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1. 3 Traffickers Arrested in Rs 40-Crore Heroin Haul

Delhi Police Special Cell has arrested three drug traffickers and seized 10kg of fine quality heroin worth Rs 40 crore in the international market. The accused have been identified as Mohammed Shakil and Riyaz Khan from Manipur and Subhankar Haldar from Murshidabad, West Bengal.

A Scorpio SUV with an inbuilt secret cavity to store drugs and mobile handsets used in the crime has been seized. According to DCP (Special Cell) Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, the cell had received information that three members of a narcotics syndicate would come to supply a big consignment of heroin in Delhi.

Accordingly, a team led by inspectors Vivekanand Pathak and Kuldeep Singh was formed and a trap was laid in Shalimar Bagh after a tipoff. The team intercepted the SUV but the driver reversed and tried to flee. The team, however, chased and arrested them. The drug stored in the cavity at the bottom of the rear seat was seized.

(Source: The Times of India)

2. Gang War? Two Men Chase, Kill Property Dealer

A property dealer-turned-politician was shot dead outside his office in a suspected gang rivalry between two groups at Old Palam Road near Dwarka Mor on Tuesday evening. Narendra Gehlot was waylaid by two men wearing helmets, who fired at least a dozen rounds at him, two of which hit Gehlot. It was found that he was earlier accused in a case of attempt to murder and cheating.

The incident happened around 4.30pm when 42-year-old Gehlot was sitting in his car after stepping out of his office. The men wearing helmets blocked his way and fired indiscriminately at the car. Gehlot managed to come out of his car and started running towards his shop, when the criminals chased him and fired at him. One of them even climbed on his car to shoot at him. Gehlot was hit twice on his torso, due to which he fell outside his office.

The incident was captured by a CCTV camera outside his office. Police said that the men were wearing helmets and covered their faces during the incident.

(Source: The Times of India)

3. Gangster Held With 40 Illegal Pistols

In a major arms haul, Delhi Police’s Crime Branch arrested a notorious interstate gangster with a cache of arms and ammunition, which were to be supplied to gangs of outer and southwest Delhi. The consignment comprised an improvised carbine, 40 sophisticated pistols and twenty spare magazines.

The arms were hidden inside a defunct CNG tank of a car that had been modified to look like a functional tank. The suspect, Irshad Khan, is estimated to have supplied over 1,000 pistols to city’s criminals in the past.

DCP (Crime) Ram Gopal Naik said his teams had been collecting intelligence about weapon suppliers in Delhi when they stumbled upon the three suspects. “The criminal records of the persons, who were previously involved in manufacturing and supply of illegal weapons, were checked and it was revealed that in most of the cases, illegal weapons were manufactured and supplied from Meerut, Mewat, Mathura, Munger (Bihar) and Madhya Pradesh to criminals active in NCR,” Naik said.

(Source: The Times of India)

4. 15-Km Trail of Blood as Man’s Body Tied to Bike and Dragged

It was unlike any other murder, and the sheer brutality of it shocked even the policemen in crime-infested Meerut on Tuesday morning. A 21-year-old youth was tied to a motorcycle by his neck and dragged for over 15km by unidentified persons.

The youth’s body bore a bullet wound and his left foot went almost missing due to prolonged dragging, police said, adding that they were not sure if the youth, Mukul Kumar, was shot dead before being tied and dragged.

SP (rural) Avinash Pandey said, “The body bore several injury marks on face and head. Left foot was missing and the other one was badly mutilated. We traced the blood trail to 15km near Mandi area of Hapur district, where Mukul lived with his family. So, it clearly suggests that the body was dragged for such a long distance and dumped in Meerut’s Kharkhoda area. A motorcycle was also found near him.” The mutilated body was spotted by passersby on Tuesday morning near an underconstruction underpass close to Dheerkheda village.

(Source: The Times of India)

5. Gunrunner Held With Automatic Rifle, 40 Pistols, 20 Magazines

One improvised carbine (automatic rifle), 40 illegally made semi-automatic pistols and 20 pistol magazines were seized from an alleged illegal firearms supplier arrested after a brief chase in east Delhi’s Ghazipur Tuesday, the police said.

The arrested man, Irshad Khan, 34, is allegedly part of an interstate gang involved in sale of such weapons. The gang purchases these from illegal gun manufacturing factories in Madhya Pradesh and sells them in Delhi and adjoining states. Khan has supplied more than 100 such weapons last year, cops said.

According to the police, the firearms were hidden in a cavity of the CNG cylinder fitted in the car’s boot, which Khan was allegedly driving at the time. The opening of this specially made cavity was concealed under the iron strap used to fasten CNG cylinders in car boots, cops said.

(Source: Hindustan Times)

6. Three Men Held With 10kg Heroin Hidden Inside SUV

A 10-year-old girl died and two others were injured after a portion of a sixstorey building in upscale Khar (West) came crashing down on Tuesday. The cause of the crash is not known, but column repair work was on, claimed locals in the neighbourhood. However, TOI was not able to confirm this.

The deceased was identified as Mahi Dinesh Motwani, who was pulled out of the rubble three hours later and rushed to a hospital, where she was declared dead. The fire brigade and NDRF rescued 23 others.

(Source: Hindustan Times)

7. Man Stabbed in Scuffle Over Defective Footwear

A 48-year-old worker was stabbed to death in a footwear factory in west Delhi’s Madipur on Tuesday morning, allegedly by his co-worker, following an altercation over manufacturing defected footwear, the police said.

The alleged accused, identified as Ramesh Chand,41, was arrested and booked under murder charges, a case regarding which was registered at the Punjabi Bagh police station. A sharp footwear manufacturing tool that Chand used to stab his colleague, Dwarka Prasad, was recovered from the crime scene.

According to the police, the altercation started when Chand pointed out that the footwear manufactured by Prasad had some defects. When Chand told Prasad about the defective products, Prasad told him that it was because of him that he was not able to make proper footwear.

(Source: Hindustan Times)

8. Seven Held for Hacking Into IAF Recruitment Exam, Taking Test from Remote Location

Seven men have been arrested by the Delhi Police from Mukherjee Nagar for allegedly hacking the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) online recruitment test for non-commissioned officers through a remote system, which enabled them to take the test on behalf of aspirants. The arrest was made by the inter-state cell (ISC) of Crime Branch, and initial investigation has revealed that five of them had earlier appeared for various competitive examinations, but after failing to crack them, started taking exams for other aspirants.

The accused were identified as Naresh, the alleged leader of the gang, and his accomplices Ankush, Rakesh, Aman, Manjeet, Vikrant and Hardeep.

“The arrest was made Sunday afternoon after a team of ISC received information that a group was involved in cheating during online recruitment exam for group X and Y posts in Indian Air Force, held from September 21-24.

(Source: The Indian Express)

9. Bookie Shot Dead in Ghaziabad

A 41-year-old bookie was shot dead over a monetary dispute by his acquaintance at Perm Nagar in Loni, police said on Tuesday.

The incident took place around 11 pm on Monday night, they said.

Superintendent of Police (Rural) Neeraj kumar Jadaun said Nafees Qureshi was called by Raja Qureshi at Nehru Park.

Nafees, along with his son and relatives, reached there.

Raja, along with his eight accomplices, reached there on three bikes.

Nafees welcomed him warmly and sent his journeyman Zuber to bring cold drinks for them.

Raja and his accomplices consumed the soft drinks and started firing indiscriminately at Nafees.

The victim received seven bullet injuries.

(Source: PTI)