Capital information: From Bulli Bai to Shraddha Walkar, crimes that left a scar

Express News Service

New Delhi: Though crime is reported each hour in Delhi, but, some depart a deep scar within the minds of the populace.

Not even a day of the brand new yr 2022 had handed, and a shameful act of humiliating the ladies of the minority group got here to the fore. Ismat Ira, a younger Delhi-based journalist lodged a grievance with the Delhi Police stating that she was being focused by some unidentified group of individuals on a cell utility named ‘Bulli Bai’.

“It was the first day of the new year when I came across.. I was shocked and aghast to find out that a portal had my doctored picture in an improper, unacceptable and a clearly lewd context,” Ismat remembered whereas talking to the New Indian Express.

Notably, it was not the primary time, the act of concentrating on a girl of a minority group got here simply six months after the derogatory “Sulli Deals” cell utility had surfaced the place pictures of Muslim girls have been displayed with out their consent.

Both the circumstances have been probed by the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit of the Delhi Police’s Special Cell. The prime accused within the circumstances, recognized as Niraj Bishnoi, who created the Bulli Bai app and Aumkareshwar Thakur, creator of the Sulli Deals app, have been arrested by the Delhi Police on January 6 and January 8, respectively.

On March 4, the cops filed an in depth chargesheet. However later in the identical month each Thakur and Bishnoi have been granted bail on humanitarian grounds. As per newest replace, the Delhi Lieutenant Governor V Ok Saxena, this month, granted sanction to prosecute Aumkareshwar Thakur underneath part 196 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which pertains to prosecution for offences in opposition to the State and for prison conspiracy to commit such offence.

Clubhouse hatechat

The January month was but to finish and one other obnoxious audio chat on the subject ‘Muslim ladies are extra stunning than Hindu ladies’ went viral on social media.

In the stated dialog, the individuals have been allegedly heard making obscene, vulgar and derogatory remarks concentrating on Muslim girls and ladies.

Taking suo-motu cognisance over the difficulty on January 18, Delhi Commission for Women issued a discover to the Delhi Police Cyber Cell demanding rapid registration of an FIR and punitive motion in opposition to the alleged individuals.

The police instantly swung into motion and inside just a few days six folks, which even included two girls and a minor boy, have been detained and questioned by the police. The Mumbai Police Cyber Cell additionally arrested three males from Haryana in the identical case after a grievance was lodged in Mumbai by a girl.

Communal clashes

Just a month later, on April 16 night, Delhi as soon as once more, after a spot of two years, witnessed violent communal clashes within the Jahangirpuri space of the town by which eight police personnel and a civilian sustained accidents.

The clashes broke out throughout a Hanuman Jayanti procession. But what have been the circumstances that led to the violence?  The information have been — there was a spiritual procession, it was passing by a mosque space after which there was stone pelting, firing, and clashes.

It was not only one procession that handed by the identical locality, quite, it was the third one which finally led to bloodshed. Special CP (Law and Order) Dependra Pathak had at the moment stated the primary two processions have been taken out at 11 am and 1 pm on April 16, and their organisers took permission from the police on March 25 and March 31, respectively. However, Delhi Police denied the request for the third Shobha Yatra procession as its organisers had made the request simply at some point earlier than at night time.

But regardless that there was no permission, the organisers went forward and took out the procession. The police personnel stored an in depth watch on them.

Fortunately, there have been no casualties throughout the clashes. The clashes broke out within the night and inside hours, the Delhi Police contained the scenario with the assistance of paramilitary forces. By 8 p.m., the scenario was underneath management, but tense. Months later, the Crime Branch charge-sheeted 37 folks in reference to the riots.

The Bulldozers

Not even 4 days had handed for the reason that a number of communal clashes, the civic company in Delhi, taking a hardline method determined to take away unlawful encroachments from the riot-hit Jahangirpuri space.

On April 20, bulldozers reached the identical street in entrance of the mosque, which was the epicentre of the riots, and first demolished a tobacconist’s store after which a juice-cum-tobbacco vendor subsequent to it. And then a double storey scrap vendor’s store was additionally razed to the bottom.

The train was closely criticised by the Opposition events. To cease the demolition drive, Senior advocate Dushyant Dave, representing the Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind went to the Top Court. After listening to the matter intimately, the Supreme Court ordered establishment and drive was halted.

But quickly after a fortnight, the civic company continued with its demolition train in different elements of the town. At a number of instances, it even confronted the ire of the encroachers, particularly within the delicate areas.

The Tihar fiasco

The high-security jail — Tihar Jail — identified even earlier than independence to maintain the criminals at bay, acquired a lot humiliation this yr for allegedly extending advantages to the prisoners in a single or the opposite method.

On November 1, The New Indian Express broke the mega-exclusive story of Tihar inmate Sukesh Chandrashekhar writing a letter to Delhi LG VK Saxena by which he leveled critical allegations of extortion in opposition to Aam Aadmi Party Minister Satyender Jain and the then director basic (Prisons) Sandeep Goel.

Just three days afterward November 4, Goel was eliminated as the pinnacle of Tihar Prison and requested to report again to the Police Headquarters in Delhi with rapid impact.

In his first letter, Chandrashekhar alleged that he made funds not solely to Jain but additionally to the Aam Aadmi Party to the tune of Rs 50 crore as he was promised an vital place within the occasion in south India. The allegations put the AAP within the vortex of a political storm with rivals BJP and Congress coaching their weapons at its occasion chief Arvind Kejriwal. Just every week again, Goel was positioned underneath suspension by the Union Home Ministry. The Ministry, nevertheless, cited no particular purpose within the suspension order.

The Tihar Prison additionally got here again in information after movies of Delhi minister Jain getting a full physique therapeutic massage inside his jail cell went viral on social media. The purported CCTV footage dated September 13 exhibits the minister mendacity on his mattress and studying some papers whereas a person, who was later recognized as an inmate convicted in POCSO case, sitting subsequent to him is seen massaging his foot.

The movies surfaced on social media, 10 days after the Enforcement Directorate accused Jain of getting particular remedy contained in the jail.

The Mehrauli monstrosity

In one of many rarest gut-churning incidents, a 27-year-old Mumbai-suburb resident Shraddha Walkar was allegedly strangled, her physique sliced into greater than two dozen items after which dumped at totally different areas of a forest space in south Delhi and Gurugram by her live-in associate, Aftab Amin Poonawala.

The case instantly caught the attention of nationwide media and have become the speak of the city resulting from two causes — one was the interfaith relation of the accused and the sufferer and second the barbarity with which Aaftab had dedicated the crime.

The case that shook the nation to its core got here to gentle on November 14 however the sufferer girl’s father – Vikas Walkar’s seek for her lacking daughter had already begun in October. One of Shraddha’s mates had alerted her father Vikas about Shraddha not responding to her messages and requires the previous some months.

It was Vikas Walkar, who then first approached the Mumbai Police on October 6, frantically trying to find his daughter, and later got here to know that she was residing in Delhi together with her live-in associate Aftab Poonawala.

The Mumbai Police lodged the primary lacking grievance on October 10 after it discovered that Shraddha had been inactive on her all social media accounts. Aftab too was referred to as to Mumbai and questioned by the police on October 26. However, he didn’t reveal something then.

Searching Shraddha, the Mumbai Police then reached Mehrauli police station in Delhi on November 9 and instructed them about Shraddha who was probably residing at Chattarpur Pahadi in south Delhi. Next day, on November 10, the Delhi Police registered an FIR and started trying to find her. Poonawala was traced and detained and when put to sustained interrogation, he revealed all of the horrific particulars of the barbaric crime that he had dedicated six months again on May 18.

It took accused Poonawala a number of months, ranging from May 18 when he killed his associate, to progressively eliminate all of the physique elements within the forest space of south Delhi and Gurugram in Haryana. For these six months, Poonawala took a number of precautions in order that the brutal crime dedicated by him didn’t floor within the open. Night after night time, round 2 am, he used to go away his flat, carrying a plastic bag containing a physique a part of the sufferer girl, throw it at an deserted place and return again by 4 am earlier than morning walkers begin venturing out.

After arresting Aaftab, started essentially the most intense search operation to find the chopped physique elements of Shraddha and progressively the police — piece by piece — started amassing proof to strengthen the case. Aftab was subjected to a collection of forensic checks — polygraph, narco and even voice pattern take a look at. On Aaftab’s occasion, some bone items have been recovered from the Mehrauli forest space which matched the DNA of Shraddha’s father.

The metropolis now with a bated breath awaits justice for the Mumbai girls. Sources say Delhi Police will more than likely file a chargesheet within the case by the primary month of 2023.

New Delhi: Though crime is reported each hour in Delhi, but, some depart a deep scar within the minds of the populace.

Not even a day of the brand new yr 2022 had handed, and a shameful act of humiliating the ladies of the minority group got here to the fore. Ismat Ira, a younger Delhi-based journalist lodged a grievance with the Delhi Police stating that she was being focused by some unidentified group of individuals on a cell utility named ‘Bulli Bai’.

“It was the first day of the new year when I came across.. I was shocked and aghast to find out that a portal had my doctored picture in an improper, unacceptable and a clearly lewd context,” Ismat remembered whereas talking to the New Indian Express.

Notably, it was not the primary time, the act of concentrating on a girl of a minority group got here simply six months after the derogatory “Sulli Deals” cell utility had surfaced the place pictures of Muslim girls have been displayed with out their consent.

Both the circumstances have been probed by the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit of the Delhi Police’s Special Cell. The prime accused within the circumstances, recognized as Niraj Bishnoi, who created the Bulli Bai app and Aumkareshwar Thakur, creator of the Sulli Deals app, have been arrested by the Delhi Police on January 6 and January 8, respectively.

On March 4, the cops filed an in depth chargesheet. However later in the identical month each Thakur and Bishnoi have been granted bail on humanitarian grounds. As per newest replace, the Delhi Lieutenant Governor V Ok Saxena, this month, granted sanction to prosecute Aumkareshwar Thakur underneath part 196 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which pertains to prosecution for offences in opposition to the State and for prison conspiracy to commit such offence.

Clubhouse hatechat

The January month was but to finish and one other obnoxious audio chat on the subject ‘Muslim ladies are extra stunning than Hindu ladies’ went viral on social media.

In the stated dialog, the individuals have been allegedly heard making obscene, vulgar and derogatory remarks concentrating on Muslim girls and ladies.

Taking suo-motu cognisance over the difficulty on January 18, Delhi Commission for Women issued a discover to the Delhi Police Cyber Cell demanding rapid registration of an FIR and punitive motion in opposition to the alleged individuals.

The police instantly swung into motion and inside just a few days six folks, which even included two girls and a minor boy, have been detained and questioned by the police. The Mumbai Police Cyber Cell additionally arrested three males from Haryana in the identical case after a grievance was lodged in Mumbai by a girl.

Communal clashes

Just a month later, on April 16 night, Delhi as soon as once more, after a spot of two years, witnessed violent communal clashes within the Jahangirpuri space of the town by which eight police personnel and a civilian sustained accidents.

The clashes broke out throughout a Hanuman Jayanti procession. But what have been the circumstances that led to the violence?  The information have been — there was a spiritual procession, it was passing by a mosque space after which there was stone pelting, firing, and clashes.

It was not only one procession that handed by the identical locality, quite, it was the third one which finally led to bloodshed. Special CP (Law and Order) Dependra Pathak had at the moment stated the primary two processions have been taken out at 11 am and 1 pm on April 16, and their organisers took permission from the police on March 25 and March 31, respectively. However, Delhi Police denied the request for the third Shobha Yatra procession as its organisers had made the request simply at some point earlier than at night time.

But regardless that there was no permission, the organisers went forward and took out the procession. The police personnel stored an in depth watch on them.

Fortunately, there have been no casualties throughout the clashes. The clashes broke out within the night and inside hours, the Delhi Police contained the scenario with the assistance of paramilitary forces. By 8 p.m., the scenario was underneath management, but tense. Months later, the Crime Branch charge-sheeted 37 folks in reference to the riots.

The Bulldozers

Not even 4 days had handed for the reason that a number of communal clashes, the civic company in Delhi, taking a hardline method determined to take away unlawful encroachments from the riot-hit Jahangirpuri space.

On April 20, bulldozers reached the identical street in entrance of the mosque, which was the epicentre of the riots, and first demolished a tobacconist’s store after which a juice-cum-tobbacco vendor subsequent to it. And then a double storey scrap vendor’s store was additionally razed to the bottom.

The train was closely criticised by the Opposition events. To cease the demolition drive, Senior advocate Dushyant Dave, representing the Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind went to the Top Court. After listening to the matter intimately, the Supreme Court ordered establishment and drive was halted.

But quickly after a fortnight, the civic company continued with its demolition train in different elements of the town. At a number of instances, it even confronted the ire of the encroachers, particularly within the delicate areas.

The Tihar fiasco

The high-security jail — Tihar Jail — identified even earlier than independence to maintain the criminals at bay, acquired a lot humiliation this yr for allegedly extending advantages to the prisoners in a single or the opposite method.

On November 1, The New Indian Express broke the mega-exclusive story of Tihar inmate Sukesh Chandrashekhar writing a letter to Delhi LG VK Saxena by which he leveled critical allegations of extortion in opposition to Aam Aadmi Party Minister Satyender Jain and the then director basic (Prisons) Sandeep Goel.

Just three days afterward November 4, Goel was eliminated as the pinnacle of Tihar Prison and requested to report again to the Police Headquarters in Delhi with rapid impact.

In his first letter, Chandrashekhar alleged that he made funds not solely to Jain but additionally to the Aam Aadmi Party to the tune of Rs 50 crore as he was promised an vital place within the occasion in south India. The allegations put the AAP within the vortex of a political storm with rivals BJP and Congress coaching their weapons at its occasion chief Arvind Kejriwal. Just every week again, Goel was positioned underneath suspension by the Union Home Ministry. The Ministry, nevertheless, cited no particular purpose within the suspension order.

The Tihar Prison additionally got here again in information after movies of Delhi minister Jain getting a full physique therapeutic massage inside his jail cell went viral on social media. The purported CCTV footage dated September 13 exhibits the minister mendacity on his mattress and studying some papers whereas a person, who was later recognized as an inmate convicted in POCSO case, sitting subsequent to him is seen massaging his foot.

The movies surfaced on social media, 10 days after the Enforcement Directorate accused Jain of getting particular remedy contained in the jail.

The Mehrauli monstrosity

In one of many rarest gut-churning incidents, a 27-year-old Mumbai-suburb resident Shraddha Walkar was allegedly strangled, her physique sliced into greater than two dozen items after which dumped at totally different areas of a forest space in south Delhi and Gurugram by her live-in associate, Aftab Amin Poonawala.

The case instantly caught the attention of nationwide media and have become the speak of the city resulting from two causes — one was the interfaith relation of the accused and the sufferer and second the barbarity with which Aaftab had dedicated the crime.

The case that shook the nation to its core got here to gentle on November 14 however the sufferer girl’s father – Vikas Walkar’s seek for her lacking daughter had already begun in October. One of Shraddha’s mates had alerted her father Vikas about Shraddha not responding to her messages and requires the previous some months.

It was Vikas Walkar, who then first approached the Mumbai Police on October 6, frantically trying to find his daughter, and later got here to know that she was residing in Delhi together with her live-in associate Aftab Poonawala.

The Mumbai Police lodged the primary lacking grievance on October 10 after it discovered that Shraddha had been inactive on her all social media accounts. Aftab too was referred to as to Mumbai and questioned by the police on October 26. However, he didn’t reveal something then.

Searching Shraddha, the Mumbai Police then reached Mehrauli police station in Delhi on November 9 and instructed them about Shraddha who was probably residing at Chattarpur Pahadi in south Delhi. Next day, on November 10, the Delhi Police registered an FIR and started trying to find her. Poonawala was traced and detained and when put to sustained interrogation, he revealed all of the horrific particulars of the barbaric crime that he had dedicated six months again on May 18.

It took accused Poonawala a number of months, ranging from May 18 when he killed his associate, to progressively eliminate all of the physique elements within the forest space of south Delhi and Gurugram in Haryana. For these six months, Poonawala took a number of precautions in order that the brutal crime dedicated by him didn’t floor within the open. Night after night time, round 2 am, he used to go away his flat, carrying a plastic bag containing a physique a part of the sufferer girl, throw it at an deserted place and return again by 4 am earlier than morning walkers begin venturing out.

After arresting Aaftab, started essentially the most intense search operation to find the chopped physique elements of Shraddha and progressively the police — piece by piece — started amassing proof to strengthen the case. Aftab was subjected to a collection of forensic checks — polygraph, narco and even voice pattern take a look at. On Aaftab’s occasion, some bone items have been recovered from the Mehrauli forest space which matched the DNA of Shraddha’s father.

The metropolis now with a bated breath awaits justice for the Mumbai girls. Sources say Delhi Police will more than likely file a chargesheet within the case by the primary month of 2023.