On February 03, 2012 Hindustan Times reported that getting success in the Sonepat jailbreak case, the police on Thursday arrested one of the eight inmates, who had fled the jail by scaling a 20-foot high boundary wall on January 18. Superintendent of police KK Rao told Hindustan Times that Pramod was caught from Jakoli village near Rai in the afternoon. He is facing a trial in a murder case in a district court. The police have claimed that seven others would soon be arrested.

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On February 03, 2012 Mid-Day reported that for the past three months, the hapless parents of a 14-year-old girl have been at their wits' end, searching in vain for their missing daughter. Her recovery yesterday put an end to their misery, but has opened up a can of worms, with cops stumbling upon a child labour racket flourishing in Dharavi. Besides rescuing the girl, Malwani cops arrested a female member of a gang that allegedly kidnaps children below the age of 14 and supplies them to small-scale units to work as labourers. Cops suspect that the gang also sells girls into prostitution.

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On February 03, 2012 Times of India reported that a 30-year-old pregnant NRI woman, who had returned from the US some time ago, was hacked to death by the watchman of her farmhouse in Padra taluka, some 10 kilometres from the city, on Thursday morning. Payal Patel, the daughter of a city-based lawyer, was attacked with an axe following heated arguments and received grievous injuries to her head. The watchman, identified as Paresh Patel, is absconding and the cops have formed teams to track him.

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On February 02, 2012 Times of India reported that in perhaps the first such case in the country, Maharashtra government has sacked a senior bureaucrat on charges of sexual harassment. Labour welfare commissioner Mohan Dhotre, a class one officer, had been facing a probe since 2003 which ended with chief minister Prithviraj Chavan giving his consent to the dismissal. The state administration served the sack order on Tuesday. Following an inquiry initiated against Dhotre, in 2003, the labour welfare commissioner then approached the Bombay high court, challenging the department’s decision to conduct a probe. In 2004, the court, while hearing the order, had allowed the inquiry to proceed but directed that no action be taken for four weeks if the probe report was adverse.

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On February 02, 2012 Times of India reported that cops on Wednesday arrested an IAS officer for his alleged involvement in a Rs 125 crore scam. Additional secretary Debaditya Chakraborty is the first senior babu in Bengal to be put behind bars for graft during a previous stint in a PSU. R M Jamir, a retired IAS officer, director of a PSU at the centre of the scam, was also held. The arrests were confirmed by DIG, CID (operations) K Jayaraman. The two will be produced in court on Thursday, he said. Several agencies, including the detective department of Kolkata police, were investigating the scam for quite some time but had not received permission to arrest the IAS officer, sources said.

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On February 02, 2012 Mumbai Mirror reported that a 40-year-old woman has been arrested for conning men into marrying her 18-year-old daughter (or other women) and then running off with their money. The anti-human trafficking cell of Thane police says four cases have been registered against the two across four states. The daughter has also been arrested. According to Thane police, which arrested the two on Wednesday, Nirmala Baviskar and her daughter Kajal would meet the families and fix the wedding. In some cases Kajal was to be the bride, and in some cases, police say, other women would pose as brides. Senior inspector V N Karkud said that these other women were from poor families and had been lured by the accused in lieu of jobs.

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On February 02, 2012 DNA reported that the Pawar family from Rajasthan allegedly wears rags to strike gold! The Cantonment police recently took into custody Ketaram Mansingh Pawar (55) for his alleged involvement in duping a former Navy officer to the tune of Rs. 5 lakh. Pawar had allegedly approached the victim, Devendranath Deenanath Sood (63) of Mohammedwadi, posing himself as a labourer who had found an ancient treasure at a construction site. He extracted money from the victim under the garb of selling gold at throwaway price. However, he allegedly made shocking revelations to the Cantonment police.

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On February 01, 2012 Mumbai Mirror reported that a domestic help who had kidnapped her employer’s 18-month-old son from their home a week ago was traced to a remote village in Assam, by Nalla Sopara police. Police say Asma Begum (20) kidnapped the Umesh and Disha Rane’s youngest son Prem, from their Shivam Apartments flat, because the family refused to give her a loan.

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On February 01, 2012 Mid-Day reported that harassed and tortured, a 10-year-old rape victim was so incoherent in her narration of the horror she went through that the Nigadi police could make no headway in the investigation of the case. The police finally achieved a breakthrough when the alleged tormentor of the girl walked into the police station to lodge a missing complaint and aroused their suspicion.

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On February 01, 2012 Mid-Day reported that at first glance the premises appeared to be a model-coordinating agency, one of many flourishing in Versova. However, on Monday the special squad of Additional Commissioner of Police (West Region) Vishwas Nangre-Patil arrested two pimps and rescued a model and another woman from a sex racket flourishing at a flat in New MHADA Colony, Versova.

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