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Mumbai Feb 28 PTI Sanjay Pandey the former acting Director General of Police of Maharashtra has been appointed as the new Mumbai Police commissioner replacing the incumbent Hemant Nagrale An official order said Nagrale will take over as Managing Director of the Maharashtra State Security Corporation This is the third time in less than a year that the Mumbai Police is witnessing a change of guard Then city police chief Param Bir Singh was shunted out in March 2021 after Mumbai Police officer Sachin Waze was arrested in the Antilia explosives case and was replaced by Nagrale It is also one of the rare occasions that an officer who oversaw the functioning of the entire state police has been asked to head Mumbai Police Usually officers first become Mumbai Police chief considered to be a very prestigious posting In the evening Pandey took charge as the police commissioner from Nagrale after visiting the office of the police commissioner in south Mumbai a police official said Pandey a 1986 batch IPS officer was appointed as the acting DGP of Maharashtra in April last year Never given the full charge he was replaced by Rajnish Seth a 1988 batch IPS officer earlier this month after the Bombay High Court rapped the state government Following the reshuffle Pandey had said in a social media post that the system worked to undo some of the injustice done to his career record in the past and he was leaving the post with a clear conscience In these 10 plus months I have had a chance to contribute to making some important long-term policy changes ranging from conditions of work for policewomen to stepping up dignitary for the men and women in the police force who have kept our State running on the ground I have faced many a hurdle and attempt to undermine my work in the past and indeed won recognition for a job sincerely done One is used to being a recipient of bouquets and brickbats all with the same equanimity The only irony in the present juncture is that in recent times the system did work to undo some of the injustice done to my career record in the past he had said PTI PR ZA VT GK NSK NSK

Mumbai Feb 28 PTI Sanjay Pandey the former acting Director General of Police of Maharashtra has been appointed as the new Mumbai Police commissioner replacing the incumbent Hemant Nagrale An official order said Nagrale will take over as Managing Director of the Maharashtra State Security Corporation This is the third time in less than a year that the Mumbai Police is witnessing a change of guard Then city police chief Param Bir Singh was shunted out in March 2021 after Mumbai Police officer Sachin Waze was arrested in the Antilia explosives case and was replaced by Nagrale It is also one of the rare occasions that an officer who oversaw the functioning of the entire state police has been asked to head Mumbai Police Usually officers first become Mumbai Police chief considered to be a very prestigious posting Pandey a 1986 batch IPS officer was appointed as the acting DGP of Maharashtra in April last year Never given the full charge he was replaced by Rajnish Seth a 1988 batch IPS officer earlier this month after the Bombay High Court rapped the state government Following the reshuffle Pandey had said in a social media post that the system worked to undo some of the injustice done to his career record in the past and he was leaving the post with a clear conscience In these 10 plus months I have had a chance to contribute to making some important long-term policy changes ranging from conditions of work for policewomen to stepping up dignitary for the men and women in the police force who have kept our State running on the ground I have faced many a hurdle and attempt to undermine my work in the past and indeed won recognition for a job sincerely done One is used to being a recipient of bouquets and brickbats all with the same equanimity The only irony in the present juncture is that in recent times the system did work to undo some of the injustice done to my career record in the past he had said PTI PR VT GK NSK NSK

Mumbai Feb 21 PTI In the wake of the appointment of Rajnish Seth as Maharashtras Director General of Police the Bombay High Court on Monday disposed of a PIL which had raised objections to IPS officer Sanjay Pandeys appointment as the acting DGP Maharashtra Advocate General Ashutosh Kumbhakoni produced before the HC a copy of the government resolution GR issued on February 18 this year notifying Seths appointment and his joining letter He told the bench that Seth had taken charge of the post on February 18 Kumbhakoni informed the court that the state had appointed Seth one of the three IPS officers empaneled for the post by the Union Public Service Commission UPSC in November last year following which a bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice MS Karnik disposed of the PIL All that the GR says is that you Seth have received an empanelment from the UPSC You are one of the three officers referred by the UPSC and are being selected for the post We have not given any reasons observations findings It is plain and simple the Advocate General said The top police post in Maharashtra fell vacant in January last year after the then DGP Subodh Jaiswal left mid-term to take over as head of the Central Industrial Security Force CISF He was subsequently posted as the CBI director The Maharashtra government had then appointed Pandey the senior most officer in the state as the acting DGP In November last year the UPSC selected the names of three officers including Seth from a list of 18 IPS officers considered for the post Pandeys name was in the list of 18 officers but he was not among the three officers finally empaneled by the UPSC The Maharashtra government however wrote to the UPSC asking it to reconsider Pandeys candidature for the DGPs post Advocate Datta Mane had filed a public interest litigation PIL through his counsel Abhinav Chandrachud claiming that Pandey continuing as the acting DGP was in breach of the 2006 Supreme Court judgement on police reforms and that there was no legal provision for an acting or adhoc post of the DGP The arguments in the case had prompted the HC to observe that Pandey seemed to be the blue-eyed officer of the Maharashtra government The court had asked the state government at that time if the latter was showing favour to Pandey The state government had on February 10 urged the HC to refrain from passing an order and to give it some time to re-think its representation sent to the UPSC on Pandeys candidature On Monday Kumbhakoni told the HC that Seths appointment was in accordance with the police reform guidelines The HC accepted the statement and disposed of the PIL saying nothing survived anymore for the courts consideration of the issue PTI AYA GK GK

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], February 18 (ANI): A collective effort from Dabang Delhi KC helped them beat Telugu Titans 40-32 in match 128 of Pro Kabaddi League Season 8.

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], February 15 (ANI): Defending champions Bengal Warriors will battle Tamil Thalaivas on Wednesday in the ongoing Pro Kabaddi League Season 8. Both Warriors and Thalaivas have very less chances of qualifying for the playoffs and are dependent on other results going their way.

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], February 14 (ANI): A collective performance from table-toppers Patna Pirates helped them beat Telugu Titans 38-30 in match 116 of Pro Kabaddi League Season 8.