DELHI POLICE
PRESS RELEASE
Date: 27.04.2011
CASE BACKGROUND:
On 24.04.2011, Shri Vikram Singh r/o Maharani Bagh, Delhi reported regarding the kidnapping of his son Ishan Singh (aged 18 months old) by his maid Seema whom they had employed recently. The maid Seema was reported to have taken the child to a nearby park at around 5.30 PM and since then she and the child had not returned. The maid had disclosed at the time of employment that she is a resident of Jharkhand. A Case of kidnapping was registered at PS New friends Colony, Delhi.
JOINT TEAM FORMED:
The investigations were taken up by the South-East District Police and the Crime Branch was also directed by the Commissioner of Police to assist in the investigations. Investigations revealed that the family was in need of a maid and they had spread the word around so as to get some good response. On 10.04.2011, the maid Seema had walked in and informed that she had learnt that a maid was required, and she requested to be employed. Since the family was badly in need of a maid, she was asked to join from the next day i.e. 11.04.2011. The family told her to provide references but she cleverly avoided providing any information regarding her antecedents.
DETAILED INVESTIGATIONS LAUNCHED:
There was no clue, to start with, for the investigators. One important piece of information was learnt was that the earlier maid Pratima employed by them in March, had left for her Home in Orissa on 20.04.2011.
Ø The South-East District got the portrait of the maid prepared and circulated the same along-with the photograph of the child in Delhi and nearby areas.
Ø Since the photograph of the maid was not available, CCTV footage at all shops the family had visited was analysed. One footage from a South Delhi Bakery was found to have her photograph which also was used in investigations.
Ø Teams were sent to railway stations and ISBT to keep surveillance.
Ø Placement agencies were contacted and over more than 2000 photographs of the maids were shown to the family.
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Ø A house to house search was also conducted in Taimur Nagar and surrounding areas as the maid Seema had informed that her relatives were residing somewhere in the nearby area.
Ø A team was immediately despatched to Orissa for questioning Pratima.
Ø Meanwhile, the Crime Branch team led by ACP Ravi Shanker and consisting of Inspector Virender Dalal, Inspector Suresh Kumar, Inspector Sandeep Malhotra, Inspector Rajeev Kumar and staff was formed under the overall supervision of DCP/Crime Ashok Chand.
VITAL CLUE:
A joint team of the South-East District and the Crime Branch started systematic investigation.
Ø Systematic and meticulous investigations revealed that the other maid in the house had been engaged only a month ago, and her decision to leave on 20th April just before 3/4 days before this incident aroused suspicion.
Ø The joint team then started indentifying her acquaintances and zeroed in on Ashok Kiro (19), the fiancé of Pratima, the maid who had since taken a break on some pretext and gone to Orissa.
Ø The Crime Branch with the help of local police traced Ashok Kiro and apprehended him on 26.04.2011 at about 12 Noon.
Ø Ashok Kiro r/o Sundergarh, Orissa was subjected to intensive interrogation.
PRE-PLANNED CONSPIRARY:
Ø He revealed that he along-with Krishan Dev Kumar, employed in a house in Maharani Bagh, Anu Ara Begam @ Shanty(35) r/o Jalpaiguri, West bengal , running a placement agency from Khizrabad, New friends Colony and Pratima, his fiancé, had entered into a conspiracy for kidnapping a child of some rich businessman for ransom.
Ø The family where Pratima was working was in need of a maid to look after a child of 18 months old. They roped in Sabita Kerketta @ Seema(19) r/o Sundergarh, Orissa, an unemployed maid.
Ø They told her that she should go to the concerned house seek employment as a maid under an assumed name and refrain from giving any particulars about her antecedents.
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Ø She was specifically asked to ensure that the fact that she had a mobile phone with her should not be known to the family, and she should win the affection of the child.
Ø Pratima, the maid already employed, in order to avoid suspicion gave the excuse that her parents are ill and left for Orissa.
FINAL EXECUTION:
Ø The child Ishan Singh used to go in various parks in the evening with the family members accompanied by the maid on 24.04.2011. Since the family members were pre-occupied, they directed the maid Sabita Kerketta @ Seema to take Ishan to neaby park in the pram.
Ø As per the plan Sabita Kerketta @ Seema contacted Krishan Dev Kumar. He came in a car along-with Anu Ara begam @ Shanty and Sabita Kerketta @ Seema. Seema along-with Ishan sat in the car and went to their rented hide-out at Sarai Kale Khan, Delhi.
POLICE RAIDS & RECOVERY:
Ø At the instance of Ashok Kiro, the said hide-out was raided and it was found that the kidnappers had abandoned the hide-out in the night of 25.04.2011.
Ø Ashok Kiro was further interrogated. He disclosed about another hide-out of Krishan Dev Kumar.
Ø The hide-out was located and kept under surveillance and he was apprehended at about 08.45 PM on 26.04.2011 and subjected to intensive interrogation.
Ø He disclosed that the kidnapped child, Anu, Sabita Kerketta @ Seema are kept at Harkesh Nagr, Tilpat, Faridabad.
Ø The team of Crime Branch raided this hide-out and recovered the kidnapped child from him.
Ø Anu and Seema were apprehended at about 10.45 PM on 26.04.2011 from this hide-out.
RANSOM MOTIVE:
Ø On further interrogation it was revealed that they had planned to make a demand of Rs.2 Crores as ransom for release of the child.
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Ø Police has the following recoveries from their hideout in Faridabad which reveals their detailed planning to keep the child captive for about a month or so:
· Diapers of the child.
· Baby oil and powder.
· Powdered milk and Marie Gold biscuits(since the child was fond of it)
· Mobile belonging to Kishan Dev Kumar.
(Another mobile also recovered from Ashok)
Ø They were planning to wait for the police pressure to settle down and then convey the ransom demand in some way.
Ø Interestingly, the kidnappers had changed the appearance of the victim boy to that of a girl (with bangles & frock) to escape police attention.
Further investigation is in progress.
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- Name of Accused Persons Arrested
1. Ashok Kiro S/o Dama Kiro
R/o Village-Bauri Dihi,
Post-Kulata,
Distt-Sundergarh, Orissa.
Age-23 Yrs.
2. Savita Kerketta @ Seema D/o Raimond Kerketta
R/o Village-Kiling sera Bhaja Toli,
Post-Koronga,
Distt-Sundergarh, Orissa.
Age-19 Yrs.
3. Annu Ara Begam @ Shanti D/o Raidul Alam
R/o Village-Barodighi Bazar,
Post-Barodighi,
Distt-Jalpaiguri, West Bengal.
Age-35 Yrs.
4. Krishan Dev Kumar @ Krishan Kumar S/o Sita Prasad
R/o VPO-Daruara,
P.S- Noorsarai
Distt-Nalanda, Bihar,
Age-32 Yrs.
Education- 9th
Marital Status-Married
To be Arrested
Pratima d/o Yaqoob
r/o Vill.Raidi, Distt. Sundergarh,
Orissa.
PRESS RELEASE
27.04.2011
GANG OF CHEATS ARRESTED
INCIDENT AND TEAM
On 25.04.11, information was received regarding a gang of cheats who lure general public through advertisement in newspaper to earn regular income by installing towers of leading Mobile Phone Companies. When people used to contact on the given mobile phone numbers, they were offered Rs. 5 Lacs as advance and Rs. 25,000/- per month as rent. A team from PS Preet Vihar led by SI Nirbhay Kumar comprising of ASI Brahmpal, H.C. Ashok Rana, Ct. Harender and Ct. Anil was constituted under the supervision of Insp. Manoj Kumar, SHO/PS Preet Vihar and trap was laid. After reaching near HDFC Bank at Vikas Marg the team was deployed discreetly. As the cheat, later identified as Jainender Singh @ Jonny S/o Late Sh. Bhikari Singh R/o 101/13, Circular Road, Sahadara, Delhi and Amit Kumar S/o Rajpal Singh R/o 666/1, Pal Gali, Jwala Nagar, Sahadara Delhi came there in their Red Santro Car no. DL-3C-AP-2038, they were asked to stop their car. Instead of stopping their car they tried to flee. They were chased and finally intercepted near Bhola Nath Nagar red light. A case vide FIR No. 102/11, u/s 472/468/471/467/120-B/34 IPC has been registered at PS Preet Vihar. The accused persons have been produced in the court and accused Amit Kumar has been remanded to P/C for two days and Jainender Singh remanded to Judicial Custody.
MODUS-OPERANDI
The gang of cheats comprising of Amit Kumar, Ravi Shekher and Jainender Singh @ Jonny, used to lure people by publishing advertisement in newspapers, especially in far flung areas of Maharashtra, Gujarat, M.P., U.P., Jharkhand, Bihar etc wherein they give few mobile phone numbers as their contact and inducement for earning huge amount as rent and advance from the mobile companies. Once people contact them on the given mobile phone numbers, they would be asked to furnish location of their property or plot where Tower is to be installed and inform that they will secretly verify the property and contact them. Thereafter, in all the cases they contact victims to confirm that they have verified their place and are issuing Green Card (Smart Card having 16 digit numbers and logos of 10 leading mobile companies). Thereafter, the accused used to send Green Card of fake companies viz. Gupta Constructions, Singh Constructions etc to the victims through speed post along with Agreement Letter. The Agreement is a well drafted document through which they used to demand Rs. 5000/- as activation charge of the green card and further Rs. 15,000/- as service tax @ 3% on the advance of Rs. 5 Lacs. The Agreement Letter used to have very convincing drafting.
RECOVERY
The following articles were recovered from their possession –
1. Registers having details of victims, who have been cheated.
2. Many counterfeit Seals including seals of SBI and Bank of Baroda.
3. Cheque books.
4. 20 mobile phones and SIM Cards.
5. 2000 Green Cards (Fake).
6. Hundreds of fake Agreement Letters.
7. CPU with LCD.
8. Thousand of Speed Post stickers.
9. Other incriminating documents.
PROFILE OF PERSONS ARRESTED
1. Jainender Singh @ Jonny S/o Late Sh. Bhikari Singh R/o 101/13, Circular Road, Sahadara, Delhi, aged 24 years, education 10th pass, unemployed, and
2. Amit Kumar S/o Rajpal Singh R/o 666/1, Pal Gali, Jwala Nagar, Sahadara Delhi age 30 years, education twelfth fail, unemployed.
Further investigation is in progress.
( I.B. RANI )
DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
EAST DISTRICT, DELHI.
PRESS RELEASE
27.04.2011
SENSATIONAL CASE OF EXTORTION SOLVED, TWO EXTORTIONISTS THREATENING TO EXTORT RUPEES ONE CRORE FROM SILVER TRADER NABBED
Special Staff/ East Distt. Delhi has arrested two desperate extortionists who were giving extortion threats of Rs. One Crore to a leading Silver trader. The names of the arrested persons are:
1. Rakesh @ Kalu @ Shanu s/o Nathi Lal r/o H.No. B-79, Gali No. 2, Vijay Marg, North Ghonda, Delhi.
2. Mohd. Yasin s/o Mohd. Farookh r/o H.No. E-16/K-230, New Seelampur, Delhi.
INCIDENT:
From 25/03/11 onwards, one Silver Trader of East Distt. was getting extortion threats for one crore rupees. The extortionists were posing themselves as gangsters and said that if extortion money is not paid they will kill the family members of the complainant. They also knew each and every details of his business. On 28/03/11 he again received extortion threats. Case was registered bearing FIR No. 87/11 of PS Gandhi Nagar u/s 387/507 IPC. The complainant till 25/04/11 received around 25 extortion threats from different numbers of Tata and Reliance. All the SIMs were on fake identity and were used only for extortion purposes.
INVESTIGATION AND TEAM:
Keeping in view of sensitivity of the case, it was transferred to Special Staff/ East for investigation. The team comprising of SI Vinay Yadav, SI Satender Khari, ASI Sukhbir, ASI Satpal, HC Praveen, HC Sudesh Pal, HC Sirmohar, Ct. Praveen, Ct. Anangpal, Ct. Ashok, Ct. Jitender, Ct. Roop, Ct. Lokender was formed under the overall supervision of Insp. Rakesh Dixit I/C Spl. Staff/ East. Five mobile numbers were used for extortion purpose and threats were given on 25/3/11, 28/3/11, 31/3/11, 7/4/11, 12/4/11, 15/4/11 and 25/4/11. It was very difficult to locate the persons as the numbers used for extortion were not used for any other purpose. The complainant fully co-operated with the investigation and provided details of his labourers and the persons to whom silver is sent for moulding purposes during the last 5 years. The movement of each and every labour was monitored. Dealers and shopkeepers from where the mobile numbers were issued were also interrogated. They told that during November and December 2010 some low STD Rental plans were given on prepaid SIMs by one particular CDMA Service Provider. During this demand of such SIMs got high and some distributors on their own issued several SIMs which were used in various PCOs of Seelampur Area as it is a factory area and lot of labour used to make calls to their native places. The SIMs used in extortion were also found to be of same category. All the SIMs were used for one or two day on PCOs. Hundreds of such SIMs were identified and some PCOs were located in the area of Seelampur in which these SIMs were used. During this process fruitful result bore that one previous labour Yasin r/o Seelampur of complainant is friendly with such a PCO Owner. Watch was kept on his activities. Secret informers were also deployed. It came to notice that one Rakesh met him frequently on the days in which threats were given. During this process on 26/04/11, after around month long painstaking exercise, secret information was received to SI Vinay Yadav that Rakesh will again meet Yasin and might again give extortion threats. On this raid was conducted and both were apprehended from Chauhan Bangar, Seelampur area. The mobile used for making extortion call threat and last SIM used for extortion has been recovered.