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Nagpur: A man was murdered by three bike-born youths in Rajabaksha in Imambada police station area on Monday night in a case of suspected road rage. The deceased has been identified as Vijay Khandait (33), a resident of Shatabdi Nagar, was working as agent in a seed company.

According to police, the incident occurred at 9.30 pm when Vijay was passing through the lane of Hanuman Temple in his car. Vijay reportedly whizzed pass the accused men identified as Yashwant Sitaram Chavhan (47), Sanjay Sitaram Chavhan (44) and Dinesh Sitaram Chavhan (51), all residents of Utkhana. Irked by it, the accused trio followed Vijay. The three men came on a bike from behind and rammed it into Vijay’s car. Soon after they blocked the car and picked up a quarrel with Vijay. One of them then allegedly stabbed Vijay in the stomach with sharp-weapon. Leaving Vijay lay in pool of blood the trio fled on their bike from the spot. Passersby noticed Vijay lying in blood and informed control room.

Imambada police have booked all the accused under Sections 302, 34 of the IPC and placed them under arrest

Man murdered in suspected road rage in Imambada

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Nagpur: Kamptee police have arrested three youths for allegedly launching a deadly assault on a 25-year-old man with sharp edged weapons on Monday night, following a tiff over rash driving. The victim Mohammad Sagir Mohammad Shakil Qureshi was reportedly trying to intervene in his cousin’s brawl with the accused trio, when they launched murderous attack on him.

Police sources said complainant Mohammad Faizan Mohammad Irffan Qureshi (20), a resident of Bhaji Mandi, Madan Chowk was riding bike with his cousin brother Salman riding pillion on Monday night. The duo was headed towards Shukrawari Bazar Road and was driving rashly, when they intercepted accused Jamaluddian Samshuddin Pathan, near Gouhar Canteen. Owing to erratic driving, the duo reportedly dashed Pathan’s bike. Following which Pathan (29), a resident of Tambakhu Oli hurled abuses at the duo.

Soon the heated argument turned into fight, where Pathan manhandled the duo. It is when victim Sagir came to intervene into the matter. However, in the rage of anger accused Pathan along with his accomplices Sahu alias Sahuuddin Samdhuddin Pathan (40) and Ajju alias Azaruddin Samshaddin Pathan (27) whipped out sharp edge weapons and started attacking Sagir.

Based on the complaint lodged by Faizan, Kamptee police have booked the accused trio under Sections 324, 307, 34 of the IPC and placed them under arrest.

Murderous attack on youth over rash driving in Kamptee, 3 arrested

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Nagpur: Ajni police have arrested a teacher employed at New Apostolic English School located at Kukde Layout here, on the charges of sexually exploting a 9 year old girl studying in class 4 in the same school.

The accused has been identified as John Timooti. Though he was arrested two days back, the relatives of the girl created an uproar at the police station on Wednesday.

The accused is music teacher at the school. As per the complaint, the accused Timooti would take the survivor to some vacant class and torment her. He also warned the girl against revealing the incident to anyone. However the girl later naratted her ordeal to her parents who then lodged complaint at Ajni police station.

The girl is reportedly petrified and recuperating at the hospital.

On Wednesday, an angry mob including the relatives of the girl crowded at the police station and expressed their ire.

Social worker and member of women’s security committee Pooja Tiwari, who also joined the protestors confirmed that the girl was sexually exploited and she was currently admitted at the hospital. The girl’s statement will be taken once she regains composure.

Meanwhile, the police were also inquiring other girls from the school to ascertain if the accused had exploited others too.

Nagpur Shame : New Apostolic School teacher exploits std 4th girl student, arrested

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Nagpur: A 39-year-old woman was robbed of her gold chain worth Rs 12,000 near Rajapeth Bus-stop on Wednesday afternoon. The incident took place under Hudkeshwar police station.

According to police sources, Vidya Sadanand Kopre (39), a resident of Flat No. 25, Govindprabhu Nagar was sweeping outside her house on Wednesday.

At around 2.30 pm some unidentified youth on Activa moped approached her and snatched away her gold mangalstura. Though Vidya raised an alarm, however the accused had managed to zoom away from the spot.

Woman relieved of gold chain in Hudkeshwar

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Nagpur: In a major crackdown, the special squad of DCP Zone 5, Nilotpal busted a gambling den running on the terrace of the house under Ajni police station in the wee hours of Monday. Besides seizing cash and valuables collectively of Rs 9.57 lakh, cops have also rounded up around 27 gamblers.

According to police sources, the cops received secret information about a house near Rahate Nagar Toli road, where around 30 men have engaged in gambling activities inside a tent on the roof top. Acting swiftly on the information the special squad comprising API D Annachantre, Constables Suraj Bharti, Yogesh Tatod, Vinod Sontakke, PRabhakar Mankar, Ravindra Raut, Chetan Jadhav, Mrudul Nagare raided the house and rounded up 27 gamblers including house owner Sandeep Nade.

Cops have booked all the accused under Sections 4,5 of the Maharashtra Gambling Act against the accused and started the probe.

Gambling den busted in Ajni, cash, material worth Rs 9.57 lakh seized

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Nagpur: A 39-year-old motorcycle rider suspected to be drunk allegedly abused an on-duty policeman here in Nagpur, police said on Monday. The incident took place in the Gittikhadan police station area on Sunday night when traffic police constable Dhnyaneshwar Chapke was on duty.

The accused, Suraj Kishan Shivarkar (39), a resident of Gaddigodam, has been arrested, they said. According to the police, at around 9 pm, Chapke spotted a bullet motorcycle coming from Katol Road being driven in a reckless way.

As the man was not riding the motorbike properly, the traffic constable stopped him to check whether he was in an inebriated condition, they said. When Chapke and his colleagues tried to check whether Shivarkar was drunk and not, he got angry and abused him, the police said.

Shivarkar was immediately arrested and taken to the nearest police station, they said. He was booked under IPC section 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), the police said, adding further investigation was on.

‘Drunk’ motorcycle rider abuses policeman in Gittikhadan

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Nagpur: It seems the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) under its first woman Superintendent has tighten the noose against the culprits operating within the law. As in yet another significant action, the sleuths of ACB on Monday nabbed an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) of Jaripatka red-handed accepting Rs 10,000 as bribe money. It is likely to mention that ACB has also arrested Pachpaoli Police Sub-Inspector (PSI) on Sunday.

The accused has been identified as Ravindra Yadavrao Chichghate (54).

According to police sources, ASI Chichghate was seeking Rs 10,000 bribe for releasing complainant’s money.
The complainant, works as a daily wage at Sweet Shop had reportedly arrested in gambling case back in 2013. However, the Nagpur bench of Bombay Hight Court in February 2019 has directed police department to release the seized cash Rs 41,700 of the accused. Capitalizing the situation, ASI was demanding Rs 10,000 to release the money and had withhold the amount. Following which the complainant approached ACB.

The ACB laid trap on Monday and nabbed ASI Chichghate red-handed accepting Rs 10,000 as bribe.

After Pachpaoli PSI, Jaripatka ASI in ACB’s net

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Nagpur: Gold ornaments and cash collectively worth Rs 1.40 lakh were stolen from a house in Kotwali police station area.

Police source said that the theft took place between 8 pm and 8.30 pm when Neeraj Parmanand Shahu (45), a resident of House No. 1510, Motibagh, near Hanuman Temple, had gone to a shop.

The thief entered the house after breaking-open latch of a door from the gallery.

The intruder walked away with gold ornaments collectively worth Rs 1.40 lakh including Rs 1.10 lakh cash. Kotwali police have registered a case under Section 457 and 380 of the Indian Penal Code.

Burglars break into house in Kotwali, flees with Rs 1.4 lakh booty

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Nagpur: Recklessly driven truck carrying breakstone knocked two students in Kamptee on Tuesday evening. Fortunately, no casualty was reported in the incident. The students are pursuing B Pharm here.

The victims have been identified as Pawan Ramesh Rangdale (21) and Hritik Dilip Bhope (19).

Talking to Nagpur Today, New Kamptee Police Inspector (PI), Santosh Bakal said, both the boys escaped with injuries and were rushed to Chaudhary Hopital for primary healthcare.

“The boy was heading towards Dragon Palace Temple on their scooter (MH/31/Y/6952). This is when the truck carrying breakstone (MH/40/BL/2069) dashed them from behind. To avoid any mob fury, the cops cleared the traffic and moved the truck away from the spot. “We have booked the accused driver under relevant Sections of the IPC and seized the heavy vehicle” informed PI Bakal.

Monster truck leaves two B Pharm students injured in Kamptee

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Nagpur registers 80 offences under POCSO Act till Oct this year

Nagpur: Recently Ajni police arrested a teacher employed at New Apostolic English School located at Kukde layout here, on the charges of sexually exploiting a 9 year-old girl studying in class IV in the same school. Earlier this month, a 16-year-old girl was allegedly exploited by her tuition teacher. The accused would make the class X student stay back on the pretext of extra class and would commit heinous crime. Frightening it may sound, the stories of child abuse are so closely knitted that gets difficult at times to gauge where the threat lies. Family members, close friends, neighbors, school and tuition teachers have emerged as abusers in an overwhelming majority of cases.

The data from city Crime Branch reveals that between January and October 2019, total 80 cases have been registered under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POSCO) Act- 2012. While year 2018 witnessed total 99 cases under POSCO Act.

Addressing the critical issue, Deputy Commissioner of Crime (DCP) Detection, Gajanan Rajmane has elaborated on the key role of parents to intervene into the matter and suggested that only kids’ faith and trust on their parents would easily bring such incidents to the fore.

Communication is the key:

“Digitalization and modernization has widened the gap between parents and children. Children should have faith that their parents will listen to their agony. Only then a child would tell his/her feelings to parents. Leaving our cultural taboo behind, parents should talk to their children about good touch and bad touch and refresh it every couple of months. They also need to break the glass ceiling and discuss about sex in a healthy way,” said the DCP.

Accused will get punishment, but child loses innocence:
“Though, the accused will face imprisonment after conviction, but the child losses his innocence. The pain and agony which follows the crime, hunts them for their entire life. Some narrates their ordeal to their parents, however, most kids never do. The kid who faces abuse does not have many avenues to discuss it,” said the DCP.

Importance of faith and trust on parents:
“The known accused often uses process of ‘grooming’ where he spends days preparing the child. The accused first use threats, bribes to gain trust of the child. By doing so, the accused ultimately decrease the chance of child narrating their agony and future misery to anyone. Hence, the parents should bridge the gap of their friends and communicate with them on regular basis. Faith and trust on the parents are the most significant factor eliminating such incidents,” mentioned Rajmane.

Hiding crime makes you culprit:
DCP further asserted, “Hiding child abuse is also a crime under POCSO Act. Suppose if any teacher sexually exploits a student and the head-master found intestinally hiding the matter to protect the pride of the institution, he by law is committing crime and becomes a culprit.”

– Shubham Nagdeve

Child abuse : Parents must gain faith of their wards, opines DCP Rajmane

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Nagpur: Nagpur Police on Thursday delivered a summons, issued by a local court to former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, in connection with a case where he is accused of concealing information about two criminal matters against him in election affidavit.

The summons was delivered at Fadnavis’s house here, said an official of Sadar Police Station. The development came on the day a new Shiv Sena-led government was sworn in in Maharashtra. Fadnavis is MLA from Nagpur.

A magistrate’s court, on November 1, had restored an application seeking criminal proceedings against the BJP leader for alleged non-disclosure.

City-based lawyer Satish Uke had filed an application in the court seeking that criminal proceedings be initiated against Fadnavis.

The Bombay High Court had upheld the lower court’s earlier order dismissing Uke’s plea. But the Supreme Court, on October 1, directed the magistrate’s court to go ahead with the application filed by Uke.

The magistrate’s court on November 4 said the case would be held as a summary criminal case, and issued notice. “Process (notice) is issued against accused (Fadnavis) for offence punishable under section 125A of Representation of People Act, 1951,” magistrate S D Mehta said.

Cases of cheating and forgery were filed against Fadnavis in 1996 and 1998, but charges were not framed in both the matters. Uke alleged that Fadnavis did not disclose this information in his election affidavits.

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Nagpur: Nandanvan police have booked two miscreants on the charges of arson. The unidentified accused reportedly set ablaze a clinic near Ramna Maroti Nagar in the wee hours of November 20, this year. The complainant, Dr Jivan Vithobaji Waghaye (51), a resident of Plot. No. 79, Kali Mata Nagar first anticipated that it was the short circuit which sparked the fire. However, after scanning of CCTV footage it came to fore that, two miscreants poured inflammable fuel inside the clinic and fled after setting a fire.

Speaking to Nagpur Today, Nandanvan API P N Bhaval said, “Dr Wadhaye runs a clinic as a tenant at Ramna Maroti Nagar. On November 20, Dr Wadhaye received a call at around 5 am. It was the property owner who broke the shocking news that a fire has broke down at his clinic. Though, at first everyone had anticipated that it was a short circuit which must have triggered the fire. However, when the house owner checked the CCTV footage, he found out that two youths on moped approached the clinic at around 3.40 am. The duo who had their face covered then pour inflammable liquid inside the clinic and set a fire.”

“As the CCTV footage is not clear, neither the accused nor the number plate on the moped has been identified. Though, it is suspected that it a family conflict,” the API Bhaval added.

Based on the complaint lodged by Dr Wadhaye, Nandanvan police have booked the accused duo under Sections 435 of the IPC and started the probe.

Hooligans set clinic ablaze in Nandanvan, booked

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Nagpur: Two people, including a woman, have been booked in Nagpur for allegedly extorting Rs 15 lakh from a person after threatening to file a rape case against him, police said on Friday.

An official said victim Chinna Subba Mala Reddy had claimed that Sonali Sakhare alias Simran Sharma (30) was blackmailing him with the rape threat since December 2017.

“The woman and a male friend had barged into Reddy’s home and taken away Rs 15 lakh. They had also tried to usurp his flat. The accused used to threaten Reddy claiming she would file a rape case against him. We have booked the woman and her male friend,” a Mankapur police station official said.

Wcl manager blackmailed by woman in Nagpur, booked

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Nagpur: Pardi police have detained a man allegedly for sexually exploiting a 4-year-old on Sunday evening. Listening to the screams some locals reportedly intervened into matter and apprehended the accused identified Jawahar Vaidya and thrashed him before handing him over to the Pardi police.

According to police sources, the accused is a cousin brother of the local BJP corporator. However, the BJP leader has contented that his relationship with his cousin brother has been deteriorated.

4-year-old girl sexually exploited in Pardi

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Nagpur: Ambazari police have taken custody of four MCOCA accused from Central Jail on production warrant in connection with illegal transportation of liquor.

The accused have been identified as Shivprasad alias Shiva Murli Manohar Bejankiwar (29), a resident of Yavatmal district; Sheikh alias Gol Nawaz Khan Izaz Khan (29), a resident of Utthan Nagar; Suraj Saroj Choudhary (25), a resident of Balaji Nagar, Hingna Road and Atharv Pamod Khadakhadi (23), a resident of Bharat Nagar, Amravati Road and Rushikesh Eknath Teltumbde (21), a resident of Telang Nagar, Yavatmal.

Ambazari Police had seized 6,000 bottles of liquor worth Rs 1,56,000/- from a Mahindra XUV 500 (MH-03/BJ-9979) which was parked near Campus Chowk on Amravati Road on July 24. During investigation, the police learnt involvement of the accused in the crime, said a police officer..

Under the guidance of DCP Zone II Vinita Shahu, the arrest was made by PI Ambazari Vijay Kare, ASI Ashish Kohale and staff including Santosh Wankhede, Shrikant Uikey,Yogesh Katarpwar, Sachin Bansode, Ankush Ghati and others

4 MCOCA accused arrested for illegal liquor trade

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Nagpur: The brutal rape and murder of Dr Priyanka Reddy on the outskirts of Hyderabad has once again unleashed a trail of gloom, replete with anger and frustration in the nation’s nerve. The fairer sex community across India is again soaked in its worst fear of getting preyed at the hands of such insane monsters wandering in the dark fringes of city scapes in the human masks. Voice of angst and fury are turning loud and clear and the rage is evident.

Back in Nagpur, the social media is raging up with the recall of Akku Yadav’s lynching in Nagpur court on August 13, 2004. Many users are referring to the similar mode of action with the accused in latest case.

Akku Yadav was a 32-year-old rapist, extortionist, and accused murderer. Following a decade of criminal activity and rape allegations, a bail hearing was scheduled for Yadav on August 13, 2004 in Nagpur District Court, and word spread through the adjoining neighborhood that he would be released. Hundreds of women marched from the slums to the courthouse carrying vegetable knives and chili powder. When Akku Yadav appeared, he saw a woman whom he had raped and shouted that he would rape her again. The woman started hitting him with her sandal.

Yadav was then lynched by a mob of around 200 women from Kasturba Nagar, a slum of Nagpur.Yadav was stabbed over seventy times, and chili powder and stones were thrown in his face. One of his alleged victims also hacked off his penis. This lynching occurred in the Nagpur District Court No. 7 on the marble floor of the courtroom.

Cut to 2019 incident in which Dr Reddy has been victimized. The cries deeply inherit the same old question – how long will such tormentors exist to make life of innocent women worse than hell, or make them lifeless!

The deceased 26-year-old veterinary surgeon from Cyberabad, Telangana has become the latest face of vulnerability at the hands of nocturnal animals that survive beneath the so called civilized cover of the society.

The main accused Mohd Ali alias and his accomplices dragged the victim into the bushes and took turns in raping her. They later smothered her to death and dumped the body below a culvert in Chattanpalli.

The case has been referred to fast track court for speedy proceedings but before the Justice comes, and the proximity of the punishment is decided, the simmering fury among the enraged mob points to the pattern followed in Akku Yadav case.

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While we at Nagpur Today doesn’t support such acts of taking law in hands, we equally push for stringent laws and severe punishments for the accused which should set a precedent before such evils and they should think 100 times before committing such heinous acts. However this has been said and repeated countless number of times and it’s high time, the judiciary must react before the people could ‘act’!

… Team Nagpur  input Ravikant Kamble 

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Nagpur: Ambazari police have rounded up two men allegedly for thrashing two youths with wooden sticks in Shankar Nagar on Sunday evening. The accused men reportedly picked a fight over petty issue and also broke two teeth of the complainant Rahul Panju Totwani.

Cops have booked the accused Akash Dagor and Rahul Kanojiya under Sections 326, 324, 323, 34 of the IPC and placed them under arrest.

Speaking to Nagpur Today, Ambazari Police Inspector (PI) Vijay Kare informed Totwani along with his friend Ankush Govind Gupta (22) had gone to grab some evening snacks at Shankar Nagar when incident occurred.

“Totwani and Gupta approached Shankar Nagar based food stall at around 5 pm. Owing to Sunday evening the place was crowded. Following which Totwani shared a minor argument over a little push with the accused Dagor and Kanojiya. Subsequently, minor argument turned ugly after the duo started hurling abuses at each other. In the fit of rage the accused duo then picked up the wooden sticks and started beating Totwani black and blue and also knocked his two teeth out. However, when Gupta came to intervene into the matter, the accused duo also manhandled him,” said the PI.

Hooligans deal fists and blows to 2 youths in Ambazari, break teeth

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Nagpur: A con couple extorted Rs 9.82 lakh from a woman by scaring her with life threat to her husband and son in Jaripatka area. The accused couple has been booked.

A resident of Bhim Square, Jaripatka, Seema Dilip Nakade (35), told police that the accused couple Ashwin Prakash Patankar (38) and Roshani Ashwin Patankar (27), both residents of Plot No. 305, Dixit Nagar, approached her on June 26, 2018. The accused couple scared Seema with life threat to her husband and son and extorted Rs 9.82 lakh from her.

Jaripatka API Bajbadkar, acting on Seema’s complaint, booked the accused Nakode couple under Sections 387, 406, 420, 506 of the IPC and probing the matter further.

Con couple extorts Rs 9.82 lakh from woman in Jaripatka

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Nagpur: High voltage drama erupted at Dasra Chowk in Mahal locality on Tuesday night after Congress leader and Corporator Bunty Shekle allegedly thrashed a local youth. Shekle was under influence of liquor and picked up quarrel with local youth for not actively participating in his political campaign. This wal alleged by victim Monty Nilesh Murkute. In the meantime, Kotwali police have registered a non-cognisable (NC) offence against the accused Bunty Shelke.

Speaking to Nagpur Today, victim Monty (27) said, “Finished with the dinner, our group was engaged in our routine conversation when accused Bunty along with his accomplices came in the area around 11.30pm. Bunty then engaged with an argument with our group saying that we didn’t support him during elections and also not actively participated in his campaign. However, when I tried to intervene into the matter, he started beating me black and blue.”

“Though I suffered severe injuries on my body including serious impact on my left eye, the cops have only registered an NC offence against him,” added Monty.

When Nagpur Today spoke to Kotwali Police, the officials verified the medical reports which indicate just minor injuries, to which cops said, “Are only enough to register an NC offence.”

“The victim is demanding us to register a cognisable offence. However, we have conducted medical examination and the reports indicate no major external injuries on Monty,” informed Kotwali Police.

On approaching Bunty Shelke, the Congress leader asserted that, “Monty is a habitual drunkard and often creates ruckus in the area. On Tuesday night, I was just extending my help to him, as an elder brother and was making him understand the adverse effect of spoiling a healthy neighborhood. However, the allegations are nothing but a political conspiracy,” the Congress corporator stressed.

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Nagpur: A city-based wholesale foodgrain trader was duped to the tune of Rs 15 lakh by two rice mill owners hailing from Madhya Pradesh. The two accused are husband-wife duo.

A resident of Plot No. 19/20, Chhapru Nagar Colony, Lakadganj, Rajesh Asanand Madrani (58), owns a trading firm named Rajesh Trading Company dealing in wholesale foodgrains. The trading company is situated at Building No. 7 in Kalamna Market as well as in Umred, Mohadi, Tumsar, Bhandara, Seoni (MP). The accused duo – Darshankumar Mulchand Chordiya and Pratibha Darshankumar Chordiya, both residents of Ward No. 6, Chordiya Galli, Warashioni (MP) – runs a rice mill at Warashioni, Mohadi and Tumsar.

The accused husband-wife duo used to purchase rice from Rajesh Madrani regularly from 2011 to 2019 and paid the money later. However, the accused duo purchased rice and falsely told Rajesh that Rs 15 lakh has been paid to his representative. No money was paid and Rajesh was duped by the two accused.

Kalamna API Patil has registered an offence against accused duo Darshankumar Mulchand Chordiya and Pratibha Darshankumar Chordiya under Sections 420, 34 of the IPC and probing the matter further.

Wholesale trader duped of Rs 15 lakh by couple from MP