Nagpur: Around 75 individuals with political crimes registered against them are now under surveillance by rural police to ensure there are no untoward incidents in the post-assembly election phase.
Nagpur rural SP Harssh A Poddar informed that his teams identified names, modus operandi, and the areas where the criminals operated, especially those associated with political activities in the past, for strict vigilance.
Apart from the police stations, the local crime branch under senior inspector Omprakash Kokate is also engaged in undertaking a stringent drive against hardened goons and flushing out arms and weapons.
Sources stated that the rural police leadership, anticipating retaliatory crimes in the district in the backdrop of the electoral outcomes of the recently concluded state assembly election, decided to crack down on the goons affiliated with different political parties and leaders to ensure they do not target each other.
In the run-up to the election, Poddar had conducted a similar drive against the goons as per the Election Commission guidelines. He instructed the force to repeat the anti-criminal drive in the district once again.