience in on the first day. viewers the pleasant experience Shetty will release Chennai of watching unusual content Express and Singham 2, Subhash Once again an array of new tal- and hailing the brilliance of Ghai is expected to release ent is expected to come to the their actors and technicians, the Kaanchi and Raj Kumar Santoshi fore in at least forty of the sixty year 2013 will have as many if will come up with Phata Poster films lined up for release. not more directors and actors Nikla Hero.
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