Crime Patrol: 3 in net for land broker murder (Episode 398, 399 on 25th, 26th July 2014)

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Ranchi police on Sunday morning arrested three suspects involved in the killing of capital-based land broker Kundan, who was gunned down at Mukti Sharan Lane in Lalpur on June 20.



Rohit, Rahul and Gunesh Arora, all aged around 23 years, were arrested from Lalpur locality. Two firearms — a countrymade revolver and a 9mm pistol — that were used for the crime were recovered from their possession.



A motorcycle and a cellphone were also seized. The trio were sent to judicial custody at Birsa Munda Central Jail.



Addressing a news meet, Ranchi senior superintendent of police Prabhat Kumar revealed that Rohit and Rahul were sons of contractor Arvind Singh, who was killed in 2010.



Kumar revealed that Kundan, who was earlier an associate of Arvind Singh, was one of the accused in his murder.



The SSP also said Arvind was killed because he allegedly had an affair with Kundan’s first wife.



“Rohit and Rahul killed Kundan to take revenge of their father’s murder, while Arora helped them to commit the crime. The trio have confessed their involvement in the crime. Earlier, Rohit and Rahul had hired professional killers to eliminate Kundan. When the attempts failed, they decided to kill Kundan on their own,” said Kumar.



The senior officer revealed that Rohit and Rahul made an elaborate plan to trap Kundan.



“They created a fake email ID and Facebook account by the name of a girl. They sent a friend request to the land broker and started chatting with him. On June 20, Rohit and Rahul sent a message to Kundan from the fake account saying that he could meet the girl at a coffee shop at Lalpur in the evening. As Kundan approached the shop, the duo, who were tracking him, shot him,” said Kumar.



The senior officer added that the duo had deleted the email id and the Facebook account.



“Our technical support team is trying to retrieve information from the deleted accounts,” he said.



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Crime Patrol: History-sheeter's murder cracked (Episode 396, 397 on 19th, 20th July 2014)

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RAJKOT: With the arrest of four persons, the Rajkot rural police have solved the murder case of 42-year-old history-sheeter Mukesh Bavaji.



Bavaji was murdered on July 19 at his house in Bhayavadar village in Upleta taluka of Rajkot district. Police said that Bavaji was killed by his wife's ex-husband Jayesh Dalsaniya and his associates.



Jayesh lived opposite Bavaji's house in Bhayavadar. After Bavaji was released from jail, he fell in love with Jayesh's wife Sheetal and started living with her. Later, Sheetal got divorced from Jayesh," said Prem Vir Singh, superintendent of police, Rajkot.



RAJKOT: With the arrest of four persons, the Rajkot rural police have solved the murder case of 42-year-old history-sheeter Mukesh Bavaji.



Bavaji was murdered on July 19 at his house in Bhayavadar village in Upleta taluka of Rajkot district. Police said that Bavaji was killed by his wife's ex-husband Jayesh Dalsaniya and his associates.



Jayesh lived opposite Bavaji's house in Bhayavadar. After Bavaji was released from jail, he fell in love with Jayesh's wife Sheetal and started living with her. Later, Sheetal got divorced from Jayesh," said Prem Vir Singh, superintendent of police, Rajkot.



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Crime Patrol: Diamond heist by duplicating bank locker keys (Episode 395 on 18 July 2014)

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Keys duplicated remotely, based on indentations, scratches on blank keys



In a crime that surprised even the police, a gang duplicated locker keys to carry out a diamond heist worth over Rs. 4 crore. “This is the first time, at least in Mumbai, that a gang has used this modus operandi,” Mumbai Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Himanshu Roy, said in a press conference here on Wednesday.



He did not deny the possibility of there occurring similar thefts in other banks in the city.

The gang of four, which systematically stole diamonds from the high-security vaults of the Bank of India's Opera House branch here, has been arrested and remanded to police custody till January 25.



In light of the heist, the police plan to advise the Reserve Bank of India and other banks to take precautions.



The arrested accused are: Shamsuddin Azmi (47), a real-estate dealer; Farid Hashmi (47), a master locksmith and key-maker; and diamond merchants Ajay Mehta (48) and Chandrasen Berde (49).



The police said that Hashmi, an expert craftsman, managed to duplicate the custodian key as well as the customer keys. “The gang had been operational for the past three years, stealing diamonds from eight of the 14 lockers they opened with the help of duplicate keys,” Mr Roy said. “Ajay Mehta is the kingpin in this gang.” He said that the gang targeted this branch because the safety vaults in the branch were used mainly by diamond traders.



“Mehta hatched the plan along with family friend Shamsuddin. It was Shamsuddin who recommended Farid as an expert craftsman in duplicating keys. Berde joined in as a watcher to give warning to the gang members if he saw any other customer coming towards the safety vaults area,” he said. Both Shamsuddin and Berde rented a locker in the branch.



Mr. Roy said that the police started investigating the case on the basis of a complaint made in April 2010. “The Crime Branch analysed more than 36,000 entries to the bank locker room in the past three years to find a pattern. They found that Shamsuddin, Ajay and Berde landed up in the locker room at the same time and took quite a long time inside ,” he said.



“Investigations have revealed that Farid duplicated the keys on the basis of the scratches and indentations which appeared on the blank keys when they were inserted and moved in different lockers,” he said.



Mr. Roy said that the work involved extreme craftsmanship, expertise and patience. “It took Farid three months to duplicate the custodian key,” he said. Farid never went to the bank. The other team members took the indented keys to Farid, who never went to the bank him.



The police have recovered diamonds worth Rs.4.40 crore. “Of these, diamonds worth Rs.1.65 crore belong to the complainant,” he said.



He also said that the police would investigate why the seven others whose diamonds were stolen from their lockers did not register a formal complaint with the police. He denied any possibility of the involvement of bank staff in the heist.



“This is for the first time in our careers that have seen this modus operandi,” Mr. Roy added.



“Even the lock-making companies were surprised after they came to know about this as they had claimed it was not possible for any key-maker to duplicate the locker key sitting at a remote location. They had said that the key-maker had to be present in the locker room for at least 48 hours to do that,” he said.



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http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/diamond-heist-by-duplicating-bank-locker-keys/article1103302.ece

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Crime Patrol: Kidnapped boy’s mutilated body found in Kalyan (Episode 393, 394 on 12th, 13th July 2014)

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The mutilated body of a 12-year-old boy who was killed by his kidnappers for ransom was found by the police on Friday night. The body pieces were found dumped in plastic gunny bags thrown in a drain near APMC market in Kalyan, on the outskirts of Mumbai.



Four people including the mastermind have been arrested by the police. The victim identified as Rohan Gucchait, was a resident of Sundar Nagar Complex in Kalyan, went missing on April 17th morning. According to the police, the mastermind, Ishtiyaq Shaikh, an electrician, was known to the victim's father, Uttam and had worked at his jewellery shop in South Mumbai and also at their residence in Kalyan .

On April 17th, around 11 am when the victim returned from school, Shaikh stopped him at his building's gate and told Rohan that his father had summoned him to his shop. Shaikh told him that he will drop him and asked him to sit on his bike. Around 2 pm, the accused was joined by his accomplice who put him in their car, a Maruti 800 and drove off. The victim was then taken to Shaikh's brother-in-law’s flat in Sarvodaya Park, near the APMC flower market in Kalyan (West), where he was held captive for a day and later killed. The three accomplices have been identified as - Nilesh Salve, Ganesh Patil, and Imtiyaz Abdul.



On the same day Shaikh learnt that the victim’s father had lodged a police complaint. The next day, Shaikh and his three accomplices strangled the victim to death and later chopped off his body into three halves with the help of an electric hacksaw. They then put the pieces in plastic gunny bags and dumped his mutilated body at different locations in a drain near the APMC flower market, all within the range of 500 meters.



The accused then called the father and demanded a ransom of Rs.50 lakh. “The main accused had made a hoax ransom call to Rohan's father a fortnight ago but he did not pay any heed to it. He then watched the victim's movement and hatched a kidnapping plan,” a police officer privy to the case told The Hindu.



“He then took the help of three accomplices for kidnapping and later even murdering the victim and in disposing off his body,” the source added.



The police cracked the case based on the sketch prepared with the help of CCTV footage and also after studying Shaikh's call data records. The police have also recovered the CCTV footage of the building where the victim was held captive. Rohan's mutilated body was found between 25th and 26th April.



The accused have been arrested on the charges of kidnapping, murder, criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence.



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Crime Patrol: Businessman's 3rd wife held for plotting 2nd wife's murder in Oshiwara (Episode 392 on 11th July 2014)

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MUMBAI: The Oshiwara police on Tuesday arrested a businessman's third wife for plotting the murder of his second wife with the help of their driver last week.



The woman, who already has a child from her first husband, allegedly established an illicit relationship with the driver to persuade him to execute the killing.



Late last Wednesday, residents of Green Park housing society in Oshiwara alerted the police after noticing smoke emanating from the victim's fifth-floor flat. The police found a woman's body in the flat. The businessman, Sunil Darekar (50), told the police that the deceased, Sushma (40), was his second wife and her ornaments were missing.

The police arrested the driver, Pravin Kajave, and his accomplice, Nilesh Chavan (19), in the case. The two told the police that they had strangulated Sushma to steal her ornaments and set fire to the flat in a bid to make the death look like an accident. However, on sustained interrogation, they disclosed that Darekar's third wife, Vanita Gopwani (32), had plotted the killing. Vanita has been remanded in police custody till April 20.



"Vanita engaged Kajave in a physical relationship and then persuaded him to kill Sushma," said an investigator. "Both the victim and Vanita had earlier worked in the businessman's office. Vanita told the driver that Sushma's death would allow her to slowly takeover Darekar's business as his first wife had little knowledge about the hoarding business. She promised Kajave that she would continue their relationship."



Kajave knew the address of Darekar's all three wives-the first wife lives in Vakola, Sushma resided in Oshiwara and Vanita in Koparkhairane.



On the day of the incident, Kajave and Chavan went to Sushma's flat on the pretext of some work. They almost dropped the plan to kill her as she had treated them well and offered them lunch. They even said goodbye and left her house. However, they changed their mind and went back. They gained entry to Sushma's house again after telling her that they had left their cellphone behind. While Sushma was searching for the phone, the two strangulated her. They had carried a petrol bottle with them to burn the entire house after keeping the gas on, but decided to set fire only to the bedroom after realizing that they may not escape unhurt after setting the entire flat ablaze.



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Crime Patrol: Muzaffarpur resident Ashok Pandey comes to sisters’ school; Anjali and Rimjhim fail to recognise him (Episode 390, 391 on 5th, 6th July 2014)

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A man turned up on Tuesday claiming to be the father of Rimjhim and Anjali at the school where their mother had abandoned them seven years ago.

Ashok Pandey (second from left), who claims to be the father of Rimjhim and Anjali with the girls and his sister-in-law Anita at Shanti Niketan School

One Shikha Pandey had got the sisters admitted to Shanti Niketan School at Jagat Narayan Road on October 12, 2006, before disappearing. She resurfaced in 2008 to collect Rs 2 lakh that Amitabh Bachchan had given the girls before abandoning them again. Their guardian, at present, is school principal Avineshwar Prasad Singh, who had accompanied them to chief minister Nitish Kumar’s janata durbar on Monday, seeking help.

Around 11.30am on Tuesday, Ashok Pandey, a resident of Kaveri village in Muzaffarpur district, arrived at the school with his brother, Chandan Kumar Pandey, and sister-in-law, Anita Devi, claiming that he was the father of Rimjhim, 12, and Anjali, 11. Principal Singh was not in town but his son Abhishek told Ashok and his relatives: “As my father is not here, I shall not allow you to take them. You can only meet Rimjhim and Anjali.”



As soon as the girls arrived Ashok hugged them and asked if they recognised him. Both the girls said they did not.



“You were very small when your mother took you away. But now, I have come to take you back,” said Ashok.



Anjali said: “Where were you for so many years? Why did you not come earlier? We can’t recognise any of you. We shall not go with you.” Then, they went to class.



Ashok narrated his side of the story. “I used to work at a factory in Calcutta. I had no information about my daughters. I learnt about them only when I read about their visit to Nitish’s janata durbar in today’s (Tuesday’s) newspaper.”



He and Shikha got married in 1998. “Her real name is not Shikha but Namita Pandey. Our relationship started to sour in 2005, and in 2006, she ran away with my daughters.” They also had another daughter besides Rimjhim and Anjali but she died. Ashok’s claim that he did not know about his daughters’ whereabouts proved to be false when the cutting of a newspaper report of Amitabh Bachchan’s gift to them was found among his papers. Anita explained: “He was not financially secure then.”



This correspondent called up district magistrate N. Saravana Kumar and informed him about the development. Within 20 minutes, Women’s Helpline project manager Pramila Kumari reached the school. She, too, was not convinced of Ashok’s claim. He had no documents to substantiate it either.



Pramila said: “We have taken an undertaking from him (Ashok). We have also asked Muzaffarpur Women’s Helpline to give me details of the family. Till then, they would not be allowed to meet the girls. We shall conduct a DNA test, if



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Crime Patrol: Facebook reunited lost Sikkim boy to his uncle in Bangalore (Episode 389 on 4th July 2014)

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ome say spending-off much time on the social networking sites bear no fruits in real life, Guess it ain’t so anymore.



A perfect example of that is the story of 17-year-old Sanjay who had come to Bangalore for Psychiatric treatment and disappeared wandering off into the streets and lost his way back home yet reunited with his uncle in less than two weeks with Facebook’s help.



He was rescued by a Bangalore based community worker Nanda Kumar who found him in a pathetic health condition living in the streets of Gandhi Nagar in the city on March 16.



The good Samaritan, then later admitted him to Jayanagar General Hospital, where he is still undergoing medical treatment and recovering his health steadily.



The boy had suffered a grievous injuries on his nose, legs, foot & fore hands. Due to the trauma caused by an acute stress of mental shock, he was initially unable to speak and only murmur his name “Sanjay” when asked about him or his whereabouts in the beginning.

Sanjay with his rescuer and nobleman Nanda Kumar at Jayanagar General Hospital, Bangalore on March 20



Subbash Subba, his uncle who lives in Bangalore had filed an FIR a few days ago and began his search for the nephew but to no luck.



Thanks to his pictures uploaded on Facebook by Nanda Kumar, who turned to the popular social networking site on March 17 to help him find his parents/or relatives. The post went viral and he was connected again with his uncle in 48 hours.



Sanjay-in-the-streets-of-BangaloreAnnouncing the miraculous news, Nanda Kumar posting the following on his Facebook profile, “Facebook has brought Sanjays uncle here to the Hospital… after one of his Prakash of Gangtok who had seen the pics on FB informed him about SANJAYs whereabouts… Thank you friends for all the wishes & support you gave to Sanjay”.



Nanda Kumar is a Buddhist by birth and has helped rehabilitate many Tibetans, and other displaced and runaway children.



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Crime Patrol: Police official arrested for hiring contract killers to murder uncle (Episode 387 on 27th June 2014)

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The Amritsar rural police claimed to have busted a gang of contract killers hired by a constable, posted in the 4th Battalion of Commando unit of Punjab Police, to eliminate his uncle.



Constable Ramandeep Singh has been arrested along with gang members Jaspal Masih, Nirmal Singh, Bau Singh and Amarjit Singh. Two other accused, identified as Money and Akash, are absconding.



Addressing mediapersons, Amritsar (rural) senior superintendent of police PS Virk said: "A police party had got information that the gang members, armed with lethal weapons, were planning to strike somewhere. Working on the tip-off, the police party raided the place where the gang members were sitting and nabbed five people, including constable Ramandeep Singh."



The preliminary questioning revealed that on the intervening night of November 20 and 21, the accused had attacked one Bhupinder Singh, uncle of constable Ramandeep Singh, with an intention to murder him and they also shot at him.

Though Bhupinder Singh survived after a long period of hospitalisation, the gang was committed to eliminate him, added Virk.



Constable Ramandeep Singh had hired contract killers to eliminate his uncle. For this task, he was to give Rs. 6 lakh to the gang members. The SSP claimed that there was enmity between the constable and his uncle for long.



To a question, the SSP said: "A gang member, identified as Jaspal Masih, worked at a gun house in Ajnala. For attack on Bhupinder, he took weapons from the gun house and later kept arms over there."



"We have also recovered three pistols and one .12-bore gun along with some cartridges from the gang members," the SSP added.



Superintendent of police (D) Jadeep Singh, who was also present at the press conference, said: "We are looking into every detail and are trying to find out that whether the gang was involved in any other incident or not."



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