1. 12-Year-Old Says He Killed 6-Year-Old ‘in Fit of Rage’
The police caught a 12-year-old boy on Thursday for allegedly killing a six-year old in a fit of rage in a forest area near a five-star hotel in Gurugram’s DLF Phase 1 earlier this week. The boy was produced before a juvenile justice board (JJB) member and sent to an observation home after he confessed to having killed the boy, the police said.
Only the skull and legs of the six-year-old were found on Tuesday by people from the slum cluster. His torso, arms, eyes and teeth were still to be recovered, the police said, adding that they had no information yet on how the body was dismembered.
The postmortem report had concluded on Wednesday that the body parts had been cut and some eaten by an animal.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
2. Three Arrested for Raping Haryana-Based Dancer
Three men were arrested on Friday for allegedly raping a Haryana-based dancer in northeast Delhi's Khajuri Khas, police said.
The incident took place five days ago when the 20-year-old woman had come to Khajuri Khas in north-east Delhi for a show, which turned out to be a trap laid for her by the trio, they said.
The woman had arrived at Kashmere Gate ISBT on a bus from Haryana from where the accused had picked her up in a car on the pretext of taking her to the event venue, police said.
"They instead took the woman to a house near an isolated field in Bawana where the incident took place," a senior police officer said.
They had then dumped her near Khajuri Chowk and also taken away her cellphone, he said.
The accused have been identified as Lokesh (21), Om (25) and Hrishikesh (25) and arrested, Thakur said.
(Source: Business Standard)
3. Man Who Ran Clinic Without Licence Arrested As Woman Dies After Surgery
29-year old Neeraj Kumar got arrested in Delhi on Friday, 5 April, after it was found that he had no licence to run a clinic, where a woman died during an operation.
Two of Neeraj's accomplices Rohit Kumar and Ashok Kumar have also been arrested.
The woman died on February 8, following which a complaint was registered and eventually reached the Police Commissioner’s office.
“We found that the accused was running a clinic-cum-operation theatre in Badarpur area right on the main road for over a year. He posed as a doctor and claimed his wife was also a doctor with AIIMS, when she is in fact an anganwadi worker," the police said.
Secretary of Medical COuncil of India Dr Girish Tyagi also said that the accused’s qualifications — Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Science — are not recognised as per the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, and that he is not qualified or authorised to practice allopathic system of medicine.
(Source: The Indian Express)
4. Security Guard on Run After Stabbing Colleague to Death in Gurgaon Hospital
An argument between two security guards deployed at a private hospital in Gurgaon ended with one stabbing the other around 15 times before fleeing the scene.
Police say the accused, Naufil Anwar, hails from Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh. Investigations are being conducted to arrest him, police said, adding that the entire incident has been captured on CCTV cameras at the hospital.
According to police, the incident took place at 5.15 am Friday at Sheetla Hospital on New Railway Road. The dead has been identified as 24-year-old Jugal Kishore, who hailed from Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district and was living on rent in Gurgaon.
(Source: The Indian Express)
5. Two Held for Robbery at Delhi Businessman's Home
Two men were arrested for allegedly barging into the residence of a businessman in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar and looting cash and other valuables, police said Friday.
Aman Kumar and Pinkesh were arrested on Thursday near Kabir Nagar, they said.
Kumar, a resident of Fatehpur Beri, worked as a marketing agent of the businessman Pawan Aggarwal. He had conspired with Pinkesh to rob his employer to be able to pay his debt, police said.
Around 8.30 am on March 29, three men entered the home of Aggarwal when he and his wife were not there and their servant was alone, said Rajiv Ranjan, additional deputy commissioner of police (crime).
They hit the servant with the butt of a pistol and looted Rs 4 lakh, one iPhone and documents related to Aggarwal's business, he said.
During interrogation, Kumar disclosed he had hatched the conspiracy with Rakesh, Vibhuti and Pinkesh, he added.
(Source: The Times of India)
6. Man Posing as Gurgaon DCP Assaults Constable, Arrested
A man was arrested for allegedly impersonating Gurgaon DCP and assaulting a Delhi Police constable, an officer said Friday.
Sandeep Sharma, who posed as Gurgaon DCP, had many cheating cases pending against him in various police stations, said Gurgaon ACP Shamsher Singh.
He got into a fight with Ankit, the Delhi Police constable, Thursday on Delhi-Gurgaon expressway.
"The accused also threatened him with dire consequences if he registered a complaint with the local police," Singh said.
Sharma was later sent to three-day police custody.
(Source: The Indian Express)
7. I-T Dept Unearths Hawala Transaction Worth Rs 4,000 Crore
The Income Tax department on Friday, 5 April, busted a hawala operator nexus in Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh.
The seized evidences suggest laundering of Rs 4,000 crore in India and abroad in the lat six years.
Sources said a series of raids and surveys are being carried out by sleuths of department's Jabalpur investigation unit over the past few weeks in different areas of Jabalpur, Siddhi and Gwalior, with specific inputs on financial irregularities and money laundering.
A laptop containing transaction accounts, handwritten notes and phone numbers of business and political ‘clients’ have been found with corroborative evidences, say sources.
(Source: The Times of India)
8. Elephant Tusk Worth Rs 25 Lakh Seized, Two Held
An elephant tusk worth Rs 25 lakh in the international market was seized and two persons were arrested from the city in this connection, police said on Friday.
The action as taken on Thursday evening, police said.
"Based on a tip-off, the crime branch of the city police laid a trap at the old check-post near Gaimukh, where they found two men carrying a gunny bag," Assistant Commissioner of Police (Crime) Mukund Hatote told reporters.
"The police apprehended the duo and searched the gunny bag, in which an ivory was found," he said.
The duo, identified as Sachin Chowgule and Pravin Shere, both residents of Mumbai, told the police that they were planning to sell the tusk for Rs 5 lakh and its cost in the international market was Rs 25 lakh, the officer said.
(Source: PTI)
9. Three Associates of Gangster Badan Singh Arrested
Three associates of a Uttar Pradesh gangster were arrested for allegedly aiding him in fleeing police custody, officials said Friday.
Badan Singh alias Baddo, who was serving a life sentence, had escaped from the police custody in Meerut on March 28.
He was convicted last year for the murder of a lawyer in 1996. He has 10 cases of murder, extortion and robbery registered against him, they said.
Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rajiv Ranjan said Singh's three accomplices -- Dipin Suri (39), Jeet Singh Makkad (49) and Sonu Sehgal (46) -- were arrested on Thursday from Sriniwaspuri bus stand here.
(Source: PTI)
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