Use of Aadhar or Ration Card May Land a Criminal in Police Net

Do you know how many offenders reside in the city? According to a new report prepared by the city police, there are around 1.37 lakh offenders in the city and they include those who committed petty to serious offences like murder, attempt to murder, robbery, communal strife, sexual assault and kidnap. To keep a vigil on the offenders’ movement, the city police are likely track the use of their Aadhar and ration cards. The new plan will be implemented shortly and all police stations will have a new software containing the Aadhar and ration card numbers of offenders. Hyderabad police commissioner M Mahender Reddy has recently directed all the deputy and assistant commissioners of police to submit a comprehensive report on the crime scene and the total number of offenders residing in the city. He has received a report from all DCPs, who collected information from 60 police stations of law and order including Central Crime Station (CCS). It that revealed that as many as 1. 37 lakh offenders who involved in various offences are residing in various places.

The report that was submitted to Police Commissioner revealed that of the 1.37 lakh offenders, majority of the criminals were involved in repeated offences of chain- snatching, theft, communal flare-up and robbery. Besides, more than 80 per cent offenders have ration and Aadhar cards, and bank accounts with debit cards. Interestingly, offenders residing at a place in a particular police station limits commit offences in other police limits. After Mahender Reddy received the report, the city police have planned to keep vigil on the movements of offenders by tracking their Aadhar and ration cards, and bank and ATM transactions. “Police officials are busy collecting offenders’ Aadhar and ration card, and bank account numbers and other useful details for incorporation in to the new software being developed. The software will be installed at all police stations,” highly placed sources said. As per the plan, if any serious offence such as murder, communal riot and chain- snatching takes place in a particular area, police will find out the modus operandi of the offence and will identify the suspects as per their previous modus operandi.

By Mouli Mareedu

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First in India: TS Police to Take Complaints on Facebook

In a first of its kind initiative in the country, the Telangana police will soon receive complaints through the social networking site, Facebook. In a couple of days, every police station in the State will have an official page on Facebook. An officer of the rank of deputy commissioner of police (DCP) would monitor the pages of the police stations under Hyderabad and Cyberabad whereas a Superintendent of Police (SP) would oversee the pages of police stations in each district across the State. Telangana Director General of Police (DGP)  Anurag Sharma directed the Hyderabad and Cyberabad police commissioners M Mahender Reddy and CV Anand respectively to implement this system as a pilot project. Following this, Mahender Reddy on Saturday night convened a meeting with deputy commissioners of police (DCPs), assistant commissioners of police (ACPs) and technical teams to implement the project. In Hyderabad city, 60 police stations are functioning. Each police station will have an official page on Facebook. The Station House Officer (SHO) concerned, will be responsible for receiving complaints posted by people on the page. The ACP concerned will coordinate with all inspectors in redressing public issues. If the complainant does not get any proper response from the inspector or ACP, the complainant can reach out to the DCP concerned  directly through this page and bring the issue to his/her notice. DCP, west zone, V Satyanarayana told Express that they would open official pages on Facebook for all the police stations in his zone to accept public complaints. “It will help the public to reach the police to lodge their complaints online through Facebook. Not only does it create awareness among the police to be friendly with the public, it will also create an impact on public issues after the people start interacting with the police directly online,” the DCP said. In Cyberabad, 42 police stations are located in five zones and Cyber Crime. As many as 14 ACPs including Cyber Crime and five DCPs would monitor their teams in implementing the new project. The technical team of commissionerate concerned is busy in creating pages on Facebook with user IDs and passwords. The new IDs will be provided to police stations concerned in one or two days. Police are also taking steps to create awareness among the people not to violate rules by posting indecent or irrelevant messages. If anyone is found posting such content on the Facebook pages, police will not hesitate to take stern action against them under the IT Act.

By Mouli Mareedu

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3 of a Family Killed as SUV Rams Truck on ORR

Three members of a family died when the SUV they were travelling in hit a stationary truck on the outer ring road (ORR) at Tondupally under Shamshabad police limits early Monday. One more, identified as a techie, is battling for life. The victims were identified as - A Naga Ramalakshmi (53),  her brother Adiraju Mahidar (50) and Ramalakshmi’s  daughter Sindhura (19), an MBBS student. Mahidar’s daughter Aparna was hospitalised with serious injuries. Naga Ramalakshmi’s husband MVV Suryanarayana is a Joint Commissioner of Central Excise and Customs in Hyderabad and stays at the Gachibowli quarters. His family members live in Vijayawada. According to police, Ramalakshmi and her family members were on way to Hyderabad to be with Suryanarayana for Dasara. Mahidar was at the wheel of their Mahindra XUV. He lost control of the vehicle on the ORR near the Tondupally railway bridge and rammed it straight into a parked truck laden with tiles. As the SUV was in top speed, three of them died on the spot. Aparna, who was trapped amid the mangled vehicle, suffered severe injuries. “Our ORR patrolling staff received information around 8.40 a.m. The traffic and law and order police rushed there and found three dead. Aparna was unconscious and trapped inside the vehicle. We arranged a crane and rescued Aparna and shifted her to a nearby hospital,’’ said Shamshabad inspector K Uma Maheswar Rao. He blamed Mahidar for the accident. ‘’He might have been sleepy while driving the vehicle and over speeding was also one of the reasons,’’ he added. 

Her Cries for Help were Ignored : It was a nightmare for Aparna Adiraju, a 20-year-old techie with Infosys, after she got trapped inside the wreckage of the vehicle on the outer ring road. For about an hour,  she lay writhing in pain and bleeding profusely beside the dead bodies of her family members - her father,  Mahidar Adiraju, who was the Managing Director of Veridian Energy Solutions Private Limited in Vijayawada, her maternal aunt Naga Ramlakshmi and cousin Sindhuja. It appears Aparna’s cries for help fell on deaf ears as none stopped by to help her. Finally, after about an hour, one car driver noticed her and immediately alerted the police. “Aparna was seated in the back seat and therefore, survived with injuries. The impact was more on those seated in the front. In fact, before entering the city, her father had stopped the car for a moment during which Aparna, who was till then seated just behind him, shifted to the last seat (towards the rear of the car),’’ a police official said. The ORR patrolling team traffic sub-inspector Raghu told Express they had a tough time rescuing Aparna. A huge crane was brought to the spot to dismantle the wreckage.  Police battled for more than one-and-a-half hours to disengage the vehicle from the truck.  Aparna is undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Shamshabad. 

Negligence, Speed Leading to Deaths on ORR, Says DCP: 

Q. What kind of measures are being taken up to prevent accidents on ORR?
A. We have four patrolling vehicles. Traffic policemen keep monitoring the movement of vehicles. If anyone is found violating traffic rules, a penalty is imposed. We completely banned two-wheelers from plying on ORR. Besides, we segregated ORR into four parts on each side and no vehicle should not park on ORR. Accidents have come down on ORR by at least 30%.
Q. Any plans to introduce more patrolling vehicles?
A. Yes, I prepared a comprehensive report suggesting increase in the number of patrolling vehicles on ORR from four to eight or 10 for patrolling round-the-clock. I have submitted the proposal to my higher ups.
Q. Even as police are implementing new rules, why are accidents still taking place on ORR?

A. In a majority of cases, driver’s negligence or overspeeding are the key reasons. Accidents on ORR take place at morning or night.

By Mouli Mareedu

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