Man falls for bait on Dubai road, ends up losing Dh700,000

March 14, 2017

Dubai, Mar 14: A gang managed to steal Dh700,000 from a salesman after dropping a packet full of US Dollars on the side of a road as a bait to distract him.

ManAccording to court documents, an Uzbek man, 26, lured the victim, together with runaway accomplices, away from traffic and people on a street in Naif area so that his friends would beat him up and snatch the large amount of money that he was carrying. He was charged with theft in the Court of First Instance.

A car rental office manager, also Uzbek, 26, is accused of aiding and abetting the theft by providing the gang with the car they used on November 12, last year, without receiving the necessary documents from them.

Two other Uzbek nationals, aged 39 and 24, are accused of possessing parts of the stolen cash.

"Around 2:00pm, I was assigned by my boss to carry Dh700,000 to a jewelry company which had business deals with his general trading establishment. I had the money in a suitcase and I went there walking," the 40-year-old Nepali salesman said.

After crossing the Naif Street, the salesman saw a packet of US Dollars on the side of the road.

A man picked up the money and gestured to him to follow him into an alley, signaling that he would split the cash with him.

The salesman followed him but he was surprised by another man stepping in and claiming that he had lost that money.

"He said that he wanted to search us. As the first man opened his bag I followed suit and opened my suitcase out of good will," the salesman told the prosecutor.

The victim was then punched in the face so strongly that he fell down and then woke up to see that he had lost the money. He reported the incident to the police and later went to the hospital for treatment.

"CCTV footage showed two men luring the victim in¬¬to an alley and shortly after two other men physically assaulting and running away with the large amounts of money that he was carrying," a police lieutenant said.

"We launched a probe and found that the suspects were driving a car belonging to a rental agency.

On November 19, we arrested one of the accused at the car rental office where he worked. He said that he gave the car for rent to two men without receiving the necessary identification documents from them, which goes against the enforced regulations".

The office employee told the police about one week earlier that he received a call from one of those men to go pick up the car from where he had left it in Sharjah with its keys inside.

"We found that the man gave the logistic support to the gang members to commit crimes without leaving behind any evidence," the lieutenant said.

Another accused was arrested a few hours later in Sharjah.

The trial will continue on April 3.

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January 16,2020

Cuttack, Jan 16: At least 15 passengers were injured as five coaches of the Mumbai-Bhubaneswar Lokmanya Tilak Express derailed and three more were displaced after colliding with a goods train amid heavy fog near Cuttack in Odisha on Thursday, railway officials said.

Railway officials had earlier said that 25 passengers were injured in the incident but later officers who reached the site reported that four passengers were found to have suffered major injuries and 11 had received minor injuries.

Passengers with major injuries have been sent to Cuttack Medical College. All passengers are stated to be out of danger.

Officials said the accident happened when the passenger train hit the guard van of a good train around 7 am between Salagaon and Nergundi stations.

The officials said there was heavy fog at the site but it was not clear what led to the accident. The speedometer of both the trains have been seized for inquiry, East Coast Railway Spokesperson J P Mishra said.

Buses have been arranged for all remaining passengers to move towards their destination.

Cuttack is around 10-12 km away and Bhubaneswar(Terminating station) is 35 km.

The accident disrupted train services in the area.

Five trains have been affected due to the accident where restoration work in underway. These include the Bhubaneswar-Mumbai LTT SF Express, the Puri-Rourkela Express, Dhanbad-Bhubaneshwar Rajyarani Express which have all been diverted via Naraj.

"East Coast Railway acknowledges with deep gratitude help of nearby locals and villagers who have displayed great humanitarian values and come to the rescue of injured passengers," Mishra said.

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May 25,2020

Hyderabad, May 25: Indicating foul play in the death of nine people, including six of a family, whose bodies were fished out from a well near Warangal, a forensic expert on Sunday virtually ruled out suicide theory, saying it appeared seven of them had been dragged and thrown into the water body.

Mystery shrouded the death of nine people, including six of a family, whose bodies were found in a well, five of them on Friday and four on Thursday, on the outskirts of Warangal in Telangana.

Police stepped up the probe and forensic analysis was also underway in the case.

The forensic expert, who visited the crime scene as part of the investigation citing preliminary tests, said that the seven of nine people had scratch injuries and appeared to have been "dragged" and "thrown" into the well.

Forensic reports are expected in 10 days, the forensic expert told media on Sunday adding after examining the crime scene it appears that the deaths were not suicides.

"We have preserved all organs and the same were sent to forensic science laboratory (FSL) for examination... some two or three persons might have been involved in the crime. There are scratch injuries on the bodies," he said.

"It appears that they were thrown into the water... There were no injuries on the child's body. We are awaiting the forensic report (to ascertain) whether they were poisoned. It didn't appear as if they committed suicide," the expert, who performed the post-mortem said.

Police sources said at least two people were picked up for questioning.

Bodies of the head of the family, wife, daughter and three-year old grandson were found floating and fished out on Thursday.

On Friday morning, some bodies were seen floating following which police pumped out the water from the well and found others.

The 48-year old man had migrated from West Bengal over 20 years ago and had settled down here. His family had been staying in two rooms on the premises of the unit, police had earlier said.

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June 30,2020

Visakhapatnam, Jun 30: Two people were killed and four others were taken ill after benzene gas leaked at a pharmaceutical company at Parawada near here early on Tuesday morning, official sources said.

The situation was now under control as the leak was restricted to one unit in the Sainor Life Sciences company, the sources said.

The two killed were senior employees of the company, they said.

The injured persons have been admitted to a hospital in Gajuwaka, with one of them being put on ventilator support, the sources added.

District Collector V Vinay Chand and Police Commissioner R K Meena visited the company to take stock of the situation.

The cause of the leak that took place in a reactor unit at the plant is yet to be established.

The incident comes nearly two months after 11 people were killed and over 1000 taken ill after gas leak at a chemical plant here.

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