Crime Diary: August 23
23 Aug 2012 3:06 PM IST
POLICE STILL CLUELESS OVER SENIOR CITIZEN’S MURDER
Delhi police is still in the dark about the possible killers of a senior citizen couple who were found murdered at their Shakarpur residence in east Delhi on Tuesday evening. No clues have been found in the case yet.
The police is still to figure out the motive behind the murder and whether it was motivated by robbery or any other reason. 'Investigations are on and we are trying to ascertain the exact reason behind the crime. Prima facie investigation has indicated possible robbery, as a few things were found to have been shifted in the house,' said an official.
Ten teams of police personnel have been formed and more than 50 people have been questioned so far in connection with the case. A list of 45 people who had visited their house before the couple was found murdered has been drawn up.
The murder was discovered at around 7.10 pm on Tuesday when Radha Krishan Buraru (79), a retired director of the song and dance division of the information and broadcasting ministry and his wife, Durga Devi (75) were found .While Buraru's body was found inside their first-floor bedroom, Durga Devi's body was found in the bathroom by their maid, who first raised the alarm. The couple has three children. While his elder son and daughter are residing in Noida, the younger son is in Mumbai.
There was no signs of forced entry in to the house which suggests that the murder was known to the victims. Initial investigation had revealed that the motive behind the murder was robbery as their rooms were totally ransacked. The couples' throats had been slit with a sharp weapon.The couple were last seen at around 2 pm.
ACCUSED HELD FOR TRAFFICKING GETS BAIL AFTER 10 DAYS
An accused, who was sent to jail ten days ago for allegedly threatening witnesses during the trial in a human trafficking case, was on Wednesday granted bail by a Delhi court which also cautioned him against coercing them. Special CBI Judge Kanwaljeet Arora allowed the fresh bail plea of accused Shiv Kumar Sharma and asked him to furnish a personal and one surety bond of Rs two lakh each as a precondition for his release.
The judge imposed various conditions on Sharma such as he will not ‘influence’ or ‘threaten’ the witnesses and ‘will also not leave the territory of Delhi without permission of the court.’
Sharma, the then employee of Punjab Agricultural University, and three others are facing trial for their alleged role in trafficking nine persons to Germany in 2005.
‘Till the time statement of these two witnesses PW Raj Kumar and Hargulab Singh are recorded, he shall not go back to Ludhiana, where these two witnesses reside, and shall continue to reside at his premises here...’ the court said.
Sharma was taken into custody on 13 August after the witnesses complained that he has been threatening them by saying that they would be implicated in cases in Punjab as he had good relations with the police department there. Ordering his arrest, the court had said ‘in the present case, the prime condition on which the accused was released on bail on May 30, 2006, has been violated by him (Sharma).’
Beside Sharma, Rakesh Kumar, former Director-General of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Punjabi singer Balwinder Kaur and Gurbej Singh, a constable with Punjab Armed Police, are also facing trial in the case.
It was alleged that Kumar, an IFS officer, had in 2005 facilitated empaneling of a bogus cultural group ‘Mehak Punjab Di’ and illegally trafficked nine persons to Berlin by misusing his official position.
The officer had directed sending a team of 15 members, comprising inexperienced and untrained Punjabi folk dancers, to Germany on government sponsorship before his transfer from ICCR, the chargesheet said.
Earlier, CBI had filed the chargesheet against Kumar, a 1972 batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, and others for conspiring to send people abroad on false pretext. CBI had said Sharma, a co-accused, had allegedly acted as a conduit and took lakhs of rupees for sending people abroad.
CBI registered a case against Kumar in March 2005 when he was Special Secretary (Economic Relations) in the External Affairs Ministry.
THREE ARRESTED FOR KILLING 60-YEAR-OLD
With the arrest of two persons, southeast district police has claimed to have solved the murder case of a 60-year-old man in the Sunlight colony area. On 13 August, Padam Singh, resident of Yamuna Khadar of Sarai Kale Khan was brutally murdered near his house. He was succumbed with injuries by a sharp edged weapons,’ said Ajay Chudhary, Additional commissioner of police (souteast).
The two accused have been identified as 22-year-old Shameem and 20-year-old Manoj. During the course of investigation the deceased was identified as Padam Singh a native of Nepal. It was revealed that his elder son Raju and daughter are living separately at Badarpur and Madangir respectively but victim was living at this jhuggi with his wife Tara Devi and his younger son Sonu.
During the interrogation police found that the younger son, Sonu had picked up a quarrel with three accused Shameem, Manoj and Aneesh on a day before the killing of his father. Later after sustained search, police nabbed the three from the area on Tuesday. The accused revealed that they hatched the plan to eliminate Sonu but when they reached his house they found him nowhere and ultimately stabbed his father, said the official.
SIXTEEN HELD FOR NANGLOI RIOT
As many as 16 people were booked and later arrested for their involvement in the riot in west Delhi's Nangloi area on Tuesday.
The clash between the two groups, belonging to different religious communities, started after a girl was allegedly molested by a person living in the area on Monday. Twelve people, including five police personnel, had been injured in Tuesday's violence.
According to the additional commissioner of police (west) V Renganathan, 16 people (eight from each group) have been booked for rioting and have been arrested. More arrests are likely. 'The situation is under control now,' Renganathan said.
No case has been registered in connection with the molestation yet, as no complaint was made to the police, though molestation is the cause of the fight between the two groups, an official said.
THREE HELD FOR ROBBING IN VASANT VIHAR
The south district police has claimed to have arrested three robbers from Vasant Vihar who used to target auto rickshaw drivers and passersby late in the night.
'Twenty-one-year-old Albert Jojo, 22-year-old Dinesh Kumar and 22-year-old Deepak Seth have been arrested from the Vasant Vihar area. The three were arrested after the police, acting on a tip-off, laid a trap at Nelson Mandela Marg on Tuesday evening,' said Chhaya Sharma, deputy commissioner of police (south). Police have also recovered stolen cash, mobile phones and a knife that was used to threaten victims.
According to the police, a man named Madanpal who works as a pantry boy in Yes Bank at Priya Complex approached the patrolling party on Monday at about 10.15 pm and informed them that while on his way to meet a friend in Munirka, after attending classes at a tutorial in Kusumpur Pahari at around 9:30 pm, three youths had beaten him up and stolen his mobile phone and other valuables.
They had threatened him with a knife to make him give them all the valuables that he had with him. Acting on the information provided by him, the police managed to apprehend all the three accused.
ABUSED BY SHOPKEEPER, BEATEN BY COP!
A 27-year-old was first ignored and then allegedly beaten up by an inspector of south Delhi's Sarojini Nagar police station when he tried to lodge a complaint against a shopkeeper in Sarojini Nagar market for selling him defective shoes and abusing him when he tried to return them.
Mohammad Wasim had not bargained for physical assault by a cop when he approached the police to help him resolve a dispute with a shopkeeper. But that is allegedly what he received at the police station.
Wasim, who runs a drycleaning shop in south Delhi's Kotla Mubarakpur area, had reportedly bought a pair of shoes from a shop in Sarojini Nagar market two days back. But owing to some problem with the pair, he went to return it on Wednesday. 'When I told the shopkeeper about the problem and told him that I wished to return it however, he refused to take it back. This resulted in an argument between us and the shopkeeper abused me, following which I made a public control room (PCR) call to the police,' said Wasim.
According to the complainant, police reached the spot and brought him to the police station with them after preliminary questioning. But according to Wasim, only harassment awaited him there.
Even after Wasim had narrated the incident, the police allegedly refused to take down his complaint against the shopkeeper and told him to get out of the police station. An inspector at the station also allegedly abused him. Not one to give up however, Wasim again made a PCR call, complaining about the treatment that he had received at the police station. This angered the inspector and he allegedly slapped Wasim. 'He asked me how dare I complain against the police and asked the other police personnel at the station to push him out,' said Wasim. Wasim also approached other senior officials following this, but allegedly received no help from them. Repeated attempts to contact the police for comment went unanswered.
Delhi police is still in the dark about the possible killers of a senior citizen couple who were found murdered at their Shakarpur residence in east Delhi on Tuesday evening. No clues have been found in the case yet.
The police is still to figure out the motive behind the murder and whether it was motivated by robbery or any other reason. 'Investigations are on and we are trying to ascertain the exact reason behind the crime. Prima facie investigation has indicated possible robbery, as a few things were found to have been shifted in the house,' said an official.
Ten teams of police personnel have been formed and more than 50 people have been questioned so far in connection with the case. A list of 45 people who had visited their house before the couple was found murdered has been drawn up.
The murder was discovered at around 7.10 pm on Tuesday when Radha Krishan Buraru (79), a retired director of the song and dance division of the information and broadcasting ministry and his wife, Durga Devi (75) were found .While Buraru's body was found inside their first-floor bedroom, Durga Devi's body was found in the bathroom by their maid, who first raised the alarm. The couple has three children. While his elder son and daughter are residing in Noida, the younger son is in Mumbai.
There was no signs of forced entry in to the house which suggests that the murder was known to the victims. Initial investigation had revealed that the motive behind the murder was robbery as their rooms were totally ransacked. The couples' throats had been slit with a sharp weapon.The couple were last seen at around 2 pm.
ACCUSED HELD FOR TRAFFICKING GETS BAIL AFTER 10 DAYS
An accused, who was sent to jail ten days ago for allegedly threatening witnesses during the trial in a human trafficking case, was on Wednesday granted bail by a Delhi court which also cautioned him against coercing them. Special CBI Judge Kanwaljeet Arora allowed the fresh bail plea of accused Shiv Kumar Sharma and asked him to furnish a personal and one surety bond of Rs two lakh each as a precondition for his release.
The judge imposed various conditions on Sharma such as he will not ‘influence’ or ‘threaten’ the witnesses and ‘will also not leave the territory of Delhi without permission of the court.’
Sharma, the then employee of Punjab Agricultural University, and three others are facing trial for their alleged role in trafficking nine persons to Germany in 2005.
‘Till the time statement of these two witnesses PW Raj Kumar and Hargulab Singh are recorded, he shall not go back to Ludhiana, where these two witnesses reside, and shall continue to reside at his premises here...’ the court said.
Sharma was taken into custody on 13 August after the witnesses complained that he has been threatening them by saying that they would be implicated in cases in Punjab as he had good relations with the police department there. Ordering his arrest, the court had said ‘in the present case, the prime condition on which the accused was released on bail on May 30, 2006, has been violated by him (Sharma).’
Beside Sharma, Rakesh Kumar, former Director-General of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Punjabi singer Balwinder Kaur and Gurbej Singh, a constable with Punjab Armed Police, are also facing trial in the case.
It was alleged that Kumar, an IFS officer, had in 2005 facilitated empaneling of a bogus cultural group ‘Mehak Punjab Di’ and illegally trafficked nine persons to Berlin by misusing his official position.
The officer had directed sending a team of 15 members, comprising inexperienced and untrained Punjabi folk dancers, to Germany on government sponsorship before his transfer from ICCR, the chargesheet said.
Earlier, CBI had filed the chargesheet against Kumar, a 1972 batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, and others for conspiring to send people abroad on false pretext. CBI had said Sharma, a co-accused, had allegedly acted as a conduit and took lakhs of rupees for sending people abroad.
CBI registered a case against Kumar in March 2005 when he was Special Secretary (Economic Relations) in the External Affairs Ministry.
THREE ARRESTED FOR KILLING 60-YEAR-OLD
With the arrest of two persons, southeast district police has claimed to have solved the murder case of a 60-year-old man in the Sunlight colony area. On 13 August, Padam Singh, resident of Yamuna Khadar of Sarai Kale Khan was brutally murdered near his house. He was succumbed with injuries by a sharp edged weapons,’ said Ajay Chudhary, Additional commissioner of police (souteast).
The two accused have been identified as 22-year-old Shameem and 20-year-old Manoj. During the course of investigation the deceased was identified as Padam Singh a native of Nepal. It was revealed that his elder son Raju and daughter are living separately at Badarpur and Madangir respectively but victim was living at this jhuggi with his wife Tara Devi and his younger son Sonu.
During the interrogation police found that the younger son, Sonu had picked up a quarrel with three accused Shameem, Manoj and Aneesh on a day before the killing of his father. Later after sustained search, police nabbed the three from the area on Tuesday. The accused revealed that they hatched the plan to eliminate Sonu but when they reached his house they found him nowhere and ultimately stabbed his father, said the official.
SIXTEEN HELD FOR NANGLOI RIOT
As many as 16 people were booked and later arrested for their involvement in the riot in west Delhi's Nangloi area on Tuesday.
The clash between the two groups, belonging to different religious communities, started after a girl was allegedly molested by a person living in the area on Monday. Twelve people, including five police personnel, had been injured in Tuesday's violence.
According to the additional commissioner of police (west) V Renganathan, 16 people (eight from each group) have been booked for rioting and have been arrested. More arrests are likely. 'The situation is under control now,' Renganathan said.
No case has been registered in connection with the molestation yet, as no complaint was made to the police, though molestation is the cause of the fight between the two groups, an official said.
THREE HELD FOR ROBBING IN VASANT VIHAR
The south district police has claimed to have arrested three robbers from Vasant Vihar who used to target auto rickshaw drivers and passersby late in the night.
'Twenty-one-year-old Albert Jojo, 22-year-old Dinesh Kumar and 22-year-old Deepak Seth have been arrested from the Vasant Vihar area. The three were arrested after the police, acting on a tip-off, laid a trap at Nelson Mandela Marg on Tuesday evening,' said Chhaya Sharma, deputy commissioner of police (south). Police have also recovered stolen cash, mobile phones and a knife that was used to threaten victims.
According to the police, a man named Madanpal who works as a pantry boy in Yes Bank at Priya Complex approached the patrolling party on Monday at about 10.15 pm and informed them that while on his way to meet a friend in Munirka, after attending classes at a tutorial in Kusumpur Pahari at around 9:30 pm, three youths had beaten him up and stolen his mobile phone and other valuables.
They had threatened him with a knife to make him give them all the valuables that he had with him. Acting on the information provided by him, the police managed to apprehend all the three accused.
ABUSED BY SHOPKEEPER, BEATEN BY COP!
A 27-year-old was first ignored and then allegedly beaten up by an inspector of south Delhi's Sarojini Nagar police station when he tried to lodge a complaint against a shopkeeper in Sarojini Nagar market for selling him defective shoes and abusing him when he tried to return them.
Mohammad Wasim had not bargained for physical assault by a cop when he approached the police to help him resolve a dispute with a shopkeeper. But that is allegedly what he received at the police station.
Wasim, who runs a drycleaning shop in south Delhi's Kotla Mubarakpur area, had reportedly bought a pair of shoes from a shop in Sarojini Nagar market two days back. But owing to some problem with the pair, he went to return it on Wednesday. 'When I told the shopkeeper about the problem and told him that I wished to return it however, he refused to take it back. This resulted in an argument between us and the shopkeeper abused me, following which I made a public control room (PCR) call to the police,' said Wasim.
According to the complainant, police reached the spot and brought him to the police station with them after preliminary questioning. But according to Wasim, only harassment awaited him there.
Even after Wasim had narrated the incident, the police allegedly refused to take down his complaint against the shopkeeper and told him to get out of the police station. An inspector at the station also allegedly abused him. Not one to give up however, Wasim again made a PCR call, complaining about the treatment that he had received at the police station. This angered the inspector and he allegedly slapped Wasim. 'He asked me how dare I complain against the police and asked the other police personnel at the station to push him out,' said Wasim. Wasim also approached other senior officials following this, but allegedly received no help from them. Repeated attempts to contact the police for comment went unanswered.
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