Crime Patrol: Dowry case: Woman allegedly raped, sold for Rs. 50,000

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Dowry case: Woman allegedly raped, sold for Rs. 50,000



Sagar: A 21-year-old woman was allegedly repeatedly raped and tortured by her husband's relatives and acquaintances for dowry and was allegedly sold off for Rs. 50,000 at Tyonda village in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar district, police said today.



The ordeal for the victim, who hails from Madhdevra village, began when she got married to one Anand Kurmi in 2005. However, soon after marriage her husband and his relatives started harassing her to furnish Rs. 1 lakh in cash from her parents, police said.

She was allegedly forced to live in a place inhabited by domestic animals in her husband's village and his acquaintance Guddu Maharaj allegedly raped her taking advantage of her plight.



When her health deteriorated, the victim's husband left her in the care of his relative, Ram Singh Kurmi at Khurai town for treatment, but he and his two sons, Narendra and Lokendra, also sexually exploited her, the woman alleged in her police complaint.



Later, they allegedly sold her to one Dwarika Prasad of Mahuna village for Rs. 50,000, police said.



Meanwhile, during captivity, Prasad also allegedly raped her following which her condition worsened. He then sent her along with one Kharak Singh to Khurai for medical treatment.



But en-route, Kharak Singh also allegedly took advantage of her situation and after getting her treated at Khurai town left her again with Prasad.



The victim somehow managed to inform her father about her whereabouts following which he brought her back to his house on June 28 and reported the matter to Rahatgarh police station.



Police booked her husband Anand Kurmi and his relative Neeraj, Umabai, Kalabai, Ram Singh, Lokendra and Narendra Singh under various sections of the IPC, including dowry harassment among others, while Guddu Maharaj, Dwarika Prasad and Kharak Singh were booked for rape.



Police have so far arrested Dwarika Prasad (26), Kharak Singh (42) and Ram Singh (55) and efforts are on to trace the remaining accused.



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Crime Patrol: Sanjay Rai denies role in 14-year-old Maaz's murder (Episode 286, 287, 288 on 23rd, 24th, 25th Aug 2013)

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Class 8 student gunned down in Lucknow

Lucknow: In a shocking incident, a student of Class 8 was shot dead by two unidentified gunmen late Wednesday, police said. The gunmen barged into a house in Indiranagar and shot Maaz Ahmad three times, hitting him in the chest and shoulder. The boy was rushed to a trauma centre, where he was declared dead.



Prima facie, police said this appeared to be a case of either mistaken identity or some family animosity. The 14-year-old Maaz lived with his two brothers, Faizan and Arzaan, at the house of his aunt Husna Bano at Faridinagar in Indiranagar. He was watching TV with the family when the gunmen knocked at the door.



As Faizan opened the door, the two men forced their entry into the house and sprayed Maaz with bullets. The shocked family was only able to come to its senses and raise an alarm after the gunmen made away. Husna Bano told policemen that quite likely, her sons Nadeem and Adeeb were the real targets of the deadly attack; her nephew was probably shot by mistake.



Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) J. Ravender Gaur told IANS: 'This appears like a case of mistaken identity. Killing such a young boy defies logic.' He added, however, that police were investigating all angles. A team of the crime branch has been put on the case, and a breakthrough is expected soon, Gaur said.



The deceased hailed from Allahabad. He had been living with his aunt for 10 years. Police has upped security in the area, and a manhunt has been launched to nab the culprits.

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Maaz murder case: Another shooter held

LUCKNOW: Another shooter Bunty, named in the Maaz murder case was arrested by police late Friday. The accused Ajeet Yadav alias Bunty, a hardcore criminal, is also suspected to have been involved in the murder case of Satish Singh, cousin of mafia Brijesh Singh who was shot dead at Chaubepur in Varanasi on July 3.



Bunty's custody had been sought by district police for questioning into the Sanjay Rai case. Former inspector of Lucknow crime branch Rai's services were dismissed after his name figured in the killing of the boy. According to police theory, Rai had hired a group of six shooters to execute the killing to win back his estranged lover.



Bunty was picked up by Mau police on Friday and was being brought to the city on transit remand. A 9mm pistol had been recovered from his possession, confirmed R K Singh, additional superintendent of police (crime branch). Elaborating about Bunty's involvement in the said case, Singh said that Bunty and Rai had a heated argument over the killing. "The shooters were asked to shoot down real brother of Rai's estranged female friend. But they shot her cousin (victim in the case) by mistake," revealed Singh. Rai still has to be traced by police. Victim was shot dead on the night of May 29 at Faridinagar area in Indiranagar.

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Sanjay Rai denies role in 14-year-old Maaz's murder

LUCKNOW: The dismissed inspector Sanjay Rai was sent back to jail on Sunday evening at the end of the three-day police remand. According to cops who grilled him for the past three days, Rai made some startling revelations denying his role in the murder of the 14-year-old boy Maaz.



Though the entire process was recorded on camera, barring a few hours, legal experts say the version submitted by district police before chief judicial magistrate would be most likely challenged by lawyers defending Rai. Nevertheless, sleuths revealed that Rai accepted having been in contact with the killers around the time of the incident. He, however, evaded direct questions about the murder case.

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Maaz murder case: Now, Rai’s lady love on police radar

LUCKNOW: The lady love of absconding police inspector Sanjai Rai is also on the police radar in the murder of her 13-year-old cousin Maaz. The police are not only probing her role in the boy’s murder but have also reopened an old murder case in which the woman was named three years ago but was later given a clean chit.



Maaz, a Class 8 student, was living with the girl’s family in Indira Nagar and was killed when four assailants shot him after barging into the house on May 29. After the arrest of encounter specialist Sanjay Rai’s aide Ram Babu and two contract killers, the police on Sunday claimed that the inspector masterminded the killing because he wanted to implicate a man named Aqmal, who was getting uncomfortably close to the girl he loved.

The police team probing the case initially denied that the girl herself had any involvement in the crime but further probe has raised suspicions about her. The cops now suspect she may also have known of the plot beforehand.

Earlier, police claimed that the shooters were sent to the girl’s house with instructions to kill any member of her family and Maaz unfortunately became their target. However, further investigation suggests the assailants intentionally targeted Maaz and not her two real brothers who opened the door. The assailants shot Maaz, who was watching television inside the room, after barging into the house. Cops first came to suspect the girl’s role in the murder, as she never mentioned Rai’s before the three arrests on Sunday. Instead, she always dropped the name of Aqmal, whom she reportedly wanted to get rid of, in connection with the murder.

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http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-14/lucknow/40568979_1_murder-case-transit-remand-brijesh-singh

http://news.in.msn.com/crimefile/class-8-student-gunned-down-in-lucknow-1#page=2

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-22/lucknow/40726852_1_14-year-old-maaz-murder-case-cjm

http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

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Crime Patrol: Robbery drama mastermind booked for cheating (Episode 283 on 16th Aug 2013)

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NAGPUR: Bandu Wankhede and his elder son Nitesh, whose plot to mastermind a fake robbery was exposed a day earlier, were produced before the lower court at Mouda on Saturday. The court remanded the father-son duo to police custody till July 25. The two were also booked for cheating, criminal conspiracy and other charges. Accomplices Bala Pelle and Avinash Kale, and hired robbers Mangesh Bhusari, Bhushan Bawankar and Mangesh Bawankule were also sent to PCR until July 25.



The seven, arrested by Nagpur rural police in the last 24 hours, were engaged in a dramatic episode planned to cheat Kacchru Meshram and his family who were supposed to sale a plot of five acres for Rs 52 lakhs to Bandu at Nerla. Bandu first got fake currencies prepared to create an impression that he had the cash to purchase the plot. Later, he hired Bhusari, Bawankar and Bawankule to pose as robbers and whisk away the bag having the fake note bundles. The cops, outsmarting the miscreants, cracked the case within few hours of the incident.



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Crime Patrol: Six found impersonating for 87 students at NMAT 2012, arrests made (Episode 284, 285 on August 17, 18 2013)

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NMIMS officials at the press conference held at the institute

In a major education-related racket bust, six persons have been identified for having impersonated 87 candidates in the Narsee Monjee Management Aptitude Test (NMAT) which was held from October 11 to December 19, 2012. A joint team of the cyber-crime police and Unit 8, Crime Branch, Mumbai has arrested one of these impersonators while the remaining five are yet to be caught, claimed the Mumbai-based Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) University, which conducts the NMAT for admissions to its MBA programs.



​The alleged impersonator caught until now is named Alok Kumar. In addition, the police claimed to have arrested five other people who were organising the malpractice. Brajendrapratap Singh, ​one of these accused, had promised one student of securing him passing marks in the NMAT through management quota for Rs 15 lakh. Thereafter, the accused took Rs 7.5 lakh as advance from the student and employed a dummy candidate to take the test in place of the student. The accused then informed the student that he had passed the NMAT exam and had been shortlisted for the group discussion and interview. The student would then be asked to pay up the remaining Rs 7.5 lakh.



The other accused have been traced and arrested from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Pune. Hanumant Singh Gujar's credit card was used to pay the admission fees for some of the students while his brother Sugriv Singh Gujar used to mediate between the student​s and dummy test takers. Pavan Kumar and Himanshu Shekhar were both also middlemen who used to lure NMIMS aspirants into paying money on the pretext of admission through management quota and then pass them on to consultants.​ Such was the efficiency of the illegal service that most of these students scored 220 marks or above in NMAT, a very high score for the test.



While the impersonators managed to get past the NMAT verification systems using forged primary and secondary identity proofs, the students benefitting from the malpractice were nailed by NMIMS during the group discussion and interview stage after their photographs were found to be not matching those given at the time of the test. Among the 87 students who allegedly availed of this malpractice, only 61 candidates turned up for admission at the institute. They will now be debarred from the process, to the benefit of students who are currently waitlisted for admissions at the institute.



PaGaLGuY spoke to Deepak Phatangare, senior inspector at the Andheri Crime Branch, who claimed that the police had already identified the location of the other five impersonators and would be nabbing them soon. Most of them hailed from the north of India. The police have also identified two companies, Career Guardian from Ghaziabad and Meta Consultancy from New Delhi which were allegedly involved in these criminal practices.



In a press conference held today at the NMIMS Mumbai campus, vice-chancellor Dr Rajan Saxena said that the school had filed an FIR about the impersonation on April 24, 2013. When asked if checks and balances could have been stronger during the NMAT stage itself to flag such impersonation he said, “In hindsight, it could have been but it is only because of the quality of the admission process that this has been detected.” Asked if the test would be made more secure next year he replied, "It would be difficult to say now. We will look at it." Unlike the Common Admissions Test (CAT) and the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT)​, the NMAT does not employ biometric scanning measures such as fingerprint or palm-vein profiling, used to prevent impersonation, during the test check-in process. Despite arguably weaker security measures, the NMAT costs Rs 1,650, higher than the CAT which costs Rs 1,600.



This incident could also be a blow to the credibility to Pearson Vue, the test service provider for NMAT which also conducts the GMAT worldwide. Representatives of Pearson Vue were not available for comment at the time of writing this story.



The scale of the crime is mindboggling in itself. According to the police, only six people impersonated for 87 students across the country. They shunted cities, time slots and test stages to carry out the alleged subterfuge. More than Rs 13 crore changed hands in the process. Also, this might only be the tip of the iceberg as preliminary investigations revealed that this gang might be involved in similar malpractices at other management entrance exams as well.

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Where is my daughter, Story of missing Sofia Suleman (Episode 281, 282 on 10th-11th Aug 2013)

Sofia ki talaash

सोफिया की तलाश 

Sofia Suleman, a 19 year old girl suddenly goes missing from her home. His father Imaran and brother Shahid are trying to file an FIR but they are not supported by police officials.
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Trafficked, confined and raped in the heart of Delhi (Episode 281, 282 on 10th, 11th Aug 2013)

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As Delhi debated and discussed the issue of women’s rights and safety during the past three months, barely four kilometres from Parliament, the seat of Indian democracy, a 19-year-old girl was kept confined within a small cavity in the walls of a brothel at G.B. Road. During this period she was continuously raped – usually by over a dozen men from morning to night.



But even after she was rescued on Thursday, the Delhi Police did not deem it fit to register a gang-rape case. Rather, it even allowed her rapists, abductors and brothel owners to intimidate her during her court presence. And while her father has come from South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal to take his youngest daughter back, she was on Friday sent to Nari Niketan instead.



The tragic tale began this February when the girl was preparing for her Class X Board exams.



Based on the limited conversation that he had with his sister post her rescue, the girl’s brother, who accompanied his father to Delhi, told The Hindu that one evening when she came out of her village house in West Bengal, a drug-laced cloth was pressed against her face which made her unconscious.



“When she came back to her senses, she found herself at the Howrah railway station accompanied by the abductor and few others who told her that they were waiting for a train to Delhi. As she protested, they made her consume some more sedatives and she then regained consciousness only on reaching Delhi,” said Imran (name changed), whose earlier visit to Kotla Mubarakpur and other colonies of Delhi in search of his youngest sister was reported by The Hindu.



Back then, the girl’s brother had contacted NGO Shakti Vahini seeking help.



The same NGO along with the police conducted a raid at the brothel on May 9 and rescued the girl who was found confined in a “cave-like structure” cut into one of the walls.



But the girl’s trauma did not end there. When she was produced before a Duty Magistrate on Friday, the brothel owners were also present in the court room in strength and during the course of hearing, they even showed the gumption to coerce and threaten the girl sitting in the court room to bring her back into the business.



The girl’s father, a man with a white beard, was ready with all the related papers to take his daughter in his custody, but the court said he could get his daughter back only from a regular court.



The girl was then sent to Nari Niketan on technical grounds.



‘Victim of an organised racket’



According to Rishi Kant of NGO Shakti Vahini that helped in the girl’s rescue, she was a victim of an organised racket. The gang members abduct teenaged girls and push them into the flesh trade.



The racket involving Delhi’s brothel owners and traffickers in the hinterland functions so professionally that girls are kidnapped and forced into the trade without being detected because the police response is lukewarm to this crime against women.



An example of this apathy is the three-month delay that was witnessed in registering the missing report by the West Bengal Police into the disappearance of the girl.



The State police only fulfilled this mandatory formality after she was rescued here on May 9.



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http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/trafficked-confined-and-raped-in-the-heart-of-delhi/article4703283.ece

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ONE GIRL FROM WEST BENGAL RESCUED FROM G.B. ROAD : BROUGHT TO DELHI BY LURING HER OF MARRIAGE



New Delhi, Aug 17 (PTI) A 19-year-old girl from West Bengal, who was lured to the capital by a youth on pretext of marriage but was sold to a prostitution ring, was rescued from the redlight area in central Delhi, police said today. The girl from South-24 Paragana was rescued from G B Road yesterday on a tip off provided by an NGO ‘Shakti Vahini’ after the victim’s father approached them, Devesh Srivastava, Additional Commissioner of Police (Central), said.



DELHI POLICE PRESS RELEASE DATED 17.08.2012

PRESS RELEASE CENTRAL DISTRICT



ONE GIRL FROM WEST BENGAL RESCUED FROM G.B. ROAD : BROUGHT TO DELHI BY LURING HER OF MARRIAGE



On 16-08-2012, one girl aged about19 years was rescued from GB Road by the police staff of P.S. Kamla Market, Central District, Delhi with the help of ‘Shakti Vahini’, an NGO.

INCIDENT AND TEAM



On 16-08-2012, one person in distress belonging to District Sarisapara, District South 24 Pargana, West Bengal along with a representative of Shakti Vahini, NGO approached SHO/ Kamla Market and stated that his daughter namely Sangeeta (name changed), aged about 19 years was missing from District South 24 Pargana, West Bengal. A case vide u/s 363/366A/373 IPC was registered at P.S. Usthi 24 Pargana West Bengal in this regard. He further stated that she is confined at Kotha No- 59, IInd Floor, G.B. Road, Delhi against her wishes and desires to be freed from there. This information was further developed. After developing the intelligence, a team comprising of Inspr. Parmod Joshi, SHO/Kamla Market, Inpsr. Binod Kumar, ATO/Kamla Market, SI Ajay Singh, H.C. Baljeet and W/Ct. Sarita was constituted under the close supervision of Sh. Ram Kumar, ACP/Kamla Market. The representative of NGO ‘Shakti Vahini’ was also associated with the team.Thereafter, in late evening of 16.08.2012, a raid was conducted at Kotha No. 59, IInd Floor, GB Road, Delhi and the missing girl Sangeeta (name changed) aged about 19 years was rescued by the police team of PS Kamla Market, Central District, Delhi. An intimation has been given to P.S. Usthi 24 Pargana West Bengal in this regard. Further investigation/interrogation is in progress.



INVESTIGATION

During investigation, the rescued girl stated that she belonged to a poor family. She is illiterate. She was lured by one boy on the pretext of marrying her and brought to Delhi. But instead of marrying her, the boy sold the girl at Kotha No. 59, IInd Floor, G.B. Road, Delhi. The girl is being produced before CWC, Delhi for taking further course of legal action.

(DEVESH CHANDRA SRIVASTVA), IPS

ADDL. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE,

CENTRAL DISTRICT, DELHI



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Man shoots his wife dead, injures father-in-law (Episode 280 on 9th Aug 2013)

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Karkardooma Metro Station 30-year-old man was upset over a marital discord case, wife had gone to court for a hearing.



His red Maruti Alto, with Deepti written across the rear windscreen, was still parked outside the Karkardooma Metro station, East Delhi, when police reached there after they were informed of a shooting on the station premises on Tuesday.



But the owner of the car, Pawan (30), had fled the crime scene after shooting dead his wife of seven years — Deepti (27). Pawan also critically injured Deepti's father, Bhisham Das (58) — who suffered two bullet injuries.



Police said Pawan shot Deepti and Das with a double-barrel gun while they were on an escalator inside the station premises. The gun, police said, was recovered from the bushes outside the station.



Police spokesperson said the shooting took place a little after 12 noon when Deepti and Das were on their way home to Chirag Dilli, South Delhi, after attending a hearing at the Karkardooma courts.



According to police, Deepti and Pawan married in 2005 and had daughters. But a few years later, they fell apart and Deepti moved back to her parents' home on 2012.



"A case under Section 9 of the Hindu Marriage Act is pending in this regard. Pawan did not wish to stay with Deepti. There was a hearing of the case today in Karkardooma court, after which, she was returning to her parental home. Pawan shot at the two with his father's gun," a police officer said.



Police said Pawan ran up the stairs parallel to the escalator and shot his wife and father-in-law.



"Deepti received a bullet in her back. It pierced through her heart and exited from the chest. She died on the spot. Das received two bullet injuries — in right shoulder and left thigh. He is at GTB Hospital and has undergone an operation. He suffered excess bleeding and is critical," the officer said.



- See more at: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/man-shoots-his-wife-dead-injures-fatherinlaw/1093885

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A Devilish Plot: Conspiracy to implicate businessman Manoj Lalwani (Episode 277 on 2nd August 2013)

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Delhi, May 2013
Ajeet (real name Raza and played by Gyanendra Tripathi) reaches police station with his sister Rajshri and informs police that her sister is attempt to rape while she was waiting for a conveyance from Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah to Lado Sarai.

That was a mid night and while she did not get a way to reach her home at Lado Sarai, she takes a Mahindra Xylo car with few people who also took the same vehicle. Other person gets down before Lado Sarai comes and the man who was driving the car, attacked her and tried to have sex with her. Rajshri says that that man slapped her, snatched her gold chain and abused. Due to some circumstances that man thrown him out of the car and ran away.

When police tracked her mobile phone, they gets the location. Reaching the place they finds same Xylo car out side house of a Gurgaon (originally Faridabad, Haryana) based business man Manoj Lalwani (real name Ashok and played by Pankaj Beri) who is the same person whose sketch was made with the help of Rajshri.

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http://thrill-suspense.blogspot.com/2013/08/crime-patrol-faridabad-teenage-son.html

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Crime Patrol: Faridabad: Teenage son attempts to implicate father in a rape case to take revenge (Episode 277 on 2nd Aug 2013)

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New Delhi: Months after he was arrested for burglary in his own house, an 18-year-old boy allegedly made a plan to take revenge against his businessman father by implicating him in a rape case. However, within two days of a woman filing a complaint against his father of raping her, police managed to unravel the conspiracy.



The teenage son Harkesh was angry at his father, Ashok, for "beating his mother and being indifferent to family" and had warned him that he will implicate his father in a false case, police said. In December 2012, Harkesh and his friend Raza were arrested for the burglary in the former's house in Faridabad. Later, he hatched a conspiracy to implicate his father and made a woman, who was later identified as Raza's wife, to file a complaint that an unidentified man raped her after giving her lift in his car.



She had told police that she had visited Nizamuddin Dargah on Thursday night and was offered lift by a man in Honda car while she was waiting for a conveyance for her home in Faridabad. She alleged that the driver tried to sexually assault her. She said when she defended, he slapped her, snatched her gold chain from her neck, pushed her outside the car and ran away. Her mobile phone, which was on silent mode, her Aadhar card and her purse containing Rs 20,000 was left in the car, she alleged. During investigations, the owner of the car was identified as Ashok and the articles mentioned by the complainant was recovered from his car.

Harkesh was angry at his father, Ashok, for "beating his mother and being indifferent towards the family".



However, Ashok pleaded innocent and informed police about the burglary in his house in which his son and his friend were arrested. During investigation, it was found that the conspiracy was hatched by Harkesh to get his father lodged in jail and to grab his business of manufacturing of the automobile parts. It was Harkesh who had put the articles in the car. He had allegedly induced Raza (21) and his wife, promising to make them partners in the business.



"The woman told police that she was induced by Harkesh to make him partner in his father's business and to extort money for making compromise in the court of law in the present case and amount was projected about Rs 8 to 10 lakh and the same will be distributed among the trio.



"She herself made scratch marks on her neck before reporting to police. She gave the description of Ashok on the basis of photograph shown to her by Harkesh," police said. She also operated her ATM Card at SBI ATM Nizamuddin and made two phone calls to her grandmother on the directions of Harkesh to show her presence at the relevant time at Nizamuddin.



"Harkesh also directed her to disclose model and color of the car of his father correctly and incomplete number of car to police so that the police could not doubt her version," the report said. "The trio have confessed that they had manipulated and lodged false and frivolous police case against Ashok," police said.



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