Crime Diary: July 30
30 July 2012 3:34 PM IST
BABY GIRL FOUND DEAD IN GHAZIABAD DRAIN
A 16-day-old baby girl was found dead in a drain, hours after she was kidnapped from her home, police said on Sunday.
The infant, daughter of one Ravinder Nag, was found in a drain near Khoda neighbourhood from where she was kidnapped early in the morning, they said.
The victim’s grandmother Shiela claimed that two masked men entered their residence, pushed her aside and fled with the baby on a bike. A case of murder has been registered against unidentified persons.
Police suspect the involvement of a family member in the murder and are investigating into the angle of killing an ‘unwanted girl child’.
THREE HELD FOR RUNNING FAKE MAID AGENCY
Three people, including a domestic help, were arrested on the charge of running a fake supply agency for domestic helps, after a complaint by a senior official from the Rajya Sabha secretariat that his maid was missing just a day after she started working at his place.
‘During interrogation, one of the accused told us that the maids would be briefed to leave the house immediately after getting the commission. One of the accused had earlier worked as an odd jobs boy in an agency that supplied maid servants, from where he got the idea to start a fake agency,’ said K C Dwivedi, Additional Commissioner of Police (ACP).
According to the police, the accused and the two accomplices, 35-year-old Obaid, 28-year-old Sanaullah, and the domestic help, 26-year-old Anjali, were involved in a number of incidents of cheating and criminal breach of trust. ‘We have recovered five mobile phones, 11 SIM cards, pamphlets with advertisements of 12 different domestic help supply agencies,’ stated the police official.
On 27 June, Anjali who came through Durga Placement Agency, Haiderpur, started work at the Rajya Sabha official’s house. ‘On 28 June, Anjali left the house of the complainant without informing him. The official later realised that even her name — Anjali Ekka was fake. The placement agency took Rs 16,000 from the complainant as commission for providing the servant,’ Dwivedi said.
One 16 July, a case was filed regarding the same at Tilak Marg police station, an official said.
According to the police, the address printed on the registration forms of the placement service were fake and mobile numbers used by the people were procured on fake IDs. All the accused persons frequently changed their mobile phones and SIM cards. Within a period of 10 days, they had used about 10 different mobile numbers.
Call details of the mobile phone numbers were taken and during analysis of call details, it was found that the locations of the numbers was mostly in the area of Zakhira and Mubarak Pur Dabas in Delhi’s north west district area. ‘During the course of investigation we found out that the wife of one of the accused Sanaullah, had been working as a maid in Rajendra Nagar two years ago, where she had been accused of stealing jewellery from her employer and had been arrested by the local police,’ a police official said.
Investigations further revealed that the accused printed pamphlets with fake names and addresses and then distributed them in the VIP areas of Delhi and NCR. ‘We found out that Anjali had previously left another house at Vikas Puri in the same manner, leaving the four-year-child of the employer alone in the house. She was simultaneously placed in another house in Janakpuri under the name of Sunita when the complainant filed an FIR,’ stated Dwivedi.
As per officials, the accused used to switch off their mobile phones when the maid disappeared from the employer’s house after getting the commission. ‘They changed their residence every two or three months and lived in slum areas to conceal their identity,’ an official said.
STOLEN ITEMS WORTH LAKHS SEIZED FROM RAG-PICKER
A 21-year-old rag-picker was arrested for burglary, police said on Sunday, and stolen valuables worth Rs 10 lakh were recovered from him.
Azaruddin Ali, who hails from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested near Daulat Ram College traffic intersection on Friday, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (north) Sindhu Pillai. ‘Stolen gold and silver ornaments worth Rs 10 lakhs were recovered from his possession,’ she said.
Police said they were investigating a theft that took place on 20 July in Model Town-III, in which large quantity of gold and silver ornaments was stolen. During probe, special staff of north Delhi received a tip-off that a youth was about to come to Kamla Nagar to dispose the stolen gold and silver ornaments.
A trap was laid near Daulat Ram College traffic intersection and Ali was apprehended. During interrogation, he told the police that he has studied up to Class VIII and works as a rag-picker in Model Town in the morning. He used to conduct recce of the houses that he thought were easy targets.
Police is also investigating his involvement in many other theft cases in the area.
PREGNANT WOMAN KILLED IN NOIDA ROAD ACCIDENT
In a shocking accident, an eight month pregnant woman died while her husband was injured after their car rammed into a speeding Mahindra Marshal car in Sector 62, Noida late on Saturday night.
Software engineer, Naveen Nagarajan along with his eight month pregnant wife Anupriya had gone to attend a function at his friends place in Indrapuram in Ghaziabad.
While returning during the wee-hours, a speeding Marshal hit the couple’s car on the national highway 24.
'Nagarajan was driving his white Volkswagen Vento car and were coming from Indrapuram through NH 24.
Near the NIB crossing a speeding Marshal car smashed into their car. The couple were badly injured and were immediately taken to the Fortis hospital in sector 62,' a senior police officer said.
Doctors declared Anupriya brought dead. Her husband was discharged after an MRI and ultrasound tests.
The impact of the collision was so strong that though the car’s airbags tried to cushion the impact, Anupriya lost her life in the accident.
Police has arrested the driver of the Marshal and seized his car.
According to the police Anupriya was working as assistant manager with a leading private bank.
In another incident two constables deputed with the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) got injured when a speeding Tata 407 truck hit the official car near Jagat Farms in Greater Noida late on Saturday night.
DSP Brijesh Kumar’s Bolero hit a Tata 407 truck in front of the Jagat Farms crossing after dropping him home. The area falls under the Kasna police station.
Two constables who were in the car were injured in the accident.
They were immediately taken to a private hospital in the Knowledge park area.The police has arrested the truck driver and seized the vehicle.
MISSING TODDLER REUNITED WITH PARENTS
A three-year-old girl, who went missing from the hospital two days ago, was traced and handed over to her parents, police said.
Police received a call regarding a missing girl child on 27 July from a city hospital in Samaipur, in outer Delhi. When the police reached the spot, Bhola, a resident of Mukundpur said that he had come to the hospital for the delivery of his wife and had left behind his three-year-old daughter Payal at the hospital when he went to get some provisions from the market. When he came back, he found his daughter missing.
A kidnapping case had been registered at the Samaipur Badli police station. During investigation a message was flashed at all police stations informing everyone about the missing girl and details of the child were upload on ZIPNET, a police website giving details of a missing person.
P olice teams were constituted and sent across the city in search of the child.
All hospitals in the vicinity, as well as children's homes such as ‘Palna’ and ‘Prayas’ were checked, and door to door search started in the nearby colonies. Sub-inspector (SI) Neetu Insaan made incessant efforts and finally succeeded in tracing the girl at the house of Tara Devi, a resident of Jhuggi Cluster in Sanjay Colony, at Samaipur on Sunday at about 3 pm.
During the search at the slum cluster, Tara Devi came forward and told police that she had found a girl child on Friday. She had kept the child with her in good faith.
TRAFFIC CHECKING WITHOUT BARRICADING CLAIMS ONE LIFE
One person died while another was injured after being hit by a mini-truck, while their scooter was stopped by traffic policemen in northwest’s Bhalswa Dairy area on Sunday evening.
The incident took place around 5 pm, on highway near Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar. The victims, Mukesh, 18 and Ajit, 30, were going towards the Bhalswa Dairy. Two traffic policemen asked them to stop. As they stopped, a speeding mini-truck hit the two. Mukesh and Ajit were taken to Babu Jagjivan Ram hospital, where doctors declared Mukesh dead on arrival. Meanwhile, police have registered a case against the errant driver and arrested him.
Eye witnesses claimed the accident took place due to traffic cops, who were checking the vehicles without barricading. Senior police officials said they were verifying the claims.
BUSINESSMAN ASSAULTED AND ROBBED IN VIKASPURI
A businessman was assaulted and robbed of cash and important documents outside his residence in west Delhi’s Vikaspuri, late on Saturday night. The victim, Ramesh Bansal, was walking towards his home in Shankar Garden area of Vikaspuri when he was attacked by four men who came on two bikes. The robbers first punched him on his face and then snatched his bag.
Bansal, who owns a hardware business, lodged a complaint in Vikaspuri police station. He said on Saturday, around 10 pm, he was walking towards his house after parking his car outside when he saw four men on two bikes approaching him. Before he could understand anything, they overpowered him.
'The bag contained important documents related to his business. There was not much cash in the bag. We have registered a case of robbery against unknown persons,' said a police officer.
Bansal’s wife, who was inside the house at the time of the incident, even claimed that the robbers fired two rounds of bullets before leaving.
A 16-day-old baby girl was found dead in a drain, hours after she was kidnapped from her home, police said on Sunday.
The infant, daughter of one Ravinder Nag, was found in a drain near Khoda neighbourhood from where she was kidnapped early in the morning, they said.
The victim’s grandmother Shiela claimed that two masked men entered their residence, pushed her aside and fled with the baby on a bike. A case of murder has been registered against unidentified persons.
Police suspect the involvement of a family member in the murder and are investigating into the angle of killing an ‘unwanted girl child’.
THREE HELD FOR RUNNING FAKE MAID AGENCY
Three people, including a domestic help, were arrested on the charge of running a fake supply agency for domestic helps, after a complaint by a senior official from the Rajya Sabha secretariat that his maid was missing just a day after she started working at his place.
‘During interrogation, one of the accused told us that the maids would be briefed to leave the house immediately after getting the commission. One of the accused had earlier worked as an odd jobs boy in an agency that supplied maid servants, from where he got the idea to start a fake agency,’ said K C Dwivedi, Additional Commissioner of Police (ACP).
According to the police, the accused and the two accomplices, 35-year-old Obaid, 28-year-old Sanaullah, and the domestic help, 26-year-old Anjali, were involved in a number of incidents of cheating and criminal breach of trust. ‘We have recovered five mobile phones, 11 SIM cards, pamphlets with advertisements of 12 different domestic help supply agencies,’ stated the police official.
On 27 June, Anjali who came through Durga Placement Agency, Haiderpur, started work at the Rajya Sabha official’s house. ‘On 28 June, Anjali left the house of the complainant without informing him. The official later realised that even her name — Anjali Ekka was fake. The placement agency took Rs 16,000 from the complainant as commission for providing the servant,’ Dwivedi said.
One 16 July, a case was filed regarding the same at Tilak Marg police station, an official said.
According to the police, the address printed on the registration forms of the placement service were fake and mobile numbers used by the people were procured on fake IDs. All the accused persons frequently changed their mobile phones and SIM cards. Within a period of 10 days, they had used about 10 different mobile numbers.
Call details of the mobile phone numbers were taken and during analysis of call details, it was found that the locations of the numbers was mostly in the area of Zakhira and Mubarak Pur Dabas in Delhi’s north west district area. ‘During the course of investigation we found out that the wife of one of the accused Sanaullah, had been working as a maid in Rajendra Nagar two years ago, where she had been accused of stealing jewellery from her employer and had been arrested by the local police,’ a police official said.
Investigations further revealed that the accused printed pamphlets with fake names and addresses and then distributed them in the VIP areas of Delhi and NCR. ‘We found out that Anjali had previously left another house at Vikas Puri in the same manner, leaving the four-year-child of the employer alone in the house. She was simultaneously placed in another house in Janakpuri under the name of Sunita when the complainant filed an FIR,’ stated Dwivedi.
As per officials, the accused used to switch off their mobile phones when the maid disappeared from the employer’s house after getting the commission. ‘They changed their residence every two or three months and lived in slum areas to conceal their identity,’ an official said.
STOLEN ITEMS WORTH LAKHS SEIZED FROM RAG-PICKER
A 21-year-old rag-picker was arrested for burglary, police said on Sunday, and stolen valuables worth Rs 10 lakh were recovered from him.
Azaruddin Ali, who hails from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested near Daulat Ram College traffic intersection on Friday, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (north) Sindhu Pillai. ‘Stolen gold and silver ornaments worth Rs 10 lakhs were recovered from his possession,’ she said.
Police said they were investigating a theft that took place on 20 July in Model Town-III, in which large quantity of gold and silver ornaments was stolen. During probe, special staff of north Delhi received a tip-off that a youth was about to come to Kamla Nagar to dispose the stolen gold and silver ornaments.
A trap was laid near Daulat Ram College traffic intersection and Ali was apprehended. During interrogation, he told the police that he has studied up to Class VIII and works as a rag-picker in Model Town in the morning. He used to conduct recce of the houses that he thought were easy targets.
Police is also investigating his involvement in many other theft cases in the area.
PREGNANT WOMAN KILLED IN NOIDA ROAD ACCIDENT
In a shocking accident, an eight month pregnant woman died while her husband was injured after their car rammed into a speeding Mahindra Marshal car in Sector 62, Noida late on Saturday night.
Software engineer, Naveen Nagarajan along with his eight month pregnant wife Anupriya had gone to attend a function at his friends place in Indrapuram in Ghaziabad.
While returning during the wee-hours, a speeding Marshal hit the couple’s car on the national highway 24.
'Nagarajan was driving his white Volkswagen Vento car and were coming from Indrapuram through NH 24.
Near the NIB crossing a speeding Marshal car smashed into their car. The couple were badly injured and were immediately taken to the Fortis hospital in sector 62,' a senior police officer said.
Doctors declared Anupriya brought dead. Her husband was discharged after an MRI and ultrasound tests.
The impact of the collision was so strong that though the car’s airbags tried to cushion the impact, Anupriya lost her life in the accident.
Police has arrested the driver of the Marshal and seized his car.
According to the police Anupriya was working as assistant manager with a leading private bank.
In another incident two constables deputed with the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) got injured when a speeding Tata 407 truck hit the official car near Jagat Farms in Greater Noida late on Saturday night.
DSP Brijesh Kumar’s Bolero hit a Tata 407 truck in front of the Jagat Farms crossing after dropping him home. The area falls under the Kasna police station.
Two constables who were in the car were injured in the accident.
They were immediately taken to a private hospital in the Knowledge park area.The police has arrested the truck driver and seized the vehicle.
MISSING TODDLER REUNITED WITH PARENTS
A three-year-old girl, who went missing from the hospital two days ago, was traced and handed over to her parents, police said.
Police received a call regarding a missing girl child on 27 July from a city hospital in Samaipur, in outer Delhi. When the police reached the spot, Bhola, a resident of Mukundpur said that he had come to the hospital for the delivery of his wife and had left behind his three-year-old daughter Payal at the hospital when he went to get some provisions from the market. When he came back, he found his daughter missing.
A kidnapping case had been registered at the Samaipur Badli police station. During investigation a message was flashed at all police stations informing everyone about the missing girl and details of the child were upload on ZIPNET, a police website giving details of a missing person.
P olice teams were constituted and sent across the city in search of the child.
All hospitals in the vicinity, as well as children's homes such as ‘Palna’ and ‘Prayas’ were checked, and door to door search started in the nearby colonies. Sub-inspector (SI) Neetu Insaan made incessant efforts and finally succeeded in tracing the girl at the house of Tara Devi, a resident of Jhuggi Cluster in Sanjay Colony, at Samaipur on Sunday at about 3 pm.
During the search at the slum cluster, Tara Devi came forward and told police that she had found a girl child on Friday. She had kept the child with her in good faith.
TRAFFIC CHECKING WITHOUT BARRICADING CLAIMS ONE LIFE
One person died while another was injured after being hit by a mini-truck, while their scooter was stopped by traffic policemen in northwest’s Bhalswa Dairy area on Sunday evening.
The incident took place around 5 pm, on highway near Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar. The victims, Mukesh, 18 and Ajit, 30, were going towards the Bhalswa Dairy. Two traffic policemen asked them to stop. As they stopped, a speeding mini-truck hit the two. Mukesh and Ajit were taken to Babu Jagjivan Ram hospital, where doctors declared Mukesh dead on arrival. Meanwhile, police have registered a case against the errant driver and arrested him.
Eye witnesses claimed the accident took place due to traffic cops, who were checking the vehicles without barricading. Senior police officials said they were verifying the claims.
BUSINESSMAN ASSAULTED AND ROBBED IN VIKASPURI
A businessman was assaulted and robbed of cash and important documents outside his residence in west Delhi’s Vikaspuri, late on Saturday night. The victim, Ramesh Bansal, was walking towards his home in Shankar Garden area of Vikaspuri when he was attacked by four men who came on two bikes. The robbers first punched him on his face and then snatched his bag.
Bansal, who owns a hardware business, lodged a complaint in Vikaspuri police station. He said on Saturday, around 10 pm, he was walking towards his house after parking his car outside when he saw four men on two bikes approaching him. Before he could understand anything, they overpowered him.
'The bag contained important documents related to his business. There was not much cash in the bag. We have registered a case of robbery against unknown persons,' said a police officer.
Bansal’s wife, who was inside the house at the time of the incident, even claimed that the robbers fired two rounds of bullets before leaving.
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