Overview
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveiled the AI investigation platform in Mumbai as Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced expansion from the Nagpur pilot to all police stations statewide.
- In Nagpur Rural, the system is live in 23 stations, 127 officers have been trained, it has been used in 261 cases, and officials report up to an 80% reduction in investigation turnaround times with near‑total digital registration of cases.
- MahaCrimeOS AI enables instant case creation, multilingual data extraction, automated workflows, contextual legal guidance through RAG, and open‑source intelligence to link cases and analyse digital evidence.
- The platform is built on Azure OpenAI Service within Microsoft Foundry, secured with Defender for Cloud, and has been localised to Maharashtra’s investigation protocols with Marathi-first workflows.
- Current configurations cover narcotics, cybercrime, crimes against women and financial fraud, with officials positioning the rollout as a replicable model for other states and outlining plans tied to new AI Centres of Excellence.