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Vijay V Singh & C Unnikrishnan, TNN May 18, 2013, 01.38AM IST

MUMBAI: A very senior police officer in Mumbai leaned on crime branch officials a few months ago to withdraw a lookout notice against spot-fixing mastermind Sunil Abhichandani alias Sunil Dubai to facilitate his return to India before the beginning of the current IPL season.

The crime branch's lookout notice for Sunil related to two cricket betting cases. The senior police officer told the crime branch officers a few weeks ago to find a way to withdraw the notice. He reportedly said Sunil was not involved in serious offences and hence the crime branch should be lenient. "But crime branch officers refused to oblige him because of Sunil's links with Dawood Ibrahim," a person with knowledge of the development told TOI. Sunil was desperate to visit Mumbai before the IPL season to personally meet the 'point persons' in the teams to discuss the details.

"He had access to cricket players, IPL team owners, film personalities, politicians and other influential people. His presence here would have boosted the confidence of others involved in the betting syndicate," a source said. Sunil was also in regular contact with the personal assistant of a former minister of state for home a few years ago.

Following the crime branch's refusal, Sunil approached the session's court for anticipatory bail; his application was rejected in April. The cases Sunil in which is wanted are from 2011 and 2012, when the crime branch arrested his key associates from a Mumbai suburb.

This is not the first time the senior police officer has displayed questionable judgement. In late-March, he and his family flew in a plane chartered by a person who's under the scanner in a sensational murder case. "The Mumbai crime branch has recorded the statement of this person and is yet to give him a clean chit. He chartered the flight and took the senior police officer's family along with his own to Ratnagiri," a source said.

sum wrote: ^^ 42 cops including DGPs being booked for one known Paki's death!! Another known D-man's and TSP-ian trio ( alongwith a local college girl accomplice)encounter in Gujarat leading to 30-40 IPS folks including DIG's and a home minister being jailed!!

Truly pity a patriotic policeman's dilemma when confronted by anti-national scum.

Big boss of spot fixing arrested.

In the first instance of a Bollywood link to the latest spot-fixing scandal in cricket, the Mumbai Crime Branch on Tuesday arrested actor Vindoo Singh Randhawa, son of late wrestler-turned-actor Dara Singh, for his alleged links with bookies involved in the IPL spot-fixing scam. Vindoo has been booked under Sections 420, 465, 466 467 and 468 of the IPC (all sections dealing with forgery).

Sources said that Vindoo, winner of reality television show Bigg Boss Season 3, had been in touch with some bookies arrested in the IPL spot-fixing scam. Himself reportedly into betting, Vindoo was on many occasions spotted watching IPL matches and attending post-match parties. Investigators have a reason to believe that Vindoo, who has been spotted with IPL cricketers, had played a conduit between bookies and cricketers.

In another equally significant development that established the hawala link to the scam, investigators arrested an operator with international links, Alpesh Kumar Bhagwandas Patel, who channelised money among bookies and routed the money to punters. The police seized an unaccounted cash of `1.28 crore from Patel.

While 49-year-old Vindoo was arrested from his Juhu residence in north-west Mumbai, Patel (39) was taken into custody soon after the investigators raided two of his offices at Kalbadevi and near Pancharatna building at Opera House.

Prem Taneja, another bookie, who was picked up from the Mumbai airport on Monday while he was trying to flee to Dubai, was formally arrested on Tuesday.

The trio was produced before the Esplanade Magistrate Court, which remanded them in police custody till May 24. Talking to the media, Mumbai's Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Himanshu Roy said: “He (Vindoo) has been in our scanner for a while now. He is actively in contact with bookies......bookies like Jaipur, Jupiter and Lotus….He goes for (IPL) matches, he goes with the (prominent) people in these matches”.

Roy, however, declined to spell out the exact role of Vindoo in the spot-fixing scam. “We have arrested… we have got his remand now. As we speak, he is still in court. Let me interrogate him first,” he said. Pressed further, Roy conceded that Vindoo Singh “has admitted certain things, which you would come to know in the days to come…..He is a colourful person.”

With the three fresh arrests, the total number of persons taken into custody by the Mumbai Police in connection with the latest IPL spot-fixing scam has gone up to nine.

Last week, the city crime branch had arrested key bookie Ramesh Vyas, who managed the betting syndicate in the metropolis, and fellow bookies Pandurang Kadam, Ashok Vyas alias Jupiter, Neeraj Shah, Pravin Bera and Pankaj Shah, alias Lotus.

Incidentally, even the three newly arrested persons - Vindoo, Patel and Taneja -- have allegedly close links with Vyas, who was arrested along with two others after a raid on a Kalbadevi residence in south Mumbai on May 14.

From Vindoo, the police have seized a laptop, diaries and two phones. “We would come to know about him more in the coming days,” Roy said.

More than Vindoo, Patel is a prize catch for the investigators. Sources said it was Patel, who routed the money through hawala - from Mumbai to Dubai and elsewhere or from Mumbai to Mumbai, Mumbai to Delhi -- among various people involved in the scam. The investigators suspect that Patel had links with Sunil Dubai, a leading Dubai-based bookie, who is the kingpin of the IPL spot fixing racket.

RamaY wrote:This will create the NIA Chidambaram wanted from back door.

The Lakshmi Narayan temple possesses 48 decimal area as devottar property, and lays adjacent to a graveyard (kabristan). The State Government allotted Rs 10.5 lakh to construct a boundary wall for the graveyard. But when construction began, the Hindus objected that it was encroaching upon the devottar area.

According to volunteers of the Hindu Samhati that monitors Hindu grievances in the State, on the night of May 19, some miscreants entered the temple and damaged the principal deity. The next day, angry Hindus blockaded the road, but calmed down when the block development officer came to the village and made some assurances. But on the morning of May 21, the deities were thrown out of the temple, triggering high tension in the village.

The administration has taken a blatantly pro-minority stand and arrested six persons from the Hindu community only. Four of the arrested persons are being held at Balagarh police station, but two have been shifted to Chinsurah police station. The arrested persons include the BJP block president Subhash Khan, who was produced in the Chinsurah court today. Another person, Samir Singha, was badly beaten in the course of protests against the iconoclasm, and is currently in a hospital.....

On May 20, Hindus of Malancha, a village under Diamond Harbour police station in 24 Paraganas South district, prevented radicals from the neighbouring Muslim-dominated village of Kamalpur from hooking (stealing) electricity in their village. Thanks to the local police and administration turning a blind eye, hooking electricity from Hindu-dominated villages by Islamists in 24 Paraganas South is a routine affair.

Matters came to a head on May 17, when Hindus disconnected a number of electric wires. Previously, a freak thunderstorm had ripped a number of electric wires from the lampposts and almost electrocuted some Hindus. To prevent electrocutions, the Hindus disconnected the wires and this annoyed the Muslims who descended on the village in large numbers. This triggered a scuffle between the two communities.

Thereafter, on the evening of May 20, around 7.30 pm, some miscreants attacked Hindus with lethal weapons to restore the connections. .....

This incident closely follows an attack on a Kali temple in Keranitola, Medinipur town, West Midnapore District, on May 12, by a large crowd of fundamentalists. In protest, the Bajrang Dal and other youth clubs blocked roads and observed a bandh in some areas of the town.

Tensions rose when a Hindu, riding a motorcycle, collided with a Muslim bicycle rider and was caught and held for a ransom of Rs 25,000. However, he was rescued by members of his community without paying ransom. In revenge, the local Kali Temple was attacked and the icon of the deity damaged.

To prevent the situation from getting out of hand, the Police and Rapid Action Force (RAF) descended on the area to pacify the crowds. Three Hindu boys were detained and later another six were arrested even though it was a temple that had been desecrated.

Recently, on the morning of May 20, a Bajrangbali (Hanuman) temple near Kansai Bridge, near Midnapore, was desecrated and the murtis damaged. The local MLA rushed to the spot, supervised removal of the debris, and promised early installation of a new icon.

Chennai: Hitting a wall in their investigation of the Hyderabad bomb blast, sleuths from Andhra Pradesh have sought help from their counterparts in the anti-terror wing of the Tamil Nadu police since they have been dealing with extremism with foreign links from the early days of Eelam militancy.

A team of senior investigators from Hyderabad were in the city on Monday to discuss modalities of collaborating with the Tamil Nadu ‘Q’ branch police, which has been dealing with extremism of all hues — terror included. A TN ‘Q’ team, led by IG Abash Kumar, a sharp mind on the subject, is likely to visit Hyderabad in a few days. TN ‘Q’, along with the sleuths of IB based in the state, had helped the Karnataka police probe the blast in April at Bengaluru.
“We have been nurturing specialists in our force ever since the late DGP (intelligence) K Mohandas set in place a highly professional team to monitor the various Eelam militant groups operating out of our state in the 1980s and later. Human expertise and technology have been constantly upgraded and today, we have one of the best forces to handle extremism,” explained a senior officer, seeking anonymity.

Another officer pointed out that almost all the crimes relating to extremism had been cracked in TN. “We got all the 13 persons involved in the recent attack on a kalyana mandap in Coimbatore and even established their links with those involved in the Bengaluru blast. One suspect was tailed for days before being picked up at the Cochin airport just before emplaning for the Gulf,” the officer said.
Referring to the Bangalore blast, he said it was found that the motorcycle used for planning the bombs had TN registration but the number was fake. However, the identify of the user was established through a maze of false phone numbers and misleading trails, starting with the bike’s chassis number — it was a TVS bike made in Hosur and allotted to a showroom in Tambaram.
One of the suspects, a Muslim, was trapped through his mobile SIM and the kingpin would be nabbed soon, he said, adding that it was regrettable that some Muslim outfits had recently met DGP K. Ramanujam to complain of police harassment.
“We have clinching evidence and confessions sworn on Koran. TN police has always been as humane as it is efficient,” said the officer.

Swami Aseemanand, Col Purohit not named in Malegaon blasts chargesheet

Mumbai: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday filed a chargesheet in the 2006 Malegaon blasts case and named four accused, but importantly did not mention the names of Swami Aseemanand and former Lt Col Srikant Purohit.

The development comes as a reprieve for the RSS which had come under attack after Swami Aseemanand and Col Purohit were named as accused in the case. Both had links to the Hindu organisation.

shyamd wrote:RT @timesnow:Underworld don Chhota Shakeel speaks to TOI: D Gang not involved in fixing for last 10 years

Sachin wrote:On the Malegaon case, so finally NIA has framed up its case. The head lines from two dailies..
NIA files charge sheet in Malegaon blast case
Aseemanand, Pragya and Purohit let off in Malegaon case
PS: The Hindu does not seem to be happy in naming the 4 accused, perhaps these were not the four The Hindu was expecting to be put up on the dock .

RajeshA wrote:

RamaY wrote:

RajeshA wrote:

From now on wards, every time someone says "you guys dont deserve my knowledge... I am going to post this tweet"

Senior members of India’s ruling Congress party were among at least 27 people killed as their convoy was ambushed by 300 communist insurgents, in one of the most deadly attacks on politicians of a four decade offensive.Guerrillas blasted landmines to stop vehicles carrying Congress leaders from a May 25 party rally in central Chhattisgarh province before singling out their targets and opening fire, the Press Trust of India reported.The Congress party’s state chief Nand Kumar Patel and Mahendra Karma, the architect of a villager force called the Salwa Judum that was used by the state to counter the so-called Naxalites, were both killed, the state’s police chief Ramniwas said in a phone interview yesterday. A former federal minister, V.C. Shukla, was one of 32 people injured and airlifted to a hospital near New Delhi.The rebel group, formally known as the Communist Party of India (Maoist), trace their origins back to the ideology of Mao Zedong and are active in about a dozen of the country’s 28 states, many of them rich in iron ore, coal, bauxite, manganese and other minerals. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called the insurgents the greatest threat to India’s internal security.“I wish a very speedy recovery to those who have been injured in the dastardly attack,” Singh said in a statement. “Government will take firm action against the perpetrators of violence of any kind.” Political leaders termed the killings an attack on democracy.Rahul Gandhi, scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family that is preeminent in Indian politics, said the Congress party won’t be cowed down by such attacks, according to Press Trust. He visited Chhattisgarh yesterday along with his mother, Congress President Sonia Gandhi, and Singh. The Congress is the main opposition party in the state and leads the federal coalition.
Radical Uprising
The leftwing Naxalites were named after the West Bengal village of Naxalbari where demands for land reform coalesced into a radical uprising in 1967, inspired by the thoughts of Mao. The Indian revolt was greeted as “a peal of spring thunder” by China’s People’s Daily when it began.
The area that is under the grip of rebels in India’s east and south is called the “Red Corridor.”
The insurgents say they are fighting for the rights of poor villagers and tribal communities whose resources are, the rebels argue, being exploited to propel India’s $1.9 trillion economy with few benefits for local people.India’s offensive to defeat the rebels is being hampered by too few police, while the absence of roads, schools and hospitals makes it hard to win over sympathizers of the guerrillas, Palaniappan Chidambaram said last year when he was the home minister. He now heads the Ministry of Finance.
‘Strategic Error’
“Maoists have again consolidated in the Red Corridor areas by recruiting more people, holding more training camps and motivating locals after making a strategic error by expanding to new urban areas where they lost cadres and some leaders,” said Ajai Sahni, executive director of the New Delhi-based Institute for Conflict Management.“On the other hand administrations and security forces are ignorant of the reality at ground and have not been able to increase their capabilities and capacities in terms of training, intelligence gathering and acquiring technology to dominate them.”

SSridhar wrote:The edit suggests that the Naxals should not have attacked the politicians in Chattisgarh but instead the police because politicians retaliate.

ramana wrote:Atri et al so what happened to the Razakar progeny that vandalized the Amar Jawan memorial last year? Enjoying biryani or absconded?

She used the internal contacts in her NAC/Planning commission (Binayak Sen/Mander/Aruna Roy), set up her own party leaders (all except Jogi who is her key loyalist & who can organize to win in CGarh) who have been eliminated.