Nasheman News : Gurugram police arrested a 24-year-old man on charges of raping a minor girl.

The incident came to light after the girl, studying in Class 10, refused to go school on Monday as she was terrified. 

“When the victim’s mother asked the reason, she revealed her ordeal. As per her statement, the victim went to school on January 24 and the accused forcibly abducted her in a car outside the school gate around 7.50 a.m. She was taken to an isolated place and raped thrice,” said Kanta Devi, the SHO of Maneser police station.

“The accused was involved in liquor business. He threatened her with dire consequences if she disclosed what happened to her. The victim was very scared,” she said.

“Since the matter is very sensitive, we raided the home of the accused and arrested him. We have conducted medical examination of the victim which confirms rape,” the SHO said.

Nasheman News :Delhi Police has recovered two decomposed bodies of elderly couple from their house in the national capital, a police officer said on Sunday.

The police was informed by a local in Mount Kailash locality in south Delhi on Saturday that a senior couple living in a house were not responding to the knocks on the door despite repeated attempt.

“A police team reached the spot and found that the house was locked from inside. The door was force-opened and the two bodies were found in a decomposed state,” Deputy Commissioner of Police Chinmoy Biswal said.

“The bodies have been identified as those of Virender Kumar Khaneja (77) and his wife Sarla Khaneja, 72. Their son Dr Amit Khaneja lives in the USA,” Biswal added.

Khaneja’s phone record suggested that they did their last conversation on Saturday morning and thereafter, he could not be reached over phone,” the official said. He also added that there were no signs of a forced entry into the house.

“We have sent the bodies for postmortem examination and are waiting for the report which may throw light on the cause of death.”

Investigating into the multi-crore Ajmera group fraud case, the Central Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths have seized Rs 5.2 crore cash from various bank accounts along with documents of immovable properties that runs into several crores recently.

According to the sleuths, as many as 950 investors have submitted their proof of investments so far. And based on this, the estimated amount of investment runs up to Rs 26 crore, the CCB sources said.

Property documents of 3.2 acres of a residential layout built by the accused in Mysuru worth Rs 20 crore have been recovered. 

Nasheman News :  National award winning director Priyanandan was attacked by suspected right-wing activists early on Friday following his social media post on the Sabarimala issue, police said.

Speaking on condition of anonymity to IANS, a police officer attached to the Cherpu Police station confirmed the incident that occurred near Priyanandan’s home.

“He was beaten up and water mixed with cowdung was flung on him. A probe is on,” said the officer.

The person who attacked Priyanandan came forward and asked him to identify himself, the director said.

“It appears that this person was waiting for me. He came after me, hit me, poured cow dungwater on me. All this happened around 9 a.m. 

“Generally I take a walk on this particular route everyday around 7 a.m., but today I got delayed. This is not a one-man attack, there are others behind this,” Priayanandan said.

The 53-year-old director, whose second film “Pulijanma” received the National Award for Best Feature Film in 2006, believes the attack came due to his recent social media post on Sabarimala where the Sangh parivar forces mounted strong protests after the Supreme Court’s September 28 verdict that opened the temple to women of all ages.

He had later withdrawn the post after protests on social media over his position against the Sangh parivar forces.

Condemning the attack, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said such attacks would not be tolerated as it was a direct attack on freedom of expression.

“This unholy act has taken place just because he made his point of view in the social media. Soon after his post came, he was under cyber attack. This will not be tolerated and appropriate action would be taken,” said Vijayan.

Priyanandan, a known fellow-traveler of the Left, began his film career as an assistant under directors K. R. Mohanan, P.T. Kunju Muhammed.

In 2001, he directed his first feature film and till date he has seven films and numerous documentaries to his credit.

Pintu Kisan Sharma (40) was arrested on Wednesday for killing 53-year-old Ganesh Kolhatkar whose body parts were found flushed down the toilet of a building in Virar here, police said, according to news agency.

A man in Maharashtra killed and chopped his friend into pieces and flushed them down a toilet. But the blocked sewage system eventually led the investigators to him, police said.

Pintu Kisan Sharma (40) was arrested on Wednesday for killing 53-year-old Ganesh Kolhatkar whose body parts were found flushed down the toilet of a building in Virar here, police said, according to media.

Addressing a news conference, deputy SP Jayant Bajbale said the killing was the outcome of a dispute over financial dealings between Kolhatkar and Sharma.

Sharma used to invest in shares, while the victim was running a printing press in Mira Road, he said.

The accused had lent the victim a sum of Rs 1 lakh for his business, of which the latter had returned only Rs 40,000 to the former, Bajbale said.

Sharma had taken a flat in the building on rent. On January 15, the accused brought the victim to the flat, where a quarrel erupted between the two over the unpaid loan, he said.

During the verbal altercation, the accused pushed the victim following which he died, Bajbale said.

The accused cut the body into several pieces, pulled out the flesh and dumped them into the toilet and flushed it following which the sewage system got blocked, he said. The body parts were recovered Tuesday, Bajbale said.

Sharma was arrested under after police checked all the closed flats in the building and found foul smell emanating from the one taken on rent by him, he said.

He has been booked under IPC sections related to murder and causing disappearance of evidence of offence, the police officer said.

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A gang of five members was arrested for looting temples in the isolated areas of Mysuru and Chamarajanagar districts of Karnataka. They took the help of Google maps to steal valuables worth Rs 2.9 lakh since September last year. The accused men, who are in the age group of 19-26, are not full-time burglars. They come from different professional backgrounds.

The police identified a peculiar similarity in all the reported temple robberies. Dharmendra Kumar Meena, Superintendent of Police, Chamarajanagar, while speaking to The Times of India, said that they were getting many complaints of temple robberies with a similar modus operandi. All the burgled temples were situated in the deserted areas of the district.

Reportedly, the five men had come together to conduct the robberies. A special investigation team was made to nab the accused gang. The SP said that the five-member gang had burgled nine temples in Chamarajanagar and two in Mysuru in the last five months.

During interrogation, it was revealed that the gang would look online for temples in deserted areas of the district. Since there was no festival or special occasion that would attract people to come to the temples, there were not many visitors. Hence, it was an easy task for the youths to loot the temples which were located in remote areas. When an online search for the location of these looted temples was done, the police realised that the route information was accurate. The men would also gather information about the demography of the locality.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has booked Arvind Jadhav, a former Air India Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD), and others for allegedly promoting an official against rules and also favouring three other subordinates in getting pecuniary advantage.

Those named in the FIR are Mr. Jadhav, L.P. Nakhwa, the then General Manager (Medical Services); Captain A. Kathpalia, the then Additional General Manager (Operations); Captain Amitabh Singh, the then Additional General Manager (Operations); and Captain Rohit Bhasin, the then Additional General Manager (Operations); of Air India, besides unknown officials of the national carrier.

Mr. Jadhav showed “undue favour to Dr. L.P. Nakhwa by promoting her against the rules, including her name in selection panel and also entering into criminal conspiracy with other unknown officers of Air India to favour three selected GMs i.e. Capt. A. Kathpalia, Capt. Amitabh singh and Capt. Rohit Bhasin through which these members were able to get pecuniary advantage”, according to the FIR.

The case has been registered following a preliminary enquiry which was initiated in April last year.

It was alleged that Mr. Jadhav constituted an illegal/irregular promotion panel to recommend suitable candidates for promotions to the post of General Manager (Operations). It was also alleged that though Dr. Nakhwa was not eligible for being member of the said promotion panel, he nominated her.

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A man claiming to be a doctor working in Venezuela allegedly duped a Bengaluru doctor of ₹21.4 lakh in a marriage proposal scam. The woman, Shreedevi G., 36, in her complaint to the Rajarajeshwarinagar police on Monday said she “met” the accused, who had identified himself as Rakesh Kapoor, on an online matrimony portal in October last year.

He claimed he was an NRI from the U.S. working at one St. Anthony’s hospital in Venezuela on contract. Shreedevi spoke to him frequently online and within weeks, Kapoor proposed that they get married. “He told her he would be visiting India for work in November, and would be in Delhi to purchase medical equipment. He promised to come to Bengaluru to finalise the proposal,” said a police officer.

A few days later, Kapoor allegedly called Shreedevi asking for money. He said he had placed an order for medical equipment worth ₹50 lakh with a firm in New Delhi, but the seller needed 10% of the money in advance. He claimed that he was unable to transfer the amount, and asked Shreedevi to help him out. He assured her that he would repay when they would meet in Bengaluru.

As requested, Shreedevi transferred the money to the bank account of the New Delhi firm. Kapoor thanked her for her help, but a week later he called back to say that his November visit had been postponed. He convinced her to transfer some funds to a few bank accounts, claiming that he had made more purchases. He even got his associates to call her under the guise of employees of firms selling medical equipment. Over time, Shreedevi transferred all her savings to various accounts. Once he learned that she had used up all her savings, Kapoor disconnected his phone. Shreedevi made several attempts to contact him, before realising that she had been duped.

The police have taken up a case of cheating against Kapoor and six others, and efforts are on to track them down.

Nasheman News : In a new development, the State Bank of India (SBI) on Wednesday moved to recover loan outstandings of Rs 405 crore from absconding diamantaire Mehul Choksi, his family and companies.

This is the first time the country’s biggest bank’s exposure has been revealed in the case involving Choksi, who is among the prime accused in the Rs 13,500 crore fraud in the Punjab National Bank (PNB).

Significantly, the developments came two days after it became clear that Choksi had surrendered his Indian citizenship in favour of the nationality of Antigua & Barbuda Isle in the West Indies.

Choksi, his nephew Nirav Modi, several of their family members, employees and retired or serving top PNB executives and officials are accused in the PNB scam.

In a prominent media notice on Wednesday, the SBI has demanded repayment of the loan amount sanctioned against various assets in Mumbai, Raigad, Nashik and Hyderabad belonging to Choksi, his family and group companies.

These include residential and commercial premises with multiple parking spaces, plus several plots of land in Maharashtra and Telangana, standing in their names.

The SBI has already served notices to them at their “last known addresses” as on December 31, 2018, under section 13(2) of the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets & Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002. But the notices returned undelivered.

The loan amount – described as a ‘Working Capital Facility’ – was extended to Gitanjali Gems Ltd, Bandra Kurla Complex, Gemplus Division at Andheri East, premises in Bharat Diamond Bourse, a property in Santacruz and a plot in Maheshwaram Mandal in Rangareddy district of Telangana.

The SBI said that in order to avail the loan amount, the borrowers (above) had pledged shares and mortgaged various properties on ‘pari passu basis’.

These include properties in Cumballa Hill, Bandra Kurla Complex, Andheri, 27 plots measuring a total 9.60 hectares in Panvel, Raigad, 42 big and small plots of land in Balwant Nagar, Nashik.

In Telangana, a total of 38.51 hectares of land in two plots situated in Rangareddy district are named.

Choksi is shown as a guarantor for the 12-odd defaulter loan accounts, Priti Choksi and the late Guniyal Choksi are two security providers, all residing in Gokul Apartments, Malabar Hill.

The other companies include: Decent Securities and Finance Ltd, Decent Investment and Finance Ltd, and Nashik Multi Services Ltd, all located in Bandra Kurla Complex, and the Hyderabad Gems SEZ Ltd, Telangana.

The SBI has warned them to repay their outstanding dues within 60 days failing which the bank would proceed against them vis-a-vis the securities provided to recover the full dues.

In February 2018, SBI Chairman Rajnish Kumar had said that the bank had no ‘direct exposure’ in the scam involving Nirav Modi, barring a Rs 1,360-crore due from PNB.

There was no mention of the Rs 405-crore Choksi loan default in the matter till now.

 A Thane court has awarded seven years’ rigorous imprisonment to a 36-year-old man for robbing a person and injuring him.

Additional Sessions Judge R N Ambatkar pronounced the punishment last week after convicting the accused, Shaukat Ali Abdulsalam Shaikh, under Indian Penal Code Sections 392 (robbery) and 397 (robbery or dacoity with an attempt to cause death or grievous hurt).

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 2,000 on him.

Another accused, Mohammad Mehtabali Mohammad Sharafali Khan, has been absconding since the registration of offence in the case in 2009.

According to the prosecution, the victim, Rakesh Kanawade, a resident of Savarkar Nagar in Thane city, was waiting near the Golden Dyes Naka to go home on September 14, 2009 when a car stopped there and its driver offer him lift towards Cadbury Junction.

While one of the accused sat with the victim, the other one drove the car towards the Mumbai-Nashik Highway.

The two accused then robbed Kanawade of his valuables at knife-point. They also beat up the victim and later threw him out of the car near Saket area in Thane.

The victim, who received injuries in the incident, lodged a police complaint the next day following which Shaukat Ali, a resident of Mumbai, was arrested.

Judge Ambatkar observed that the accused used dangerous weapons, committed the offence with proper planning and caused injury to the victim.

Ali was earlier also held guilty under IPC Section 397 by a court in the neighbouring Raigad district, he noted.

“This shows that the accused repeatedly committed the offence of robbery,” the judge said while pronouncing the punishment.

Agencies