Senior IPS Officer Roopa says she is facing threat of acid attack by BJP leader
Bengaluru: Amidst the standoff between Chairman Beloor Raghavendra Shetty and Managing Director and IPS Officer D Roopa Moudgil, of Karnataka State Handicrafts Development Corporation Limited (KSHDCL) the latter has reportedly said she is under threat of an acid attack by Shetty.
The standoff between the Chairman and MD became public when the two were attending the Annual General Body meeting of the board and labeled serious allegations against each other during the meeting on May 27. The video of the incident had gone viral across social media platforms.
On Thursday, a screenshot of the purported WhatsApp message from Roopa started doing rounds on social media platforms wherein Roopa alleged that Shetty had threatened her with an acid attack while also threatening to commit suicide.
On May 27, Shetty said that Roopa would be responsible for his death if he commits suicide. Following this, Roopa said she had requested the Chief Secretary to file a case against Shetty as threatening to commit suicide was a punishable offence under the Indian Penal Code.
In her complaint to the Chief Secretary Roopa charged Shetty with destroying CCTV footage ill-treating women staff, to trying to bring back a sacked general manager (finance) who had misappropriated Rs 25 crore.
Roopa also alleged that though there is a rule that the chairman should not interfere in the day-to-day work of KSHDCL, Shetty asks the staff to bring files related to projects. She accused him of taking away sandalwood and other products from showrooms without paying money. She alleged that though KSHDCL is paying salaries to four staffers of the chairman, none of them have come to the office.
Later on Thursday evening, Roopa confirmed that the message, of which the screenshot was doing rounds on social media was indeed sent by her. In the message, she had also added that to avoid inconvenience to the government she had not mentioned the acid attack threat by Shetty earlier.
While Chairman Beloor Raghavendra Shetty is a political appointment by the BJP government, MD D Roopa Moudgil is a senior IPS officer of the rank of IGP.
Let the Truth be known. If you read VB and like VB, please be a VB Supporter and Help us deliver the Truth to one and all.
Traffic fraud: Fake 'no-entry' sticker racket busted in Delhi, mastermind among 3 held
New Delhi (PTI): Police here have busted a crime syndicate involved in traffic fraud and extortion, arresting three people including the alleged mastermind who sold fake stickers to help commercial vehicles bypass no-entry restrictions, an official said on Saturday.
The police said they dismantled a third organised syndicate linked to traffic-related frauds, with the arrest of Rinku Rana alias Bhushan, his associate Sonu Sharma and Mukesh Kumar alias Pakodi, who was also connected to another extortion syndicate.
According to the police, Rinku Rana was running a well-organised network that facilitated the movement of commercial goods vehicles during restricted hours by selling fake 'marka' or stickers for Rs 2,000 to Rs 5,000 per vehicle every month. The stickers were falsely projected as authorisation to evade traffic challans.
During raids, the police recovered Rs 31 lakh in cash, property documents worth several crores of rupees, over 500 fake stickers and six mobile phones allegedly used to operate the syndicate.
The crackdown followed a complaint filed by a traffic police officer in April this year after a commercial vehicle tried to evade checking by producing a fake sticker claiming exemption from enforcement action.
Investigation revealed that social media groups were being used to coordinate the illegal movement of vehicles and alert drivers about traffic police checkpoints, police said.
"A parallel system was being run to cheat drivers and vehicle owners while undermining traffic enforcement. On the basis of evidence, provisions related to organised crime under the BNS were invoked," a senior police officer said.
Sonu Sharma, the police said, managed social media groups through which stickers were sold and real-time alerts were circulated regarding traffic police movement. He also acted as a link between Rana and drivers operating in the field.
In a related development, Mukesh Kumar alias Pakodi, an associate of Rajkumar alias Raju Meena, who was earlier arrested under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), was also apprehended.
Mukesh allegedly helped extort money from transporters and was involved in blackmailing traffic police personnel by recording enforcement actions, the police said.
Investigators alleged the syndicate led by Rajkumar deployed drivers to deliberately violate traffic rules and secretly record police officials during challans, later using manipulated videos to extort money under threat of false allegations.
The police said that in total, eight accused belonging to three different organised crime syndicates linked to traffic frauds and extortion have been arrested so far.
Further investigation is underway to trace the remaining members, conduct financial probes, and analyse digital evidence recovered during the raids, officials added.
