Pune Police Invoke MPDA Against 3 Notorious Goons, To Be Lodged In Jail Without Trial For One Year
Mubarak Ansari
Pune, 26th June 2021: In a stern warning to goons in the city, Pune Police Commissioner Amitabh Gupta has booked three notorious goons under the stringent Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Slumlords, Bootleggers, Drug Offenders and Dangerous Persons Act (MPDA), 1981. In the last nine months, Gupta has invoked MPDA against 26 hardened criminals.
The Act empowers the district magistrate and the commissioner of police to detain a person who in their view is acting in a manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order. Either of these two authorities can pass an order under the Act directing that such a person be detained for one year. It is difficult to get bail under this law.
According to police, those detained under MPDA are Rakesh Prakash Salve (23) of Dr Ambedkar Colony in Mangalwar Peth, Sairaj Ranapratap Lonkar (21) of Pandurang Ali near Ganesh Temple in Kondhwa Khurd and Ajay alias Bhajya Prakash Nikalje (27) of Kakadevasti in Kondhwa Budruk. In the last six years, there have been 19 cases registered against them with Faraskhana and Kondhwa police stations. The cases are related to murder, attempt to murder, terrorising people with sharp weapons, kidnapping, dacoity, assault etc.
Senior Police Inspector Rajendra Landge, in-charge of Faraskhana police station, and Senior Police Inspector Sardar Patil, in-charge of Kondhwa police station, submitted proposals to Commissioner of Police Amitabh Gupta to detain these criminals on records under the MPDA. After examining their history sheets, the city police chief issued an order to detain them.
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