Bihar SHO 7 others get death for 2002 fake encounter
.
Avinash Kumar
who was to join a government
avinash kvmr@hlndustati,roscom
department on compassionate
grounds following the death of
PATNA: A Bihar police officer
his father.
was sentenced to death on
Tuesday for killing three teen-
Surya
aged
The counsel for the SI-JO,
Prakash Singh said that
he would not go in for appeal
before the Patna high court.
"We had demanded death
students in a fake encoun-
ter 12 years ago in Patna's posh
Ashiana
Nagar locality
According to thermal charge
sheet, the station house officer
sentence for the policemen who
(SHO) had shot them dead with
had shot innocent students.
Barely few hours before the
his service revolver following
encounter, the same SHO had
a dispute over payment of
telephone bill.
issued a character certificate to
2
The court had pronounced the
SHO of Shastrinagar police station, Shams.
Alam, and seven
others guilty of murdering the
students on December 28, 2002
and reserved the judgment.
The victims included Vikas
.
Himanshu and Prashant," said
Jagdish Prasad Gupta, father
Shams-e-Alam, the SHO who was awarded death.
Ranjan, a student of electronics (honours) at AN College,
Patna, Prashant Singh, who
had been selected for a diving
SANTOSH
KUMARJHT
course in the Indian Navy and
had just returned to Patna from
Delhi to get police verification
done, and Himanshu Yadav,
sequently found out after an
inquiry that the encounter was
a fake one.
The CBI submitted the charge
sheet in January 2003 itself.
In the charge sheet flied on
March 29, 2003, CBI had said
the boys, who were lying unconscious on
the market floor, were
shot dead by Alam.
The chargesheet said after
killing the three youths, Alam
asked constable Arun Kumar
Singh to flash a message on
wireless that an encounter
of slain Vikas.
After massive uproar
over the incident in 2002,
the case had been handed
over to the Central Bureau
of Investigation, which sub
THE CASE
Three students had an alter"cation
with a telephone booth
owner over wrong billing. The
amount was Just 2. This led
to a fight and the students
were thrashed by shopkeepers
of Samellan market in West
Central Patna.
subsequently arrived
on the scene and allegedly,
egged en by the shopkeepers,
beat the boys, branding them
" Police
was going on at the Sammelan
as dacoits.
Market in West-Central Patna,
Alam was also accused of
later, the trio were declared
"dead.
There was a widespread
planting two country made
pistols and ammunition at the
place of occurrence in a bid to
public reaction in the locality
as soon as the encounter
news spread.
show these items as "recovery".
I-T DEPT REJECTS
CBI REQUEST TO
SHARE DETAILS
IN QURESHI CASE
HT Correspondent
"
tters@lnthtantlniosoom
NEWDSHL-Inasetbacktothecßl,
the Income Thx (I-I') department
has
re
ected the agency's
request
to share details and evidence
pertaining to its probe against
meat exporter Moth Qureshi on
grounds that it is inconclusive.
I-T department said that
its tax-evasion probe against
Qureshi was at a crucial stage
and sharing of information pertaining
to it would not be approIT department said
priate. "The
it won't be proper for them to
update any other agency regarding the progress in its tax-evasion
probe," said a CBI source.
Concerned at leaks targeting its officials, CBI' s director
Ranjit Sinha had last month
asked the Central Board of
Direct Taxes (CBDT) to share
with the agency any incrimievidence against serv-
nating
ing
or retired official having any
irregular links with Qureshi for
necessary follow-up action. The
agency had later sent a reminder
to the CBDT for its request.
"Leaks had targeted Cm officials, including
a retired agency
director, for alleged ties with the
businessman. We needed evidence that proved criminality
to proceed on the allegations, but
our request has been denied,"
said the source.
Qureshi has been under the
scanner of J-Tdeptforailegedtax
evasion. Authoritiesare also probing if he was linked to suspected
monetary transactions between
Dubai and London.
'Exporter helped top CBI
officers launder. money'
CBI probe in Odisha loans sought
'Kejriwal seeks action against
guilty in Bhagana rape case
PAP convener Arvind Kejriwal and party leader Yogendra Yadav with the family members of
makeshift tent in New Delhi on Tuesday. Rajat Gupta
New Delhi, 24June:AAP con
venerArvind Kejriwal today
alleged inaction over
complaint,
hitoutatofficiasfortheir
Dennandingthearrestof
alleged failure to take any
action in connection with the
Bhagana rape case even as
hecalledforCßltobehand
edovertheinquiryintoth
matter,
'içejriwal
met the, the
aeged vibtims of
the Bhä
gana rape case today at, Ja
tar I\antar here where they
have
been holdinga protest
against the government's
their
victims at a
prits and hand over
the case
to CIII."
AAP
claimed
that
theKhapPanthayatmembers
althoughwomenwerebeing
who are alleged to have been
raped and
involved inthe case, Ke,jriwal
said, "No action has been
taken against the village
head even after an FIR was
by Khap Panchayatmembers
registered.Thegovernment
-
Bhagana rape
ha,trleU a deaf ear to
them and is not taking dn
step against the guilty
'Authorities
should
immediately arrest the cul
Dalits harassed
in Haryana's Bhagana, no
action
ha&been taken
against the culprits.
with AAP's in-.
tharge for Haryana, Yogen-,
-.-Along
drâYadav,Kejriwaldemanded a probe under the SC/ST
Act into the complaints by
the protesters.
CBDT refuses to share with CBI
details of Qureshi probe
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
levels of the fmance ministry
After reports of alleged
links of former CBI Direc-
The
CBDT has
refused to
tor Mr
A P Singh
with
with the CBI any
details pertaining to its
Qureshi surfaced, CBI had,
last month, written to CBDT
probe against meat exporter
Mr Mom
Akhtar Qureshi,
Chairman
share
Mr R
X
Tiwari
who is being investigated for
seeking evidence, if any,
against any former CBI offi-
alleged tax evasion.
cials in this connection.
In a missive to CBI, Central Board of Direct Taxes
has said it would not like to
share any details about the
case with the agency 'as of
now," according to official
sources. They said the matter was discussed at the top
Mr Singh has termed his
relations with Qureshi as
purely personal and has
denied any wrong doing as
alleged
in
the reports.
The CBDT is of the view
that if there is any criminality
in thecase, the mat
ter could be handled by the
Enforcement
Directorate,
said the sources.
The tax sleuths had roped
in the
Enforcement Direc-
torate as well to probe alleged
money laundering in the
case by Qureshi, who had to
resign as president of old
boys society of Doon school
recently
the controout. CBI did
after
versy brake
not offer any comments on
the development. Efforts to
seek a reaction from Qureshi
did not fructify and he also
did not reply to messages
sent on his mobile.
NJMC board member
caught taking bribe
MADHUPARNA DAS
KOLKATA, JUNE24
received complaints against
Garg and he was under the
agencs
THE
CBL
TUesday caught a
specific
observation.Based on
information about the
National Jute Manufacturers',
allegedbribe,aspecja1teof
Corporation director while re-
the CBI TUesday conducted a
raid at the NJMC's at
Dalhousie Square area office and
ceiving
a bribe of Rs 10,000
from a contractor at his office in
Koilcata. "We have arrested
Yogesh Kumar Garg, director
(finance) of NJMC (a PSU)
while accepting bribe of Rs
10,000 from a contractor
for
clearing bills of repair of jute
machine,"CDT'schief information officer Kanchan Prasad
told The Jnd&rnE.p,vss
Sources said, the CBI had
arrested Garg.
The CBI sleuths also seized several documents fronthis
office. According to sources,
the agencyhas traced 20 bank
accounts of Garg, following
which it conductedraids at several
places, including Garg's
houses inLucknow,Delhi
Kolkata.
and
Bihar cop gets death
in fake encounter case
P1 CTOS: SONU KISHAN
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encounter case.
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wasthesHOoftheshastriNagar
police station at the time, was held
guilty of killing three college stu
dentz—Vikazflanjan,Prashant
Singh and Rimanzhushekhar—in
a fake encounter in a market In
Patna on December 28, 2002.
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after the fake encounter In 2002 In which
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when they had a fight with the owner of
phone-booth
over their
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the
shopkeepers that
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killed three members
of a
bill. They three accused the
When the trio returned to the
'robbers' had come to loot
dreaded gang.
shopkeeper of having charged
their shops.
shop in the evening, reportediy
Investigations
them !2 in excess of their bill,
However,
with some of their friends to
A police team led by Alani
later revealed that there was no
This led to an altercation
avenge
they
assault,
their
thea reached the spot and shot
criminal record against the
between the two parties, with
dead the youngsters. Tile police
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SUNIL THAPLIYAL
Kejri living in luxurious homes on
pOor people's money: Delhi Cong
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Con
gress on Tuesday
attacked for
mer thief minister Arvind ICe
commissionei after which
would have been autho
risedto stay in the house,
tax
(the legal dispute) over the
she
house. The house was being offeted to me by Naren Jain' ICe-
over his new residence
"I want to clear that Icejriw
in Civil Lines, claiming that he
al's wife is a 1994 batch IRS of
hasdevelopedahabitofliving
ficerandasperlaw,C2catego
in sprawling houses by wasting
ry house cannot
ship," said Delhi Congress thief
spokesperson Mukesh Shar
Since lCejriwal is an NDMC
member, hewill also be allotted
ma.
a house under the proposal
jriwal
'1
jriwal said.
The AAP leader had zeroed
the house at No.4B
be allotted to Flagstaff Road in North Delhi
her as of now. All 1994 batch and was told that the property
poor people's money.
"Arvind Kejriwal had been officers can only be allotted a belongs to Naren Jam.
payingrentoflls85,000using house under B2 category,"
However, Jam's brother,
thehardearnedmoneyofpoor Sharmasaid.
Virendra, has claimed that
people and taxpayers by taking
He said Kejciwal hasasecret there isadispute over the propundue advantage of politics. No
pact with BJP as New Delhi
erty between him and his sibcommon man would muster Municipal Council has recently lings and the matter is in court
courage to live in an 800
written a letter to the Home
He has pointed out that the
square yard house in Civil
AffairsMmnistry,seelcinganod house cannot be rented out
Lines, that too when it is stuck
to allot a house to everyNDMC
without the court's orders.
in a legal tangle over owner
member.
"The property is under dis-
AAP office on Hanu
Road is also a disputed
The
man
in on
pute and Delhi High Court has
given an order that status quo
should be maintained. Under
this, the property cannot be
soon."IdemandaCBlenquiry
into Kejriwal's habit ofseeking
rented outto anybody whereas
disputed property," said
Shar
brother
property.
It appears like Kejriwal has
decided to break the law by al
ma.
to rent it out," Virendra said,
adding that he will approach
ways looking for a disputed
'Unaware'
the court in this regard.
But Naren said, "The court
has indeed asked us to maintam the status quo. Under this,
property, Sharma said. He said
that in a bid to avoid paying
rent of Rs 85,000 per month,
Kejriwal wanted to get the
Tilak Lane flat transferred on
his
wife's name,
citing
she
is
due to be promoted as income
Meanwhile, Kejriwal said he
was not aware of the dispute
between two brothers over the
houseinDelhi's Civil Lines area
which he has identified for tak
ing on rent.
"I am not aware
my
has already decided
we cannotsell or dispose ofthe
propert3ç but we can certainly
give it on rent"
of the
issue
PT!
7
Budaun rape
CBI begin
process for
polygraph test
BADAUN (UP), P11: The CBI
on Tuesday commenced the
process of
conducting lie-de-
tector tests of the five accused
in the
sensational rape and
murder of two teenaged girls
here. The CS! team has taken
the permission of the local
court for subjecting the accused
to polygraph test as it
wanted to verify the statements
given by them.
The two girls, who were
cousins aged 14 and 15.
went
missing from their house
on
the night of May 27 and their
bodies were found hanging
from a mango tree in the village in
Ushait area on May 28.
The post-mortem report ofthe
two girls confirmed that they
were raped before murder.
Five accused— three brothers Pappu Yadav, Awadhesh
Yadav and Urvesh Yadav and
Constables Chhatrapal Yadav
and Sarvesh Yadav—have
been arrested in the case that
has sparked nation-wide outrage.
A
Central Forensic Science
Laboratory team is carrying
out the polygraph test here on
the accused. The exercise is
likely to be spread over three
days.
CS! sources, without revealing
the
details
of the process,
said during the tests several
questions related to the crime,
their alleged involvement etc
were put to them.
Meanwhile, a local
court on
Tuesday granted perinissionto
the CBI to conduct nat-co analysis, polygraphy and brain mapping
tests of family members
of two girls and witnesses in the
case.
Two witnesses and two
ily members,
famboth fathers of
-
the girls, in their statements
before DSP (CDI) Vijay Kumar
Shulda, the Investigation Officer, gave their consent for the
tests, said Assistant District
GovernmentCounsel (ADGC)
Gyan Swaroop Gupta.
On the
ments,
basis of their state
the 10 had ijioved an
application on Monday
Additional District
before
Judge S N
Tripathi and the court sumall the four to know
moned
their willingness or otherwise
for the tests.
Azad may make it to crucial selection panel
Collegium will decide chiefs of
CVC CBI NHRC and Lokpal
Sabha, they said.
Shekhar lyer
NEW DELHI: Veteran Congress leader Chulam Nabi
the post.
This helps the government as
kisinnomoodtogranttheLoP
Leader of Opposition (LoP)
In the Rajya Sabha, could be
the cotCentral Vigi-
member of
egium to pick
According to the sources,
And's nomination to the selec-
lance Commissioner, cai Director, National Human
Rights Commission Chairman and Lokpal.
Azad's nomination could
servethe govermnent's purpose
tion panel will silence legal experts
well as under other statutes
passed by Parliament, which
fect in the selection process for
members of the Central Vigistatus to the Congress in the
16th Lok Sabha. Though the
stipulate that the LoP must be
Congress is the
lion party, it has only 44 MPs
involved in the selection ofthese
11 short of the required 55.
heads, top government sources
said.
On the
largest opposi-
there is
House to get that post.
In the past too, senior UP
leaders have argued, the Lok
Sabha did not have any LoP
when Jawaharlal Nehru and Ba-
Gandhiwere prime ministers
jiv
-
the Congress had absolute majority in
the Lok Sabha.
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra
Mahajan has said she is not in
on both occasions,
favour oftaking any dedsion in
haste on the issue of LoP.
She has also clarified
Congress
president
that
Sonia
lance Commission, members of
Gandhi has not written any let-
the Lokpal
ter to her on the issue, but she
has received a letter from Con-
and
Director of the
CBL
-
RajyaSabha, paving the way for
The Congress, however, is
mer
his appointment as LoP since
Mallikaijun Kharge has been
keen to hold the post
other hand,
who have said the failure
to appointaLoP in the LokSabha couldhave a deleterious ef-
toméetitsobligationsunderthe
Supreme Court's directive as
the post of LoP is
the opposition party
that should have won seats totalling at least 10 per cent of the
total strength ofthe House.
rules that say
allotted to
And, who was named
made
The government has cited
and has
no specification in the statutes
argued that ratherthan its numben,
the total strength of the
that the LoP has to be from the
Lok Sabha and not the Rajya
UPA
coalition should be taken
into consideration for allotting
Earlier this month, Mad was
g
named kader of Congress in
Congress
has
67
members in
the2SO-memberUpperHouse,
which is more than
mum requirement
the mini-
of 10 per
cent of the total strength of the
informing that for-
Union
Minister
elected Leader of the Congress
party in the Lok Sabha.
DII News Servlce
tBDT REFUSES TO
HELP
CBI IN OURESHI CASE
New Delhi: The CBDT has
refused to share with the CBI any
details pertaining to its probe
against meat exporter Mom
Akhtar Qureshi, lacing
investigation by the income Tax
Department for alleged tax
evasion. The Central Board of
Direct Taxes (CBDT) has In a
missive to the CBI said ft would
not fike to share any details about
the case with the agency 'as of
now'. The CBDT move comes
discussions on the matter at
the top levels of the Finance
after
Ministry. After reports of alleged
links of former CBI Director AP
Singh with Oureshi surfaced, CBI
had, last month, written to CBDT
Chairman R X Tiwarl seeking
evidence, if any, against any
former CBI
officials
in the matter.
BADAUNRAPECUMMUA[JER
Kin ready for
polygraph test
PNSR
The
LUCKNOWanalysis tests on the five arrest
edaccusedintherapeandmur
family members of the
ders for two sisters in Katra
victims and witnesses in the
Badaun sisters rape case report
edly gave their consent before
the local court to go in for
polygraphy (lie detector), brain
demanded by
the sleuths of the Central
maping tests as
Bureau of Investigation (CRI).
"Thefathersofboththetwo
cousin sisters who were raped
and murdered along with two
The sleuths of the CS! went
with lie-detector test at the
PWD guest house in Badaun on
Thesday afternoon. CR! has
decided to conduct the lie
detector test in light of the
first
statement
by Uttar
made
Pradesh DGP
AL Baneiee that
witnesses Rain Babu and Babu
the rape of one of the victims
was not confirmed and that
their approval to the
test before the special court in
property could be one of the
motives behind the heinous
Rain gave
Radaun on Tuesday. CR!
sources confirmed here on
Tuesday evening that the tests
would
incident. However,
the autopsy
reportconflrmedthattheminor
girls died due to hanging and
be done only after the
outcome of the Narco tests of
the five accused which also
now due to strangulation. After
lie detector test, CBI would fir"
started on Tuesday and exam
ining the DNA test of the vie
rims. Additional District Judge
mapping tests like in New Delhi.
Earlier the court had
ordered narco and other tests
SNTripathigaveitsnodonthe
by
CBI's permission
to
conduct
polygraph test on the parents
"
Sadatganj village last month
started on Thesday.
ther go in for narco and brain
CBI
on
five
accused
including two policemen for
three days starting from
and witness of the crime.
Tuesday. The tests would be
Meanwhile the pologra
phy, brain maping and narco
held between
the evening.
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