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Indian Express
02-06-2025
- Indian Express
Extensive legwork, technical leads: How Pune Rural police solved a case of rape and murder of 2-year-old girl in 48 hours
On February 15, 2021, a 25-year-old labourer from a remote village in the hilly region of the Pune district left home for work at around 9 am. The labourer was given the work to chop some large logs of wood next to a dam. Back home were his wife and three children — two daughters aged three and two, and a two-month-old son. His mother had gone to a nearby reservoir to catch fish to be sold in the local market. At around 12 pm, he got a call from a man from his village, saying his two-year-old daughter had gone missing, the police records show. A brutal rape and murder What followed was an extensive search conducted across eight villages in the area, as senior police officers also joined the operation. The police received the first lead when a rickshaw driver told them he had dropped a man and a girl of that description to a location in a neighbouring village. A woman from a neighbouring village further pointed the police in the direction where the man was seen taking the girl. A day after she had gone missing, the girl was found dead in a cement pipe next to a bridge on a road connecting two villages. Autopsy revealed that the girl had been brutally raped and murdered. The police, which had registered a kidnapping case, added the provisions related rape of minor, murder, destruction of evidence and provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act. After the first lead Abhinav Deshmukh, who was the superintendent of police for Pune Rural at the time, formed eight teams and launched an extensive probe. The teams started working on the preliminary description of the suspect, and combed remote hamlets in hilly regions spread across over a dozen villages. Some of these hamlets did not even have motorable approach roads. After their extensive legwork, the police received a possible location where the suspect could have been hiding. Subsequently, working on technical leads and ground-level police work, the investigation team found out that the suspect was hiding at a brick kiln on the outskirts of a village in the Mahad taluka of the state's Raigad district. Within 48 hours after registration of the case, the Pune Rural police arrested Sanjay Baban Katkar, 38, a brick kiln labourer. Katkar had been hiding in a small hut at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Nate village in Mahad. After his arrest, Katkar denied any link to the case, but confessed to the crime following sustained interrogation. He also showed the police where he had disposed of the victim's body and the location where he had dumped his jacket, which he was wearing at the time of committing the crime. The police probe showed that Katkar worked at a brick kiln near the victim's village and had kidnapped her from her house while passing through the area. During the fact-tracked trial of the case in a Special Court for Pocso cases, as many as 16 prosecution witnesses were examined along with circumstantial evidence gathered by the investigation team, including the results of DNA analysis. In the judgment pronounced in the last week of February 2022, the court sentenced Katkar to death under Section 6 of the Pocso Act. Sushant Kulkarni is a Special Correspondent with The Indian Express in Pune with 12+ years of experience covering issues related to Crime, Defence, Internal Security and Courts. He has been associated with the Indian Express since July 2010. Sushant has extensively reported on law and order issues of Pune and surrounding area, Cyber crime, narcotics trade and terrorism. His coverage in the Defence beat includes operational aspects of the three services, the defence research and development and issues related to key defence establishments. He has covered several sensitive cases in the courts at Pune. Sushant is an avid photographer, plays harmonica and loves cooking. ... Read More
United News of India
28-05-2025
- Business
- United News of India
Maha: Govt aims to provide 1,027 notified services through single portal from August 15
West Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, May 27 (UNI) The Maharashtra government is providing 1,027 notified services online and is trying to provide all these services through a single portal from August 15, informed an official of Maha IT on Tuesday. Addressing a meeting of the Aapla Seva Kendra operators here, Maha IT managing director Sanjay Katkar said that the government is trying to bring these services provided by the government under the Services Act on a single platform and 138 services will be integrated by May 31, out of which 92 services have been integrated. While 306 services are provided offline, efforts are being made to make them online, he said and informed that in this way, it is planned that all 1,027 services can be provided to the citizens by August 15. He said that information is being collected to know the problems of service centre operators while providing these services, to provide five logins where there is more work, to provide geo-centric services. There are 1,094 service centres in the district and improvements are being made to display the rates of services at these service centres, to be able to file complaints on QR codes. Katkar also said that the chatbot facility will be made available on WhatsApp in near future so that people can get information about these services. UNI VKB SS
Time of India
20-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
MahaIT sets Aug 15 deadline for all govt services under RTS to go online
Nashik: Sanjay Katkar, managing director of Maharashtra Information Technology Corporation Limited ( MahaIT ), has set an Aug 15 deadline for all govt departments to provide online access to services notified under the Right To Service . Katkar, the first MahaIT MD to visit Nashik since its inception in 2017, reviewed local offices and urged officials to expedite digital service delivery . "He visited Savargaon village in Peth taluka and the taluka headquarters to review the Bharat Net programme, which aims to provide broadband to govt offices," a senior district officer said. In a meeting with government departments, Katkar emphasized the need to move services online. Currently, agencies like Municipal Corporations, the Tribal Development Department, the Regional Transport Office, and the Maharashtra State Transport Corporation operate their own portals. "The govt is working to integrate all services into a single platform, a task assigned to MahaIT," the officer added. Katkar also met village-level staff from Aaple Sarkar Seva Kendra and aadhaar centres to understand challenges in application processing and payments. He assured them of timely resolution. At the Smart City Corporation, Katkar directed officials to accelerate system interlinking efforts and scheduled a follow-up meeting for updates. With student admission season underway, Katkar urged officials to ensure timely issuance of certificates. He warned against exploitation of applicants, "Any persons found charging exorbitantly should be dealt with strongly."
