Hyderabad Police Commissioner suspends cop for hugging BJP candidate Madhavi during her campaign
Hyderabad: An Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) of police was suspended for hugging Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat candidate K Madhavi Latha on Monday, April 22. In a video widely circulated on social media, Uma Devi, ASI at Saidabad Police Station, was seen shaking hands with Madhavi Latha and hugging her in uniform.
According to reports, the police officer was on duty when the BJP leader was campaigning in an area under the limits of Saidabad Police Station.
Subsequently, Hyderabad Police Commissioner K Sreenivas Reddy suspended the police officer for violating the Model Code of Conduct.
In the video widely circulated on social media, Uma Devi reached out to Madhavi Latha, who was campaigning with party cadre in a locality in Hyderabad. Uma Devi shook hands with Madhavi Latha, and they hugged each other. Both were seen smiling and exchanging a few words.
Madhavi Latha stirred a row last week with her alleged provocative gesture of shooting an imaginary arrow at a mosque during a procession taken out on Ram Navami. On April 20, the Begum Bazar Police filed an FIR for hurting the religious sentiments of a community through her provocative gesture following a complaint from a resident of Hyderabad. Madhavi Latha has been booked under section 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) and 125 of the Representation of the People Act.
Woman ASI of Saidabad police station suspended for shaking hand and hugging #BJP Candidate #MadhaviLatha on duty during her campaign in #Saidabad, #Hyderabad, #Telangana.#LokSabhaElections2024 pic.twitter.com/jDdF83CFH3
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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.
