Crime Patrol: Couple wanted money for dance show, killed boy (Episode 628 on 28th Feb, 2016)

February 28, 2016     No comments




NEW DELHI: A 17-year-old boy and his girlfriend, also a juvenile have been apprehended for kidnapping and murdering their neighbour's 13-year-old son in south-east Delhis' Badarpur area. The couple had demanded Rs 60,000 ransom from the child's parents, so that they could pay the entry fee of a popular dance reality show in Mumbai.



However, their plans fell out after the child discovered their intentions, following which they murdered him and dumped the body in a ditch near Ranikhet in Uttarakhand.



The child, Swapnesh Gupta went missing from outside his school in Chuna Bhatti area on September 15. The couple had lured him to accompany them to the auditions of a dance reality show in Rudrapur. Family members say that Swapnesh also wanted to become a dancer and had idolized the couple as his mentors.



On the way to Rudrapur, the couple befriended a man on the bus and convinced him to allow them a night's stay at his house near Corbett National Park. Later at night they took the child to a hill and strangled the child with the belt and pushed him off the cliff into a ditch.



Meanwhile, the child's father Rajesh filed a missing case on September 16. "We registered a case of kidnapping and formed A team led by ACP Nidhin Valsan and SHO Badarpur Aishvir Singh to look for him. Also, 10 teams were sent to the neighboring states," said Mandeep Singh Randhawa, DCP, south east.



Four days later, Gupta received a call on his mobile phone from a girl demanding a ransom of Rs 60,000. He first ignored the call but the girl provided the family details about the child and promised to return him safely.

The police tracked the location of the caller for three days and finally the boy and the girl were located on blue motorcycle at the spot where they had asked the family to deliver the ransom money.



While being questioned, they broke down and confessed to the crime.

The decomposed body of the child was recovered on Monday and handed over to the family members after an autopsy thereafter.



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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Couple-wanted-money-for-dance-show-killed-boy/articleshow/49096850.cms


Dance trainers kidnap, kill student to enter dance show



New Delhi, Sept 25: Desperate to become famous, a couple who worked as dance trainers kidnapped one of their own students and killed him in order to collect ransom of Rs 60,000. Swapnesh Gupta, a class 8 student in a school in Delhi's Badarpur, took dance lessons from the duo a few months back. According to the police, the boy and the girl, both 17, wanted to be a part of Dance India Dance and had been assured by a contact that they could even win the show with a sum of Rs 60,000. In fact, the boy had participated in the competition last year, but was eliminated in the second round, the police said.



They designed a plot to kidnap 13-year old Swapnesh, met him outside his school and took him to an isolated area in Raniket in Uttarakhand on the pretext of participating in a dance show. There, they strangulated him and pushed him off a cliff. Five days later, after a 'missing' complaint was lodged, the duo made a ransom call to the father and asked him to pay the ransom. We decided to accept their demand and act only after rescuing the boy. They asked the father to bring the money to a spot near a cremation ground in Faridabad. As soon as they got there, we apprehended them," said DCP (southeast) Mandeep Singh Randhawa. The duo had met 2 years ago and were working as dance trainers in Badarpur, Jaitpur and in Faridabad. The girl was pursuing her BA from a local college and the biy was a class 12 dropout.



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http://www.oneindia.com/india/dance-trainers-kidnap-kill-student-to-enter-dance-show-1880387.html

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Crime Patrol: THANE TEEN’S KILLER TRACED TO UP, 10 YRS AFTER MURDER (Episode 629, 630 on 28th, 29th February, 2016)

February 28, 2016     No comments



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The Inside Story
The accused was contesting civic body elections, and was identified from photographs in his campaign posters.



Ten years after a Thane teenager's body was found dumped in Bhiwandi, the Thane Crime Branch last Thursday arrested a 50-year-old man from Basti town in Uttar Pradesh. The accused, Abdul Qadir Chaudhary, was contesting the local municipal body elections, and was identified by a police informer from his photographs on the campaign posters put up by his supporters.



The Thane Crime Branch said that Chaudhary had confessed that the victim, Pramod Gautam, who worked as a truck cleaner, was grievously injured by a driver, Jalaluddin Khan, after a petty argument escalated.



"Pramod was hit on the head with an iron rod by Khan after two argued over who should replace a punctured tyre. Pramod and Khan worked for Chaudhary, who ran a small-time transport business in Thane. Instead of rushing the victim to hospital, Chaudhary, with the help of Khan and another driver, Mohammad Aziz, dumped him at a secluded spot in Bhiwandi, where he bled to death," a Crime Branch officer said.



Ironically, the Narpoli police, which found the body on January 8, 2005, couldn't even identify the victim. They classified the body as 'unidentified', and cremated it.



Meanwhile, officers at the Wagle Estate Police Station in Thane, where the victim's family had filed a complaint saying their boy had been kidnapped, questioned Chaudhary, and detained Khan and Aziz. The Wagle Estate cops had no idea that Pramod was dead, and didn't press any charges against Chaudhary, Khan, and Aziz.



A few weeks after the incident, Chaudhary shut his business in Thane, and returned to his hometown Basti, while Khan and Aziz, who were not arrested for the lack of evidence, disappeared. The police have now launched a hunt for the two.



The victim's brother, Arjun Gautam, said that Pramod was 16 when he left home in 2005, after a fight with his family. "We resided in Hajuri Dargah Road locality in Thane (W), and came to know that Pramod was working at a transport company at the Wagle Estate. When we went to meet him, we were told that he had already left the job. We suspected foul play and filed a complaint at the Wagle Estate Police Station," Arjun said.



The breakthrough the police were looking for only arrived a couple of weeks ago, when they were told that several posters with photographs of the man they were looking for had come up all over Basti town.



"We were contacted by an informer, who said that a man wanted in a case filed at the Wagle Estate Police Station was contesting municipal elections in Basti. After making sure that he was indeed the person we were looking for, a Crime Branch team went to Basti," Inspector Madan Ballal from Thane Crime Branch said. "Chaudhary has been booked for murder, while the hunt is on for his accomplices," Ballal said.



The victim's family is bitter about the fact that it took the police 10 years to find one of the accused. "All these years, we thought our boy was missing. The culprits would have been arrested a long time ago had the Wagle Estate police not been lethargic," the victim's brother, Arjun, said.



DCP Parag Manera from the Thane Crime Branch said that the police will not check the postmortem report, and will add additional charges if need be.



Thanks To:

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Crime Patrol: Mumbai crime: Electrician held for killing senior citizen after robbery went wrong (Dial 100 Episode 101 on 26th Feb, 2016)

February 26, 2016     No comments

Cops have arrested an electrician, who entered the 70-year-old's residence in Chembur with the intention of stealing; the accused was also involved in a petty theft at the same house a couple of months ago



An electrician has been arrested for murdering a 70-year-old at her Chembur residence 10 days ago. Prime facie, the investigations revealed that the accused had entered the house with the intention to steal valuables, but as the senior citizen tried to intervene, the accused smothered her to death.



The accused has been identified as Mustak Khan (32), a resident of Govandi. An officer from Crime Branch Unit 6 said, “The deceased, Chandrabhaga Kharat, was found dead in her residence at Ramtekdi in Chembur. She hailed from Nashik and had come to the city just 15 days before the incident for an eye surgery.”



Kharat was staying with her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. Her son works as a rickshaw driver, daughter-in-law is a maid and her granddaughter is a college student. The deceased was alone at home during the incident since all her family members were out on their respective duties.

On December 22, Khan entered the house with the intention to steal — he had already stolen valuables worth Rs 1,000 at the same house two months ago .



“The accused had done some electrical work in the deceased’s residence a couple of times. Since he had stolen something a few months ago at the same place, he had a fair idea of the things inside the house. He entered the house and was opening a cupboard, when something fell. The senior citizen heard the noise immediately rushed and locked the door from inside,” said an officer.



In a bid to escape, the accused initially smothered her with a pillow, and then slit her throat with a sharp object.



During investigations, the team consisting of Police Inspector Praveen Parab and Assistant Police Inspectors Sanjay Bhapkar, Navnath Ghughe and Mahendra Ghag, learnt that a theft had taken place in the same residence a few months ago, so they started investigating the case from that angle.

The team got a tip-off about Khan, who was then brought in for interrogation, after which he confessed to the crime. A case was registered under Sections 302 (murder) and 454 (house trespassing) of the Indian Penal Code.



Thanks To:

http://www.mid-day.com/articles/mumbai-crime-electrician-held-for-killing-senior-citizen-after-robbery-went-wrong/16824178

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Crime Patrol: India's oldest prisoner walks out of jail at 108 (Episode 624 on 21st Feb, 2016)

February 22, 2016     No comments




KNOW: In 1987, when he was 84, Brij Bihari went on a killing spree. All his life, he had cherished one dream: to be mahant of Maharajganj's Jagannath temple. Towards that end, he had lived a life of celibacy, remained a staunch vegetarian, prayed every day. But when that didn't happen, in ripe old age, he plotted to kill. Four people were dead when he was through.



Until Friday, Bihari, now 108 years old as per prison records, had been incarcerated in Gorakhpur jail from the time of his arrest. At 7.15pm, the country's oldest prisoner was freed.



He was shifted to Gorakhpur district hospital a few days ago when he fell critically ill and doctors said his pulse rate was sinking.



Since his conviction along with 15 others in December 2009, Bihari had been alternating between the jail and district hospitals, getting treated for one ailment or another. Mindful of his age and on humanitarian grounds, jail authorities put him on permanent hospital duty.



In October 2010, the office of Maharajganj's district magistrate sent a clemency petition to the Uttar Pradesh governor for setting Bihari free.



On May 26 this year, Bihari and 10 others held for the four murders were granted bail by the Allahabad high court. But there was the issue of who would bail him out. His closest relatives, his nephews, were also in jail for the same crime. On Friday, Avnish Pandey, the son of his jailed nephew Ghanshyam Pandey, furnished the bail bond, with help from two locals, and ensured the old man's freedom.



Ahead of his release, Bihari told TOI his mind still wandered to June 15, 1987. Bihari's target was Bhagwant Pandey's son Ramanujdas, mahant of the Jagannath temple at the time.



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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Indias-oldest-prisoner-walks-out-of-jail-at-108/articleshow/8894638.cms


India's oldest inmate Brij Bihari Pandey freed at 108



A convicted murderer, who was India's oldest inmate, has been released from prison at the age of 108.



Brij Bihari Pandey, a Hindu priest, was serving a life sentence for the murder of four people in 1987, when he was 84.



Officials at Gorakhpur jail in Uttar Pradesh state say Mr Bihari, who requires regular hospital visits, was freed on humanitarian grounds.



As he is unable to walk, relatives carried him from prison to a waiting car.



"It was getting difficult to take care of a 108-year-old prisoner," said jail Supt SK Sharma.

"We moved an application for his release and the court accepted it."



In 1987, Mr Bihari and 15 others - many of them his nephews and family members - killed four people over the appointment of a rival as chief priest of a Hindu temple.



After a trial lasting more than two decades he was sentenced in 2009 but had to be frequently rushed to hospital and was mostly bed-ridden.



As he was carried from the jail, Mr Bihari hugged fellow inmates, who placed a garland of flowers on him.



Prison officials said he received the garland with a broad smile and said: "God is great. Thank you."



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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-13824905

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Crime Patrol: Ghaziabad techie kills wife after she wanted to go for higher studies (Episode 99 on 19th Feb, 2016)

February 19, 2016     No comments




It was black Friday for residents of Gaur Global Village at Crossings Republik: a day after a woman resident died a bloody death in her bathroom, her husband confessed to the police of killing his wife with a cricket bat.



The police had arrested Mohit Sharma, the husband, on Thursday when 35-year-old Ruchi Sharma was found dead inside her flat at Gaur Global Village. Sharma broke down during police interrogation and revealed that he hit his wife with a cricket bat during an argument, which killed her.



Sharma, a software engineer with a company in Gurgaon, had misled the police saying that she died after hitting her head on the commode after a fall in the washroom.



However, police recovered a blood-stained cricket bat and also found it suspicious that Sharma did not call up for any help after his wife’s injuries. They also found scratch marks on his hands that further strengthened the suspicion. By Thursday evening, the victim’s family also forwarded a formal police complaint and got lodged an FIR against Sharma for the alleged murder.



The accused said that his wife was unhappy because she could not complete her higher studies after marriage. They often fought over this issue.



Mohit and Ruchi studied together since class 5 and later studied in the same college.



“While I was pursuing my master's in computer applications, she pursued her master degree in science. As we faced a lot of opposition due to our affair, we decided to marry. This led her to miss out one of her final year examination papers and she could not complete her studies. This became a point of frequent confrontation,” Sharma told the police.









“Even on the morning of the incident, the same issue cropped up. I swung the bat just to drive her away but it hit her. She bled and I wanted to take her to a doctor. But she threatened me of dire consequences and it angered me,” police quoted the accused.



However, police investigating officers said that after the injured woman threatened her husband, he allegedly hit her several times with the bat, which finally killed her.



“During late night questioning, he broke down and narrated the entire sequence of events that led to her murder,” said Chandra Sen, investigating officer of the case.



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http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/ghaziabad-techie-kills-wife-after-she-wanted-to-go-for-higher-studies/story-e4kLUrV6K6BE4csrSfRzMK.html

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Crime Patrol: Blackmail on Facebook drives Mumbai teenager to suicide (Dial 100 Episode 95, 16th February, 2016)

February 17, 2016     No comments




Cops believe Abhishek Rasam (18) was driven to suicide by blackmailers who pose as girls online; a ‘girl’ had befriended him on Facebook and her ‘brother’ had threatened to file an FIR for sending lewd messages and photos to his sister unless he was given Rs 8,000



For a mere Rs 8,000, a gang of blackmailers weaved an intricate web of love and deceit and trapped an 18-year-old boy. The B.Com student, who was from a poor family and had no means of coughing up the money, ended up paying with his life by lying on the tracks between Dadar and Matunga station on Valentine’s Day.



According to the Borivli police, Abhishek Rasam could be the victim of a gang which lures young boys on Facebook posing as girls, and then extorts money by threatening to file an FIR against them for sending lewd text messages and photographs.



In Rasam’s case, he had got a friend request from a girl named Priyanka and, after a few days of chatting with her, started getting extortion calls from her ‘brother’, who threatened to file an FIR against Rasam unless he was paid Rs 8,000.



Officials say Rasam, a first-year BCom student of Nalanda College in Gorai, ran away from his home on February 12 and, after failing to collect the money, committed suicide by lying on the railway tracks. His head was found severed from his body.



Chance find

Even though Rasam had committed suicide on February 14, the fact that he could have been the victim of blackmail came to the fore only last week.

After Rasam’s body was found on the tracks between Matunga and Dadar, the Dadar GRP suspected that the Valentine’s Day suicide was the result of a failed love affair. The body was dumped in the mortuary of Sion hospital and they almost closed the case.



The Borivli police, meanwhile, had received a missing complaint on February 12 from Rasam’s sister, Ankita, who said that he had left their house in Gorai to attend college, but had not returned. In her complaint, Ankita said that Rasam was tense before he left the house. She tried to find out the reason, but he refused to open up to him.

As the cops began investigations, they found that, in the first week of February, Rasam got a friend request on Facebook from a girl named Priyanka. Rasam accepted her friend request and, soon, the two began chatting regularly.



“We have also recovered certain incriminating photographs from the chats that were exchanged between the two on Facebook. We also believe that the duo had similar chats on WhatsApp, but the deceased’s phone is missing,” an officer from Borivli police station said.

On March 3, the Borivli cops came across the suicide case registered with the Dadar GRP and, after the descriptions matched, asked Ankita to identify whether the deceased was her brother. Ankita confirmed that he was, and the word of Rasam’s suicide spread among the relatives.



Plot thickens

Rasam used to live in Mumbai till he was in Std VII but, after his father’s demise that year, the family could not afford the cost of his education and he was sent to Kankavli in Sindhudurg to live with his uncle. Rasam had returned to the city only last year and had taken admission in Nalanda College.

Speaking to mid-day Ankita said, “When my uncle from Kankavli heard about Abhishek’s suicide, he approached us and said that a couple of days before Abhishek went missing, he had visited him and asked his son for a loan of Rs 8,000.



When Abhishek’s cousin asked about the sudden requirement of money, he opened up to him and narrated his ordeal.” The cousin could not, however, arrange the money. According to Ankita, the cousin told her and the cops that Rasam was blackmailed by a man who claimed that he is the brother of his new Facebook friend, Priyanka.

The brother claimed that he had accessed the chats between the two and that he would register an FIR against Rasam for harassing his sister. When Rasam begged him not to, he gave him an account number and asked him to deposit Rs 8,000 in it.





Probe

The Borivli police have registered a case against an unknown person under Sections 306 (abetment of suicide), 385 (putting person in fear of injury in order to commit extortion) and 294 (obscene acts and songs) of the Indian Penal Code along with section 67 (A) of IT Act.



Officials said that they have recovered the account number given to Rasam from his Facebook account and the account holder, one Raju Rayban Sonune is a suspect in the case. The cops suspect that he had blackmailed Rasam posing as Priyanka’s brother.



They are also trying to trace the IP address used to set up the account of Priyanka, who had befriended Rasam. They believe one of the gang members may have set up the Facebook account posing as a girl.

Inspector Dharnendra Kamble of Borivli police station said, “We feel this could be a racket as such incidents have been occurring for some time now. Besides, they had recently victimised Rasam and demanded Rs 8,000 from him, which he couldn’t manage and, thus, he decided to end his life on the railway tracks in Dadar.”



Stripped dry

On May 28 last year, mid-day had reported how a city-based engineer’s new Facebook friend, who claimed to be a model from Karnataka, had asked him to strip for her in front of his webcam.

The engineer then got a message that his strip show had been uploaded to YouTube and the woman asked for Rs 10,000 to take it down.

The embarrassed engineer had deposited the money in the account but complained to the Bhandup police after she asked for another Rs 5,000. The police suspected that a male accomplice was also involved.



Thanks To:

http://www.mid-day.com/articles/blackmail-on-facebook-drives-mumbai-teenager-to-suicide/16050192

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Crime Patrol: Man kills father for Rs 70 lakh insurance money (Episode 618 on 12th, Feb 2016)

February 12, 2016     No comments




FATEHABAD: Police on Sunday claimed to have solved the murder mystery of a 50-year-old man who was found dead on July 27 with the arrest of his son and his accomplice. The arrested duo has admitted to killing Omkar Singh, of Buthan Kalan village, to get his life insurance claim of Rs 70 lakh to pay up debt.



The deceased's son Kuldeep (23) and his accomplice, who is an insurance agent, were arrested on Saturday and have been booked for murder.





"The two have admitted to killing Omkar on the night of July 27. Kuldeep said he made his father drink lots of liquor in their fields and then crushed him under a car. He plotted the murder to lay his hands on the Rs 70 lakh life insurance money of his father to pay debt," a police spokesperson said.





Kuldeep and his friend had taken loan to buy a piece of land but found it difficult to repay it. Initially, he tried to mislead the cops by claiming that he had accompanied his father to the fields on the day of murder but returned home alone, after leaving him there.





Police cracked the case after Omkar's neighbour complained, saying Kuldeep had borrowed his car on July 27 and returned it damaged. "Blood was also found on the car. Police took samples and matched them with those of Omkar's blood. The two matched," he added.



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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Man-kills-father-for-Rs-70-lakh-insurance-money/articleshow/48322305.cms

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Crime Patrol: क्या वो थी इच्छाधारी नागिन...! (Episode 92, 93 on 10th, 11th Feb, 2016)

February 11, 2016     No comments

मथुरा| क्या कोई जीती जागती महिला नागिन बन सकती है? बेशक आज के वैज्ञानिक युग में ऐसी बातों पर विश्वास करने का कोई आधार नजर नहीं आता। लेकिन उत्तर प्रदेश के मथुरा का एक गांव इन दिनों ऐसी ही एक घटना के लिए चर्चा में बना हुआ है।



रजनी नाम की एक महिला, जिसकी शादी करीब एक साल पहले ही हुई थी, उसके ससुराल वालों का दावा है कि रजनी नागिन बन चुकी है। दावा है कि, रजनी जिस चारपाई पर सोई थी, सुबह उस पर रजनी के कपडे, गहनो के साथ एक नागिन पाई गई। इसके साथ ही एक पत्र भी मिला। जिसमें लिखा है की वह नागिन है और उसे अपने नाग के पास जाना है जिससे उसका 7 जन्मों का रिश्ता है।



बस फिर क्या था पूरा गांव हाथ जोड़ कर नतमस्तक हो गया। खबर पाकर नागिन बानी रजनी के माता-पिता भी बेटी की ससुराल पहुंचे और नागिन बानी रजनी को अपने घर ले आये। अब रजनी की माँ इसी नागिन को अपनी बेटी मान उसे अपने साथ रख रही है। इस बीच गाँव में भीड़ जुट रही है, दूर-दूर से लोग इस नागिन को देखने पहुँच रहे हैं। इस सबके बीच एहतियातन पुलिस भी गाँव में पहुंची, लेकिन सिर्फ कानून व्यवस्था बनाये रखने की दृष्टि से।



अब सबसे बड़ा सवाल यही है कि, क्या रजनी वाक़ई नागिन बन चुकी है? क्या ये सही है कि, एक महिला एकाएक गायब हो जाये और परिवारवाले पुलिस में रिपोर्ट भी न करें? अगर रजनी नागिन नहीं बनी तो आखिर उसका क्या हुआ? क्या वो अपनी मर्जी से कहीं चली गई?



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Crime Patrol: Kota businessman arrested for kidnap, murder of 7-year-old (Episode 613, 615 on 30th, 31st Jan, 2016)

February 02, 2016     No comments

Kota Police said that Padia had debts of over Rs 1.50 crore, which he wanted to recover through the ransom.



A Kota-based businessman was arrested in Kanpur on Monday in connection with the kidnap and murder of a seven-year-old boy. Ankur Padia, 32, was brought to Kota on Tuesday morning where he was produced before a local court.



Padia’s elder brother Anoop, who has been absconding in a fraud case for seven years, was also arrested.



According to the police, Padia decided to kidnap Rudraksh, the son of a bank manager, as he had lost a lot of money to gambling. When the police got involved, Padia allegedly killed the boy and dumped his body in a canal.



The police said Padia and his family were addicted to a lavish lifestyle and that they owned a Jaguar, an Audi, a Harley Davidson motorbike and a personal discotheque apart from several plush apartments in Kota.



Kota Superintendent of Police Amandeep Singh Kapoor told reporters that Padia had debts of over Rs 1.50 crore, which he wanted to recover through the ransom.



“He works as a supplier and publisher of study material for a leading coaching institute in Kota but has expensive automobiles such as a Harley Davidson bike and an Audi and a personal discotheque at his house in Kota,” he said.



The boy, Rudraksh, was kidnapped on the evening of October 9 from a park. Soon after, his parents started receiving calls from several different numbers demanding Rs 2 crore as ransom. The next day, his body was found in the Jakhmund canal. The police zeroed in on Padia’s involvement on October 14.



Sources said that after killing Rudraksh, Padia had fled to Ratlam, before travelling to several locations including Orissa, Gujarat and Nagpur. He then left for Kanpur where he stayed in a hotel. The police nabbed him after tracing his elder brother Anoop.



The delay in nabbing Padia had caused some unrest in the city. Protests were held in front of the Inspector General’s office and the police were pulled up for their lackadaisical attitude. The Additional General of Police (Crime), Ajit Singh, was also shunted out in a reshuffle on Monday evening.



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http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/kota-businessman-arrested-for-kidnap-murder-of-7-year-old

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