Sep 21, 2012: Jilted man kidnaps lover’s brother

TNN | Sep 21, 2012, 01.17AM IST

NEW DELHI: This jilted lover did not go on killing people. However, rejected by his lover's parents for belonging to another caste, the 21-year-old man kidnapped his lover's eight-year-old brother from his house in Okhla and demanded a ransom of Rs 5 lakh. 

However, the statement of the woman along with electronic surveillance and a nightlong search led to the arrest of Umesh Yadav and his brother Rajesh, both 21 and the boy was rescued. 

On Wednesday, Sunil Pathak, a private company employee, complained to police that his son was missing and he had received a ransom note of Rs 5 lakh. 

Acquaintances of the complainant were verified and it came to light that Umesh used to stay in a room adjacent to the Pathaks in Harkesh Nagar. Pathak shifted to Okhla in southeast Delhi earlier this month. 

"Police raided suspected hideouts in Noida and Greater Noida. Due to the pressure mounted by police, Umesh came to Okhla with the boy and was arrested. The boy was also rescued," Ajay Chaudhry, additional CP (southeast), said. 

During interrogation, Umesh said Rajesh had helped him keep the boy at the latter's rented accommodation in Noida where they made the child write the ransom note and delivered it to his father's office.
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Sep 21, 2012: Woman claims IFS man dumped her hours after wedding

TNN | Sep 21, 2012, 07.14AM IST

CHENNAI: A hotel management graduate on Thursday lodged a complaint saying an IFS officer ditched her on Wednesday within a couple of hours of their wedding .

The woman said the groom's family, which took 50 sovereigns of gold jewellery and 7 lakh before the wedding, walked out of the hall when her family refused to pay a further 4 lakh towards flight charges.

The woman's complaint said the IFS officer's father contacted them through a matrimonial site saying his son was posted with an Indian embassy.

The betrothal was held on June 12, but when the groom's family demanded that the wedding be held at a posh hall, the girl's family called it off. Her marriage was then fixed with a doctor, but the IFS officer's family made anonymous calls to the doctor and family forcing them to cancel their plans, the complaint said.

"Again the IFS man's father approached me and the marriage was held on Wednesday," the girl's father said.

When contacted, the IFS officer said the allegation levelled against him was baseless.

"There were no problems between us," he said.
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Sep 21, 2012: Humiliated over mother's illicit affair, girl commits suicide

PTI | Sep 21, 2012, 05.01PM IST

MUMBAI: Humiliated on being dragged to a police station alongwith her mother, accused of having an illicit affair, a 15-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide at her residence in the slum pocket of Sewree here, police said on Friday. 

The incident took place on Wednesday night, when the girl and her mother Muttulakshmi were forcibly taken to the Sewree police station by one Jaya, with whose husband the woman had a extra-marital relationship. 

Traumatized and unable to stand the humiliation, the girl consumed poison before setting herself ablaze following which she was taken to JJ hospital, where she succumbed to her burns in the wee hours of Thursday after giving a dying declaration, police said. 

Jaya, who was accompanied by three other women to the police station, was arrested yesterday. 

"We have arrested Jaya, wife of the person with whom the victim's mother Muttulakshmi supposedly had an illicit affair and we have booked her under section 306 (Abetment of suicide) of Indian Penal Code," said Dilip Waghmare, Assistant Commissioner of Police. 

However, her alleged accomplices are absconding and yet to be arrested, police added.
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Sep 21, 2012: 3 booked for molesting cops on August 11

S Ahmed Ali, TNN | Sep 21, 2012, 02.44AM IST

MUMBAI: The Special Investigating Team (SIT) probing the August 11 Azad Maidan violence has booked three persons, already arrested in the August 11 rioting case, for molesting women constables on duty that day. 

The SIT officials are, however, tightlipped about any information on the accused. "It's a sensitive case and so it is not proper to reveal anything at this stage. We have booked three molestors and we are on the lookout for another three," said an officer.
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Sep 20, 2012: New crime epidemic: Jilted lover syndrome

Dwaipayan Ghosh & Avijit Ghosh, TNN | Sep 20, 2012, 01.13AM IST

NEW DELHI: Over the past fortnight, Delhi has witnessed a series of brutal killings caused by unrequited love that has surprised the cops and shocked the city. But consultant psychiatrists as well as sociologists feel that those involved in these crimes were emotionally too ill-equipped to negotiate refusal and at its core, the issue wasn't love but control.

The crime spots of the "jilted lover syndrome" are peppered over different parts of the city. But what's common to them is that none of them are middle-class dwellings of babus and professionals. A majority of those involved in these killings are relatively well-off. Rajveer, one of the killers, is a transporter. His brother had recently bought a piece of land worth Rs 97 lakh. Along with a friend, he went on a killing spree in Swaroop Nagar, a faceless colony in the city's northwest fringe, because a public school teacher refused his entreaties to marry him.

Another killer Ravi first killed his 'sister-in-law/girlfriend' and her landlady in Bindapur in Delhi's southwest and drove to Ghaziabad in a Santro to kill her father and sister before turning the gun on himself. A 16-year-old minor, who was attracted to a 24-year-old mother of three and his tenant's wife, and ended up killing the woman's four-year-old boy in spite. His father owned a three-storey house in Nabi Karim in central Delhi.

"Those involved in such crimes aren't really looking for a relationship. For them, it is about procuring affection on your own terms and conditions. When that doesn't happen, their world begins to crack. Anger erupts. And in such a volatile situation, availability of firearms can lead to disaster," says consultant psychiatrist Avdesh Sharma. As another consultant psychiatrist Jitender Nagpal puts it, such killings are an outcome of a lot of "accumulated stresses."

Even the killing of cardiologist Sanjiv Dhawan by a former army jawan in Rajinder Nagar on Wednesday is being attributed to the latter being attracted to and spurned by the maid who worked for the doctor. These killers had easy money but, sociologist Yogendra Singh says, they were probably not equipped to handle man-woman relationship in a modern sense even though they tried to participate or imitate it in convoluted forms.

Sharma talks about the rise of land and property prices on the outskirts of the city. "Suddenly some people have come into a lot of money. But money also brings a sense of power and desire to be upwardly mobile and modern. Love, as they understand it, is part of this package for these people," he says.

Singh makes the same point in a different way. He says there's a fault-line between new issues of gender freedom on the one hand and the persistence of old prejudices and established conservative ideologies on the other.

"In several parts of Delhi, there are families with peasant background with memories of long tradition of rebellious behaviour against authority and law. In their perception, the use of violence is not necessarily an illegitimate behaviour. Rather, it is a throwback to their past. There's a tendency to settle a dispute on one's own account rather than go to a court," he says.

Singh believes that the intensity of exposure to outside culture through films, television and internet is more than ever before. "For such people this exposure of multiple contradictory sensations and experiences reflects in their understanding of gender relationship," he says.

But it isn't just paradoxical influences adding to the volatile mix. Easy availability of guns and ammunition is a major part of the problem. Rajveer used his contacts in the Sanjay Gandhi Transport authority and a local barber to get two 7.65mm pistols and a country-made revolver along with over 40 rounds of ammunition. Ravi also carried an automatic pistol as well as a country-made pistol. Dhavan's killer too possessed a double barrel gun bought for Rs 32,000.

A senior officer in Delhi Crime Branch says that jilted lovers are dangerous and unpredictable because sometimes the victim does not even know that she might be targeted. "A couple of years ago, Radhika Tanwar had told her stalker not to follow her. In return, she was murdered on one of the busiest overbridges in Dhaula Kuan. In the past such people reacted within minutes of rejection but now the plots are more sinister and the murders planned over days," said an officer who has investigated three such murders in north and south Delhi.

DCP (crime) Sanjay Jain admits that that the sudden spurt in such crimes has the police worried.

"It is not every day that a man travels 70 km between Delhi and Ghaziabad to kill five persons or two men killing six members, including one's own family, in the name of an affair gone wrong. The aspiration levels have changed and people are losing their ability to rationalise," he said.
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Sep 20, 2012: IRS trainee blackmailed wife with sex tape

Alka Panse, TNN | Sep 20, 2012, 05.48AM IST

NAGPUR: A woman training for the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) has complained to the city police that her husband, who is also an IRS trainee, filmed their sexual acts including some unnatural acts. The man was threatening to make the videos public if she did not pay him more dowry. The couple, both from affluent families, had got married just seven months ago after meeting at the IRS entrance exam. 

The cops have booked the husband, his mother and sister under various laws. 

According to the police complaint, Mona (name changed), who hails from Nagpur, met Nishant in 2010 during the IRS exams. After a few meetings, Nishant proposed to her in April 2011. Later, Mona was selected to be trained at the National Academy of Direct Taxes (NADT) in the city. Police sources said Nishant too was selected for the IRS, but cops didn't reveal his training centre. 

After taking their parents' permission, the couple tied the knot on February 6, 2012, in Pune. At the time of marriage, Mona's parents gifted her 40 tola gold jewellery and also gave 1 lakh to Nishant's family. After marriage, Mona stayed at Bangalore with her in-laws for two months before shifting to the city in April 2012 to begin her training. 

Mona told the police that a few days after her marriage her mother-in-law Rama had taken away all the valuables gifted by her parents at marriage. 
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Sep 20, 2012: Daughters' molestation charge against cop leads to ruckus

Soumittra S Bose, TNN | Sep 20, 2012, 03.33AM IST

NAGPUR: Sakkardara police had to endure prolonged drama as two teenage siblings approached cops with complaint of sexual exploitation against their father who is an assistant police inspector posted at Nagpur rural police control room. The officer was suspended a year back but was reinstated around a fortnight back.

The 16-year-old step-daughter of the officer claimed she was changing clothes at their rented house at Om Nagar on Wednesday when her father entered the room. The girl alleged the cop made unexpected advances towards her. She raised an alarm and rushing out of the room. The teenager approached her elder sister for help. The sisters, with help of a neighbour, contacted a social worker who brought the girls to police station where a section of the media too reached subsequently. The matter fizzled out soon as the girls developed cold feet and left the police station without lodging a complaint.

Sources in the police station said the older sister too was levelling allegations that father had forced himself upon her too. She claimed she had to stave off his advances a number of times. She further claimed that the officer had turned violent when his advances were thwarted on one occasion. The sisters were also accompanied by one of their brothers. The cops were in the process of registering an offence of outraging of modesty.

The twist came at this point when the girls' ailing mother, admitted at a private hospital, asked the daughters to refrain from going ahead. Sources in Sakkardara police station said the girls' mother felt insecure that husband may not continue her treatment if the girls went against him. It is also learnt that the official had been threatening the girls and their brother too against taking any action against him.

Superintendent of police, Nagpur rural, Manoj Sharma too said he had taken action against the officer after finding him indulging in malpractices. "I had reinstated him only because he pleaded for help due to wife's deteriorating health some days back. There was restlessness in him and I found him mentally disturbed," said Sharma. He added that the city police should not spare the officer in case the daughters lodged the complaint.

Senior inspector Annasaheb Lengde of Sakkardara police station said an entry had been made in the station diary about the incident. "We were registering the offence but the girls said that they are no more keen to press the charge. The sisters left the police station assuring to return shortly but did not come back," he said. Some sources said even a section of Sakkardara police had cajoled the sisters to refrain from registering offence against father but it could not be confirmed.
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Sep 19, 2012: Teen rapes, kills six-year-old girl

TNN | Sep 19, 2012, 11.08PM IST

VADODARA: A 17-year-old boy allegedly raped and murdered a six-year-old girl in Sayajigunj area in early hours of Wednesday. The incident happened when the girl was sleeping with her family by the roadside near Sayajigunj police station on Tuesday night.

The accused kidnapped Payal and then took her to a ravine behind M S University's commerce faculty main building. According to the police, he sexually assaulted her and strangled her to death in the ravine that is covered with thick vegetation.

The police arrested the boy on Wednesday morning after the Payal's father got suspicious of his activities. "We have arrested the boy who is originally from Uttar Pradesh. The boy told us that he is not from the city and he was wandering in Sayajigunj late on Tuesday night when he saw the girl sleeping by the roadside," said Sayajigunj police inspector, P Saiyyad.

The girl was sleeping with her parents and elder sister Bharati, 7. Her father Bharat is a daily wage labourer. Late on Tuesday night, the victim's parents noticed that she was missing and immediately started looking for her. When they couldn't find Payal, the police was informed. "The girl's body was found from the ravine opposite Revival Hotel. Initial investigations showed that the girl was sexually assaulted. Medical examinations confirmed that she was raped," Saiyyad added.

"The accused was loitering in Sayajigunj and he happened to see the Payal. He simply picked her up and started walking towards Kalaghoda Circle and then to the ravine. On Wednesday morning, the accused approached the wailing parents and told them that his brother has taken the girl. He made lot of stories but the Payal's father got suspicious and brought him to the police station," said a police official. The cops questioned him and he admitted to have committed the rape.

The police have summoned his brother who stays in Surat for further investigations.

Second incident in the area

The incident brought back memories of a similar rape and murder case registered in Sayajigunj in May, 2009. A 10-year-old girl was raped and murdered when she was sleeping with her two sisters by roadside in Sayajigunj. The girl's parents had gone for work when an unidentified person kidnapped her and then took her to Priyalaxmi Mills premise nearby.

The girl's parents had lodged complaint with Sayajigunj police station. A day after the kidnapping, security guard of the mills informed the police about a dead body lying in the premises. The victim's father Vasant Makwana identified her body. Her body was found in mutilated condition and post-mortem report confirmed that she was raped before being murdered. The police suspected that the accused may have been known to the victim and he had lured her to the mill compound.
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Sep 19, 2012: Woman kidnapped from home

TNN | Sep 19, 2012, 01.37PM IST

BIJAPUR: A 32-year-old married woman was allegedly kidnapped by three unidentified persons from her house at Ashram locality in Adarsh Nagar here on Monday.
According to a complaint lodged by Veena Shashikant Alal, three persons barged into their house and threatened her sister-in-law Mahalakshmi Parajannavar at gunpoint and fled with her on a four-wheeler. Adarsh Nagar police have registered a case. 

Gold jewellery stolen !!!Miscreants, who gained entry into a house in Bijapur city on Sunday, made away with gold ornaments worth more than Rs1.56 lakh. According to a police complaint filed by Dilip Shantappa Salagal of New KHB Colony, some unidentified persons entered his house breaking the door open and decamped with gold ornaments and money. Dilip was not in his house when the incident happened. Adarsh Nagar police are investigating.
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Sep 19, 2012: 29-yr-old divorcee raped in New Palam Vihar

TNN | Sep 19, 2012, 07.26AM IST

GURGAON: A divorcee woman was allegedly raped by a mobile shop owner when she was alone at home. According to an FIR lodged with the Palam Vihar police station, Satvindet, a resident of Bhangrola village barged into the 29-year-old woman's house in New Palam Vihar late on Sunday night and on early Monday morning and raped her.

The victim, a mother of three, had divorced her husband recently and come to live in New Palam Vihar in a rented accommodation. The accused is from Bhangrola, which is also the woman's estranged husband's native place. He was known to the victim for some months and had promised marriage."After receiving the complaint, we have lodged an FIR against Satvinder, who is on the run after the incident. Two police teams are on the lookout for the accused," said Kuldeep Singh, SHO, Palam Vihar police station.
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