Interstate gang of robbers busted in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad, July 8 : Four men who robbed a software engineer here of a laptop, an iPhone 6 and Rs 2,000 in cash have been arrested, police said on Sunday.
Senior Superintendent of Police Vaibhav Krishna identified the arrested men as Indrajeet Saini alias Rajvir alias Saamba from Hoshiarpur in Punjab, Deepak Chauhan and his brother Rahul of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh and Krishna Kumar of Panipat in Haryana.
Indrajeet had been convicted for 10 years in jail in a drug case but escaped during a 15-day parole and began living in Haridwar where he met up with the other gang members.
Desperate to finance Rahul Chauhan's wedding, the gang decided to rob Vijay Munjal in Sector 136 Noida on June 30.
They entered his house on the pretext of delivering a wedding invitation to the house owner and pounced on the unsuspecting Munjal, a tenant, and robbed him. They gagged him with duct tape before escaping.
Following a tip off, the police in Ghaziabad first arrested Deepak and then the others. The police recovered the laptop, iPhone 6, duct tape and and Rs 500 besides two pistols.
The police said gang leader Indrajeet was found involved in 18 criminal cases of heinous nature in Punjab. The others too had a criminal history.
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Misuse of power, money to control election mechanism seen during Maharashtra polls: Sharad Pawar
Pune (PTI): NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday claimed the misuse of power and money to control the entire election mechanism, which was never before seen in any state assembly or national polls, was witnessed in Maharashtra.
Pawar made the statement when he visited senior activist Dr Baba Adhav, who is protesting against the alleged "misuse of EVMs" in the recent state polls in Maharashtra.
Adhav, who is in his 90s, began his three-day protest at Phule Wada, the residence of social reformer Jyotiba Phule, in the city on Thursday.
The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) allies, the Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (SP), have been alleging manipulation of EVMs in the recently held Maharashtra Assembly elections, which saw a landslide victory by the Mahayuti.
The Mahayuti, comprising the Shiv Sena, BJP and NCP, won 230 out of 288 assembly seats in the November 20 polls, while the MVA managed just 46 seats.Talking to reporters, Pawar said elections were conducted recently in the country, and there is a restlessness among the people about these.
Baba Adhav's agitation represents this restlessness, he said.
He said, "There is a murmur among the people that the recent polls in Maharashtra saw 'misuse of power' and 'floods of money', which was never seen in the past. Such things are heard of in local-level polls, but taking over the entire election mechanism with the help of money and misuse of power was not seen before. However, we witnessed it in Maharashtra, and people are restless now."
He added that people were recalling late socialist ideologue Jaiprakash Narayan and felt somebody should take a step forward.
"I heard Baba Adhav has taken a lead into this issue and is agitating at Phule Wada. His protest gives hope to the people, but it is not enough. A mass revolt is necessary, as the danger of the parliamentary democracy getting destroyed looms," Pawar said.
The former Union minister said those who have reins of the country in their hands are least bothered about this.
"Despite widespread discussion over it (alleged misuse of EVMs) in the country, whenever the opposition tries to raise the issue in the Parliament, they are not allowed to speak. Opposition leaders have been seeking an opportunity to speak on these issues for six days, but their demands have not been accepted even once. It shows they want to attack parliamentary democracy," he claimed.
He said Dr Adhav's protest is a fine example of someone revolting against the issue and expressed confidence that his protest will create a ripple effect.
