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Bengaluru cops arrest another Bodo militant

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Bengaluru: The City Police recently arrested a National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Songbijit) militant who was wanted in several cases in Assam.

Police nabbed Bodo militant Jaolong alias Jordan, 27, a native of Kokrajhar, Assam, in a secret operation from Honaganahatti, off Magadi Road, on the outskirts of the City on the evening of February 14.

He was arrested on the basis of inputs given by intelligence agencies and the Assam police, a top police source said. Once the Ramanagar Rural police confirmed on February 14 that he was indeed living in that locality, sleuths stormed the place and picked him up.

Jaolong is said to be a “wanted militant” in several cases in Assam. He is also suspected to be a hardcore member of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB). A local court here has remanded him in judicial custody as the arrival of Assam police has been delayed, the source added.

The suspected Bodo militant was hiding in Bengaluru and this is the third arrest in less than a month made by the city police.

The militant had been working and living at a plywood factory in Honaganahatti for the last two months.

Jaolong is the third suspected Bodo militant to have been arrested in Bengaluru since January 23, 2015. A senior police officer explained that many Bodo militants were choosing to hole up in south India as a significant number of people from northeastern India live here.Even Honaganahatti has a sizeable number of migrants from the Northeast.

“Most of them come here and work as construction labourers, helpers in HOTELS and carpenters or take up other menial jobs. They easily get work because they settle for low wages. They consider Bengaluru a safe haven since they can easily mingle with people from their region, making it difficult for the police to track them,” the officer added.

(Agencies)

Gangster Abu Salem convicted in builder Pradeep Jain's Murder Case

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Mumbai: A special court has convicted gangster Abu Salem in the murder of a Mumbai-based builder in 1995. Salem was extradited from Portugal in 2005 and has been in Arthur Road Jail ever since.

A TADA court found Salem guilty of the murder of builder Pradeep Jain, who was shot dead by assailants outside his Juhu bungalow in March, 1995. The police alleged that he had refused to give up a huge property to Salem.

This is the first judgement in a case involving Salem in India after he was extradited in 2005. Salem, another builder Virendra Jhamb and Mehndi Hassan faced the trial in the case.

Salem, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, was extradited from Portugal on November 11, 2005, after a prolonged legal battle.

The Supreme Court of Portugal, in 2012, had dismissed an appeal of the CBI which had challenged termination of his extradition. He has also moved Supreme Court of Portugal seeking directions to the Indian government to execute its order of cancelling his extradition.

In June 2012, Salem was shot at in Taloja Central jail in Navi Mumbai allegedly by gangster Devendra Jagtap alias JD, an accused in the murder of advocate Shahid Azmi who had represented a 26/11 Mumbai terror attack accused.

(Agencies)

Underworld element Bannanje Raja arrested in Morocco: Sources

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Bengaluru: Notorious underworld element Bannanje Raja has been arrested in Morocco, said sources.

Sources claimed that Raja was arrested in Casablanca on Tuesday February 10 by a special investigative team of India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Raja, who was understood to have been operating out of Morocco, was nabbed based on inputs by Karnataka police, it is learnt.

He is wanted in a number of cases, including murders, extortions, loot, kidnapping and so on in various places, particularly Mangaluru and Bengaluru. A red corner notice too had been issued against him, and the state police had taken the help of CBI to trace him. He was also known to have fled to Dubai and arrested from there in 2009.

Reports about him hiding in Morocco came to light after a hotelier refused to give into extortion threats and filed a complaint. During investigation, the intelligence agency officials learnt that he had gone underground in Morocco and taken the name of ‘Hegde’.

It is learnt that Raja is not involved in any crimes within Morocco. The local Moroccan police have given 48 hours to submit information about the cases registered against Raja, sources said. The Bengaluru police are expected to leave for Morocco soon.

(Agencies)

Hoskote child's rape-murder: Bengaluru Police arrests accused

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Hoskote: A 20-year-old man was arrested today for the alleged rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl near Hoskote on the outskirts of the city on February 5.

“We arrested a 20-year-old man today at Mutthahalli after keeping track of his movements, based on the sketches and information gathered from eyewitnesses,” Bengaluru Rural

The accused, Ambareesh, is a native of Chalappanhalli village near Hoskote and is a construction labourer, he said.

Bhanot said the man had confessed to having raped the girl on February 5 during the day in a car shed near her house and choking her to death while committing the crime.

Police had obtained CCTV footage from a nearby shop,which showed a man with the girl.

The parents of the girl, who was a class two student, are from Hubballi and had come to the city in search of work.

The incident took place on Thursday and the victim was found dead in a car shed.

(PTI)

Vikas Yadav, cousin get 30 years without parole for murdering Nitish Katara

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New Delhi: Rejecting a plea for death penalty, Delhi High Court today enhanced the sentence for Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal from life imprisonment to 25 years without remission for the murder of Nitish Katara and five more years for destruction of evidence in the case.

A special bench of justices Gita Mittal and J R Midha also imposed a penalty of Rs 50 lakh each on Vikas, son of UP politician D P Yadav, and his cousin Vishal for the murder.

The court also increased the jail term of another convict Sukhdev Pehelwan to 25 years, saying all of them will have to undergo rigorous imprisonment without any remission behind bars except for the additional five years.

The judges turned down the plea moved by Nitish’s mother Neelam Katara and Delhi police seeking gallows for the three convicts.

Neelam Katara, who was present during the pronouncement of the order on sentence, later expressed disappointment over rejection of the plea for death penalty but was happy with the enhancement of the sentence.

“I will appeal against the order in the Supreme Court,” she said, adding that she does not require the compensation amount awarded by the court as she feels that no numerical value can be put on the life of her son.

The court, in its over 700-page judgement said that the time spent by Vikas in hospital (October 10, 2011 to November 4, 2011) shall not be counted as period already undergone by him in jail.

It also asked the Centre and the state government to conduct an inquiry into the convicts’ visits to the hospital during their stay in jail.

Vikas, his cousin Vishal Yadav and Sukhdev Pehelwan are serving life term for abducting and killing Katara, a business executive and the son of a railway officer, on the night of February 16-17, 2002, as they opposed the victim’s affair with Bharti, daughter of D P Yadav.

(IANS)

8-year-old girl's body found in shed; rape and murder suspected

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Bengaluru: The body of an eight-year-old girl was found in a shed in an industrial area of Hoskote Taluk in the city.

The body was spotted on Thursday evening. Police suspect the girl was raped and murdered.

A police officer, B Ramesh, said that a man was playing with the girl and took her to the shed on Thursday afternoon, and assaulted her.

The CCTV footage adjacent to the shed confirms a man taking the girl in the abandoned shed.

A search operation has been launched for the suspected murderer. An FIR has been filed against the unknown person under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO).

The child’s parents had come to Hoskote Taluk from Hubli in north Karnataka in search of work.

(Agencies)

Alleged IM operatives brought to Mangaluru; custody extended

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Photo: R. Eswarraj

Mangaluru: A court in Bengaluru on Tuesday extended the police custody of two of the Bhatkal based youth arrested last month on terrorism charges by two days for further interrogation.

Police said that Bhatkal based homeopathic doctor Dr. Syed Ismail Afaq and his cousin Abdus Subur were on Tuesday remanded in police custody for two more days in Bengaluru. Two other youth — Saddam Hussain and Riyaz Ahmed Sayeedi — were sent to judicial custody for 14 days.

The police, in their remand application submitted to the court, said that the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) wanted custody of the suspects to probe into their suspected role in bombings in Mumbai in 2011. The Maharashtra ATS is expected to move court soon.

Taken to Mangaluru

The Bengaluru police had brought three of arrested Bhatkal youth — Afaq, Riyaz Ahmed Sayeedi and Abdus Subur — to Mangaluru and Bhatkal on Monday in connection with the investigation.

Sources say that the team headed by the investigating officer Omakaraiah took Sayeedi to an outlet on Kudmal Ranga Rao Road in Mangaluru from where he had reportedly sent a parcel a few months before his arrest, apart from a host of other places in the coastal city. Mr Omakaraiah said that they had visited various places in Mangaluru to collect evidences.

Another Bodo militant wanted by Assam police held in Bengaluru

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Bengaluru: Another NDFB(S) militant, wanted in connection with the violence in Assam in December last year, was arrested here today, police said.

27-year old Sanju Bordoloi, the organising secretary of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Songbijit), was arrested from his hideout in the Electronic City based on specific inputs.

He is the second NDFB(S) militant to be arrested here since last week after the detention of Birkhang Basumatary, also allegedly involved in the Assam violence, on January 23.

“City Crime Branch arrested Sanju Bordoloi, son of Dim Wser Bordoloi, of Kamrup District in Assam, from Electronic City Police Station limits based on specific inputs,” Deputy Commissioner of Police Abhishek Goel said in a statement here.

Bordoloi was hiding here after participating in the recent massacre, he said, adding that the militant admitted that he was the organising secretary of NDFB(S) and trained in Bangladesh in AK-series of weapons.

The miltants had launched an attack on adivasis in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar districts on December 23 following which there was retaliatory violence and police firing resulting in the killing of 81 people.

Goel also said the police are coordinating with the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Assam Police to hand him over to them.

“The militant is presently kept at the Electronics City police station,” he added.

Basumatary alias Bhutur, a native of Chirang in Assam, had already been handed over to Assam police.

(PTI)

Suspected Bodo militant arrested in Bengaluru

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Bengaluru: A suspected Bodo militant from Nagaland, Burling Bhutur a top leader of NDFB-Songbijit outfit, was arrested by the Bengaluru Police on Saturday, January 24.

Bengaluru Police Commissioner M N Reddi who confirmed the arrest stated that the militant was nabbed from a house located in Cottonpet, Bengaluru.

Also known as Birkhang Basumatary, Bhutur was directly involved in the killing of eight Adivasis at Lungsung on December 23 and six Hindi-speaking persons at Serfanguri in Kokrajhar district of Assam on January 16 last year, a PTI report from Guwahati quoted Assam IGP L R Bishnoi as saying. Terming the arrest as a “big catch”, Bishnoi said the arrest was made on a tip off by the Assam Police.

The NDFB(S) had launched an attack on adivasis in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar districts on December 23 last following which there was retaliatory violence and police firing resulting in the killing of 81 persons.

Earlier on January 16 last year six Hindi-speaking persons were shot dead after the armed insurgents pulled down around 12 passengers from a bus coming from to Shillong and opened fire on them at Athiabari under Serfanguri police station.

(Agencies)

Police custody of alleged IM operatives extended till Feb 3

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Bangalore City Police Commissioner, M N Reddi.

Bangalore City Police Commissioner, M N Reddi.

Bengaluru: Police custody of four suspected operatives of the banned Indian Mujahideen, arrested recently, was extended till February 3 by a court here today.

“Court has extended the Police custody of Dr. Syed Ismail Afaq, Abdus Saboor, Riyaz Syeedi & Saddam Hussain upto February 3, 2015 in IM Explosive Seizure case,” DCP Crime (Bengaluru) Abhishek Goyal in a tweet said.

The Police custody of all the four suspects ended today.

Bengaluru Police on January 8 had claimed to have unearthed a terror module of IM with the arrest of its three alleged operatives and seizure of a huge cache of explosives during raids on their houses at Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada district and here.

The fourth alleged operative was arrested on January 11 at the Mangaluru international airport before flying to Dubai.

City Police Chief M N Reddi had earlier said that the suspects were part of a terror module that was used to procure, fabricate and deliver deadly explosives.

According to them police, the alleged IM operatives transferred money through Hawala channels for funding and at least one of them attended meetings in a foreign country, where a conspiracy was hatched to manufacture and deliver deadly explosives which were probably used for blasts in different parts of the country.

Meanwhile, Dr. Afaq’s defence counsel Advocate Sultan Beary, has maintained that his client is innocent, and has alleged that he has been framed.

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