Mumbai: In fresh trouble for pacer Sreesanth, Mumbai police's crime branch may book him in a spot fixing case registered by it and seek his custodial interrogation, Joint Commissioner (Crime) Himanshu Roy said on Saturday. Roy said permission of a competent court has been secured for obtaining "mirror images" of a laptop computer, an ipad and mobile phone seized from a room in a 5 star hotel in Bandra on Friday which the cricketer occupied before his arrest on Wednesday night.
The crime branch had arrested three bookies - Ramesh Vyas (52), Pandurang Kadam (41) and Ashok Vyas (32) - a day before Sreesanth and two other members of IPL team Rajasthan Royals were arrested in connection with the spot fixing scandal. Later another bookie Pravin Behra was held Bhandup.
Ninety two mobile phones, out of which 32 were exclusively used to enable Indian punters get in touch with bookies in Dubai and Pakistan through teleconferencing, 18 SIM cards, a television set and a laptop had been seized from the trio, he said. The four bookies were booked under IPC sections 465 (Punishment for forgery), 471 (Using as genuine a forged document), 420 (cheating) and relevant sections of Prevention of Gambling Act and Information Technology Act. "We are going deep into the investigation and Sreesanth might be booked in our case also here," Roy said.
Crime Branch sleuths had on Friday searched the rooms occupied by Sreesanth and Jiju Janardan, his close friend and bookie arrested
07:04 PM, May 18, 2013
Delhi police sources on Saturday told CNN-IBN that Rajasthan Royals' bowler Sreesanth received Rs 10 lakhs of the total 40 lakhs as fixed. Bank accounts of the players were also checked and the sources added that there were strong evidence against Sreesanth and they have enough proof to prove Sreesanth's money trail. It has also been learned that the police team was sent to offspinner Ajit Chandila's house and they...
04:54 PM, May 18, 2013
Mumbai: Charges are likely to be filed in the Azad Maidan violence case on Thursday and sources said that the Mumbai Crime Branch is ready to file a chargesheet but some confusion prevails regarding the custody of the two community leaders whose speeches had allegedly instigated the mob present at the venue on August 11. The Police is now awaiting a nod from the home department on the issue of...
09:49 AM, Nov 08, 2012
Mumbai: A day-old baby boy was stolen from the general ward of a hospital in Mumbai. A woman was suspected to have walked away with him. While Mumbai police is yet to crack the case, teams have already been dispatched to Navi Mumbai, Thane and Nashik. The hospital in question - Wadia hospital - has admitted to negligence on its part in this case as no CCTV cameras were installed...
07:32 PM, Oct 25, 2012
Mumbai: A local court on Friday acquitted 19 persons, accused to have helped get fake passports for the hijackers of the Indian Airlines flight IC-814 in December 1999. In December 1999, Mumbai police's crime branch arrested Abdul Latif, an alleged terrorist, from suburban Jogeshwari and claimed to have recovered an AK-56 rifles, hand grenades and rocket launchers from him. According to police, he confessed to committing a bank robbery for...
10:41 PM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: A Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court on Monday extended the custody of key 26/11 handler Abu Jundal till September 10. The court also allowed Jundal to meet his parents for about ten minutes to arrange for a lawyer. Jundal was brought to Mumbai in July after a Delhi court gave the Maharahstra ATS his custody. The ATS, in turn, handed Jundal over to the Mumbai...
12:23 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Mumbai: A Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court will on Monday decide whether to extend the police custody of key 26/11 handler Abu Jundal. Jundal was brought to Mumbai in July after a Delhi court gave the Maharahstra ATS his custody. The ATS, in turn, handed Jundal over to the Mumbai Crime Branch. ...
08:32 AM, Sep 03, 2012
Mumbai Police Joint Commissioner Himanshu Roy has said that the Crime Branch is also investigating the role of Abu Jundal in 26/11 attacks. ...
02:37 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Mumbai: The Mumbai Crime Branch on Tuesday arrested one of the two rioters who desecrated the Amar Jawan Jyoti during the Azad Maidan violence on August 11. The two rioters were caught on camera desecrating the flame during the violence. The protestors had gathered at the Maidan to protest against the Assam riots. More details on the arrest are awaited. ...
11:56 AM, Aug 28, 2012
Police told court that they want to interrogate the accused to find out whether the violence was preplanned or not. ...
09:56 PM, Aug 12, 2012
Beed: The Mumbai crime branch has picked up for questioning, Abdul Rafe, a close aide of suspected LeT operative Abu Jundal, in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Rafe was held three days ago and taken to Mumbai for questioning after Jundal told his interrogators that he had told the Beed resident of the plan to attack Mumbai when he was in Saudi-Arabia. Police sources said Rafe was in...
01:42 PM, Aug 12, 2012
Mumbai: The Mumbai Crime Branch on Sunday arrested 23 of the demonstrators who were involved in rioting at the Azad Maidan as they gathered to protest against the recent Assam violence. They have been charged with rioting, molesting police constables and damaging public property. In a related development, the Centre has asked state governments to provide extra security to trains coming in from north-eastern states. Meanwhile, a BJP delegation will...
11:08 AM, Aug 12, 2012
Mumbai: A BJP delegation will meet Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Sunday to demand the arrest of those involved in the violence that broke out at Azad Maidan on Saturday as demonstrators gathered to protest against the recent Assam riots. Though initially peaceful, the protest, that had been called in by Raza Academy, suddenly turned violent with miscreants setting afire vehicles, torching media vans, damaging buses and pelting stones. Two...
07:20 AM, Aug 12, 2012
Beed: Abdul Rafe, a close aide of suspected LeT operative Abu Jundal, has been picked by the Mumbai Crime Branch for questioning in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Rafe was held three days ago and taken to Mumbai for questioning after Jundal told his interrogators that he had told the Beed resident of the plan to attack Mumbai when he was in Saudi-Arabia. Police sources said Rafe was...
01:40 AM, Aug 12, 2012
New Delhi: The alleged killer of the Mumbai lawyer Pallavi Purkayastha, security guard Sajjad Ahmed was on Saturday sent to police custody till August 17. The Mumbai Crime Branch has said that private guards are now under its scanner as this was the third murder of a woman in an apartment in the city. In Pallavi's case, the crime branch is likely to book Sajjad's agency under the Security Agencies...
01:07 PM, Aug 11, 2012
Guard Sajjad Pathan reportedly confessed to the police that he killed Pallavi simply because she had yelled at him a few days back. ...
11:24 AM, Aug 10, 2012
Mumbai: The Mumbai Crime Branch on Monday sought permission from the Maharashtra government to question 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab with regard to the key handler of the attacks, Abu Jundal and his confessions. Arrested in May this year, Jundal has been revealing various details of the 2008 Mumbai attacks plot, saying that Kasab was one of their best men. Meanwhile, sources have said that Indian security agencies were able to...
12:44 PM, Aug 06, 2012
New Delhi: Missing Bollywood starlet Laila Khan's death may finally have been cracked. Six skeletons were found within the premises of her bungalow in Igatpuri near Nashik in Maharashtra on Tuesday. With the shocking recovery of the skeletons, the Mumbai Crime Branch seems to have made a definitive headway in the mystery surrounding the starlet and her family members, who went missing over an year ago. The starlet's mother's alleged...
10:21 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Mumbai: The Crime Branch is likely to file a supplementary chargesheet detailing the role allegedly played by journalist Jigna Vora in the murder of Mumbai-based journalist J Dey. "We are likely to file a supplementary chargesheet against Vora tomorrow (Tuesday). We have gathered enough evidence against her to make a case," Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Devendra Bharti said. Vora has been accused of criminal conspiracy in the case...
09:23 AM, Feb 21, 2012
Mumbai Crime Branch on Sunday made one more arrest in the Jyotirmoy Dey murder, taking the count to eight arrested in the case. Vinod Asrani alias Vinod Chembur was arrested and questioned by the Crime Branch, who are probing whether he financed the killing of the Mid Day journalist. Vinod Chembur, the person who is suspected to have helped the shooters identify Dey, has been picked up for questioning. We...
01:19 PM, Jul 03, 2011
