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The further commissioner said successful the exertion that vehicles of the Motor Transport Department are utilized for assorted purposes similar providing extortion to VIPs, bandobast duties.
A SPECIAL tribunal successful an bid connected Monday allowed an exertion filed by the Mumbai constabulary for handing implicit of its SUV – seized for allegedly being utilized successful a transgression by a constabulary unit – citing shortage of vehicles for purposes similar extortion of VIPs. The lawsuit relates to an alleged heist astatine a renowned cafe owner’s location successful Sion, by the accused who posed arsenic transgression subdivision officials. A constabulary constable, since dismissed, who was arrested successful the case, had allegedly utilized the SUV successful the crime.
The Motor Transport Department done its further commissioner filed an exertion seeking that a TUV 300, portion of its fleet, is successful the custody of the Sion constabulary and is lying successful the constabulary presumption premises. The Sion constabulary had seized the conveyance arsenic portion of evidence, erstwhile it arrested a constabulary constable, Babasaheb Bhagwat, who besides belonged to the centrifugal transport department.
The further commissioner said successful the exertion that vehicles of the Motor Transport Department are utilized for assorted purposes similar providing extortion to VIPs, bandobast duties. It was further submitted that determination is simply a shortage of vehicles successful the section and the conveyance lying successful a stationary information astatine the constabulary presumption volition origin harm and unnecessary nonaccomplishment to the department. The Sion constabulary besides gave its no-objection to the interim custody of the conveyance to beryllium granted to the department.
The tribunal said that the grounds showed that the conveyance was allegedly utilized for abducting a idiosyncratic successful the dacoity lawsuit and hence it was seized. “If the conveyance is kept pending successful stationary information successful the custody of the investigating serviceman successful the premises of Sion constabulary station, it volition surely beryllium damaged and yet origin nonaccomplishment unnecessarily to the government,” the tribunal said granting the section interim custody of the vehicle, with assorted conditions including that it volition not beryllium sold oregon transferred till the decision of the trial, nor volition its colour, operation volition beryllium changed, oregon it volition beryllium destroyed successful anyway.
Properties, movable oregon immovable, which are portion of evidence, are seized and are required successful the proceedings for recognition by witnesses.
This peculiar lawsuit relates to an offence nether the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act filed by the Sion constabulary against 11 persons successful 2024. The constabulary had claimed that the accused had been portion of a transgression conspiracy to rob Rs 72.82 lakh by posing arsenic constabulary officers of the transgression subdivision and nether the guise of a raid during elections successful May 2024.
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