Wife accuses Ghaziabad police officer of dowry harassment
Ghaziabad, May 14: The wife of a serving Police Inspector in Ghaziabad has accused him of torture and harassment for dowry, police said on Monday.
The accused police officer is posted as the Station House Officer (SHO) of Indirapuram Police Station in the city.
In a complaint to Ghaziabad Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Vaibhav Krishna, she stated that she was married to Sachin Malik, the accused in March 2004. But due to greed for dowry, later the police officer deserted her.
A girl child was born out of the wedlock, and she is 10 years old now.
At present, the woman is residing in Sadar Bazar of Meerut Cantt area. The officer used to send goons to her house, who would terrorize her parents and pressurize her to file a divorce case, she said in the complaint.
But being a spiritual woman believing in Hindu rituals, she wrote, she wanted to live with her husband. She also wants to live her husband because her daughter has been deprived of the love and affection of her father.
In the letter, she requested the SSP to call Malik to the office and seek his explanation and convince him to rejoin them to make the family complete again.
"I will take up the matter when the SSP office reaches out to us in connection with the complaint. Till then, we won't interfere in SHO's personal matter," said Indirapuram Circle Officer Dharmendra Chauhan.
On his part, SHO Malik said: "She has been harassing me for the last 14 years. I have tried to settle the dispute on several occasions but she is adamant to ruin mine life."
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Three company directors held in Rs 100-crore investment fraud in Kochi
Kochi (Kerala) (PTI): Police on Sunday arrested three directors of a firm accused of cheating hundreds of investors of over Rs 100 crore through a fake investment scheme linked to agricultural tourism here, officials said.
The accused were identified as Muraleedharan, Ashik Murali and Akhil Murali, all natives of Thrissur.
The arrests were made by the Kalamassery police in connection with a fraud involving ATCOS (Agri Tourism Cooperative Society), a firm headquartered at Pathadipalam here.
Police said the company had promised high returns by collecting investments from the public in the agricultural tourism sector, but allegedly cheated hundreds of people and fled with the money.
ATCOS was registered under the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act and operated 13 branches across various districts in Kerala, besides a branch in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, officials said.
When investors failed to receive their promised returns or the invested amount, complaints were filed with the police.
Officials said around 54 cases have been registered against the firm in 32 police stations across the state, including 29 cases at the Kalamassery police station alone.
Following instructions from Kochi City Police Commissioner K S Mahesh Kumar, a special investigation team was formed under the supervision of Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Shehensha and Thrikkakara ACP Manoj Kumar.
The team traced the accused to an apartment in Amala Nagar in Thrissur, where they had been hiding after secretly renting the flat, officials said.
The bank accounts of the accused have been frozen, and steps have been initiated to trace their assets, officials said.
Police also conducted a raid at the company’s office at Pathadipalam and seized several documents related to the case.
The accused were produced before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court in Kalamassery, which remanded them to judicial custody and sent them to Kakkanad jail.
Police said they would seek the custody of the accused for further interrogation as the investigation continues.
