Bhopal

Inbrief

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Reserve police to become watchmen

Gwalior: The SSP Gwalior has made the reserve police force as watchmen of the city. During midnight, 200 jawans are posted in inner circle security that patrols the streets of the city daily. They are patrolling colonies located on the border of the city. This step has been taken to provide relief to the police of police stations to control the crowed in the festival season. All these jawans take round of the city in the night and search the people and note the numbers of their mobiles and vehicles. They also interrogate them. If during interrogation if the jawans find anything suspicious they bring the person to the police station and keep him in the police lockup till morning. The police also arranged for breath analyzer to curb the activities of the persons drinking wine and roaming on night. The police have taken this action to maintain law and order situation during festive season.

extortion Case against youth

Gwalior: A youth demanded Rs7 lakh from a retired SHO. When the retired officer refused to pay the money, the youth threatened him to lodge a complaint against him with the lokayukta. The TI got a case registered in the police station against the offender. According to the Janakganj police, a retired TI Ranjan Pathak reported the matter in the police station that he is constructing a house under Kala Sayed police station area. Three days before Sanket Shahu of Morar Ghasmandi came to him and told him that his house was being constructed wrongly so give him Rs7 lakh otherwise he would lodge a complain against the retired officer with the lokayukta against him, but the retired TI refused to pay the amount and got a case registered against him.