Police seize drugs in Manipur

IMPHAL, June 3 – In yet another major breakthrough, Manipur police has seized a huge cache of narcotics drugs in the State.

The police personnel at Sekmai police station, about 20 km north of here along Imphal-Dimapur highway stopped and searched a Tata truck (AS11AC6348) around 5.30 pm yesterday and found the drugs.

The drugs found concealed under boxes of tiles were packed in six big cartons and a gunny bag, sources said. The seized items include 41,314 Spasmo proxivon capsules, 4500 Nitrosun 10 tablets, 380 Lupicof Codeine Syrup (100 ml) bottles, and 100 Rcof Codeine Syrup (100 ml) bottles.

Two persons – Md Tajuddin alias Sana, driver of the truck and Md Siraz Khan, handiman, both from Thoubal district, were arrested.

Police told media persons that a case has been registered and investigation is on. The arrested persons are likely to be produced before the court.

On hearing the news about the seizure, womenfolk of Sekmai area thronged the police station and demanded that the drugs be set on fire.

Seven persons including an Army Colonel were arrested for illegally transporting Rs 25 crore worth of drugs on February 25 this year. Later, 11 Manipur policemen were also held with drugs.

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'$6bn money-laundering website' Liberty Reserve kingpin cuffed

Feds seize 'cyber-crooks' favourite' dot-com, lay charges

Shadowy online money exchange Liberty Reserve has been shut down by the US feds, its dotcom website seized - and its founder arrested. He and six others are accused of running a $6bn global money-laundering operation, the biggest of its kind, according to prosecutors.

In a string of dramatic events,

• On Friday, cops in Costa Rica raided offices linked to the underground payment service, which is alleged to be favoured by cyber-crooks. The police pulled the plug on the Latin America-based website when they grabbed servers during the swoop, effectively freezing all the service's customer accounts.
  
• Meanwhile, the website's founder Arthur Budovsky, 39, was cuffed in Spain. Further arrests were made in Costa Rica and New York.
  
• Then this afternoon, Budovsky and six others were indicted in the US on charges of money laundering, conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business and operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business.
  
• And the website's domain name, libertyreserve.com, was seized by the US Global Illicit Financial Team, which has cleared the site and replaced it with a takedown notice and government logos. Before that, the site's DNS records were briefly updated to resolve to Shadowserver.org, a community effort geared to fighting cybercrime.

Liberty Reserve asked for just an email address, a name and a date of birth from its users when they wished to transfer cash electronically: the money was converted into "Liberty Reserve Dollar" or "Liberty Reserve Euro" digital currencies and quickly moved with minimal bureaucracy and transfer fees no higher than $3 a transaction. These features apparently made the service popular with criminals - at least 55 million transactions were carried out - according to US prosecutors who led the investigation into Liberty Reserve.

During a press conference on Saturday, soon after the web money service went dark, Costa Rican state prosecutor Jose Pablo Gonzalez said a number of suspects as well as Budovsky were under investigation over alleged money laundering.

Today's US indictment, issued by the New York's southern district attorney's office, also links Exchangezone.com, Swiftexchanger.com, MoneyCentralMarket.com, AsianaGold.com and EuroGoldCash.com to the Liberty Reserve operation.

The official paperwork claims "the defendants [operated] an international online digital currency service and money transfer system called Liberty Reserve … which was incorporated in Costa Rica in 2006 [and] is extensively used by cybercriminals around the world for distributing, storing and laundering the proceeds of their criminal activity".

The Feds further alleged that Budovsky and his co-conspirators knowingly operated "a criminal business venture" that moved tens of millions of dollars around the world through a network of shell companies - a move to keep the cash beyond the reach of American and European investigators, it is claimed.

Budovsky was indicted in 2006 on similar charges of operating an illegal money business, called GoldAge Inc, from a New York apartment. The Feds alleged that the service transferred $30m during a four-year operation prior to its closure. Budovsky and co-defendant Vladimir Kats were found guilty and sentenced to five years' probation in 2007. However Budovsky failed to see out his punishment and fled to Costa Rica, where he set up Liberty Reserve. He also renounced his US citizenship and became a Costa Rican national.

Today's indictment charges Budovsky, Vladimir Kats, Ahmed Yassine Abdelghani, Allan Esteban Hidalgo Jimenez, Azzeddine El Amine, Mark Marmilev and Maxim Chukharev. The defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

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Two women caught with 140gm heroin in Manipur

IMPHAL: Even as the state government is planning stringent laws to curb the rising trend of drug smuggling in Manipur, police commandos on Saturday evening arrested two women with 140gm heroin worth a few lakh rupees at Pallel town in Thoubal district.

Acting on a tip-off, Thoubal police commandos, along with women cops, waylaid a passenger van heading to Imphal from the border town of Moreh at Pallel along NH-2 and recovered three packets of heroin from their possession.

The two women - Memi Devi (35) and Lubuanliu Panmei (32) - were immediately handed over to the Kakching police for further investigation. During initial interrogation, Memi revealed that the heroin consignment was handed over to them by a Myanmarese woman with the request to hand over the same to her elder sister in Imphal, police said.

On Saturday morning, at Lilong bazaar in the same district, a man was arrested with 4,320 capsules of Spasmo Proxyvon. Taking into account the growing involvement of women in smuggling drugs along the Imphal-Moreh section of the highway, the state government is all set to deploy women police personnel at various check-posts along the stretch.

Besides Saturday's seizure, Pallel town has witnessed two massive hauls of Pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride (PH) content drugs meant for smuggling into Myanmar in less than four months.

On February 24, commandos seized PH drugs worth over Rs 20 crore from six persons, including defence PRO Colonel Ajay Chowdhry, who is now under suspension.

On April 28, similar drugs worth over Rs 3.5 crores were confiscated from the possession of 11 cops including a sub-inspector and a 'jemadar'. In a follow-up action, the officer-in-charge of Moreh police commando was also arrested on Wednesday last.

Last Friday, the state cabinet decided to enact stringent laws to combat the growing trend of drug smuggling in Manipur. PH-content drugs manufactured in India are in high demand at various illegal drug manufacturing units in Southeast Asian countries and the notorious Golden Triangle - the mountainous opium-producing areas of Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand - for regenerating them into heroin and other party drugs.

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Heroin worth Rs 1 cr seized in Silchar

Silchar: At least 550 grams of heroin, worth an estimated Rs one crore in the street market, was seized by BSF from two persons in a hotel in Assam's Silchar town on Sunday, official sources said.

On a tip off, BSF personnel recovered the contraband from the two persons staying in a room of the hotel, the sources said.

They were identified as Oinam Singh from Manipur and Saijjudin Laskar from Karimganj district.

The duo allegedly confessed having brought the heroin from Myanmar via Moreh in Manipur to sell the contraband to drug dealers in Silchar, situated along the Indo-Bangladesh border.

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Global criminal ring drains $45 million from ATMs in hours

Thieves make withdrawals after hacking into a database of prepaid debit cards. Seven arrests have been made in the U.S.

Officials say outmoded U.S. card technology may be partly to blame for the theft of $45 million from ATMs. (Gene J. Puskar / Associated Press / January 5, 2013)

A worldwide gang of criminals stole a total of $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then draining cash machines around the globe, federal prosecutors said.

How were they able to do it? Outmoded U.S. card technology may be partly to blame, the officials said.
Seven people have been arrested in the U.S. in connection with the case, which prosecutors said involved thousands of thefts from ATMs using bogus magnetic swipe cards carrying information from Middle Eastern banks. The fraudsters moved with astounding speed to loot financial institutions around the world, U.S. Atty. Loretta Lynch, who works in New York, said Thursday.
She called it "a massive 21st century bank heist" carried out by brazen thieves in two separate strikes, one in December and the other in February.
One of the suspects was caught on surveillance cameras, his backpack increasingly loaded down with cash, authorities said. Others took photos of themselves with giant wads of bills as they made their way up and down Manhattan.
Here's how it worked:
Hackers got into bank databases, eliminated withdrawal limits on prepaid debit cards and created access codes. Others loaded those data onto any plastic card with a magnetic stripe — an old hotel key card or an expired credit card worked fine as long as they carried the account data and correct access codes.
A network of operatives then fanned out to rapidly withdraw money in multiple cities, authorities said. The cells would take a cut of the money, then launder it through expensive purchases or ship it to the global ringleaders. Lynch didn't say where they were located.
The targets were reserves held by the banks to fund prepaid credit cards, not individual account holders, Lynch said.
She called it a "virtual criminal flash mob," and a security analyst said it was the biggest ATM fraud case she had heard of.
The attack in December reaped $5 million worldwide and the one in February snared about $40 million. The scheme involved attacks on two banks, Rakbank in the United Arab Emirates and the Bank Muscat in Oman, prosecutors said.
The plundered ATMs were in Japan, Russia, Romania, Egypt, Colombia, Britain, Sri Lanka, Canada and several other countries, and law enforcement agencies from more than a dozen nations were involved in the investigation, U.S. prosecutors said.
The accused ringleader in the U.S. cell, Alberto Yusi Lajud-Pena, was reportedly killed in the Dominican Republic late last month, prosecutors said. More investigations continue and other arrests have been made in other countries, but prosecutors did not have details.
An indictment unsealed Thursday accused Lajud-Pena and the other seven New York suspects of withdrawing $2.8 million in cash from hacked accounts in less than a day.
Such ATM fraud schemes are not uncommon, but the $45 million stolen in this one was at least double the amount involved in previously known cases, said Avivah Litan, an analyst who covers security issues for Gartner Inc.
Middle Eastern banks and payment processors are "a bit behind" on security and screening technologies that are supposed to prevent this kind of fraud, but it happens around the world, she said.
"It's a really easy way to turn digits into cash," Litan said.
Some of the fault lies with the ubiquitous magnetic strips on the back of the cards. The rest of the world has largely abandoned cards with magnetic strips in favor of ones with built-in chips that are nearly impossible to copy. But because U.S. banks and merchants have stuck to cards with magnetic strips, they are still accepted around the world.
Lynch would not say who masterminded the attacks globally, who the hackers are or where they were located, citing an ongoing investigation.
The New York suspects were U.S. citizens originally from the Dominican Republic, who lived in the New York suburb of Yonkers and were mostly in their 20s. Lynch said they all knew one another and were recruited together, as were cells in other countries. They were charged with conspiracy and money laundering. If convicted, they face 10 years in prison.
Arrests began in March. Lajud-Pena was found dead with a suitcase full of about $100,000 in cash. The investigation into his death is continuing separately. Dominican officials said they arrested a man in the killing who said it was a botched robbery, and two other suspects were on the lam.
Lynch compared the ring with the $5.8 million in cash stolen from a Lufthansa Airlines vault at Kennedy Airport in 1978, a heist masterminded by Jimmy Burke, the inspiration for Robert De Niro's character in "Goodfellas."

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Two Burmese nationals among five arrested in drug racket

With the arrest of five persons, including two Burmese nationals, police here today claimed to have smashed an international drug racket and seized pseudoephedrine tablets used for making party drugs worth Rs 15 crore.

Burmese nationals Zel Khan Mong (46) and Dongh Lian Kham (41), Lianza Daula (46) and C Zoram Thanga (28) from Mizoram and Vikas Bathla (43) of Delhi were apprehended on March 29, Ravindra Yadav, Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime), said.

Police seized 140 kg of pseudoephedrine tablets in around 10 lakh strips and 50 kg of pseudoephedrine powder and Rs one lakh cash besides a car.

Daula, a resident of Aizwal, was in Assam Rifles as Warrant Officer General Duty and left the job recently to earn quick money through drug smuggling, Yadav said.

"We arrested all but Bathla from Peeragarhi following investigations into a tip off that one Naresh Gupta is involved in drug peddling. After the questioning of Burmese nationals and th two from Mizoram, we raided Gupta's godown from where Bathla was arrested," he said.

The tablets were recovered from both the car in which the four were travelling as well as from the godown.

"The gang used to procure pseudoephedrine drugs, which are major constituent of cough syrups and tablets from registered pharmaceutical factories situated in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana through local distributors in Delhi.

"These huge quantities of drugs are reprocessed to extract pure pseudo-ephedrine which gets transported to Myanmar and further in order to undergo chemical reconstitution into methamphetamine (Ecstasy or ICE tablets in party circles).

"The consignment was to be sent to Manipur/Mizoram for further smuggling to Myanmar by Mong," Yadav said.

Bathla is a B-Pharma degree holder and working with Gupta for the last about few years. He is having a drug license in the name of his firm Sanjeevani Drugs & Cosmetics.

On the instructions of Gupta, his drug licence was being used to procure Pseudoephedrine tablets from different manufacturers and further handing over the same to Gupta.

Mong and Kham told police that they were staying as refugee in Dabri since 2009 and having a refugee card by UNHCR.

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Fake currency seized in Assam

Dhubri: A Bangladeshi national was on Tuesday nabbed by the BSF in Dhubri district and fake Indian currency with a face value of Rs 2.98 lakh was seized from his possession.

During a special operation by the BSF, the foreigner was caught when he was attempting to cross over to India at Khagrachar, BSF sources said. He was identified as one Gulam Mustafa of Saibaralga, in Kurigram district of Bangladesh, the sources said.

The seizure included 199 fake notes of Rs 1000 denomination and 198 pieces of Rs 500 denomination.

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Manipur Drug Haul: 7 Held Sent to Custody Till March 22

Seven persons, including former defence PRO Colonel Ajay Choudhury, who were arrested in connection with illegal drug trafficking, have been remanded in judicial custody till March 22.

The seven were produced before the special Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substance (NDPS) court yesterday at Lamphelpat which remanded them in judicial custody.

Six persons including assistant manager of Indigo airlines Ngairangbam Brojendro, an assistant of former defence PRO R K Babalu, Haopu Haokip, Minlin Haokip and Minthang Doungel were arrested while they were allegedly carrying illegal Pseudoephedrine tablets worth about Rs 24 crores in Thoubal district for smuggling it to neighbouring Myanmar.

Following their interrogation, police arrested Seikholet Haokip, son of Congress MLA T N Haokip, on February 26 last along with a large number of illegal tablets worth lakhs of rupees from his house at Deulaland area here.

All the seven would remain in Manipur jail here till March 22.

No counsel on behalf of the accused appeared before the NDPS court yesterday.

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Brick kiln worker rapes 16-yr-old girl in Manipur

IMPHAL: A 16-year-old girl, who is appearing for the ongoing Class XI final examination, was allegedly raped by a brick kiln worker on Saturday night near her Irengband village residence in Thoubal district. An angry mob destroyed the house of the accused on Sunday.

The girl's family alleged that accused Huidrom Sanjoy (28), who stays in the same locality, taking advantage of the fact that the girl was alone at home, raped the minor at around 11pm on Saturday night.

Manipur has been witnessing spiralling crime against women in the last few years, prompting hordes of women's bodies to intensify their campaign against the menace. According to Imphal-based Women Action for Development (WAD), over 300 cases of violence against women - including rape, rape and murder, molestation, trafficking, brutal physical assault, abduction, intimidation, abandonment and immolation - took place in the state last year.

Locals said Sanjoy, who worked at the medium-scale brick farm owned by the victim's family, was well acquainted with the family. He is married and has two children.

Quoting the girl, her mother said that Sanjoy called the former on her mobile phone on Saturday night around 10pm asking her to step out of the house and later raped her at a deserted place nearby.

The family members came to know the incident on Sunday morning when the victim narrated her ordeal to them. As news of the rape spread across the village, irate locals caught Sanjoy and began quizzing him about the incident, but he managed to flee. A manhunt was immediately launched and Sanjoy was found hiding in a nearby drain. He was pulled up by a team of policemen that arrived at the spot.

The police had to disperse the mob by firing teargas canisters and mock bombs. Thereafter, the mob destroyed Sanjoy's house but the situation was brought under control after the arrival of a police reinforcement team.

The police, who registered an FIR case against Sanjoy, took the victim and the accused to the Imphal-based Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) for medical examination. Sanjoy was produced before the chief judicial magistrate (Thoubal), who remanded him in police custody till Thursday, enabling the cops to interrogate him.

The irate locals, meanwhile, formed a joint action committee (JAC) to ensure justice to the girl.

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Muslim youth arrested with drugs and pistol in Manipur

IMPHAL: Security forces seized a large quantity of contraband drugs from two different places in Thoubal district of Manipur in a large-scale operation conducted since Saturday.

A combined team of Assam Rifles and police on Saturday seized drugs worth Rs 30 lakh and a country-made pistol from a Muslim youth at Lilong area in the district. Thoubal police commandos confiscated a another consignment of drugs on Sunday.

On February 24, police commandos had seized pseudoephedrine hydrochloride worth over Rs 20 crore from six people including defence spokesman Colonel Ajay Chowdhry on the way to the border town of Moreh.

During a special drive on Saturday morning, Assam Rifles soldiers and the police seized over 8,000 Spasmo Proxyvon (SP) and Nitrosun 10 tablets packed in seven packets, two mobile phones and a pistol from the house of Md Wahidur Rahaman (24), police sources said.

The seized drugs were smuggled from Guwahati and a case has been registered against the accused, the sources added.

A police commando team on Sunday morning seized 160 SP tablets, three grams of heroin power, two syringes and a camouflage uniform with three-star shoulder tags from three persons including a tribal youth claiming to be a self-styled captain of a Naga rebel group.

The state cabinet, which has taken serious note of drug trafficking, has already decided to hand over the February 24 drug haul case to the CBI even as a large number of civil bodies and anti-drug organizations continued to protest against the growing drug menace gripping the state.

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Delhi gang-rape case: main accused Ram Singh commits suicide in Tihar Jail

New Delhi: Ram Singh, the key accused in the Delhi gang-rape case, has committed suicide inside the Tihar Jail premises where he was lodged.

Tihar Jail officials said Ram Singh hanged himself at Jail Number 3, at around 5 am this morning. His body has been taken to Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) Hospital in Delhi.

Ram Singh was the driver of the bus in which six men inflicted horrific assault on 23-year-old medical student in Delhi and was the main accused. Besides Ram Singh and his brother Mukesh, three other adult accused are facing trial in the case. The sixth accused is a minor and is being tried separately by the Juvenile Justice Board.

Authorities in the Tihar Central Jail had said that all the five accused are under "suicide watch" after they stopped interacting with other jail inmates and amongst themselves.

Ram Singh's lawyer, VK Anand, had petitioned the Supreme Court in January to shift the case as he believes his client will not receive a fair trial in Delhi. Mr Anand had sought that the trial be moved to anywhere else in the country except Uttar Pradesh, where the girl came from.

The men are accused of gang-raping and brutally assaulting Amanat (NOT her real name) on December 16 last year and then throwing her out of the bus. The incident sparked outrage in the country and people took to the streets to demand the most stringent punishment for the accused. The young woman fought a valiant battle for her life in hospital for 13 days, but her injuries were too severe and she died in a Singapore hospital on December 29.

All the accused were arrested within days of the horrific assault.

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Rs 5 crore worth drugs seized

KOHIMA, March 7  – Personnel of the Dimapur railway police and Excise department, Nagaland seized a huge quantity of banned drugs worth Rs 5.05 crore.

Sources said that the GRP personnel seized 1,15,200 strips of banned Cetirizine HCI & Pseudoephedrine HCI tablets worth more than Rs 5 crore in the international drugs market from Dimapur railway station last night.

The contraband, packed in six boxes, were to be delivered in Dimapur yesterday morning. A case has been registered under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.

In a separate incident, Excise Narcotic Cell staff seized 17,280 capsules of Spasmo Proxyvon worth around Rs 4,32,000 in the local market at Khuzama check gate, Kohima on Monday.

The sources said the drugs were seized from a passenger who was traveling in a public transport vehicle heading towards Manipur.

The accused has been identified as Md Adawar Rahman from Imphal East.

The accused in his statement has reportedly confessed to have smuggled the drugs from Kolkata to Dimapur by train.

Meanwhile, three persons were arrested after illegal drugs with a street value of Rs 24 lakh were allegedly seized from their possession in Manipur’s Thoubal district today.

The three were arrested at Lilong, Sora and Moijing areas in the district for allegedly possessing pseudoephedrine tablets and heroin, officials said.

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Defence PRO among 6 arrested in Manipur drug haul

A colonel-rank defence PRO and five others were on Sunday arrested by Manipur police after they were caught allegedly carrying illicit drugs valued at an estimated Rs. 15 crore meant to be smuggled out to Myanmar, in one of the biggest such hauls in the state.

The contraband was found in three vehicles at Pallel in Chandel district, state police said in Imphal, adding they had taken into custody defence PRO Colonel Ajay Chaudhary, his assistant RK Babalu, IndiGo assistant manager Brojendro Singh, Haopu Haokip, Minthang Bongel and Milan Haokip.

The six were interrogated at Pallel police station, about 45 kms south-east of in Imphal, police said.

A case has been registered against them under various sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. They will taken to Kakshing police station in Thoubal district, they said.
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"Colonel Ajay Chaudhary has been arrested this morning by the Manipur police along with five other persons. We have been made to believe that certain contrabands have been recovered," Army spokesperson Colonel Jagdeep Dahiya said in Delhi.

The Army promised strict disciplinary action if any personnel were found involved in the case and a defence ministry spokesman said in Delhi that once a formal report into the incident comes to the department, appropriate action will be taken against the officer.

Claiming that he was not aware that the consignment contained illicit drugs, Ajay Chaudhary said he was "cheated" by "nephew of a very senior officer" into accompanying him. He, however, did not identify whom he was referring to among those arrested.

"Yesterday, the nephew of a very senior officer whom I know had come to me. I have met him two or three times at his place. He said he had come to trade in Moray and a few people harassed him enroute to Moray," he said.

"I asked him what it was, he said nothing just a few things that I deal with. There will be a few packages I would be taking in my car. So you don't have to worry. So I said OK...," Chaudhary said, adding he had also asked his friend from IndiGo who agreed to join him so that they could do some "shopping" in Moray.

The officer said he had allowed the commandoes at a a check point to inspect the vehicles as he had suspected nothing wrong.

"Since, he is a friend and he is a relative of someone senior, you will never suspect him of doing anything like this.... Somehow I have been cheated in this," he said.

Army spokesman Dahiya said, "We would like to state this much that if he is found guilty as per the law of the land, strict disciplinary action will be taken against him", adding, "we will get involved in the process when we are formally approached".

The drugs included pseudoephedrine tablets Respifed, Omkop, Hilcold, Polyfed and Actidin and were worth Rs. 15 crore, they said, adding it was one of the biggest drug hauls in the state.

Also called party drugs, they are prone to abuse as they cause intoxication.

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Man from Manipur held for murder, auto theft

A self-styled commander of a banned terrorist organisation from Manipur was arrested on Tuesday on the charge of escaping from judicial custody. Police had announced a reward of Rs 50,000 for information leading to his arrest.

According to police, Mohammad Abbas Khan alias Fazur alias Roshan, is a resident of Thoubal district in Manipur and was arrested by the Delhi Police Special Cell for escaping from judicial custody in Manipur. "Abbas is a self-styled fighting commander of People's United Liberation Front (PULF), a banned terrorist outfit of Manipur. He is involved in 12 cases of murder, abduction and other unlawful activities," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Sanjeev Yadav told reporters.

Khan was arrested by Special Cell in June 2010 for his involvement in vehicle theft and making forged documents for stolen vehicles. "On December 1 last year, he was admitted to JNIMS hospital in Manipur, from where escaped judicial custody. Mounted technical surveillance and inputs regarding his presence in Delhi led to his arrest from Shakarpur on Tuesday," Yadav said.

During questioning, Khan revealed that he was born in Manipur and has five siblings. He told police went to Bangalore after clearing the class X examination in Manipur. "In Bangalore, he got in touch with Bangalore Manipuri Students' Union. His father, then, was an over ground worker of KYKL — another banned terrorist outfit — and was later killed in an encounter with security forces at Samurao in Imphal," Yadav said.

After completing his studies, Abbas returned to Manipur, got married and started a business that he ran till 2007.

In March 2007, PULF got divided into three factions and Khan joined one of them. Khan, along with two of his aides, killed one Zuma Khan, the head of another faction.

Khan allegedly killed his lawyer in 2012.

"While Abbas was in custody, one Hakim was his lawyer. Khan felt that Hakim was not pursuing his release sincerely. After escaping from judicial custody, he killed Hakim and was hiding in Delhi since then," Yadav said.

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10-yr RI for rapist father

Guwahati, Feb. 8 : Gauhati High Court has upheld the conviction of a man for raping his 14-year-old daughter and attempting to rape his other minor daughter as well.

Holding the accused, Krishna Chetia, guilty of the crime, a single-judge bench of Justice Iqbal Ahmed Ansari upheld a 2009 Dhemaji sessions judge order sentencing the 50-year-old accused to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 10 years.

Delivering the judgment yesterday, the high court held that a father being charged of raping his daughter is not only a heinous crime but also betrayal of trust since it is a father’s duty to protect his children in all possible manners and under all adverse circumstances.

According to the high court, the accused had betrayed the trust of his daughters.

Chetia had sexually abused his two minor daughters and raped the elder one in July 2008.

The trial court had convicted him for attempting to rape his younger daughter, who was only 10 years old, when the crime was committed.

“A father is special to every child. He is always a person who provides that much-needed emotional and physical security to a child. He saves his children from all the ugliness of the world,” Dhemaji sessions judge J. Begum Anowar said in her order passed on July 9, 2009.

“He (father) is the protector of a girl child. But this is a case of a father who allegedly abused his two young daughters one after another to satisfy his sexual lust,” the order added.

The Dhemaji sessions judge also imposed a fine of Rs 6,000 on the accused. He will have to undergo rigorous imprisonment for further six months if he fails to pay the fine.

The accused then moved the high court in 2009 challenging the verdict.

During yesterday’s hearing, public prosecutor Z. Kamar submitted before the high court that nothing can be more horrendous than this crime as the accused has crossed the line of human dignity.

Police had registered the case against the accused at Silapathar police station in Dhemaji district based on an FIR lodged against him by his wife.

He allegedly assaulted his wife when she protested his heinous act. She was forced to leave the house and lodge a complaint with the police.

The statements of the two victims recorded before a magistrate stated that both were sexually abused by their father several times.

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