Mumbai Police Social Service Branch

• 

  Mumbai Bar Raided, 27 Arrested, 12 Women Rescued

  The Social Service Branch of Mumbai police raided a bar in the early hours of Monday and arrested 27 people and rescued 12 women, an official said.

• Mumbai's controversial cop Vasant Dhoble transferred

  Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Vasant Dhoble has been transferred out of the Social Service branch of the Mumbai Police. Mr Dhoble will now be the ACP of Vakola division in western suburban Mumbai.

• Controversial cop Vasant Dhoble's wings clipped?

  Mumbai's new Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh has asked Vasant Dhoble, the city's controversial Assistant Police Commissioner, to report to the Crime Branch, and not to him directly. Mr Dhoble heads the Mumbai Police's Social Service department and reported directly to the previous police commissioner Arup Patnaik.

• Vasant Dhoble strikes again, arrests 31 in raid on a Mumbai bar

  Mumbai Police's social service branch, which is headed by hockey stick-wielding cop Vasant Dhoble, raided a bar in suburban Mumbai on Friday night. The raid was conducted on Sangam Bar in Malad and the police say 14 bar girls were rescued and 28 customers and three employees of the bar were arrested. They have been booked under various sections of...

• Has Mumbai cop Dhoble been asked to be more cautious?

  Assistant Commissioner of Police (Social Service Branch) Vasant Dhoble, the policeman whose job is secure largely due to the unwavering trust the police commissioner has in his policing style, has been told to cool it for a few days. Till Tuesday to be precise, as Arup Patnaik, commissioner of Mumbai police, is in the United States of America on of...

• Mantralaya fire: When students controlled crowds

  Our nation's obsession with disaster was on display yet again on Thursday, with flocks of onlookers gathering in front of Mantralaya to gape at the rescue operations. But 50-odd students from the National Social Service (NSS) branch of KC College, realising the urgent need to control these crowds, took it upon themselves to ensure that firemen and ...

• Who is Vasant Dhoble?

  Assistant Commissioner of police Vasant Dhoble, 57, has been accused by his severest critics of trying to Taliban-ize Mumbai. Mr Dhoble, who heads the Mumbai Police's Social Service branch, faced his latest criticism on Twitter on Tuesday when he was a trending topic for recent raids on some of the city's landmark restaurants and pubs.

• Health minister's son caught puffing hookah despite ban

  While conducting a surprise check at Zaza restaurant, Bandra Reclamation, at 11 pm on Monday, Social Service (SS) branch of Mumbai police found a hookah bar operating out of the establishment. Among the patrons rounded up was allegedly state health minister Suresh Shetty's son Kshitij.

• Why sex traders keep this cop's photo with them

  He's no movie star. But assistant commissioner of police (ACP) Vasant Dhoble of Social Service (SS) branch apparently has his photographs lying around in people's desk drawers. Well, not just any people. During a a raid at a hotel Dhoble found his photographs from a drawer close to the cash counter. The staff allegedly revealed that they had been g...

• Top Mumbai businessmen arrested for gambling

  In a late night raid at a room in a five star hotel, policemen on Friday arrested seven top businessmen from the city Mumbai for gambling. Along with the seven, two gambling organisers were also arrested and a total of Rs 3.25 lakh was seized. The Social Service Branch (SSB) of the police carried out the raid in the Taj President Hotel, Cuffe Parad...