Drug queen made fast buck with cocaine and girls

NEW DELHI: When cops intercepted a red Hyundai on a Rajouri Garden road, little did they realize they would stumble upon a cache of drugs worth at least Rs 3 crore. And this was just the tip of the iceberg. When the inmates of the car - a suave woman and a smooth-talking businessman - began singing in custody, a high-profile sex-drug-and-betting racket was uncovered. The kingpin, Vimal Marwah, was a teacher with a public school in Punjab who took to crime after her husband abandoned her. And she was quick to strike a deal with a drug cartel and later extended her tentacles into flesh trade and also dabbled in gambling. Within a short time, she was zipping around the city in a fleet of luxury cars and hosting sleaze parties in India and abroad. She offered a unique package to her clients - cocaine and call girls. And she was much in demand at casinos and sex hubs of Nepal and Sri Lanka. But on Saturday, her dream run came to an end, hours before she was scheduled to fly to Colombo to host a party. "We received a tip-off that the accused were passing through Rajouri Garden to deliver cocaine to a client. We first nabbed her partner, Ajay Kalra, 41. Later, we arrested Vimal and the recipient of the consignment, Arun Gupta. We seized 275 gm of cocaine. Seven passports, air tickets of Sri Lankan Airline and 2 vehicles have also been seized," said Ashok Chand, DCP crime. The cocaine was procured from a Nigerian, who is on the run, police said. During interrogation, Vimal disclosed she was earlier teaching at a public school after doing a B.Ed course. She got married to a businessman and moved to Delhi. A few years later, her husband dumped her and left for Mumbai. In 2004, she took to flesh trade was arrested two years later. Out on bail, she extended her business into drugs and gambling. "She would charge Rs 30,000 for a call girl and 1gm of cocaine, police said. "She also ran a betting syndicate during cricket matches. Her clients included top bookies of Delhi. She rented a house at Sector 28, Gurgaon and paid Rs 20,000 as rent. She also ran a beauty parlour at West Patel Nagar," said Ravi Shankar, Addl DCP, crime. Source-The Times Of India

Lakhisarai killing a story of love, sex aur dhokha?

LAKHISARAI: It was a case of "love, sex and dhokha" which Dhanbad's Naresh Barnwal sought to project as one of gang rape and murder of wife Suman by road robbers. That's what the police say after arresting Naresh, his wife's cousin Khushboo and one Basant Singh in connection with the killing of Suman, under Halsi police station area near Jamui, on Sunday evening. Naresh allegedly gave "supari", or contract, to kill Suman over a year ago because his wife opposed his extra-marital relationship with Khushboo, a Part II student in Gaya, the place Naresh's in-laws hail from. According to the police, Naresh's affair with Khushboo began when she went to Dhanbad to look after Suman during her pregnancy, a year after her marriage four years ago. The relationship turned so passionate that he would even financially help Khushboo's family as her father, the sole earning member, was a lowly-paid worker in a private firm. Naresh even consumed sleeping pills when Khushboo broke up with him once because of tensions between her family and Suman's kinsmen. It was after this incident that the matter of marriage cropped up between the two and the contract killers were assigned the dirty job of removing the stumbling block in the way of their "wish to live together". Naresh and his family were at Jamui at the house of Suman's "mausi", or mother's sister, in January last year when Naresh planned to visit Khushboo in Gaya on her birthday on January 29. But Suman played the spoilsport, and they could leave Jamui on January 30. The "supari" killers were waiting in the wings and even swung into action, but they targeted a wrong vehicle and could not execute the killing because of heavy police presence on the Jamui-Gaya Road. Suman finally was killed. Both Naresh and Khushboo are in judicial custody now. Besides a married man's lust for another woman, the police furnish the following to support their version of the case: 1. Not only did Naresh delay their departure from Rajgir for Jamui, he drove slowly and stopped the vehicle a couple of times to walk a little away and speak to the criminals over phone. 2. Though six-seven criminals are alleged to have intercepted Naresh's Zen, only two frail felons forced their entry into the vehicle. One sat beside Naresh's brother-in-law Rajesh in the front, the other with the women - Suman and Rajesh's wife - in the rear seat. Naresh was left free to drive as they looted the vehicle occupants. Had Naresh, who is pretty well built, wished, he could have thrown out the two criminals and sped away. 3. When Suman was singled out by one of the two criminals to be dragged by her hair, "well-built" Naresh didn't even pretend to rescue her. He lied that she was taken far away and shot after half-an-hour or so. The criminals shot her a couple of minutes later in full view of Naresh and others a few metres away. 4. Naresh was an insurance agent, moonlighted as a moneylender and kept the company of petty criminals. 5. Some of the criminals of Jamui-Lakhisarai fled the district earlier. Naresh contacted two of them in Dhanbad but they insisted on killing his wife in their native area because they were familiar and comfortable with the geography. 6. Police are not surprised why the "killer" (Naresh) carried with him a hostile witness (Rajesh) to the spot of crime. It was a calculated move to prevent suspicion against him. That the move boomeranged as Rajesh smelt foul play is a different story. 7. Asked how credible is the claim that Rs 30,000 had been paid to the killers and Rs 40,000 was to be paid on the spot after the crime (in front of the victim's brother!), police say that's only a statement made by Naresh. It is yet to be investigated. For that matter, police are also investigating Khushboo's statement that Rs 2.5 lakh was paid to the killers. 8. Asked why mediamen were not being allowed to meet Naresh and Khushboo, the police say one needs permission from the court to interview them since they are in judicial custody. 9. Asked if call details were procured to substantiate the charge that Naresh was in touch with the criminals, the police say they are on the job. Source-The Times Of India

Woman raped by goons she hired to kill husband

POLBA (HOOGHLY): Police have dug up a fact more bizarre than fiction in the gangrape of a 39-year-old woman in Hooghly's Polba, 60km from Kolkata. Investigators say she was raped by the killers she had hired with the help of her lover to murder her husband. The lover, Zico Pal alias Potla, is a rich, married farmer 14 years younger to the woman. He wept inconsolably in the police station as he narrated how he tried to stop the killers from raping her, sources said. But the gang tied him up and went on raping the woman. The four killers had been hired by Potla from Belgharia on the city's fringes, Baranagar and Bandel, police said. He and the woman have confessed to the crime. The lovers and the killers have been arrested. Police grew suspicious of the woman because she seemed reluctant to file a complaint of rape although a medical examination had confirmed sexual assault. Her FIR mentioned only dacoity and murder. It was her 14-year- old son, Kushal, who told the villagers she had been raped. She added a rape complaint at their insistence. The incident occurred around midnight on March 28 in Patna village of Polba. The woman's 50-year-old husband, Krishna Chandra Mal, a wealthy potato farmer, was attacked in his courtyard when he got up to go to the bathroom. The robbers slit Mal's throat and stabbed him repeatedly before they ransacked the house to make it look like a dacoity. They tied and gagged his wife and son. But before leaving with the loot, they took turns sexually assaulting the woman. Potla has admitted he had led the way to Mal's house and was present during the incident, police said. He had not told the gang of his involvement with the woman and was shocked when they decided to rape her before leaving the house. He tried to stop them but in vain. It was Kushal who managed to free himself and alert neighbours. Source- The Times Of India