Ex-dacoit, BJP man held for sand mafia link in Madhya Pradesh

March 12, 2012

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Bhopal, March 12: Cracking down on the mining mafia behind a slew of attacks on police and civic officials, Madhya Pradesh police on Sunday arrested Kuber Singh, a former dacoit who is the lynchpin of the sand mafia, and Morena district's ex-BJP chief Hamir Singh Patel, who assaulted officials for impounding tractor-trolleys used in quarrying stone.

Kuber and his gang had fired on a team of civil and police officials on Friday when they tried to destroy a makeshift bridge on the Ken river in Panna used to transport sand illegally to UP. Interrogation is on to ascertain if the duo were linked to the killing of IPS officer Narendra Kumar last week.

A rattled state government has rushed 150 Special Armed Force (SAF) troops to take on the mafia in the Chambal division and hunt down other illegal miners.

Kuber Singh, a former dacoit whose gang members had fired at a team of civil and police officials, and who tried to destroy a temporary bridge over Ken river in Panna to transport illegally mined sand to UP, is being interrogated. IPS officer Narendra Kumar Singh was killed after being hit by a tractor trolley laden with stones on Holi.

Two companies of SAF armed with assault rifles and other sophisticated weaponry are in Morena and one more group is likely to reach the district shortly.

Patel was arrested for allegedly assaulting officers and forcibly taking away two tractor trolleys used for stone quarrying. He had hit mining inspector Rajkumar Barethe on January 31 when he, along with district mining officer Rakesh Kaneria, impounded two tractor-trolleys engaged in illegal mining.

Morena DSP Sanjay Kumar told TOI that each SAF company comprises 75 fighters, adding that they would be a part of task force comprising officials of district police, forest, and mining and revenue departments. Although the task force in Morena was formed some time ago, it was proving inefficient for want of policemen to check the illegal mining in Morena.

A team of investigators reached Morena on Sunday to study the stones in the impounded tractor trolley that killed the young IPS officer. Comprising three experts, took the stones and reached some mines to zero in on the quarry from which it had been excavated, a top mining official said.


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February 16,2020

Five Bajrang Dal activists have been arrested for allegedly indulging in vandalism in the city on Valentines Day, police said.

They said about 10 to 15 activists on two wheelers vandalised a shop in Kattupalli area in Hyderabad on February 14.

They held aloft flags and raised slogans against celebration of Valentines Day and "created havoc" at different malls, a police press release said.

On receiving information, police rushed to a mall, but the Bajrang Dal activists escaped from the spot.

Five of them were later identified with the help of CCTV footage and arrested, police said.

The others too have been identified and efforts were on to nab them, police said.

Two cases have been registered against them under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code on a complaint from shop owners, the release said.

 

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June 17,2020

Moradabad, Jun 17: Two children died after they accidentally got locked inside a car while playing in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad, the police said.

Four children, aged between 4 and 7 years, locked themselves inside the car while playing and were found unconscious soon after, the police added.

"All four children were found unconscious in a car and they were taken to the hospital. Two of them died and the other two are undergoing treatment at the hospital," said Amit Kumar Anand, superintendent of police (city) Moradabad.

The children were related to each other, the police said.

The man who owns the car said the children had locked themselves inside. "When we reached, the children were in an unconscious state. Two of the four children died. The incident occurred around 8 am."

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July 12,2020

Tamil Nadu, Jul 12: An alleged attempt by a 19-year-old man to "open a branch of the State Bank of India" at Panruti near Tamil Nadu was scuttled and he was arrested for forgery, police said on Saturday.

The man, son of retired SBI employees, had readied fake seals and challans of the public sector lender, and had other paraphernalia like a cash counting machine needed "to run a bank branch," on an upper floor of his residence at Panruti, about 25 km from Tamil Nadu.

He had not, however, put up any signboard. The SBI Panruti branch manager lodged a complaint with police seeking action following a tip-off by a customer that the man was "opening an SBI branch and has challans as well."

A printer who printed the challans and another who had made fake seals were held for similar offences and abetment.

They were produced before a magistrate court and enlarged on bail.

Asked if the man had cheated people by soliciting deposits or facilitating loans, Panruti police inspector K Ambethkar said, "no..we have not received any such complaint so far."

The man's late father had worked for SBI and his mother had retired from the same bank some time back, he said.

To a question, the police inspector said the man's mother, who has mobility issues, and another woman a relative living in the same house had no clue about his "idea."

Investigations revealed that he aspired to work for a bank and since he had closely watched banking operations for long he was "very knowledgeable" about it.

On the suspected motive, he said several of his replies were incomprehensible, childish, and strange notwithstanding his excellent understanding of the banking processes.

"He even calmly told us that he awaited approval from Mumbai to open the (SBI) branch and that he was about to put up a signboard," the inspector said, adding that the man had tried unsuccessfully to get employment on compassionate grounds in the SBI following the death of his father in harness.

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