S.B. Mane

State information commission (SIC) on Saturday has served a show cause notice to city police chief SP Yadav, allowing a two-week’s time, seeking clarification for not updating its official website. Citizen activist Ankita Shah had earlier sought an intervention of the commission under section 18 (1) of Right to Information Act, 2005, which empowers the body to enquire into a complaint.

Fifty-two-year-old businessman Nilesh Patel claimed to have been robbed of Rs1.21 lakh by four unknown goons at knifepoint in a narrow lane passing at Lakadganj on Wednesday night.

Four days after a security guard was found stoned to death at Danaganj area in Lakadganj, the police have nabbed the murderer after going through the CCTV footages from an adjacent shop.

Santosh Ambekar, who has been booked three times under the stringent Maharashtra control of organized crime Act (MCOCA), was on Friday evening accused by the Lakadganj police of wrongful restraint and disobeying instruction in what seems a mere eyewash action against him.

City police were left baffled after more than two dozens of dormant bombshells were unearthed from an under-construction site at Shastri Nagar near Telephone Exchange Chowk earlier this week.

The ongoing tussle between police and residents in the red-light area of Ganga Jamuna has resulted in the cops now targeting customers of the commercial sex workers (CSWs).

Lakadganj police seem to be struggling to find a clue in the murder of 43-year-old Manoj Waman, who was found with his head smashed with a boulder at a firewood depot at Danaganj on Friday. Waman, separated from two wives, used to sleep at the firewood depot after working in the day as helper at a country liquor shop in the vicinity. He also doubled up as a menial labourer.

Police and citizens joined hands in the numerous ‘prabhat pheris’ (morning walks) across city on Sunday organized by most of the 24 police stations.

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A young couple was found hanging from the ceiling fan at their home in mysterious circumstances at Bhaurao Nagar in Lakadganj on Thursday night.

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A 22-year-old woman enacted a ‘suicide drama’ to protect her boyfriend, a dreaded goon, when Lakadganj police went to her rented place to nab him and his accomplice, at Pardi. Before making a scene by going to the railway tracks to commit suicide in front of a train, the woman had also bitten cops when they tried to grab the two suspects.

The police department have already pointed out to the Shatranjipura zone office of Nagpur municipal corporation (NMC) to take cognisance of the illegal constructions sprouting in the red-light area of Ganga Jamuna around couple of months back. In the backdrop of the last week’s sweeping raid in which 91 women and 45 customers were rounded up, police department is now set to alert NMC with fresh facts and evidences of various illegalities in the building constructions at Ganga Jamuna.

A 24-year-old driver’s plan to loot his employer – hotelier-cum-fruit merchant Kanhaiyya Chhabrani – with the help of five amateurs to pay off his loans and build a house boomeranged as all landed in police net on Wednesday.