CRIME xx : Crime Reports

Monday, July 2, 2012

Wanted criminal nabbed by Special Cell of Delhi police

New Delhi: The Special Cell of Delhi Police has arrested a Manipur native, wanted in several criminal cases there.

The man named Nanua was arrested on Sunday from Kingsway Camp near Delhi University and is said to be a member of a banned outfit.

He was produced on Monday before the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Smita Garg.

The court granted police his transit remand for five days and he will now be handed over to the Manipur police.

Sources said Nanua was staying at Kingsway camp for the last one year.

They said he used to make extortion calls from here to Manipur and is wanted in several criminal cases there including those under section 307 (attempt to murder) and section 326 (causing grievous hurt) of the Indian Penal Code.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

FBI Snags 24 Suspected Credit Card Hackers

Federal agents have been watching websites where hackers illegally distribute credit card data—and their work has paid off. Today, they arrested 11 people in the US and 13 overseas, reports Reuters.

Under the two-year sting, agents set up a fake online forum of their own where people could trade stolen account numbers.

The arrest foiled about $200 million in bogus purchases involving more than 400,000 compromised cards, authorities say. All of the suspects are males between the ages of 18 to 25, which might have been apparent by screen names like “JoshTheGod" and “IwearaMAGNUM.”

Some of those charged face 40 years in prison if convicted. Their arrests will cause a "significant disruption to the underground economy," an FBI spokeswoman tells the New York Times.

Is this the worst way to hide 204kg of cocaine?

The more than 200kg cocaine that was seized by Bolivian drug police. Picture: AFP

BOLIVIAN drug-smugglers seem to be running low on ingenious ways to hide their masses of cocaine.

Disguising the stash as flour or washing-up powder appears to be a little too old school for South American drug-runners – with the new method of choice being to wrap their blocks in Swastikas.

A van carrying 204kg of cocaine in brick-type moulds plastered with the Nazi stamp is the latest bust, as authorities attempt to stamp down on the raging drug trade.

The branding destroyed all chances of the smugglers making it safely to a farm to have the drugs cut, with Special Counter-Narcotics Police Force (Fuerza Especial de Lucha Contra el Narcotrafico – FELCN) intercepting the van in the town of Warnes.

The driver was arrested by authorities at the scene.

The anti-narcotics chief confirmed it was the first time a shipment had been discovered with this symbol. If the mules plan on having future success with such deliveries, perhaps it should be the last.

Prostitution rackets emerging in Goa

Business conferences and commercial events are serving as a new front for flesh trade with girls from various states being trafficked for these events in Goa, officials have said.

Police officers, who raided a few such events, said they were surprised to find during their investigations that a number of event management companies ran prostitution rackets under the guise of organising events in the state.

"The girls were found to have been brought with proper knowledge of what they have to do during the conference in the guise of event management," police inspector Gurudas Kadam, who busted a racket run by an Andhra Pradesh-based company, said at a consultation session here.

Kadam is among other officials who are participating in the two-day long consultation to formulate a strategy to check human trafficking for sexual exploitation in Goa.

Government and NGO representatives from Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, West Bengal, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram-considered as source states for trafficking-are participating in the programme, which began here today.

Speaking at the conference, Women and Child Development department Director Sanjiv Gadkar said the state government would network with the source states to verify whether the event management companies organising conferences in Goa have valid registrations.

"Consultations with the source states will help the state government in its efforts to ascertain the background of the girls who are usually employed by the event management companies during business conferences," Gadkar said.

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Burmese national, two others held with drugs

A Burmese national, along with his two accomplices allegedly carrying 161 kg of narcotics for smuggling to Burma and China, has been remanded to judicial custody for 11 days.
The alleged Burmese national identified as Thomas Nihmunga, Abhinav Singh Chauhan, a Delhi resident and a Mizo
woman named Lasangpuii are remanded to police custody till July 2 by the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Vinod Yadav.

The trio was arrested by the special cell of Delhi police on June 21 on a tip-off that Chauhan would be carrying huge quantity of narcotics.

Chauhan was apprehended with 161 kg of ephedrine, a psychotropic substance concealed in layers of bed sheets, packed in seven plastic packets. Chauhan was travelling in a hired taxi and was on his way to Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh from where he had planned to take a train to Guwahati.From there,the consignment was to be sent to Burma and China through Mizoram .

The police said Chauhan had disclosed that the consignment belonged to Lasangpuii, who was living at Masjid Moth here, and he was only a carrier. The police subsequently arrested Lasangpuii and then Thomas, from whom they recovered 2 kg of ephedrine.

It was also revealed that the consignment was procured from Dehradun in a form of medicine strips and upon reaching Delhi, Thomas would peel off the strips and convert the consignment into packets, which were then collected by Chauhan to be sent to Guwahati.

The police have now sought the custody of Chauhan and Lasangpuii to interrogate them to nab others in the drug smuggling syndicate.

Police bust nude party in Hyderabad, arrest 14

Cyberabad police late on Friday night swooped down on a holiday resort on the outskirts of the city and raided a party.

HYDERABAD: Cyberabad police late on Friday night swooped down on a holiday resort on the outskirts of the city and raided a party. More than 50 people were present at the do, including call girls. Many of them fled during the raid leaving behind their expensive cars. Fourteen persons were arrested and booked under the Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act.

According to the police, Vijayawada-based cement businessman Devireddy Veera Narayana Reddy (32) hosted a birthday party at Swagruha Resorts at Pilgipuram village in Hayatnagar on Friday night. The party kicked off around 9.30 pm and based on a tip-off, the police raided the premises at 11 pm.

On reaching the spot, cops found the party on with loud music. "Half-naked girls were dancing around, most of the people were drunk while some others were sleeping with women in rooms. The girls said they were brought for the party from Delhi, Mumbai, Sikkim and Andhra Pradesh," said a police officer.

Several of Reddy's wealthy friends, who were having fun with the call girls, fled the premises leaving behind their swanky cars, including BMW, two Volkswagen cars, Laura and a Toyota Fortuner. Police seized 11 cars from the resort.

Of the 16 accused, resort owner PS Reddy and party orgainser Akhtar Mamu were absconding. Police arrested 14 others from the party, including Veera Narayana Reddy. The number of the accused could increase after police zero in on those who fled.

"Akthar Mamu had arranged the girls with the help of resort owner PS Reddy, '' said Hayathnagar inspector G Srinivas Kumar. Drugs were not found on the premises.

Police suspect similar parties might have been organised at Swagruha resort earlier.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Every fifth murder in Delhi sexually motivated: Police

Every fifth murder in the capital is sexually motivated, Police Commissioner B.K. Gupta said on Friday.
Addressing the annual press conference of the Delhi Police, Gupta said: "According to the latest data, 18 percent of murders in Delhi are sex-related. Other prominent reasons for murders are sudden provocation and crime-related."
According to Gupta, family disputes were found to be behind only nine percent of murders. Enmity and disputes were the other chief motives during 2011.
"A worrying fact is that in 95 per cent cases, the perpetrators were found to have no previous criminal records," he added.
"That sex-related murders were such a big chunk of all such incidents in the capital, is just another pointer at the imminent need for sexual education and awareness in society," added Gupta.

Monday, May 14, 2012

Cannabis seized in Assam

Guwahati : A total of 31 kg of ganja (cannabis) was seized from a New Delhi-bound train in Assam's Kokrajhar district Monday and two people were arrested, police said.
The drug was being smuggled from Dimapur in Nagaland to Delhi.
"We searched Rajdhani Express following a tip off. The ganjas were hidden in one suitcase and two travel bags," a police official said.
Police refused to name the arrested people.
The search was carried out jointly by the Government Railway Police (GRP) and Assam Police.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Couple arrested for trying to bury their baby girl alive

The parents of a 2-month-old baby girl have been arrested for allegedly trying to bury her alive in a town in Uttar Pradesh.

The incident, which happened in a town in the state of Uttar Pradesh, has once again highlighted the fact that crimes committed against the girl child is on the rise in our country.

According to a news report, one of the caretakers at a burial ground heard a baby cry and sensing something is suspicious, he alerted the police. The cops reached the spot and arrested the parents just as they were about to bury the infant girl child.

On being questioned, the child's father reportedly said that he had been advised by a spiritual godman to bury the baby, which would help protect his other children from illnesses.

6th graders made porn video at Mexican school

Mexico City: Authorities in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Campeche have said that they are investigating how a porn video was made by sixth-graders inside their school. State Education Department spokesman Omar Kantun said the video was apparently made in an empty classroom during recess in late April.
"It is real, the case is real, the video exists," Kantun said. "The Education Department is very concerned." He said an investigation is being conducted by his department and the teachers union to determine whether any adults were involved.
Kantun said the teacher who uses the classroom did not appear to have been present when the video was made. He said no disciplinary action has been taken against any students or teachers yet. He said the students involved are being given psychological counselling.

The incident occurred in late April at a grade school in the town of Calkini, which is in a relatively conservative and heavily Indian area. Three boys are seen in the video engaging in oral and anal sex recorded on a cellphone by a fourth person, apparently another student.
The mother of one of the boys saw the video on the Internet and notified authorities, Kantun said. He said the video had since been taken down.
Authorities didn't announce the students' ages, but sixth-graders in Mexico are generally 12 or younger.

Girls sexually abused, paraded naked, forced to work at kids’ shelter

The girls recounted tales of horror during the raid on May 8, 2012 at the shelter run by NGO Bharat Vikas Sangh, which won a Haryana state award for women’s empowerment in March 2012.

ROHTAK: Children living at a shelter run by an NGO here were sexually abused, beaten, molested and made to work as labourers on farms and construction sites, a raid by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has uncovered.

The girls recounted tales of horror during the raid on Wednesday night at the shelter run by NGO Bharat Vikas Sangh, which won a Haryana state award for women's empowerment in March this year.

Around 12 girls in their teens, alleged they were exploited by the owner, Jaswanti, to earn money; one of them said she was forced to sleep with a man. "We were molested by various people. If any girl protested, she would be paraded naked and beaten. Jaswanti forced us to work as labourers and snatched our wages," they said.

Jaswanti Devi, who has been running the Rohtak children shelter, and her son-in-law, Jai Bhagwan, have been arrested for exploiting children. Jai Bhagwan has been booked for sexual harassment and molestation of the inmates.

"Inmates were locked up for 3-4 days without food or any other facility if they protested. She (Jaswanti) forced us to earn money for her," said one.

The raid came on a tip from three girls who had escaped to Delhi and told their families of their sufferings at the shelter. The girls had, in fact, been shifted to the Rohtak home from an "orphanage" in Gurgaon following allegations of sexual abuse there.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Tired of being raped, 20-year-old killed uncle at Gorai beach

After being violated by 35-yr-old man and his friends, the woman lured him to the spot, where her boyfriend and friend stabbed him, smashed his head with a rock

May 9, 2012

Mumbai

Shiva Devnath

MiD DAY had reported yesterday that the 35-year-old man, whose dead body had been recovered on Sunday morning at the Gorai beach, had been called to the spot by an unidentified woman (‘Murder victim was called to beach by mystery woman’, May 8).

Beach murder: The accused Mohsin Shaikh and his friend Deepak Bhosle (in veil) stabbed Ramesh Dedhia (35) and smashed his head with a stone

The Crime Branch has promptly traced the woman, who was none other than the man’s own niece-in-law, and had been repeatedly raped and pimped out by him. The 20-year-old woman allegedly conspired with her boyfriend and another friend to kill him, as she wanted to put an end to the repeated rape he had been subjecting her to, over the past year.
The trio was arrested yesterday on charges of the murder of share broker and alleged pimp Ramesh Dedhia (35). After the arrests, Crime Branch officers revealed that the woman had been raped repeatedly by her uncle, who had also sold her services to many of his friends. The woman, who was Dedhia’s sister-in-law daughter, had only shared the information with her boyfriend, but kept it a secret from her aunt or her mother, who works in a bar as a dancer, and stays apart from her.
Accompanied by her boyfriend, 25-year-old Mohsin Shaikh, the woman left Malwani on Saturday evening for Manori beach. Mohsin’s friend Deepak Bhosle was also present. The woman then made a phone call to Dedhia, luring him to Manori beach with the promise of a good time. Eager, Dedhia called his wife up and told her that he wouldn’t be coming home that night. Raghunath Delvi, senior police inspector of Crime Branch unit XI, said that Dedhia was upset when he saw that Mohsin and Bhosle accompanied his niece, and kicked up a fuss.
“Mohsin who was ready with a knife, stabbed Dedhia to death, while Bhosle held him down,” said a police officer from the Crime Branch. To make sure that he did not survive the attack, the two young men smashed Dedhia’s head with a rock and fled the spot. They made one deadly mistake, however, by not bothering to take his mobile phone with them.
For cops who later recovered the phone from near the body, the task was as simple as tracing the number from which Dedhia had received his last phone call before being killed. One of Dedhia’s friends had earlier revealed in his statement that it was that phone call which spurred Dedhia to abandon a game of cards and take a trip to the beach. “With the help of Dedhia’s mobile phone, we traced the number from which the last phone call had been made, and were led to his niece. Our informers tipped us off that that Mohsin and Bhosle would be found at a location in Malwani, and we arrested the two from there,”added the officer. The police have booked all the three for murder and will be handing them over to the Gorai police station.

Friday, April 6, 2012

Three minor girls raped by peon at government orphanage in Allahabad

The accused Vidyabhushan Ojha (52) was arrested from the vicinity of the juvenile home, which is situated in Shivkuti locality of Allahabad.

LUCKNOW: In a horrifying incident, three minor girls were raped by peon in Rajikiya Shishu Grih, an orphanage run by the government, for children below 10 years of age in Allahabad district. The victims are said to be between 6 to 9 years of age were subjected to physical and mental trauma for last few months. An FIR has been lodged by orphanage with the police on the basis of complaint of the victims.

The peon was raping them for last few months and had threatened them of dire consequences if they dared to lodge a complaint. However, the matter came to light when one of the girl told it to childless couple who had come to adopt her. The couple immediately informed the local authorities. Later inquires revealed that there were two more victims. The medical examination of the girls has confirmed rape.

The accused, Vidhya Ojha, has been arrested. He was employed on contract basis and working in the orphanage for the last five years. Senior officials of the Allahabad district administration rushed to the spot after they came to know about the incident. The state government has ordered an inquiry into the matter. Orphanage superintendent Urmila Gupta has been suspended on charges of laxity in discharge of duty.

The police has registered a case. Official suspect that a few mentally retarded orphan girls in the orphanage have also been abused. Experts will be called to interact with the mentally retarded girls to find out the truth. Other children in the orphanage are also being examined. The orphanage has children more than its capacity and is in poor condition. Most of the residents are girls as the childless couple prefer boys for adoption.

This is not the first incident when minor and disabled girls gave fallen victim to perverts in government institutions in the state. Last year, a visually challenged girl was raped in the government school for blind in Lucknow. In December 2012, as many as 12 deaf and dumb girls and a boy studying in a government school for hearing impaired had complained about sexual harassment by the son of the school manager.

Monday, April 2, 2012

Mobile heroin lab busted in Manipur

Equipment and opium seized from the mobile heroin processing unit at Lilong.

Imphal, Apr 3 : Narcotics Control Bureau sleuths have busted a mobile heroin processing unit on the Imphal West-Thoubal districts border, arrested four persons and recovered 1kg of the drug, a year after the presence of such units came to light in Manipur.

The sleuths seized all the equipment in the laboratory along with 7kg of opium and a large quantity of morphine ready for making heroin.

Officials at the bureau’s Imphal office today said with help from the Assam Rifles, they had zeroed in on a mobile laboratory set up at a makeshift hut on a riverbank at Lilong, on the border of Imphal West and Thoubal districts on the night of March 30.

A local youth club of the area extended help in locating the laboratory.

The seized equipment include plastic tubs, mugs, lime bags, one wooden pressing machine and camouflage clothing.

Preliminary interrogation of the arrested persons revealed that the mobile unit produced about 4kg of heroin powder before it was busted.

“Two consignments of heroin processed by this mobile unit were taken to Lucknow via Guwahati for further refining before being sold in India and abroad. Each consignment weighs between 1kg and 2kg,” an official of the NCB said.

He said some amount of the drugs processed by the unit, which is one of several such mobile laboratories in Manipur, was sold in Manipur itself.

“We are trying to identify the link between this unit and international drugs syndicates,” the official said.

NCB officials believe that the drug smugglers had learnt the heroin processing craft while visiting similar laboratories either in neighbouring Myanmar or other countries.

Manipur is close to the Golden Triangle and large quantities of heroin manufactured in the triangle are smuggled to India through Manipur’s border township of Moreh.

Officials estimate that 20-30kg of heroin comes to Manipur annually from Myanmar.

Each kilogram of heroin, which is sold at Moreh for Rs 12 lakh, fetches more than Rs 1 crore in the international market. The heroin processed in Manipur, however, is sold for Rs 5 lakh a kg in the state.

The mobile units have been able to come up because of extensive cultivation of poppy in the state’s hills, especially in Churachandpur, Ukhrul, Chandel and Senapati districts.

Opium and a chemical called acetic anhydride are used to process heroin.

While the chemical is used as a preservative in any laboratory and is easily available, the opium from the state’s poppy farms is also readily available, making it easy for such mobile laboratories to procure the raw materials and produce heroin.

Intelligence inputs suggest that China-based smugglers are funding the poppy cultivation in the state.

This year, bureau officials destroyed poppy cultivation across more than 1,250 acres in Churachandpur district alone.

The four arrested persons have been identified as Md Ziaur Rahman, Yaiya Khan, Md Nurdin and Md Munir Khan in the age group of 27 to 30. They are now in jail.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Policeman caught on camera raping woman

Bhopal: A policeman was Tuesday caught on video raping a woman in a slum area in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh.

Policeman caught on camera raping woman

The police, who were earlier refusing to entertain a rape complaint against the policeman, were forced to register an FIR when shown the video clip taken on a mobile camera.

Pradeep Singh, an inspector posted in Seoni district, had come to Jabalpur to visit a court. Later, he went to a slum area and entered a hut.When he forced himself on a woman, she cried and people gathered there. The inspector was literally caught on camera with his pants down.

Police first refused to accept her complaint.But soon a person came with the video clip and the police had to register a FIR against the inspector.

"It is a serious issue and we are acting on it. He (Pradeep Singh) has been arrested and may be dismissed from service," said Inspector General of Police V. Madhukumar.