Crime Patrol: Maid murder case: She danced while beating us, made us drink urine, help tells magistrate (Episode 361, 362 on 27th, 28th Apr 2014)

April 27, 2014     No comments



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Indian MP Dhananjay Singh held over maid's torture death

6 MONTHS AGO NOVEMBER 07, 2013 1:22AM





In this October 1 photo, Indian pedestrians walk past a policeman watching a flat in an apartment block were a domestic servant was allegedly tortured at Vasant Kunj in New Delhi. Source: AFP



A NEW Delhi court has ordered an Indian lawmaker and his wife to be held in police custody over the alleged torture death of a maid at their home.



Dhananjay Singh, a lawmaker from the regional Bahujan Samaj Party, and his dentist wife were arrested late Tuesday over the death of their 35-year-old maid, Rakhi Bhadra, who had allegedly been brutally assaulted.



The case was the latest in a string of reports of impoverished domestic servants being abused by wealthy employers.



"The offences are serious in nature," Judge Dheeraj Mittal said as he ordered the couple to be held in police custody for five days.



The maid was alleged to have suffered massive injuries to her head, stomach, arms and chest while working at the couple's house.



The lawmaker's wife Jagriti Singh was being held on suspicion of murder and wrongful confinement after the maid's death.



Her husband faces two other murder charges in unrelated cases. He was being held for allegedly destroying evidence by removing surveillance footage from 20 cameras installed in the couple's house, senior Delhi police official Mukesh Kumar Meena told reporters.



The lawmaker had earlier denied any wrongdoing over the maid's death, saying he was away at his Uttar Pradesh state constituency at the time of the death. On reaching Delhi, he immediately informed police.



Another servant, a juvenile, "told us that Jagriti had (allegedly) been regularly beating the three domestic helps including Rakhi over petty issues", police officer Meena said.



According to the servant, the maid was beaten with sticks and antlers for several months and died after being burnt with hot iron rods and kicked repeatedly by the dentist, police said.



Jagriti Singh is the lawmaker's second wife. Police said the couple are in the process of divorcing.



The case comes just months after a teenage Indian maid was rescued from an upscale Delhi home by police and social rights campaigners, who said she had been slashed with knives and mauled by dogs.



Her employer, a senior executive for a major multinational company, is on trial on charges of assault and illegal confinement.



In April last year police arrested a wealthy couple, both doctors, who locked up their 13-year-old helper while they went away on holiday.



She was rescued by firefighters when neighbours spotted her crying on an outside balcony.



India passed legislation in 2006 banning the employment of children under 14 in households, roadside eateries and hotels, but the law is widely flouted.



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Maid murder case: She danced while beating us, made us drink urine, help tells magistrate



Meena Sardar (35), a help at BSP MP Dhananjay Singh’s house, revealed disturbing details about how the MP’s wife Jagriti Singh used to assault her.



The couple was arrested and remanded in police custody in connection with the death of their help Rakhi.



Meena, in her statement before the magistrate on Wednesday, gave a detailed account of the traumatic year she spent in house no.175, South Avenue.



“Woh humein marte hue khushi se nachti thi (She used to dance with joy while beating us up),” Meena said in her statement.



Meena, who sustained severe burn injuries on her buttocks, hands, legs and feet, is currently undergoing treatment at RML hospital.



She reportedly told the magistrate that she was treated worse than an animal for the year that she was confined in the house, under the watch of 20 CCTV cameras.



Meena also said her hair was chopped off with a blade, injuries inflicted on her private parts and her feet, a police officer said.



“Meena in her statement said Jagriti used to dance around the house while beating them up with hot iron rods. When the servants begged for forgiveness, she ignored them,” the officer said.



“According to Meena’s statement, the helps used to take care of Jagriti’s four-year-old son. If ever she found her son crying while Meena was giving him a bath, she used to ask her son to urinate and then force Meena to drink it,” the officer said.



Meena, who hails from 24 Parganas District, Kolkata, told the magistrate that she was not given food or water if she committed the slightest of error and most helps were not paid their salaries.



According to police, Meena also told the magistrate that Jagriti made her lick food from a plate. Jagriti reportedly spat in her meals, she is learnt to have stated.



During questioning, police said Jagriti admitted to having ill-treated her helps. Police said the reason for her cruel behaviour was that she felt slighted.



“She felt that the servants were teasing her by not obeying her and by not abiding by the time table that she had set for them. This used to enrage her and she used to beat them up,” the officer said.



According to Meena’s statement, Jagriti had a time table for helps.



“She used to wake us up at 3.50 am. At 4 am, she would delegate work to us and go back to sleep. Then, she would wake up at 8 am to see if the work has been done. A slight error would mean no food throughout the day... She used to beat us up using antelope horns,” Meena is learnt to have said.



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Maid murder case: Rape case lodged against BSP MP Dhananjay Singh



 An FIR of rape and criminal intimidation was lodged against BSP MP Dhananjay Singh at Pandav Nagar police station in East Delhi on Wednesday night.

The MP and his wife Jagriti Singh are currently in judicial custody after being arrested last week in connection with the death of their domestic help Rakhi.



According to police, a 42-year-old government employee has alleged that she was sexually assaulted by Dhananjay between 2005 and 2009. She told police that she didn't come forward earlier as Dhananjay had threatened her with dire consequences if she reported the matter to anyone.



Police said Dhananjay has now been booked under Sections 376 (rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.



Dhananjay, the BSP MP from Jaunpur constituency in Uttar Pradesh, and his wife, who is a dental surgeon at RML Hospital in Delhi, were remanded in judicial custody on Monday after their five-day police custody ended. The two were arrested in connection with the alleged torture of their help leading to her death. Singh faces charges of destruction of evidence.



Dhananjay's counsel had told the court that the MP's "only crime" was in being married to co-accused Jagriti. In his bail plea, he said had been "framed". He claimed that he had separated from his wife due to her "unpredictable and violent behaviour".



The MP has numerous cases against him in Lucknow and Jaunpur, including those of murder.



At Sikrara police station alone, history sheet number 12 A lists 11 cases against him in 1998.



When UP director general (health) Dr Bachchi Lal was shot dead in 2001, Dhananjay was arrested after the alleged contract killer identified him as the conspirator, but was later acquitted. In 2011, he was arrested over the murders of a contractor and a tea stall owner, and later got bail.



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Crime Patrol: Four held for abducting businessman for 2cr ransom (Episode 360 on 25th Apr 2014)

April 25, 2014     No comments







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NEW DELHI: In a case of abduction, Delhi Police has arrested four people and a hunt is on for the other four.



The incident dates back to December 22 last year when a woman employee - also the mastermind of the gang - connived with her boyfriend and two employees to kidnap her boss for a ransom of Rs 2 crore. They also hired four professional criminals at a contract of Rs 1 crore. Following this, the victim was taken to a farmhouse, sedated and kept in confinement till the ransom was divided.



While Sunil Rathee, Krishan, Ravi Hooda and Sandeep Sharma alias Pandit have been arrested by the crime branch, a hunt is on for Shivika Chauhan, her boyfriend, Arun Vohra and two others, Manish Kumar alias Sunny and Raj Walia. They all worked with the victim, Saurabh Ahuja, at his Pitampura office.



"The arrested men are from Haryana and were nabbed by a team led by ACP K P S Malhotra. While Rathee is involved in other cases also, Krishan is a national-level Kabaddi player, Hooda a graduate, and Sharma is a hotel management student," said Ravindra Yadav, addl commissioner (crime branch).



The incident came to the notice of police on December 25 after Ahuja was released on the promise of paying more money. In his statement, Ahuja told police that Manish went to his guest house in Shalimar Bagh on December 22 after saying that he was unwell. "Shivika told me that I should also visit him. But as I reached there, the four overpowered me and sedated me by forcing the drug down my throat. I was beaten up and held captive, along with my friends."



Thereafter, Ahuja was asked to make phone calls to his bank managers and family members to get Rs 2 crore as ransom. He was allegedly forced to pay Rs 18 lakh in cash immediately. "The accused played a trick on Ahuja by making him borrow Rs 80 lakh from his two colleagues (who were also partners in crime). Raj Walia and Arun pretended as if they were giving the money on Ahuja's behalf and he was thereafter released," said DCP Bhisham Singh. Police is now raiding places in Dehradun to nab the others.

Delhi: abduction drama staged by businessmen; four arrested



New Delhi: A couple and their two associates roped in professional kidnappers and allegedly got themselves abducted along with a businessman friend so that they can get a part of the ransom.



According to the police, the whole plot was hatched by Arun Vohra, Shivika Chauhan, Sunny and Raj Walia. Vohra was having an affair with Shivika Chauhan and they realized that the kidnapping of a businessman by the name of Saurabh Ahuja would yield a large ransom. A conspiracy was hatched along with Sunny and Raju Walia to get the kidnapping underway.



The four kidnappers sought the help of criminals involved in kidnappings in the past.



"The gang kidnapped Saurabh Ahuja, a businessman in Shalimar Bagh, and demanded a ransom of Rs. 2 crore. The money was to be divided equally between the conspirators and the actual kidnappers. The conspirators pretended that they have also been kidnapped and have paid ransom amount to free themselves," said Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav.



A case in this regard was registered at Shalimar Bagh police station concerning the kidnapping of Mr Ahuja from his house in Shalimar Bagh.



Mr Ahuja, the complainant, has reported that he was kidnapped by 4-5 persons from his house along with his friends Manish, alias Sunny, and Shivika Chauhan and was confined to a room and beaten up, police said.



He was asked to make phone calls to his bank managers and family members to collect the money to pay the ransom of Rs. 2 crore. They forced him to pay Rs. 18 lakh in cash. Later, as part of the plan to extort more money, they brought his other colleagues, namely Raj Walia and Arun Vohra and took a ransom amount of Rs. 80 lakh from Walia.



"But he later realized that actually the main conspiracy was planned by his colleagues and they were pretending to have been also kidnapped. Later on, it was revealed that they were not kidnapped and they were the real conspirators," said Yadav.



The co-conspirators, Sunil Rathee (30), a resident of Bahadurgarh, Haryana, Krishan (22) a resident of Rohtak, Haryana who is a national level kabbadi player, Ravi Hooda (22), Sandeep Sharma alias Pandit (21) both residents of Rohtak were arrested by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police on Friday while Arun Vohra, Shivika Chauhan, Sunny and Raj Walia are still on the run, said Mr Yadav.

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Crime Patrol: Mumbai: fake nurse held for stealing from patient's residence (Episode 357 on 18th Apr 2014)

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A 22-year-old school dropout, who worked as a nurse for two years after forging documents, was arrested on Thursday for stealing Rs. 2.5 lakh from a patient’s South Mumbai apartment in July. The woman had forged the documents of a 40-year-old nurse after which she started working at a nursing bureau, said the police.



According to the Gamdevi police, the accused identified as Arpita Hande stole Rs. 2.5 lakh cash and silver coins worth Rs. 6,000 from an 80-year-old woman’s Peddar Road apartment in July. The woman had left the city soon after, said police.



The complainant Pankaj Zhaveri approached the police in July and alerted the officials about the nurse who stole the cash from his mother’s residence. Zhaveri, in his statement to the police, said that he had hired a nurse to take care of his ailing mother, who stays alone. Zhaveri had approached ‘Devki Nurses Bureau’ at Sion after which the agency sent Hande at his mother’s residence, said police.



“While investigating we learnt that Hande was actually working as Manisha Jadhav at the agency since two years. She had listed a fake address and someone else’s contact number,” said Ravindra Gamre, assistant inspector at Gamdevi police station.



The police team approached the Mahastra Nursing Council and learnt that Manisha Jadhav, is in fact a 40-year-old nurse from Satara. Investigations also revealed that Hande had photocopied Jadhav’s documents and used it to apply at the nursing agency two years ago.



Hande was arrested from Kolhapur, where she stays in a women’s hostel. Hande is a standard 10 dropout and her parents died in a road accident when she was 15-year-old.



Hande was arrested for cheating, theft and forgery under sections of the Indian Penal Code on Thursday. She was produced before a metropolitan court on Friday and remanded to judicial custody till October 21.



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Crime Patrol: Tamil Nadu Lawyer Couple Held for Murder of Woman (Episode 355, 356 on 11th, 12th April 2014)

April 13, 2014     No comments

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The City Police on Thursday took into custody a Coimbatore-based lawyer couple accused in a sensational murder case investigated by the Tamil Nadu Police.



Officials said the arrested was E T Rajavel, 47, and Mohana, 38, who murdered the former’s woman client and cremated the body at a public crematorium under the pretext that it was Mohana’s body. They were taken into custody from a private lodging at Kovalam by a police team led by the Deputy Police Commissioner.



’The arrest was based on a specific information from Coimbatore Police. They will be handed over to a team of officials from Rathnapuri Police soon,’’ Fort Assistant Commissioner K S Suresh Kumar said.



According to the Coimbatore Police, Rajavel, committed the crime on December 11, 2011, to save his wife from a multi-level marketing fraud probed by the Odisha Police. Mohana was a partner in Right Max multi-level marketing company, which allegedly swindled over Rs 12 crore from various persons in Odisha.



The victim was Ammasai, 45, of Sivananda Colony who approached the lawyer for his assistance to win a property dispute with her husband. ‘’Rajavel, along with his driver Palanisamy and friend Ponnarasu, strangulated the woman at his office. The body was later taken to his residence where ‘last rites’ were performed before cremating at the electric crematorium,’’ they said.



The relatives of the woman subsequently filed a missing case at the Rathinapuri Police Station. Rajavel later secured a death certificate from the Coimbatore Corporation in December 2011.



The incident came to light when Mohana, through a court order, approached the Corporation to get the death certificate cancelled. The Corporation officials soon sought a police probe which revealed the mystery.



The City Police said the couple reached Kovalam on Wednesday night in a hired cab.



They later checked into a lodge at Palace Junction at Kovalam after reaching here. The Coimbatore Police who received information alerted the City Police and travel agency which rented out the cab.



The police chased them and apprehended them.



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Savdhan India: Abusive Facebook posts land AP girl in jail (28th March 2014 - Ep 637)

April 01, 2014     No comments







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Visakhapatnam: A 20-year-old girl, studying final-year B.Sc in a private college here, was arrested by cyber crime investigation cell (CCIC) police on Thursday on charges of defaming another girl student of the same college through a fake Facebook account by posting her photos along with her phone numbers with some abusive comments.



CCIC inspector K. Satyanarayana Rao said Pollamuri Bhagya Sri Rama Amrutha felt has been nursing a grudge against a girl who is also a B.Sc final-year student, over a petty issue and used to quarrel with her frequently.



Amrutha, who was not aware the gravity of cyber crimes, created a fake FB account in the name of the girl and posted her pictures with unsavoury comments to take a revenge.



On noticing the fake account and abusive material against her on FB, the victim along with her grandfather lodged a complaint with IV town police station (Dwaraka Zone) around two months ago and subsequently the case was transferred to CCIC in the city.



The CCIC team led by Inspector K. Satyanarayana Rao investigated the case based on the FB profile log details and user details. They arrested Amrutha under Section 66(A) and 66 (C) of IT Act 2000, 2008 and seized a tablet PC, some SIM cards and a mobile phone from her.



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