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Using an effective law better: Delhi Police sets up MCOCA Cell to address rising challenges from organised crime gangs
October 16, 2025 4:30 pm
In more than two decades since Maharashtra’s anti-gangster law was made applicable in the NCT of Delhi, there has been only one conviction under the Act. The police want this record to improve.
For Chain snatching in 2020, court sentences two men to 5 yrs in jail and Rs 15 lakh fine
October 10, 2025 12:01 pm
Accused convicted under MCOCA: The court directed that their five year punishment will take in account of the period undergone in jail as undertrials since 2020.
Months after MCOCA invoked against 'sex traffickers', Act dropped after no sanction
September 21, 2025 10:01 pm
A sanction is required under the Act from a sanctioning authority, who is usually a police officer of the rank of an Additional Director General of Police.
MCOCA invoked against members of Bandu Andekar gang after teens’ murder
September 11, 2025 12:58 am
Ayush was son of one of the daughters of Bandu Andekar, Kalyani Komkar, whose husband Ganesh Komkar is key accused in Vanraj's murder.
MCOCA invoked against 3 in drugs case, first such case after amendment to Act
August 21, 2025 12:08 am
The Anti-Narcotics Cell of the Mumbai police seized 766 grams of mephedrone in a case registered on August 7 under sections of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.
CM Fadnavis defends govt policies; says 'no one can take Mumbai away from Maharashtra'
July 19, 2025 8:15 am
Says bid to spread spread misinformation ahead of civic polls
Nabbed in molestation case, MCOCA-accused pepper-sprays cops, ransacks Pune police station
July 18, 2025 12:20 pm
The Sahkar Nagar police said the accused was arrested under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) two years ago.
Surat 'drug maker' rescued from UP: Mumbai police likely to slap MCOCA against 7 accused
July 17, 2025 11:16 pm
For the accused to be charged under MCOCA, certain conditions have to be met like two chargesheets have to be filed against someone in the syndicate, which is related to gang activity in the past 10 years.
Two amendment bills passed to tighten slum revamp Act, bring drug peddling under MCOCA
July 10, 2025 8:44 am
The amendment also reduces the consent window for dissenting slum dwellers from 120 to 60 days once a majority supports a redevelopment plan.
'Invocation of MCOCA illegal': Court grants bail to Hashim Baba's associate
May 03, 2025 9:55 pm
Asrar, the man suspected to be an associate of Baba, was granted bail on the condition that he furnish bonds worth Rs 25,000.
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