Mumbai: Instead of the usual targets of nightclubs or restaurants, this time it was a spa whose owner was allegedly abused by the police, while her shop was vandalised in broad daylight. In a complaint addressed to the API, DCP and the Sr PI, Deepika Sonawne, owner of S7 Spa in Barfiwala Lane in Andheri, was in her shop and was resting on June 29, when police came in and...
09:59 AM, Jul 04, 2012
New Delhi: Sayed Zabiuddin alias Abu Jundal, a prize catch in 26/11 terror case, picked up his first lessons in terrorism when Lashker-e-Taiba terrorist Mohammed Aslam alias Aslam Kashmiri arranged for his arms training in Nepal in 2004. Claiming to be indoctrinated after the post-Godhra riots in Gujarat in 2002, 30-year-old Jundal told interrogators that he was introduced to 'jehad' by Aslam Kashmiri, a resident of Hasplote in Thanamandi of...
04:47 PM, Jul 01, 2012
Mumbai remains split wide open after a video of Vasant Dhoble shows him trying to detain four German tourists at a pub. ...
10:45 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Mumbai: It is the stuff of films, an angry cop, ever controversial, hated and loved in equal measure. ACP Vasant Dhoble is back in the headlines with a controversial crackdown on a Mumbai pub, trying to detain German girls without allegedly giving them an explanation. Is this policing or harassment? A video from March 2012 shows Dhoble and his men raiding the Voodoo Pub in Colaba, and herding girls into...
09:40 PM, Jun 29, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Police opposed an application by the Mumbai Police Special Cell to hand over Syed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal, one of the key plotters of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, to them. The Delhi Police Special Cell filed a reply in the Tis Hazari court on Wednesday saying that Jundal is in their custody till July 5 and the investigation is not yet over and so the...
03:10 PM, Jun 27, 2012
New Delhi: Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist Abu Jundal, who is in Delhi Police's custody, has confessed his active role in the Mumbai attacks, saying that Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed was present in the Karachi control room when the 26/11 masterminds choreographed the carnage. During the interrogation, Abu Jundal has admitted to handling the attack on Nariman House during 26/11, IB sources told CNN-IBN. He has admitted that he was in the Karachi...
07:45 AM, Jun 26, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police have arrested Abu Jundal, one of the key conspirators and handlers in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. He is the first Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative to be arrested after Ajmal Kasab. The operative is believed to have guided and controlled the terrorists at the Nariman House from a Karachi control room throughout the night of November 27, 2008. Here are the instructions he gave to the...
09:03 PM, Jun 25, 2012
Mumbai: In spite of the Mumbai police's persistent efforts to nip their protest movement in the bud, demonstrators persevered and pulled off a peaceful protest march on Sunday at Carter Road against ACP Vasant Dhoble. 1,000 protesters flocked to Carter Road and staged a protest for two hours. In addition to the usual sloganeering and placards that decried the archaic laws and their arbitrary implementation (Dhoble go back!), the young...
01:45 PM, Jun 25, 2012
Mumbai: At least 44 out of the 46 people who were arrested from a rave party on May 20 in Mumbai during the IPL have tested positive for drugs. However, the medical reports of cricketers Rahul Sharma and Wayne Parnell, who attended that party, are still awaited. Ninety-two people were detained at the venue after the Mumbai police busted the party. Twenty-seven of the attendees have tested positive for cannabis,...
06:28 AM, Jun 23, 2012
New Delhi: Almost 44 of the 46 held after the Mumbai Police busted an alleged rave party at suburban Juhu's Oakwoods Hotel on the night of May 20 have tested positive for drugs, sources said on Friday. As many as 100 people, including IPL players, namely Wayne Parnell and Rahul Sharma, and 19 foreign nationals, were detained by the police after they busted the party. However, the test reports of...
08:48 PM, Jun 22, 2012
ACP Vasant Dhoble is infamous for targeting restaurants and attacking their owners and waiters in the name of moral policing. ...
11:58 PM, Jun 21, 2012
Mumbai: Charges will be framed in the Keenan-Reuben murder case in the Bombay High Court on Friday. The two youngsters were stabbed to death by a mob in October in 2011 for fighting against sexual harassment. Four people were arrested for murder and sexual harassment and several others were booked for rioting in the case. On October 20, 2011, 28-year-old Reuben Fernandez and 25-year-old Keenan Santos were attacked with choppers...
08:21 AM, Jun 21, 2012
Mumbai: For the past few months, tyrannical cops have been inspiring fear and frustration among the population, as they lay siege on the citys once-flourishing nightlife, one unnecessary raid at a time. These busts " conducted to ostensibly bust drug and prostitution rackets " have so far yielded no concrete results, barring, of course, the harassment caused to unsuspecting guests and revellers. While the legitimacy of the cops concern remains...
10:43 AM, Jun 16, 2012
If the recent petition by two sisters, seeking action against bar-raider cop ACP Vasant Dhoble for wrongful confinement, has not opened the eyes of senior police officials, perhaps these stories will. MiD DAY has spoken to some of the housewives, college students and working women who were picked up in a raid by Dhoble and shoved into a rehabilitation centre. After staying there for days and being tagged as sex...
12:13 PM, Jun 14, 2012
On first sight, ACP Vasant Dhoble looks like that observant uncle from your colony who always seems to know anything and everything about the people ...
04:33 PM, Jun 13, 2012
ACP Vasant Dhoble is infamous for targeting restaurants and attacking their owners and waiters and sometimes, even the unsuspecting customers. ...
11:53 PM, Jun 12, 2012
Mumbai: Crusader or vigilante cop? Meet ACP Vasant Dhoble, head of the Social Service Branch of the Mumbai Police. For months, Dhoble has been on the warpath, making headlines for raiding and assaulting restaurant staff across the city, be it at hip restaurants, small eateries, private parties, or dance bars. At a juice centre in Vile Parle, his weapon of choice was a hockey stick for assaulting the waiters. Sixty...
07:53 PM, Jun 12, 2012
Why did the police believe Chhota Rajans story that journalist Jigna Vora instigated him? Rajan repented his actions in TV interviews. It is our job to lay the evidence we gather before the court. Now the Court will decide whether to believe him or not. How does carrying conflicting stories amount to a rivalry between J Dey and Jigna Vora? Sources are valuable to journalists. There is resentment when a...
02:39 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Mumbai: Investigations into the murder case of MiD DAY journalist J Dey began just a few hours after his killing, when sleuths began combing the scene of crime in Powai for clues. In the days that followed the murder, they scoured Deys email account, his phone records, interrogated hundreds of acquaintances, eyewitnesses, informants and operators. They gathered CCTV footage from the store outside which Dey had been slain, and obtained...
02:26 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Mumbai: It turned out to be a birthday party that was strictly adult-rated. The Social Service branch (SS) of Mumbai police uncovered an elaborate prostitution racket being run under the garb of birthday parties, and arrested four people and rescued 11 girls from a restaurant in Oshiwara during a raid on Monday night. After receiving a tip-off that illegal activities were going on at Masala Curry restaurant, Oshiwara, SS officers...
03:30 PM, Jun 06, 2012
