Mumbai: Mumbai Crime Branch officers fear that they dont yet have a sufficient number of eyewitnesses to build a rock-solid case against the four accused " Vijay Palande, Simran Sood, Manoj Gajkosh and Dhanjay Shinde " in the double murder cases of Karan Kakkar and Arun Tikku. Officers of the department revealed that they have secured 15 witnesses for both the cases, which they believe is an insufficient number. They...
12:05 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Mumbai: Model Simran Sood who was held in connection with the murder case of aspiring producer Karan Kakkad was on Thursday arrested for her suspected role in the murder case of Delhi-based businessman Arunkumar Tikku as well, police said. Sood was produced in the court as her custody in the Kakkad case ended on Thursday and the magistrate remanded her to judicial custody. However, she was soon arrested in the...
11:20 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Mumbai: There were about 1,700 calls exchanged between stock broker Gautam Vora who was arrested on Monday for allegedly giving shelter to gangster Vijay Palande and Palande's wife Simran Sood, police said. Palande, a key accused in the murder of Delhi-based businessman Arunkumar Tikoo(67) and aspiring producer Karan Kumar Kakkar, had escaped on April 10 from the police jeep and Vora was picked up by police for helping Palande after...
12:34 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Mumbai: Why did stockbroker Gautam Vora go out of his way to allegedly provide material and logistical support to a murder accused on the run? After Voras arrest on Monday, Crime Branch officers are now sleuthing to determine if he is in any way connected to Karan Kakkars murder. Cops have not ruled out the theory that Vora may have instigated the prime accused Vijay Palande to bump off Kakkar....
12:35 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Mumbai: In the latest in connection with the Arunkumar Tikku murder case, the Mumbai police crime branch on Monday sent stock broker Gautam Vora to police custody till April 27. Vora was arrested for helping prime accused Vijay Palande after he had escaped from police custody. This is not the first instance when the Mumbai police have arrested Vora. He was earlier arrested in connection with the suicide case of...
11:48 AM, Apr 23, 2012
Mumbai: In a shocking case of inhuman treatment meted out to innocent children, the Vashi police detained six children for over two hours on Friday evening. Their mistake was that they were playing in their building compound. The cops also detained the childrens' parents, who had come to enquire about the whereabouts of their children, and reportedly abused them. The police took this step after 40 year-old Shruti Bhatt, a...
11:54 AM, Apr 22, 2012
Mumbai: Cops now have reason to believe that late international model Viveka Babajee, who took her own life in 2010, may have been driven to suicide over Simran Soods growing closeness to her then boyfriend, financial stockbroker and socialite Gautam Vora. Police sources suspect that Simran could well be the reason behind the unexpected suicide by the well-known ramp model. Babajee had been found hanging from the ceiling in her...
12:48 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Mumbai: The arrest of Vijay Palande in the Tikku murder case has helped the Mumbai Police crack two murder cases. The two cases include that of aspiring producer Karan Kakkar. The arrest of his 'wife' and small time actress Simran Sood, has also revealed the gang's modus operandi. Police say Palande and Simran used to identify wealthy single men and then murder them for their properties. Simran's involvement has raised...
07:40 AM, Apr 19, 2012
Mumbai: The probe into two separate instances of murder of citizens from Delhi has revealed that former gangster and prime accused Vijay Palande used his model wife Simran Sood as a 'honeytrap' to commit the crimes for usurping properties of the victims, police said. "It has now emerged that Simran Sood is not Vijay Palande's friend but his wife. Both married in year 1998 or 1999. After the marriage, Palande...
10:07 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Mumbai: Disgraced senior cop Anil Mahabole, accused of gangland links and threatening a MiD DAY journalist in the past, is once again in the news for the wrong reasons. This time the assistant commissioner of police has been charged with raping a woman inspector who resides at VB Nagar in Kurla. According to the police, the victim approached Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Rajnesh Seth and Jt CP...
03:12 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil on Tuesday ordered an investigation by Mumbai Police into the alleged leak of some portions of the Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) report which reportedly indicted some ministers, while the opposition Shiv Sena demanded a CBI probe into the lapse. The development came a fortnight after a Bharatiya Janata Party legislator Devendra Phadnavis present a CD to assembly Speaker Dilip Walse-Patil and Shiv Sena...
01:41 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Mumbai: A special MCOCA Court on Monday opened the statements given by two key witnesses on journalist Jigna Vora, one of the accused in the murder of veteran crime reporter J Dey in Mumbai in 2011. The witnesses - a staffer from the Administration Department of English daily 'Asian Age' (where Vora was working at the time of her arrest) and a friend of another accused Paulson Joseph - had...
01:23 AM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: A near breakthrough in the Karan Kakkar murder case. Police have recovered the victim's BMW near Pune. The police have claimed that a known history-sheeter Vijay Palande has confessed to killing Kakkar and dumping his body. The body hasn't been found as yet. Palande is likely to be booked for kidnapping and murder. He is also the main accused in the Arun Tikku murder case. ...
12:32 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Mumbai: The young woman in the picture is Simran Sood, a small-time model-cum-actress and accomplice of Vijay Palande alias Karan Sood. Cops say she was often used as a honeytrap by Vijay, who is currently behind bars. So are his aides Dhananjay Shinde and Manoj Gajkosh, in connection with the murder of senior citizen Arun Tiku. And yet, had police managed to puzzle out the kidnapping case of Karan Kumar...
12:46 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Mumbai: One of the suspects held for the murder of senior citizen Arunkumar Tikku fled police custody but was re-arrested after a nightlong manhunt. In the court, the suspect, Vijay Palande, claimed he was never arrested. There were allegations of police torture by the man accused of murdering TV actor Anuj Tikku's father. "I am being framed. I have been beaten up," said Palande. He told the court that he...
09:23 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Mumbai: Cruising along the wavy road along the Haji Ali sea face to Worli, you would miss the frayed squares of cloth that balloon up on the other side of the embankment, where the tetra pods mark the start of reclaimed land. When you peer over, you see that the cloths form the roofs of tenuous makeshift houses built among the rocks, stretching between the Haji Ali jetty and Lala...
12:40 PM, Apr 11, 2012
New Delhi: Hours after getting arrested by the Mumbai police in connection with the murder case of Arunkumar Tikku, one of the accused, Vijay Palande, on Tuesday night escaped from the lock-up. Palande was re-captured six hours later. Palande, who had earlier maintained his identity as Karan Sood, is a history sheeter and has had involvement in murder cases and connections with the underworld in the past. Addressing a press...
06:19 AM, Apr 11, 2012
New Delhi: Hours after getting arrested by the Mumbai police in connection with the murder case of Arunkumar Tikku, one of the accused, Vijay Palande, on Tuesday night escaped from the lock-up sending the police in a tizzy. Palande, who had earlier maintained his identity as Karan Sood, is a historysheeter and has had involvement in murder cases and connections with the underworld in the past. Addressing a press conference...
11:49 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Mumbai: The Mumbai Police have arrested three people in connection with the Arunkumar Tikku murder case. Addressing a press conference in Mumbai on Tuesday, Himanshu Roy, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), said that the murder took place possibly because of possession of the flat where the crime was committed. According to the police, the flat where the murder was committed is in the name of Aruns son Anuj Tikku, who...
05:51 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Islamabad: The trial of seven Pakistani suspects, including terror group LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks was on Tuesday adjourned till April 10 as the anti-terrorism judge hearing the case was unwell. Judge Shahid Rafique, who is hearing the case, was on leave due to illness, sources told PTI. Meanwhile, Khwaja Haris Ahmed, the counsel for Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Lakhvi, said the trial was unlikely...
01:16 AM, Apr 04, 2012
