DU STUDENT ABDUCTED BY FRIEND FOR RANSOM
A girl student of Delhi University was allegedly abducted for a Rs 1.5 crore ransom by her male friend on Wednesday and later released from a room of Ashoka Hotel located at central Delhi’s Pahar Ganj area, when her father approached the police. The victim was the accused’s second target this year and he has confessed to have taken Rs 12 lakh as ransom after abducting another Delhi-based girl earlier.
‘The accused, Abhishek Deep, 24, allegedly locked the victim in the hotel room and called her father for ransom using her mobile phone. The victim’s father was in Banglore at the time,’ said Sindu Pillai, deputy commissioner of police (north). He immediately informed Delhi police and then returned to the capital. ‘The accused used to target college girls by befriending them. Once the girl started to trust him, he started taking money from them before disappearing,’ said a senior police officer.
According to Pillai, Ashwani Kumar of Noida, Uttar Pradesh reported that he had received a ransom call for Rs 1.5 crore from an unknown person. The call had been made from his daughter’s mobile phone at around 10.20 pm on Wednesday. A team comprising inspector Alka Azad and other officials was constituted to find the abducted girl arrest the accused who had been identified as Abhishek Deep of Chattisgarh’s Durg district.
‘During the course of interrogation, Abhishek confessed that he was in dire need of money to fund his expenses, and so decided to kidnap his friend and demand money from her father,’ Pillai added. The two had met this year in January and became close friends. On Wedneday, Abhishek called the victim while she was at college and asked to meet her at the Shastri Nagar Metro station. ‘From there they went to Connaught Place where he took her mobile phone and made a ransom call to her father. He then switched off her mobile phone and threatened her to follow his instructions or her father would be killed,’ Pillai said. He then took her to Hotel Ashoka in central Delhi’s Pahar Ganj area, where he forced her to book a room in her name. Abhishek then allegedly locked her inside the hotel room.
A case has been lodged against Abhishek under sections 364A (kidnapping) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code at Maurice Nagar police station.
RAPE ACCUSED ELECTROCUTES COPS
Officers of the Malviya Nagar police station were in for a shock when they went to arrest a rape-accused in south Delhi’s Mehrauli area. Thirty-year-old Wasim alias Guddu, accused of repeatedly raping an 11-year-old, was hiding in his friend’s house when the police went to arrest him. ‘He asked his friend to lock him inside the house and managed to connect an electric circuit to the handle of the main door so that whoever tried to open the door would be electrocuted,’ said an official of the Malviya Nagar police stationn.
One of the police team that had been sent to arrest Guddu did get an electric shock when he tried to open the door, Meanwhile, Guddu tried to escape from one of the windows in the house when he saw the police team, but he was caught.
The rape incident was reported to south Delhi’s Malviya Nagar police station a week back back when a police control room call was made by the victim’s family, after neighbours found the 11-year-old lying on the road and insisted on informing the police.
The victim, a resident of the Malviya Nagar area was standing outside her house at night, when two men on a Pulsar motorcycle came and abducted her. They allegedly took her to an isolated place in the area and took turns to rape her four times. Around 2am, they took the child back near her house and left her to die on the road. A neighbour spotted her and informed her family. The child was bleeding profusely from her private parts. When the victim’s father, an employee in a private firm, saw the condition the child was in, he lost consciousness. A call was placed to the police station with the help of the neighbours.
Police reached the spot and the girl was taken to the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) where she is still undergoing treatment. In a statement to the police, the victim identified Wasim as one of the rapists and said he was known to her father.
A team was formed to investigate the case and a tip-off informed them of Wasim’s hiding place. ‘During interrogation, Guddu, a resident of Khirki extension, revealed the name of his associate, Raju, who is a resident of Begumpur,’ an official said.
19-YEAR-OLD, ACCOMPLICES HELD FOR LOOTING CARS
Five people, including a teenager, have been arrested for alleged involvement in hijacking cars, after posing as passengers, and looting them police said on Thursday. 'Karampal and Sandeep, both 22-year-old, Naresh alias Tiger (24), Mukesh (23) and Deepak (19) were arrested on Wednesday along with a truck they had looted following inputs from Kutub Vihar in Goyla Dairy,' a senior police official said, adding a car was recovered from them. According to police, the accused had looted a car in front of a hotel in Dwarka Sector 10 on the intervening night of 13 and 14 August. The driver, Amit Kumar, was returning from the airport by his taxi. He had parked his car on the roadside and was stepping out to relieve himself when suddenly a boy pushed him inside the car and held him at gun point.
In the meantime, his four associates also joined him, tied up the driver and bundled him on the rear seat. But the vehicle met with an accident near Dichaon village due to which they had to flee after stealing the driver's purse and two mobiles.
The accused left their two mobile phones inside the car, which were put on technical surveillance. It was found that the SIM used by the perpetrators belongs to one Chiranji Lal (father of Sandeep). It was also revealed that the accused Sandeep and his associates namely Karampal, Naresh alias Tiger, Mukesh and Deepak had committed the crime. 'Raids were conducted at Kutubgarh, Kutub Vihar, Jahangirpur and Jhajjar in Haryana but to no avail. The group was finally arrested on Wednesday evening.
ITALIAN INJURED IN ROAD ACCIDENT
A 53-year-old Italian woman was injured on Thursday morning when a car hit the taxi she was travelling in on her way home from the airport in the Tughlak Road area. Irene Francus Chini, a resident of Jungpura A-Block, was admitted to Dr Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital with minor injuries. ‘A call was made to the police control room at about 12.15 am on Thursday reporting about an accident at the Safdarjung Road traffic signal,’ said a senior police officer.
When a team rushed to the spot, a Tata Indica taxi and a Maruti A-Star car were found to have collided with each other. Cops took the statements of the drivers of both cars and took Irene to the RML?Hospital.
The taxi driver, 22-year-old Ravinder Yadav, claims that he was coming from the IGI?Airport and was at the crossing between Race Course Road and Safdarjung Road when the incident took place. ‘The Maruti car coming from Teen Murti Marg rammed into his taxi, injuring Irene,’ Ravinder said in his statement.
The driver of the Maruti car, a resident of Janakpuri A-Block, was arrested. A case of rash and negligent driving has been lodged against him at the Tuglak Road police station.
MONEY-LENDER MURDERED OVER REPAYMENT
A 55-year-old woman, Darshana, was allegedly murdered by a man and his associate when she sought Rs 4 lakh which she had lent him, police said on Thursday. The accused abducted her from her house in the Narela area of outer Delhi and then killed her. They dumped Darshana’s body near Rohat village in Haryana’s Sonipat district.
Thirty-one-year-old Yashpal, a plastic scrap dealer and resident of Narela, was arrested along with his 22-year- associate Manoj, who was hired to help him in eliminating Darshana after she demanded the money she had lent Yashpal.
Darshana used to lend money to people known to her at 3 per cent rate of interest. When she demanded double the rate of interest for the amount she she had lent to Yashpal, he decided to eliminate her.
Police said Darshana went missing from her home on 21 July after which her son approached the police. When police traced the call records of the mobile phone used by Darshana, they found a number of calls were made to a particular number which turned out to belong to Yashpal.
‘On Tuesday, the team traced Yashpal in Sannoth village, Narela,’ DCP (Outer District) B S Jaiswal said.
IAS OFFICER’S SON, FRIENDS BEATEN UP ON DND FLYWAY
In a case of road rage on the DND flyway in Noida, a senior bureaucrat’s son and his friends were beaten up by a group of youths on Wednesday evening. The offenders also misbehaved with his women friends. The police team that visited the spot found that CCTV cameras were not functioning even though there was increased vigil for Independence Day.
Kaushal Soran, a senior management officer in a Delhi-based multi-national company and son of Haryana-based IAS officer Omprakash Soran, was returning from GIP mall in Great Noida with his friends in a Maruti Swift. According to the security officials on the DND flyway, when Soran stopped at the toll plaza to pay the toll tax a group of youths came in two Fortuner and Ascent cars and asked him to clear the way immediately. This led to a heat argument and abuses were exchanged between the two groups which ended in a fierce fight. ‘The youths in the last two cars were more in number and beat up Soran and his friends. Soran received injuries in his head and face,’ said a security officer posted on the DND flyway. Meanwhile, the youths in the Fortuner ran away from the spot.
A police complaint was filed in Sector 20 police station but a case had not registered till the time that this report was being filed. According to sources a police team inspected the site and found that CCTV cameras at the DND flyway were not functioning. The victim is a resident of sector 6 in Panchkular in Haryana. ‘The non functioning of the CCTV cameras at the DND flyway on Independence Day has been taken seriously as it could have endangered security in both Noida and Delhi. We will bring up the matter with senior police and Noida Authority officials and request them to take strict action against the DND flyway authorities so that such incidents are not repeated in the future,’ said a senior official of the police team.
DRUNKEN DRIVER TO DO COMMUNITY SERVICE
A youth, held guilty of driving in drunken state, has been ordered by a Delhi court to perform community service at a temple once a week for two months.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Virender Bhat asked 23-year-old Parveen Rana to do community service, setting aside his five-day jail term saying that sending him to prison will leave an ‘indelible blot’ on his life and career.
‘While dealing with petty cases such as the present one, wherever it is felt necessary, the principle contained in almost all the religious scriptures that ‘forgiveness is the best punishment’ should be invoked.
‘Imprisonment at this stage would put an indelible blot on his future career,’ the court said, adding ‘it is seen the sentence of imprisonment sometimes hardens the first-time offender and instead of reforming him, makes him a hardened criminal.’
‘The sentencing policy followed in India is based upon reformative theory and not on retributive theory,’ the ASJ said adding the purpose of punishment should be to reform a criminal and convert him into a law-abiding citizen.
He said the jail term will harm Rana’s career as ‘he is only 23-year-old, unmarried and is doing a professional course.
‘Rana shall do service in Sai Baba Mandir, Lodhi Road, New Delhi on each Thursday between 2 pm and 10 pm for a period of two months,’ the court said, releasing him on probation.
The court’s order came on Rana’s plea against the magisterial court’s July 18 decision, which had sentenced him to five days in jail for riding a two-wheeler in an inebriated state. Rana was found having 485 mg/100 ml alcohol content in his blood as against the permissible limit.
A girl student of Delhi University was allegedly abducted for a Rs 1.5 crore ransom by her male friend on Wednesday and later released from a room of Ashoka Hotel located at central Delhi’s Pahar Ganj area, when her father approached the police. The victim was the accused’s second target this year and he has confessed to have taken Rs 12 lakh as ransom after abducting another Delhi-based girl earlier.
‘The accused, Abhishek Deep, 24, allegedly locked the victim in the hotel room and called her father for ransom using her mobile phone. The victim’s father was in Banglore at the time,’ said Sindu Pillai, deputy commissioner of police (north). He immediately informed Delhi police and then returned to the capital. ‘The accused used to target college girls by befriending them. Once the girl started to trust him, he started taking money from them before disappearing,’ said a senior police officer.
According to Pillai, Ashwani Kumar of Noida, Uttar Pradesh reported that he had received a ransom call for Rs 1.5 crore from an unknown person. The call had been made from his daughter’s mobile phone at around 10.20 pm on Wednesday. A team comprising inspector Alka Azad and other officials was constituted to find the abducted girl arrest the accused who had been identified as Abhishek Deep of Chattisgarh’s Durg district.
‘During the course of interrogation, Abhishek confessed that he was in dire need of money to fund his expenses, and so decided to kidnap his friend and demand money from her father,’ Pillai added. The two had met this year in January and became close friends. On Wedneday, Abhishek called the victim while she was at college and asked to meet her at the Shastri Nagar Metro station. ‘From there they went to Connaught Place where he took her mobile phone and made a ransom call to her father. He then switched off her mobile phone and threatened her to follow his instructions or her father would be killed,’ Pillai said. He then took her to Hotel Ashoka in central Delhi’s Pahar Ganj area, where he forced her to book a room in her name. Abhishek then allegedly locked her inside the hotel room.
A case has been lodged against Abhishek under sections 364A (kidnapping) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code at Maurice Nagar police station.
RAPE ACCUSED ELECTROCUTES COPS
Officers of the Malviya Nagar police station were in for a shock when they went to arrest a rape-accused in south Delhi’s Mehrauli area. Thirty-year-old Wasim alias Guddu, accused of repeatedly raping an 11-year-old, was hiding in his friend’s house when the police went to arrest him. ‘He asked his friend to lock him inside the house and managed to connect an electric circuit to the handle of the main door so that whoever tried to open the door would be electrocuted,’ said an official of the Malviya Nagar police stationn.
One of the police team that had been sent to arrest Guddu did get an electric shock when he tried to open the door, Meanwhile, Guddu tried to escape from one of the windows in the house when he saw the police team, but he was caught.
The rape incident was reported to south Delhi’s Malviya Nagar police station a week back back when a police control room call was made by the victim’s family, after neighbours found the 11-year-old lying on the road and insisted on informing the police.
The victim, a resident of the Malviya Nagar area was standing outside her house at night, when two men on a Pulsar motorcycle came and abducted her. They allegedly took her to an isolated place in the area and took turns to rape her four times. Around 2am, they took the child back near her house and left her to die on the road. A neighbour spotted her and informed her family. The child was bleeding profusely from her private parts. When the victim’s father, an employee in a private firm, saw the condition the child was in, he lost consciousness. A call was placed to the police station with the help of the neighbours.
Police reached the spot and the girl was taken to the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) where she is still undergoing treatment. In a statement to the police, the victim identified Wasim as one of the rapists and said he was known to her father.
A team was formed to investigate the case and a tip-off informed them of Wasim’s hiding place. ‘During interrogation, Guddu, a resident of Khirki extension, revealed the name of his associate, Raju, who is a resident of Begumpur,’ an official said.
19-YEAR-OLD, ACCOMPLICES HELD FOR LOOTING CARS
Five people, including a teenager, have been arrested for alleged involvement in hijacking cars, after posing as passengers, and looting them police said on Thursday. 'Karampal and Sandeep, both 22-year-old, Naresh alias Tiger (24), Mukesh (23) and Deepak (19) were arrested on Wednesday along with a truck they had looted following inputs from Kutub Vihar in Goyla Dairy,' a senior police official said, adding a car was recovered from them. According to police, the accused had looted a car in front of a hotel in Dwarka Sector 10 on the intervening night of 13 and 14 August. The driver, Amit Kumar, was returning from the airport by his taxi. He had parked his car on the roadside and was stepping out to relieve himself when suddenly a boy pushed him inside the car and held him at gun point.
In the meantime, his four associates also joined him, tied up the driver and bundled him on the rear seat. But the vehicle met with an accident near Dichaon village due to which they had to flee after stealing the driver's purse and two mobiles.
The accused left their two mobile phones inside the car, which were put on technical surveillance. It was found that the SIM used by the perpetrators belongs to one Chiranji Lal (father of Sandeep). It was also revealed that the accused Sandeep and his associates namely Karampal, Naresh alias Tiger, Mukesh and Deepak had committed the crime. 'Raids were conducted at Kutubgarh, Kutub Vihar, Jahangirpur and Jhajjar in Haryana but to no avail. The group was finally arrested on Wednesday evening.
ITALIAN INJURED IN ROAD ACCIDENT
A 53-year-old Italian woman was injured on Thursday morning when a car hit the taxi she was travelling in on her way home from the airport in the Tughlak Road area. Irene Francus Chini, a resident of Jungpura A-Block, was admitted to Dr Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital with minor injuries. ‘A call was made to the police control room at about 12.15 am on Thursday reporting about an accident at the Safdarjung Road traffic signal,’ said a senior police officer.
When a team rushed to the spot, a Tata Indica taxi and a Maruti A-Star car were found to have collided with each other. Cops took the statements of the drivers of both cars and took Irene to the RML?Hospital.
The taxi driver, 22-year-old Ravinder Yadav, claims that he was coming from the IGI?Airport and was at the crossing between Race Course Road and Safdarjung Road when the incident took place. ‘The Maruti car coming from Teen Murti Marg rammed into his taxi, injuring Irene,’ Ravinder said in his statement.
The driver of the Maruti car, a resident of Janakpuri A-Block, was arrested. A case of rash and negligent driving has been lodged against him at the Tuglak Road police station.
MONEY-LENDER MURDERED OVER REPAYMENT
A 55-year-old woman, Darshana, was allegedly murdered by a man and his associate when she sought Rs 4 lakh which she had lent him, police said on Thursday. The accused abducted her from her house in the Narela area of outer Delhi and then killed her. They dumped Darshana’s body near Rohat village in Haryana’s Sonipat district.
Thirty-one-year-old Yashpal, a plastic scrap dealer and resident of Narela, was arrested along with his 22-year- associate Manoj, who was hired to help him in eliminating Darshana after she demanded the money she had lent Yashpal.
Darshana used to lend money to people known to her at 3 per cent rate of interest. When she demanded double the rate of interest for the amount she she had lent to Yashpal, he decided to eliminate her.
Police said Darshana went missing from her home on 21 July after which her son approached the police. When police traced the call records of the mobile phone used by Darshana, they found a number of calls were made to a particular number which turned out to belong to Yashpal.
‘On Tuesday, the team traced Yashpal in Sannoth village, Narela,’ DCP (Outer District) B S Jaiswal said.
IAS OFFICER’S SON, FRIENDS BEATEN UP ON DND FLYWAY
In a case of road rage on the DND flyway in Noida, a senior bureaucrat’s son and his friends were beaten up by a group of youths on Wednesday evening. The offenders also misbehaved with his women friends. The police team that visited the spot found that CCTV cameras were not functioning even though there was increased vigil for Independence Day.
Kaushal Soran, a senior management officer in a Delhi-based multi-national company and son of Haryana-based IAS officer Omprakash Soran, was returning from GIP mall in Great Noida with his friends in a Maruti Swift. According to the security officials on the DND flyway, when Soran stopped at the toll plaza to pay the toll tax a group of youths came in two Fortuner and Ascent cars and asked him to clear the way immediately. This led to a heat argument and abuses were exchanged between the two groups which ended in a fierce fight. ‘The youths in the last two cars were more in number and beat up Soran and his friends. Soran received injuries in his head and face,’ said a security officer posted on the DND flyway. Meanwhile, the youths in the Fortuner ran away from the spot.
A police complaint was filed in Sector 20 police station but a case had not registered till the time that this report was being filed. According to sources a police team inspected the site and found that CCTV cameras at the DND flyway were not functioning. The victim is a resident of sector 6 in Panchkular in Haryana. ‘The non functioning of the CCTV cameras at the DND flyway on Independence Day has been taken seriously as it could have endangered security in both Noida and Delhi. We will bring up the matter with senior police and Noida Authority officials and request them to take strict action against the DND flyway authorities so that such incidents are not repeated in the future,’ said a senior official of the police team.
DRUNKEN DRIVER TO DO COMMUNITY SERVICE
A youth, held guilty of driving in drunken state, has been ordered by a Delhi court to perform community service at a temple once a week for two months.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Virender Bhat asked 23-year-old Parveen Rana to do community service, setting aside his five-day jail term saying that sending him to prison will leave an ‘indelible blot’ on his life and career.
‘While dealing with petty cases such as the present one, wherever it is felt necessary, the principle contained in almost all the religious scriptures that ‘forgiveness is the best punishment’ should be invoked.
‘Imprisonment at this stage would put an indelible blot on his future career,’ the court said, adding ‘it is seen the sentence of imprisonment sometimes hardens the first-time offender and instead of reforming him, makes him a hardened criminal.’
‘The sentencing policy followed in India is based upon reformative theory and not on retributive theory,’ the ASJ said adding the purpose of punishment should be to reform a criminal and convert him into a law-abiding citizen.
He said the jail term will harm Rana’s career as ‘he is only 23-year-old, unmarried and is doing a professional course.
‘Rana shall do service in Sai Baba Mandir, Lodhi Road, New Delhi on each Thursday between 2 pm and 10 pm for a period of two months,’ the court said, releasing him on probation.
The court’s order came on Rana’s plea against the magisterial court’s July 18 decision, which had sentenced him to five days in jail for riding a two-wheeler in an inebriated state. Rana was found having 485 mg/100 ml alcohol content in his blood as against the permissible limit.