Friday, August 7, 2009

Man killed his younger brother over a dispute to charge mobile handset

By Pradeep Gupta (Exclusive)

A man killed his younger brother over a dispute involving charging a mobile handset. The shocking incident took place in Biwandi on Thursday.

The Kumbharwada police have arrested Govardhan Vanjari for allegedly killing his brother. Local residents said disputes over charging mobile handsets are common in the area due to power cuts for long hours but this is the first time someone got so much enraged that he killed his own brother.

At around 11pm on Thursday, Govardhan and Nandu, both brothers, came to charge their mobile handsets in their home. Both were in a hurry but the problem was that they had only one mobile charger and they began arguing.

After a heated exchange, Govardhan began beating up his younger brother Nandu Vanjari. The latter was hit badly and he fell on the floor and died on the spot.

The incident left their family in shock. Residents say that if Bhiwandi gets sufficient power supply such type of incidents in the area would not occur.

Ravi Shinde, a local resident from the area, said: “In my knowledge it is the first incident which took place in our area but we think that this happened due to power cut which is a daily affair for more than 12 hours.”

The brothers lived in Baktul building in Padma Nagar in a joint family. Their family is well-known in the whole area.

Sub-Inspector Chandrakant Thorat, from Kumbharwada police station, said that “on a complaint lodged by Nandu’s wife, Vandana, we have arrested Govardhan and booked him for murder.”

While accused Govardhan had confessed in his police statement that he was not intentionally murder his brother it was just a shocking incident.

Police arretsed two boy's who claims to close relative of Ex Chief Minsiter Tamilnadu

By Pradeep Gupta

The Khar police arrested two high profile criminals whom no one can believe that they are criminals who duped a businessman of Rs 5 lakhs. The arrested Rohan Sukhawa (19) and Rameshkumar Kamraj (21) both used to show that they are the sons of a union cabinet minister and a close relative of Ex chief minister of Tamilnadu and for the same they used to roam in the area in a BMW car with to seven private security guards, reside in posh building and wear costly gold chains. The cheats have taken all this facilities at rent and used to pay Rs 18,500 for car and Rs 7,000 as flat rent per day.

According to Khar police officials, duo cheated a businessman named as Kamlesh Jain (28) promising to sell them three Honda Accord car and took an advance amount of Rs five lakhs. The duo accused hailing from Bangalore has been roaming in the area in their BMW car and frequently bought costly cloths from Aura showroom. As they have been showing that they are grandsons of M Karunanidhi ex CM of Tamilnadu.

On July 10, a business Kamlesh Jain came to visit the showroom owned by his friend who introduced both the accused with him as a rich man and have political connections. Later after some discussions, duo offered Jain to sell three Honda Accord of 2008 model. Jain decided to pay them the token amount of Rs 5 lakhs and remaining to be given after the car is delivered in Mumbai. Between July 13 and July 18 Jain paid them Rs five lakhs on a written promissory note over a fake letter head of Balaji Constructions and Infrastructures India, Dubai and Thailand.

Since after the deal Jain several times used to ask them about the deal and delivery of the car but the duo accused used to postpone the date. After getting doubtful Jain made complain with the Khar police station who latter nabbed both the accused from the Khar area.

K M M Prasanna, the deputy commissioner of police said, “We have booked the accused under section 465, 468, 471, 420 and 34 of IPC and both have been remanded to police custody till July 27.”

However during investigation Khar police also find that these people have cheated to many people in the Chennai.

Lovers’ suicide sparks row in Bhiwandi

By Pradeep Gupta (Exclusive)

A family’s objection to a love affair between a 16-year-old girl and a 21-year-old youth led to a tragic double suicide on Monday.

Karishma Madan Patil of Bhiwandi’s Vadgar village was in love with Kalpesh Bahiram Patil, 21 for some time. When Karishma’s family came to know about her affair and stopped her from meeting Kalpesh, she committed suicide by hanging herself.

Her grief stricken family angrily set out in search for Kalpesh. They smashed the Chinese food stall that he owned before setting it ablaze and also destroyed his motorcycle. After registering a complaint with the Bhiwandi Gramin Police about Karishma’s suicide, a mob then proceeded towards Kalpesh’s village in order to teach him a lesson at his home.

However, before the police and Karishma’s family could reach Kalpesh’s hamlet, he had already committed suicide. His family told the police that on coming to know about Karishma’s suicide, Kalpesh locked himself in his room and hanged himself.

There was tension between both the families but any untoward incident was averted because of the police presence. Late on Monday night, the police sent the bodies for post-mortem, but to different hospitals. While Karishma’s body was sent to the nearest Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital, Kalpesh’s body was sent to the Thane Civil Hospital. Police continued to maintain a full bandobast at the village.

After the post-mortem, Karishma’s body was cremated late on Monday night, while Kalpesh’s cremation was done on Tuesday morning in the same crematorium.

Kalpesh’s family has lodged a complaint with the Bhiwandi Gramin police alleging that Kalpesh committed suicide because the girl’s family had destroyed his stall and were coming to kill him.

Talking to this reporter, Senior Police Inspector Y.R. Bhagwan said, “The girl’s age was only 16, because of which her family objected to her affair, but she committed suicide.We have registered an FIR against the girl’s family members and investigation further in this sensitive matter.”

Police unaware of deadline, yet to file report on senior citizens

By Pradeep Gupta (Exclusive)

The Maharashtra government is spending crores of rupees on modernization of the police department in order that they can accomplish their tasks smoothly. But the police work itself is slow and shoddy. After a spurt in cases of murder of senior citizens, Commissioner of Police D. Sivanandhan had issued instructions to all police stations to make a report of the number of senior citizen living in their jurisdiction. The report was to be submitted to the DCP Operation at the CP’s office by July 6.

In the last six months, nine senior citizens were murdered. The CP had asked local police stations officials to personally visit the homes of the senior citizens, meet them and record all their details. The shocking fact is that still none of the local DCPs has submitted this report to the police headquarters as yet.

The circular has also asked the local police to verify the characters of the vendors like milkmen, newspaper vendors, drivers, domestic helps, etc of the senior citizens and if possible, with photographs and submit the same to the police headquarters. The circular issued to all the police stations has asked the police stations to record the contact numbers of the neighbours of the senior citizens to help them in times of emergency.

The police chief has asked the police stations to provide all the details handy with the Beat Marshals and order them to visit the senior citizens at least once in a week. The senior citizens have also to be informed about the helpline numbers 103 and 1090.

The local police stations have been ordered to arrange a meeting with all the housing society officials and if possible to convince them to install CCTVs for surveillance and to also keep a record of all the visitors to their societies, with the vehicles numbers of the visitors. The societies have been advised to install bio-metric system too.

The senior police inspectors has been asked to keep a vigil against dacoits, thieves, gangsters in their areas who have previous records of crimes in the last five years, through their detection staff. In addition to this, they have been asked to act against those found roaming suspiciously in the localities where senior citizens live.

Meanwhile Sivanandhan told reporters, "It is our main priority to provide security to senior citizens with a fearless atmosphere and we are doing all our best to minimize crime in the city."

More than 14 days after the deadline, DCP officials have failed to submit the report to the DCP operation in police headquarters. Shockingly, when contacted, Amar Jadhav, DCP Operation, was surprised and said, “I have to check about such a circular.”

Three arrested in piracy business

In a major breakthrough of pirated CD business in city. The Oshiwara police have arrested three people from the Navi Mumbai’s Kharghar area who were doing the business in all over the country.

The police are arrested Pramod Jadhav, 21, Prashant Roy, 25 and Prasanjit Mandal, 21. Out of three accused Pramod is the student of software engineering at Navi Mumbai.

According to Dattatray Sankhe, Police Inspector from Oshiwara Police station said, on 13th July of this month our police officer Assistant Police Inspector Rajesh Tadvi got information that one person is selling pirated CD at Behram Buag area at Jogeshwari acting on the tip off police carried the raid and arrested Zakeer Ansar Sheikh, 20 years.

After producing Zakeer’s to the Andheri court the police managed to get police custody till 17th June. During Zakir, introgation police got information that the he used to buy the CD from the Kharghar area.

On description of the Zakeer police carried the raid at Sector12 of Kharghar at building number 12 and nabbed three people raid handed. During raid police recovered DVD, MP3 and CD of worth rupees 25 lakhs including lap top and computers. Police seized total two trucks CD from the spot.

However in this incident two people still absconding out of which one main accused that was operating the whole business.

“The gang used to operate business in Maharashtra, Gujrat and South’s many states” said Dattatray Sankhe.

India politician should learn a lesson from US Secreatary, Hillary Clinton

Indian politicians, who insist on top security personnel anywhere they go, should learn a lesson from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has specially insisted that such heavy security should not be deployed at the Taj, where she is staying during her visit to India.

Sources from Taj security told on condition of anonymity, that before her arrival in India, she had specifically informed them through the US Consulate not to deploy high security, despite the various onerous possibilities in the wake of the recent terror strikes.

However, the state government, which is already on high alert following intelligence reports, does not want to take any risk. They have taken special measures for her security.

Clinton, who arrived yesterday in the city, is staying at room number 110 on the 11th floor of the Taj, where she will stay for three days.

The police and consulate staff will not allow people on that floor, not even hotel staff, without their permission. The surrounding area will be cordoned off by uniformed police, and Crime Branch and State Intelligence staff will keep watch.
Clinton will visit several places, including St. Xavier’s College, besides attending a social programme arranged by the city-based SEVA organization. Today, she will first offer tribute to the 26/11 victims after which she will attend a meet with businessmen, including Ratan Tata.

Police officials have said that anyone found loitering around the area would be hauled off for interrogation.

Rakesh Maria, Joint Commissioner, Crime, said “Police in plain clothes will keep watch on the hotel from vantage points.”

25 years old man caught with 45 lakhs rupees Hashish

The Anti Narcotics Cell (ANC) of the Mumbai police arrested a 25 years old person in possession of over five kilo of Charas costing over Rs four lakhs in the local market and Rs 45 lakhs in the international market. The arrested accused is identified as Mohammed Tahir Siddiqui and was arrested on Sunday evening from the Reserve Bank of India bust stop in Bandra Kurla Complex. However another accused is still absconding in the case.

According to the ANC officers they had received a tip off from their informers that two persons would come to deliver a consignment of Charas in the Bandra area and accordingly a trap was laid by the ANC. When Siddiqui came at the spot in an auto rickshaw he was arrested by the ANC officers at the spot in possession of Charas, however another accused in the case absconding.

The ANC officers said that Siddiqui had brought the Charas from Uttar Pradesh and was supposed to supply it in the city to some local traders. The ANC is also tracing those local traders involved in the racket. The ANC has sent the finger prints of Siddiqui for the verification and match with the finger prints department to know about his previous crime records.

Vetal, an ANC officer said, "Working over a tip off we arrested Siddiqui and we are conducting further probe in the case to find out whether he has previous crime record or not. Also we are searching another accused who is still absconding. After the interrogation of Siddiqui the entire network behind this racket will be clear."

Awarness message sent by CBI, sent Buta singh's son behind bar

The awareness message sent by the state Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) across the state over the mobile phones lead to trap Sarobjit Singh alias Sweety Singh in Rs One crore bribe case. Ramrao Patil the municipal contractor and the complainant in the bribe case had also received the same message on July 18 from the ACB and the same he called the number and registered his case with the ACB.

According to the ACB officials, after getting the demand of Rs three crore from Sweety to save him from getting booked under the Prevention of Atrocities Act as he had taken loans of crores of rupees on the names of Dalits workers and later defaulted EMIs of the loans. As Patil had cheated the Dalit workers brought this case before the National Commission for Scheduled Caste (NCSC) headed by Buta Singh.
When Patil was demanded Rs Three Crore from Sweety to save him from the Prevention of Atrocity Act by influencing the officers of the department.

The same day he received awareness message from the ACB on his mobile saying to register the cases of anti corruption with the ACB and he followed the same route to register his case. On July 18 the ACB received the complaint and on July 22 a case against all the accused was lodged with the CBI also the CBI created a plan and started following the calls made by the Hawala operators and Sweety to the complainant.

The ACB has tie ups with the mobile service providers across the state which sends this awareness message to thousands of subscribers in Hindi, Marathi and English languages which includes the numbers of the ACB control to register the complaints. According to the ACB officials they receive numerous calls from across the state over their 2492 1212 number and in a month in at least five to six raids accused are arrested red handed.

Pravin Salunkhe, the superintendent of ACB said, "We get several calls on our control room number daily and our three officers record their complaint and forward it to the senior staff. After studying the complaint details we plan a trap and arrest the accused. In the case of Sweety Singh contractor Patil called the same number and informed us about the case and accordingly we unearthed the racket."
Meanwhile, the CBI on Saturday conducted searches at the house of Buta Singh’s son Sweety Singh in Delhi and recovered three unlicensed weapons and some live cartridges. A case under the Arms Act has been registered against Sweety at Nizamuddin police station.

Father and two son arrested for murder of daghuters lover

The three family members included father and his two sons were arrested by Dindoshi police station in connection with the murder of a 25-year-old man who had a love affair with the daughter. Father and his two sons detained him three days in his house and brutally beat him up and finally died because the deceased refused to marry with her daughter. The three arrested accused have been identified as Kamla Prasad Sahu, 61, and his two sons Rajesh, 21, and Dinesh, 19, a residents of Bengali compound in Dindoshi.

According to police, the deceased, Pradeep Gupta, 25, who resided in the neighbouring area of accused, and one day Sahu came to know that his 22-year-old daughter was having a love affair with Gupta. He then allegedly tried to convince him to marry his daughter but he reportedly refused.

“Sahu family then got angry and they kidnapped him on July 19 and kept him in their house and beat him very badly to get married with his daughter. They tortured Gupta three days and finally when he did not accept their proposal they hit with a heavy object on his head due to which he died on the spot on July 22” said senior police inspector, Kakade of Dindoshi police station.

“After that they wrapped his body in cloth and dump at Gokuldam area at night. Next day in the morning the local people who were passing nearby saw the body and informed the police” said police official. Gupta was a watchman and was working somewhere in the Goregaon area.

“In inquiry we found that Gupta was having an affair with Sahu’s daughter but he had refused to marry her. We then called the girl’s family for inquiry and during the interrogation they admitted their crime” said, Kakade. The accused have produced in the court and granted police custody till August 3.

“Sahu’s daughter got married a year ago but due to some problems with her husband she started leaving at her father’s house” said police official of the Dindoshi police station.

person who robbed jweller to repay loan of siisters marriage caught by police

After contradictory statement given by the complainant Santosh Sawant in MIDC diamond jewellery robbery case police were immediately noticed and arrested along with his two accomplishes on Thursday for their involved in the robbery of the diamond jewellery worth Rs 42 lakhs.

Sawant, who use to work with Brightest Circle Jewellery private limited as a peon since past two years, had registered a complaint on Wednesday evening around 8 pm that he was kidnapped and robbed by six people in a Maruti Omni car while he was handed black rexin bag containing to diamond jewelley to keep in strong room near by the office in MIDC. Sawant also claimed in his complaint that he was assaulted on his arms by razor blades and after snatching the jewellery bag, they threw him out of the moving vehicle at Vikroli T junction.

Pradeep Suryavanshi, senior police inspector of MIDC police station, said, “There was no incident of kidnapping and robbery However, Sawant, who had given the jewellery to one scrap seller and pretended the entire drama of his kidnapping and robbery incident to repay his loan which had taken for his sister’s marriage”.

“During the investigation we found in suspect to Sawant because he when we asked to repeat the details given by him in the compliant was found to be changing certain aspects” said, Additional Commissioner of Police (West Region) Amitabh Gupta.

“Sawant’s contradictory statements were suspecting there is some foul play because the wound on his forearms which he claims that the robbers had assaulted him with a razor blade but Sawant’s full-sleeved shirt, which he had been wearing buttoned to the wrist was not torn” said Suryavanshi. We also found one thing like he alleged that he had been thrown out of a moving car by them but his clothes seemed clean and no injury was found on his other part of the body” added, Suryavanshi.

“In the interrogation Sawant finally broke down and admitted to having committed the crime” said police official. “He also confessed that the entire robbery drama was made by him because he needed money to pay his 40,000 loan which had taken for his sister’s marriage and also wanted more money for marriage of his another sister” added, officer.

The other two accused have been identified as Ashok Bidlani, 25,who works with Sawant as a peon in the same company and Mohammad Shahbuddin Shaikh, 25 a scrap dealer.

“Bidlani had given the idea to Sawant to sale the jewellery and also introduced his friend Shaikh to him. Shaikh would give Rs around 2 lakh to Sawant for the whole Jewellery” said, Gupta. “awant also revealed that he had himself handed over the bag containing the jewellery to Shaikh after leaving his office. He later went at Vikroli and called his employers and told them about the robbery and cut his on his forearms with a razor blade” added Gupta.
The all three accused have arrested by MIDC police and they have recovered eighty percent of the booty from them.

Juhu police arrested four Shiv sainik for rioting

On Wenesday Juhu police officials arrested four people on charges of rioting and ransacking Crepe Station, a restaurant in Juhu. Those arrested claimed themselves to be belonging to Shivsena.
The accused, said that they attacked the restaurant because it served hukka , to the students from the nearby schools and college. The Sainiks claimed that there are quite a handful of educational institutes near that restaurant and the students would regularly frequent it.

However, the management of the restaurant in their statement to the police said that the accused had come to the restaurant about three days ago. The management added that the accused got into fight with the restaurant staff over some bill issue. On Tuesday they came to the restaurant with a mob and ransacked the office.

“The initial investigation has revealed that it was a case of personal dispute. We are also verifying whether they were indeed affiliated to any political party or no” said senior police inspector Deepak Katkade of Juhu police station.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Angry Angre, scared Wagh!

By Pradeep Gupta

Ganesh Wagh, the man who sent Thane Police’s top notch encounter specialist Ravindra Angre to jail is now running scared after bail was granted to the latter by the Supreme Court on Friday.
“Woh mujhe aur mere family ko 100 per cent mar dalega” (He will definitely kill me and my family), is what Wagh told The ADC last Saturday.
This 37-year- old Wagh, a builder by profession, has also decided to shift his posh office located at Raghunath Nagar to a smaller makeshift place at Anand View Apartments on old Agra Road.
Wagh says that, “they have had to cancel their intended visit to his native village during this vacation period. He is not even allowing his children to play with the children of his building and the neighbouring buildings.
Wagh claims that “when Angre had filed his bail plea in the Supreme Court, the latter’s friends and accomplices had called him (Wagh), threatening him with dire consequences if he appealed against Angre’s plea for bail. “They threatened to also kill my family and children and this is why I have not applied for rejection of his bail”, says a dejected Wagh.
Following his complaint to Thane police, he had got day and night police security. But last month, his night security was withdrawn by the Thane police while his day security may also be withdrawn this week.
Encounter Specialist Ravindra Angre was arrested last year for threatening Wagh at gun point and for forcibly taking his signatures on blank paper.
Wagh, who was building a Rs. 100 crore swimming pool-cum-commercial complex in Thane, was allegedly being forced to accommodate Angre’s wife Dhanashree as a partner in the project.
Angre has been granted bail on a surety of Rs 25,000. The court order must have come as a relief, since his last three bail pleas had been rejected.
A mortally scared Wagh has now demanded he and his family be given security by the Thane police.
Angre packs a mean gun and reputation, having killed more than 40 persons in encounters in his chequered career. Notorious robber and gunman Suresh Manchekar was one of the victims.