The body of a 28-year-old man was found in Greater Noida on Thursday, the police said.

The victim was identified as Santosh Verma, a supervisor working in a construction company. Verma’s body was discovered Thursday morning lying alongside the Sector-37 canal in the Kasna area of Greater Noida, the police said.

“We are investigating the case. His family is being called. We have sent the body for postmortem examination,” said an official at the Kasna police station.

In a routine drive check in Noida, the police on Monday arrested two notorious criminals, wanted for murders, attempted murders and robberies in various different cases over the years.

According to Parmesh Kumar Shukla, an officer of Sector-20 police police station, ” The two criminals, Naeem and Nadeem, committed various crimes in Delhi and other places”.

In 2006, Naeem had murdered his sister with the help of his brother Haneef in a case of honour-killing as she allegedly had an affair. He also murdered a trader in Seelampur and was named in two other murders registered at different police stations in Delhi.

Nadeem is the co-accused in many of the crimes committed by Naeem.

From Naeem’s possession, the police recovered a .36 bore revolver, five live cartridges and a knife. “We are interrogating them further and are getting to know about other men in their gang,” said the police.

The body of Ashok Sharma, a resident of Nithari, Noida was found in his car on Thursday along the National Highway in Ghaziabad.

Sharma, a cable operator, was shot in the head after he was returning from Wave Cinema in Noida. The Police recovered bottles of whisky from his car. The motive behind the murder is still unclear. However, the superintendent of police (city), Vijay Bhushan said that the matter is being investigated and a list of suspects is being formulated.

Incidentally, Sharma is said to have some criminal cases pending against him at various police stations.

After snatching a woman’s purse on Saturday, two young men landed in hospital when they crashed their motorcycle into a car, close to the crime scene.

According to the police, the duo suffered the mishap as they were in a hurry to get away from the police van chasing them.

“Praveen Kumar, 25, and Sonu, 24 snatched a purse from a woman who was on a rickshaw at sector 61 at 3.50 p.m. Saturday. As they tried to get away, a police van chased them and the motorcycle collided with a car,” Noida Superintendent of Police A.K. Tripathy said.

The two sustained injuries and were rushed to the hospital. They received fractures on their hands and legs apart from other injuries.

“Both boys have been arrested and appropriate action will be taken against them,” Tripathy added.

Kailash Singh Mehta, a driver for an IT firm in New Friends Colony, was shot dead while he was returning to Delhi via Noida, late on Friday night. The Noida police on Saturday arrested Amit Kumar, an army deserter, for murdering Mehta and stealing his car. They also seized two stolen cars, two motorcycles and two country-made pistols.

After dropping a company executive home at Ghaziabad’s Shipra Sun City, around midnight, Mehta may have given a lift to four men on the way. Kumar, one of the four, overpowered and shot the car driver dead, on the road leading from Sector 37 to Kalindi Kunj.

According to the Noida police the incident occurred around 1.30 am. Ashok Tripathi, SP (City) Noida, said Singh was shot twice. “The victim received two bullets; one in the head and one in the chest. He died on the spot,” he said.

While Kumar was caught, the three others - Omi, Vikas Pandit and Montu managed to flee from the encounter site.

Kailash Mehta, a resident of Surajpur in Faridabad, is survived by his wife and two daughters.

Five men who siphoned off Rs 16.6 million from an industrialist’s bank account in this Delhi
suburb through Internet banking were arrested and Rs 5.5 million was seized from them, a police official said on Wednesday.

Pawan Kumar Agrawal, owner of M/s PPS International, lodged a complaint with the police on October 11.

He said that a sum of Rs 16,652,500 had been taken out from his company’s account being operated at sector-27 branch of Punjab National Bank.

He said that the theft took place while he was out of the country for 15 days. The money was siphoned off through about a dozen transactions from his account.

After returning from abroad, he was shocked to see his account statement, which showed that a huge sum of money was missing.

RK Chaturvedi, senior superintendent of police, Noida, said that they tracked the men involved in the crime to Goa, Pune and Mumbai.

The arrested men include Savio Dairoch Lobo, Mitul Trivedi, Bharat Bhai Patel, Udai Kapadia and Yogi Anjani Bhandar.

Lobo is a resident of Goa, Trivedi hails from Pune while the remaining three are from Mumbai.

The gang leader is yet to be arrested, said Chaturvedi.

NOIDA/GHAZIABAD: Abdul Saleem alias Islam “died” on February 21, 2002. His siblings recognised his charred body by the clothes and shoes he had
been wearing. Four years later, the “dead” man was arrested by Delhi police under the Arms Act - even as his neighbour was serving a jail term for “murdering” him.

The bizarre crime where a murderer sought to escape punishment by “posing” as the victim was unearthed by Noida police on Tuesday when Islam was arrested under the NDPS Act for possessing narcotics and according to police sources, confessed to the murder of his friend Zakir during the interrogation. Police officers said he told them that he had burnt Zakir to death and put his own clothes on the dead body. He then got his siblings to file his own “murder case” and name his neighbour Shamshad.

Shamshad, a resident Kallugarhi in Massoori police station area of Ghaziabad had to stay in jail for three years and two months, in two stints. He was eventually granted bail by the Allahabad High Court but Noida police made no attempts to withdraw the murder case even after Islam was arrested in 2006 by Delhi Police and the latter had, as per norms, informed their Noida counterparts about the arrest.

Massoori police chief, PK Singh, said, “This is an old case. I can hardly comment on this. But I believe that Islam had lived with Zakir for while and then relations between them soured. And, this why Islam murdered Zakir.”

Asked for his version on the matter, then Massoori police station chief Om Prakash Singh, who is currently posted ain Garhmukteshwar in Ghaziabad district, said, “It is an old case. I remember that a partially burnt and unrecognizable body was found near the Dasna bus stand. Then, on February 26, Islam’s two sisters and a brother, all of them from Kallugarhi, claimed to have recognized the body by the clothes and shoes. They also named Shamshad as an accused, in a report. I do not know what happened after that.”

Shamshad’s nephew, Arshad, told this correspondent, “Delhi Police personnel came to our house, with Islam. Shocked beyond words to see a dead man alive, about a hundred of our neighbours rushed to the Massoori police station. But, nobody listened to us. And, we were chased away with lathis.”

He said Shamshad, father of 5 children aged between 10 months to 11 years, sold his house to pay for his trial and has, since his release, been unemployed. His 11 year old son studies in class II as his schooling got interrupted several times. His daughter died of dengue while he was in jail.

Police said Islam had, in 1984, been arrested for committing a murder in Baghpat, his native town. Then, for some years, he moved to Loni in Ghaziabad and then to Dasna to live with Zakir, whom he later allegedly burnt alive. After murdering Zakir, he went to Kolkata for a brief while but soon returned to western UP.

Prosecution proceedings against Shamshad are still on in the Ghaziabad sessions court. The SHO of Noida’s Sector 58 police station, Dharmendra Kumar, who happened arrested Islam for carrying narcotics, and later learnt that he was “officially dead”, said, “We just happened to arrest Islam. And, then, during interrogation, he told us of his own ‘murder.’ Now, the Ghaziabad police have to book his relatives for their role in the impersonation, and suppression of evidence.”

For Shamshad meanwhile, his travails are far from over. “There is even now an arrest warrant in my name and this is because I could not go for one hearing.”

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NOIDA: A manager and an assistant manager of a five-star hotel in Noida were arrested on Tuesday night for “shouting at and threatening to kill”
a group of guests after they complained about finding a human hair in their food. Reportedly, one of the four guests was a senior IPS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Revealing this, Noida superintendent of police (city) Ashok Tripathi said, “Four persons were having a meal at the hotel in Sector 18 around 11 pm. While eating, they noticed a hair in the dal. They complained about it to the restaurant staff. However, manager Gyan Prakash and assistant manager Vibhu Wadhawa shouted at them, threatening to kill them if they stayed at the counter any longer. But the area police reached the spot before things could worsen.”

Tripathi added, “The waiters were alright. But, the executive staff misbehaved with the guests to such an extent that we had to arrest the two.”

The two hotel officials spent the night in the Sector 20 police station lock-up and were granted bail on Wednesday morning.

According to the police, an arrest under Section 151 of the CrPC applies when there is a real danger of the accused committing a cognizable offence. Meanwhile, hotel officials could not be contacted for comment.

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