Man kidnapped by `Facebook friend' and her accomplices
Rajkot (Gujarat), Oct 14: Five persons including a woman were arrested by Rajkot police in Gujarat Sunday for allegedly kidnapping a man for ransom after luring him into a trap using social media.
Nitu Rawal, one of the accused, allegedly befriended the victim Suresh Chabria three days ago, said an officer from Pradyuman Nagar police station.
"She sent him a friend request on Facebook using a fake account. They started chatting and decided to meet in a garden Sunday," the officer said.
"When Chhabria went to meet her, four men arrived on the spot and beat him up claiming that they were her brothers," the official said.
The accused then allegedly took Chhabriya to an isolated place in the city where they asked him to marry the woman. They also called up the victim's family and allegedly demanded Rs 12 lakh `for marriage'.
After the family approached police, police decided to set a trap and asked the family to offer the kidnappers Rs 40,000 as the first instalment.
When the accused arrived to collect the money, they were arrested and Chhabria was rescued.
Apart from Rawal, the other accused were identified as Shanu, Afzal, Asif and Harkishan Singh.
All of them were booked under IPC sections 342 (wrongful confinement) and 384 (extortion).
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
