Crime Diary: August 30
30 Aug 2012 8:13 PM IST
FOUR ARRESTED FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Four persons, including three Nepalese nationals, were arrested here for allegedly running a human trafficking racket whose kingpin is operating from Saudi Arabia, police said on Wednesday.
Nepal has banned immigration of women to Saudi Arabia and the alleged racketeers decided to take the India route in order to hoodwink the Nepalese authorities Nabin Kumar Subedi, 35, Ashiq Ali Miya, 24, and Uttam Silwal, 32, all from Nepal, and Bipin Dahal, 32, a graduate hailing from Assam, were apprehended from various places on a tip-off from central intelligence agencies, Sanjeev Yadav, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell), said.
They allegedly used to prepare fake passports, visa and fake employment stickers of Nepal and send people abroad. Forty-one fake Nepalese passports and 104 fake foreign employment permit stickers of Nepal were recovered from them. Subedi, Miya and Dahal were the first to be arrested on 21 August following information that a consignment of fake passports will change hands in Munirka here. Though initially they did not admit the seized passports were fake, Yadav said the Nepalse embassy here confirmed they were not original. Following their interrogation, Silwal was arrested.
‘They told us that the kingpin of the racket is Ram Bahadur Bisht who is based in Saudi Arabia. On his directions, Subedi procures passports and employment stickers from Shabbir, who is from Nepal, and then he brings them to Delhi. Nepalese women are lured and brought to Delhi by Miya.’
‘Fake visa stickers are managed by one Shakir, a Nepalese national based in Mumbai. They charged minimum Rs 20,000 per customer. Bisht also charges hefty sums from employers in Saudi Arabia,’ Yadav said, he said.
DTC BUS CONDUCTOR KILLED IN ROAD ACCIDENT
In the early hours of Tuesday, a conductor was killed by a speeding car on National Highway-24. In another incident, a woman traffic constable was critically injured when a speeding car hit her.
The first incident took place when a DTC bus conductor was crossing the road and an unknown vehicle hit him. A passerby informed the police about the accident. He was immediately rushed to Lal Bahadur Shashtri hospital, where he died during treatment.
‘The deceased was identified as Bhramapal, 55, hailing from Uttar Pardesh. He was staying with his family in Hapur area. He was a DTC conductor by profession. Bhrampal used to commute daily from Hapur to Delhi,’ said a police official. According to the police, on Tuesday night, in Mayur Vihar Phase-1, he was crossing the road and a speeding vehicle hit him and managed to escape. A case has been registered against the errant driver for negligent and rash driving causing death.
The second incident was reported from New Ashok Vihar where a traffic constable was hit by a speeding car. The constable was identified as Anita Rani, 40, and after the accident, she was taken to Lal Bahadur Shashtri hospital, where she is undergoing treatment.
‘Anita is a resident of New Ashok Nagar and has been posted in Kalyanpuri area. The accident took place on Tuesday night, while she was on duty. She is out of danger now,’ said the police official.
A case has been registered against the errant driver. ‘A man hunt is on to nab the driver,’ said the official.
FORMER REGISTRAR CONVICTED IN RS 4,000 CRORE HOUSING SCAM
A special court on Wednesday convicted 11 people, including a former registrar of cooperative societies, in a Rs 4,000 crore scam here, on charges of fraudulently allotting plots.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge Vinod Kumar convicted former registrar of cooperative societies (RCS) Narayan Diwakar and six public servants on charges of cheating, forgery, criminal conspiracy and corruption and involvement in the Rs 4,000 crore cooperative group housing scheme scam.
Convicted with Diwakar in the case are Joint Registrar Jasbeer Singh, Assistant Registrar (Audit) Jitender Sharma, Assistant Registrar Ramesh Chandra, dealing assistant Rakesh Kumar and inspector Faiz Mohd and P K Thirvani.
Sushil Kumar Sharma, Sri Chand, Anna Wankhede and Mohan Lal were held guilty of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy.
The convicted people had fraudulently allotted plots to the Rangmahal Cooperative Group Housing Society in Pitampura area of north Delhi. The court will hear Thursday arguments on quantum of sentences.
MAN ARRESTED FOR MOLESTING MINOR
A 25-year-old property dealer was arrested by Delhi police for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old girl in Dwarka area of southwest Delhi. ‘Vikas Singla, a resident of Sector-13, Dwarka was arrested after the victim’s father lodged a complaint against him on three days after the incident,’ said a senior police officer.
According to the complaint, the victim had gone to Manish Market in Sector 11 when the accused molested her. The girl returned home and told her father but he ignored, fearing embarrasment.
But two days later, when Singla threatened him, his wife made a PCR call and informed the police. Singla was then arrested from his house on Monday. The case has been registered and investigations are on, police said.
FIRST MISHAP ON YAMUNA EXPRESSWAY CLAIMS FIVE
In its first major accident on Yamuna Expressway, five persons died and three others were injured when the tyre of a truck burst due to overspeeding. The incident took place in the early hours of Wednesday near Mathura toll plaza of the expressway.
A group of traders was coming from Agra to Azadpur Sabji Mandi in Delhi. The tyre of the truck burst around 2.54 am at 70 km mile point from Agra. The vehicle then collided with the side verge and overturned, crushing the traders sitting inside. The driver and attendant, however, were not injured and fled from the spot. The deceased were identified as Dhaniram, Surjeet, Jamaduddin, Avanish and Ibrahim.
BOTCHED ROBBERY BID LANDS FIVE OF GANG IN POLICE NET
Five persons, who are part of a gang from Meerut that has been involved in stealing high-end cars, were arrested, leading to solving of 15 cases of vehicle thefts in and around the national capital, police said on Wednesday.
The gang is notorious for stopping vehicles on highways and major roads in the NCR and stealing them at gun-point, they said.
Praveen Sharma, Praveen Sehwag, Sandeep Sehrawat and Amir Saifi were arrested on 25 August from Karnal in Haryana when they were travelling on the NH-1 towards Chandigarh. One more accused Vinod was arrested later.
The arrest came on a specific tip-off that the four people would travel on an Indigo car to Chandigarh after police returned empty following searches at their hideouts in Meerut and Karnal.
Police started looking for the gang after a sub-contractor for L&T, K B Singh, filed a complaint that his expensive car was stolen at gunpoint from him.
On 25 August, each and every vehicle plying on these roads was keenly observed and after about 8-10 hours of vigil, the car bearing a particular registration number was noticed travelling towards Chandigarh on NH-1.
Three police teams followed it from different directions and apprehended them from Karnal toll plaza when they were waiting.
‘The car in which they were travelling was also found to be stolen and a loaded pistol was also recovered from the car,’ V Renganathan, Additional Commissioner of Police, West Delhi, said.
The four accused were remanded in police custody for seven days and during their interrogation, it has been found that they have been previously involved in very many cases of car-jackings and thefts in which they are on bail.
‘Further, they have confessed their involvements in as many as 18 cases of car jackings and car thefts from Delhi, UP, Haryana and Chandigarh,’ Renganathan said, adding that a hunt is on to nab other accused.
RACKET BUSTED, RS 6 LAKH IN FAKE CURRENCY SEIZED
Delhi police claimed to have busted a fake currency racket and arrested of two people, hailing from Uttar Pradesh, in this regard. Police recovered fake currency with face value of Rs 6 lakh. ‘Fake currency notes were being smuggled to Delhi from West Bengal and it is suspected that they were pumped in from Bangladesh. The accused were apprehended from Anand Vihar on Tuesday,’ said a senior police official.
The consignment was given to the accused, identified as Binod and Mohammad Ayub, from a person from Malda district in West Bengal. The currency notes were checked by experts and it was found that they were fake. The police is verifying whether this particular consignment came from Bangladesh or not.
Police said that the fake currency brought from West Bengal is sold in Delhi NCR at less rates upto 50 percent and then used as original by people. Several teams are conducting raids in various parts to unearth the whole racket.
Four persons, including three Nepalese nationals, were arrested here for allegedly running a human trafficking racket whose kingpin is operating from Saudi Arabia, police said on Wednesday.
Nepal has banned immigration of women to Saudi Arabia and the alleged racketeers decided to take the India route in order to hoodwink the Nepalese authorities Nabin Kumar Subedi, 35, Ashiq Ali Miya, 24, and Uttam Silwal, 32, all from Nepal, and Bipin Dahal, 32, a graduate hailing from Assam, were apprehended from various places on a tip-off from central intelligence agencies, Sanjeev Yadav, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell), said.
They allegedly used to prepare fake passports, visa and fake employment stickers of Nepal and send people abroad. Forty-one fake Nepalese passports and 104 fake foreign employment permit stickers of Nepal were recovered from them. Subedi, Miya and Dahal were the first to be arrested on 21 August following information that a consignment of fake passports will change hands in Munirka here. Though initially they did not admit the seized passports were fake, Yadav said the Nepalse embassy here confirmed they were not original. Following their interrogation, Silwal was arrested.
‘They told us that the kingpin of the racket is Ram Bahadur Bisht who is based in Saudi Arabia. On his directions, Subedi procures passports and employment stickers from Shabbir, who is from Nepal, and then he brings them to Delhi. Nepalese women are lured and brought to Delhi by Miya.’
‘Fake visa stickers are managed by one Shakir, a Nepalese national based in Mumbai. They charged minimum Rs 20,000 per customer. Bisht also charges hefty sums from employers in Saudi Arabia,’ Yadav said, he said.
DTC BUS CONDUCTOR KILLED IN ROAD ACCIDENT
In the early hours of Tuesday, a conductor was killed by a speeding car on National Highway-24. In another incident, a woman traffic constable was critically injured when a speeding car hit her.
The first incident took place when a DTC bus conductor was crossing the road and an unknown vehicle hit him. A passerby informed the police about the accident. He was immediately rushed to Lal Bahadur Shashtri hospital, where he died during treatment.
‘The deceased was identified as Bhramapal, 55, hailing from Uttar Pardesh. He was staying with his family in Hapur area. He was a DTC conductor by profession. Bhrampal used to commute daily from Hapur to Delhi,’ said a police official. According to the police, on Tuesday night, in Mayur Vihar Phase-1, he was crossing the road and a speeding vehicle hit him and managed to escape. A case has been registered against the errant driver for negligent and rash driving causing death.
The second incident was reported from New Ashok Vihar where a traffic constable was hit by a speeding car. The constable was identified as Anita Rani, 40, and after the accident, she was taken to Lal Bahadur Shashtri hospital, where she is undergoing treatment.
‘Anita is a resident of New Ashok Nagar and has been posted in Kalyanpuri area. The accident took place on Tuesday night, while she was on duty. She is out of danger now,’ said the police official.
A case has been registered against the errant driver. ‘A man hunt is on to nab the driver,’ said the official.
FORMER REGISTRAR CONVICTED IN RS 4,000 CRORE HOUSING SCAM
A special court on Wednesday convicted 11 people, including a former registrar of cooperative societies, in a Rs 4,000 crore scam here, on charges of fraudulently allotting plots.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge Vinod Kumar convicted former registrar of cooperative societies (RCS) Narayan Diwakar and six public servants on charges of cheating, forgery, criminal conspiracy and corruption and involvement in the Rs 4,000 crore cooperative group housing scheme scam.
Convicted with Diwakar in the case are Joint Registrar Jasbeer Singh, Assistant Registrar (Audit) Jitender Sharma, Assistant Registrar Ramesh Chandra, dealing assistant Rakesh Kumar and inspector Faiz Mohd and P K Thirvani.
Sushil Kumar Sharma, Sri Chand, Anna Wankhede and Mohan Lal were held guilty of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy.
The convicted people had fraudulently allotted plots to the Rangmahal Cooperative Group Housing Society in Pitampura area of north Delhi. The court will hear Thursday arguments on quantum of sentences.
MAN ARRESTED FOR MOLESTING MINOR
A 25-year-old property dealer was arrested by Delhi police for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old girl in Dwarka area of southwest Delhi. ‘Vikas Singla, a resident of Sector-13, Dwarka was arrested after the victim’s father lodged a complaint against him on three days after the incident,’ said a senior police officer.
According to the complaint, the victim had gone to Manish Market in Sector 11 when the accused molested her. The girl returned home and told her father but he ignored, fearing embarrasment.
But two days later, when Singla threatened him, his wife made a PCR call and informed the police. Singla was then arrested from his house on Monday. The case has been registered and investigations are on, police said.
FIRST MISHAP ON YAMUNA EXPRESSWAY CLAIMS FIVE
In its first major accident on Yamuna Expressway, five persons died and three others were injured when the tyre of a truck burst due to overspeeding. The incident took place in the early hours of Wednesday near Mathura toll plaza of the expressway.
A group of traders was coming from Agra to Azadpur Sabji Mandi in Delhi. The tyre of the truck burst around 2.54 am at 70 km mile point from Agra. The vehicle then collided with the side verge and overturned, crushing the traders sitting inside. The driver and attendant, however, were not injured and fled from the spot. The deceased were identified as Dhaniram, Surjeet, Jamaduddin, Avanish and Ibrahim.
BOTCHED ROBBERY BID LANDS FIVE OF GANG IN POLICE NET
Five persons, who are part of a gang from Meerut that has been involved in stealing high-end cars, were arrested, leading to solving of 15 cases of vehicle thefts in and around the national capital, police said on Wednesday.
The gang is notorious for stopping vehicles on highways and major roads in the NCR and stealing them at gun-point, they said.
Praveen Sharma, Praveen Sehwag, Sandeep Sehrawat and Amir Saifi were arrested on 25 August from Karnal in Haryana when they were travelling on the NH-1 towards Chandigarh. One more accused Vinod was arrested later.
The arrest came on a specific tip-off that the four people would travel on an Indigo car to Chandigarh after police returned empty following searches at their hideouts in Meerut and Karnal.
Police started looking for the gang after a sub-contractor for L&T, K B Singh, filed a complaint that his expensive car was stolen at gunpoint from him.
On 25 August, each and every vehicle plying on these roads was keenly observed and after about 8-10 hours of vigil, the car bearing a particular registration number was noticed travelling towards Chandigarh on NH-1.
Three police teams followed it from different directions and apprehended them from Karnal toll plaza when they were waiting.
‘The car in which they were travelling was also found to be stolen and a loaded pistol was also recovered from the car,’ V Renganathan, Additional Commissioner of Police, West Delhi, said.
The four accused were remanded in police custody for seven days and during their interrogation, it has been found that they have been previously involved in very many cases of car-jackings and thefts in which they are on bail.
‘Further, they have confessed their involvements in as many as 18 cases of car jackings and car thefts from Delhi, UP, Haryana and Chandigarh,’ Renganathan said, adding that a hunt is on to nab other accused.
RACKET BUSTED, RS 6 LAKH IN FAKE CURRENCY SEIZED
Delhi police claimed to have busted a fake currency racket and arrested of two people, hailing from Uttar Pradesh, in this regard. Police recovered fake currency with face value of Rs 6 lakh. ‘Fake currency notes were being smuggled to Delhi from West Bengal and it is suspected that they were pumped in from Bangladesh. The accused were apprehended from Anand Vihar on Tuesday,’ said a senior police official.
The consignment was given to the accused, identified as Binod and Mohammad Ayub, from a person from Malda district in West Bengal. The currency notes were checked by experts and it was found that they were fake. The police is verifying whether this particular consignment came from Bangladesh or not.
Police said that the fake currency brought from West Bengal is sold in Delhi NCR at less rates upto 50 percent and then used as original by people. Several teams are conducting raids in various parts to unearth the whole racket.
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