1. Student at DU’s School of Open Learning Stabbed to Death
An 18-year-old student of Delhi University was stabbed to death, allegedly by three persons, including a 27-year-old woman, following an altercation between two families in West Delhi’s Vikaspuri on the night of Sunday, 25 August.
The family of the victim, Riyaz Ansari, has alleged a member of the accused family harassed the victim’s cousin, and he was stabbed because he intervened. However, police denied the charges and claimed they had not received any complaint regarding a woman being harassed.
According to police, the victim had come to visit his maternal uncle in Vikaspuri when the incident took place. In a video, the victim’s cousin alleged she was harassed by a minor boy from another family.
(Source: The Indian Express)
2. Youth Held for Sexual Assault on 3 Minors
A 20-year-old youth has been arrested for sexually assaulting at least three minor girls in a span of two weeks in outer Delhi’s Najafgarh.
The incidents came to light on the afternoon of Saturday, 24 August, when the parents of a 10-year-old girl complained that she had gone missing while going to a nearby grocery store. Soon after the local cops started a search, the girl returned home crying.
After being counselled, the child said that while she was going to the shop, a youth riding a black motorcycle said that her mother was looking for her. He offered to drop her home, but instead took her to an empty plot in the area and sexually assaulted her. When she started crying, Kumar panicked and left her near a private hospital and fled. The survivor said that she walked back home from there.
(Source: The Times of India)
3. 16-Year-Old Assamese Girl Rescued from Traffickers
The Delhi Commission for Women on Monday, 26 August, said it rescued a 16-year-old girl from an alleged trafficking racket operating out of Holambi Kalan near Narela in outer Delhi.
The girl’s parents died several years ago and she was living with her two sisters in Assam. Over nine months ago, a person known to one of her sisters lured the three to come to Delhi. The person had promised them a high paying job in a cup manufacturing company and forced them into prostitution, the DCW said in a statement.
The 16-year-old managed to escape on 19 August and reached the Badli railway station where a woman helped her call the DCW’s 181 helpline, the commission said.
However, police said that it was rather a bypasser who had spotted the girl and informed the police after which the girl was rescued.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
4. Teen, 2 Minors Use Snatched Phones to Run Extortion Racket
Using snatched mobile phones, a 19-year-old youth and two juveniles were running an extortion racket. They demanded Rs 50 lakh from the owner of a popular restaurant in Bawana. The trio introduced themselves as close associates of Kuldeep Fajja, the right hand man of gangster Jitender Gogi. After a month-long chase, all the three have been nabbed by the police.
DCP (outer-north) Gaurav Sharma said that Rhytham and his two associates were involved in multiple crimes, including armed robberies and car-jacking. The trio came under the scanner after the restaurant owner approached police, saying that he had received an extortion call from an unknown number on 18 July. Someone had even fired a shot in front of his restaurant the same day. Based on his complaint, a case was registered.
(Source: The Times of India)
5. Man Bites Mother-In-Law’s Nose, Father Slits Her Ear over Dowry Dispute: Cops
A dowry dispute between two families took an ugly turn when a woman’s husband and father-in-law thrashed her parents in Nakatia area in Bareilly on Sunday, 25 August.
The injured woman was taken to the district hospital, from where she has been referred to Delhi for surgery.
According to police reports, Chand Bi, daughter of Gantha Rehman, a fourth-class employee of the Food Corporation of India (FCI), was married to Bareilly property dealer Mohammed Ashfaq, a year ago.
Rehman gave a dowry worth Rs 10 lakh to his daughter, but her in-laws started demanding Rs 5 lakh more after Chand Bi gave birth to a baby girl. When Rehman refused, Ashfaq thrashed Chand Bi on Sunday.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
6. Jharkhand Cops, CRPF Men Booked for Minor’s Death
The police have booked unknown CRPF personnel and policemen from Manika police station for a three-year old girl’s death. The girl was allegedly killed after one member of the raiding party flung her on to the ground, claimed the child’s mother in her police complaint.
The incident happened during a search operation at Bakoria village in Jharkhand’s Palamu district in the intervening night of Friday and Saturday.
The Palamu superintendent of police Ajay Linda said, “The case was registered with Satbarwa police station on the basis of a complaint made by Babita Devi, the mother of the killed girl. We are investigating the matter.”
(Source: Hindustan Times)
7. Man Forges Signatures to Sell 100 Cars
A man was arrested for duping more than 50 transport companies in the city by offering them contracts to supply luxury cars to fivestar hotels and multinational companies and then illegally selling off the vehicles.
In the past one year, the accused, identified as Suraj Singh, sold off more than 100 luxury cars by forging the signatures of the owners. Delhi Police’s Crime Branch has seized cash and jewellery worth Rs 10 lakh from him.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ram Gopal Naik said Singh had launched the ponzi scheme last year. A transporter in east Delhi approached police earlier this month saying that Singh had posed as a contractor supplying luxury cars to fivestar hotels and asked them for a Mahindra XUV. He took possession of the vehicle claiming that he would drive it on their behalf. He had submitted his original ID as proof.
(Source: The Times of India)
8. Mistaken for Child Lifter, Woman Faces Attack; 4 Held
Four persons, including two women, were arrested in Shringar Nagar area of Etah district on Monday for allegedly thrashing a 50-year-old woman on suspicion of being a child lifter on Sunday, 25 August.
Police said that the accused were identified through a video of the incident that had gone viral. Police are looking for two other women, identified as Sunita and Sheela, who were also a part of the mob that attacked Beena Devi, a native of Sirmaur in Himachal Pradesh.
Station House Officer of City Kotwali Police Station, Ashok Kumar Singh, said after they received information through police control room a group of people were beating up a woman on suspicion of child lifter, they rushed to the spot and rescued the victim who had suffered minor injuries.
(Source: The Indian Express)
9. Special Cell Busts Fake Note Syndicate Based in Nepal
A Nepal-based counterfiet currency syndicate that has been pumping in fake Indian currency notes (FICN) into Delhi has been busted by Special Cell. A person has been arrested, and notes in denominations worth Rs 5.50 lakh have been recovered.
DCP (Special Cell) Pramod Kushwah said that Alam Ansari would transport the FICNs through the Raxaul border and deliver them to suppliers in Delhi. “Ansari was a key member of the syndicate who would travel to Nehru Place and hand over the notes to another contact. A trap was laid and he was arrested,” said Kushwah.
Interrogation revealed that Ansari used to receive the FICNs from Abdul Rehman, Sajjad and Sher Mohd, all residents of Nepal. After reaching India, he would get in touch with two others who would facilitate his travel to Delhi. He has been supplying fake notes for the past five years.
(Source: The Times of India)
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