1. IMA Ponzi Scam Accused Mansoor Khan Arrested by ED in Delhi
Mansoor Khan, founder-owner of Bengaluru-based Monetary Advisory (IMA) Group, which allegedly ran a multi-crore Ponzi scam, was on Friday, 19 July, arrested by officials of the Enforcement Directorate in Delhi, upon returning to India.
Khan in a seven-minute video clip, which went viral on Monday, had claimed that he had booked air tickets to India and would return within 24 hours. He also sought the help of police and the judiciary to recover the money that politicians and antisocial elements had allegedly extorted from him.
(Source: The Times of India)
2. Dawood Ibrahim’s Nephew, Accused of Extortion, Held at Mumbai Airport
Dawood Ibrahim’s nephew Mohammed Rizwan Iqbal Hassan Shaikh was arrested from the international airport in Mumbai before he could board a flight to Dubai with his wife late on Wednesday, 17 July. He is the mafia don’s third nephew to have a brush with the law-enforcing agencies.
Rizwan, 30, son of Dawood’s younger brother Iqbal Kaskar, is accused of extortion. Rizwan stayed in Damburwala Building at Pakmodia Street in Dongri, Dawood’s family home, with Kaskar.
Rizwan was stopped on the basis of a lookout notice issued on Tuesday after his name cropped up in a case of threatening a businessman over a financial dispute.
(Source: The Times of India)
3. In 40 of 41 Muzaffarnagar Riot Cases, Including Murder, All Accused Are Acquitted
An Indian Express investigation has found several glaring holes in the Uttar Pradesh government’s prosecution cases in 10 murder cases filed on the violence that swept through Muzaffarnagar in 2013, killing at least 65 people.
Based on the testimonies, and holding that witnesses, mostly relatives of those killed, had turned hostile, the courts acquitted all in the 10 murder trials that ended between January 2017 and February 2019.
The IE investigation revealed that:
*Five prosecution witnesses did a U-turn in court to say they weren’t present when their relatives were murdered — when the FIRs mentioned otherwise.
* Six prosecution witnesses turned hostile and deposed that police forced them to sign blank papers.
* Police did not produce murder weapons in court in five cases.
* The prosecution never cross-examined police on these.
* In the end, all witnesses turned hostile.
(Source: The Indian Express)
4. Man Booked for Taking off in Business Partner’s Audi
A man was booked for allegedly borrowing his business partner’s Audi Q5 car and not returning it after using it for personal work, the police said on Thursday, 18 July.
According to the police, the incident was reported on Wednesday after the victim, a resident of a condominium in Sector 58 on Gurugram’s Golf Course Road, filed a police complaint.
The police said that on 18 June, his business partner, who stays in the same tower in the condominium, had borrowed his Audi Q5, but later did not return and stopped responding to his phone calls.
A police official privy to the investigation, requesting anonymity, said they run an import-export business.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
5. Three Minor Boys Sexually Abused in Northwest Delhi
A complaint filed in the Delhi Commission for Women(DCW) earlier this week alleged that three minor boys were sexually abused in northwest Delhi’s Kanjhawala.
The DCW said it has issued a notice to Delhi Police on Thursday seeking details on action taken. The incident occurred on June 29.
The police said they have apprehended four minors in connection with the case.
Three boys aged 15, 10 and nine years of age living in Kanjhawala’s Savda JJ Colony were playing when a group of boys from the neighbourhood approached them and took them away on the pretext of catching fish in a nearby stream, the commission said in the notice.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
6. ‘200 Men On 32 Tractors’: Eyewitness Recount How Village Head Killed 10 in UP
A day after a village chief and his associates fired on a group of tribal farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra district killing 10 people over a land dispute, disturbing details of the massacre have emerged. The main accused, Yagya Dutt, had brought nearly 200 men on 32 tractor trolleys to take possession of the land, eyewitnesses have told NDTV. After the tribals opposed, his men fired at them for over half-an-hour, they add.
"They just started firing. Once people started falling to the ground, they started hitting them with lathis. It was plain horror," a woman told NDTV.
Another eyewitness has claimed that the shootout continued for nearly half-an-hour.
"We did not know they had come armed with guns. When they started firing, we ran here and there (to save ourselves), started calling the police. The police came after an hour. The firing went on for a half-an-hour," the eyewitness told NDTV.
(Source: NDTV)
7. Samajwadi Party MP Ateeq Ahmad’s Kin Held for Abducting Businessman in Lucknow
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested former Samajwadi Party MP Ateeq Ahmad’s brother-in-law Zaki Ahmad and raided six locations in Lucknow belonging to Ateeq and others in connection with a 2018 kidnapping and assault case.
Zaki was produced before the Competent Court at Lucknow and remanded in judicial custody on Thursday. A sum of Rs 8 lakh, cheque books of various bank accounts and incriminating documents were recovered during the searches.
Last year, Ateeq had allegedly kidnapped and assaulted real estate dealer Mohit Jaiswal in Deoria prison where he was jailed. Last month, the Supreme Court handed over the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and transferred Ateeq to a high security jail in Gujarat.
(Source: The Indian Express)
8. In Kathua Rape Case, Notice Issued To J&K Government
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday, 17 July, issued notices to the Jammu and Kashmir government and six men convicted in the case of rape and murder of an eight-year-old nomad girl in Kathua on a plea by her father seeking enhanced punishment for them.
The court also issued a notice to the accused who was acquitted in the case by a lower court.
In the petition filed on 10 July, the girl's father had sought enhancement of the convicts' sentence to capital punishment and life imprisonment, and also challenged the acquittal of one accused.
(Source: NDTV)
9. Wanted Man Killed in Police Encounter in Ghaziabad, Kin Call It Fake
A wanted criminal carrying a bounty of Rs 1 lakh was allegedly killed in a police encounter after midnight on Thursday, 18 July, in Ghaziabad’s Koyal Enclave, police said.
According to police, Meherban, a resident of Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh, had around 29 cases pending against him, including one of murder and several attempt to murder cases, and “was even awarded a life sentence” in one of the cases.
The accused was intercepted by Ghaziabad Police near Koyal Enclave in a car with his associates at 12.25 am, following an alert by the Noida Special Task Force (STF) about spotting the accused near Bhopura in Ghaziabad during routine checking, officers said.
Police said Meherban opened fire when he was signalled to stop, following which officers chased his car to an abandoned building.
(Source: The Indian Express)
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