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  • Major JeM plot foiled, militant associate working in 5-star hotel arrested

    Major JeM plot foiled, militant associate working in 5-star hotel arrested

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    Srinagar, May 4: In a major breakthrough, police in Kashmir foiled a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) plot of a major militant attack when they arrested a militant associate of the outfit who was working in a five-star hotel as a driver.

    Police last week arrested Farooq Ahmad Wani son of Abdul Rashid Wani, resident of Wagoob Hygam, Baramulla district from a five start hotel in Kashmir where he was working as a driver.

    A senior police official told Excelsior that during the interrogation it was found that he was in touch with his handlers across in Pakistan and had sent pictures and other details of some of the 5-star hotels of Kashmir where high profile guests including Union Ministers and other top leaders and senior officials stay.

    The plot has been foiled ahead of G20 group meeting in Srinagar that is being held from May 22 to May 24 and the officer said that it is a major success.

    A grenade was recovered from his possession and he is being questioned and police is working on the leads provided by him.

    He said that the security has been further tightened around the hotels in Srinagar and other places ahead of the G20 meet as there is serious input about possible militant strike in Kashmir.

    It may be mentioned here that only yesterday, Additional Director General of Police Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, took a security review meeting in Srinagar during which a special focus was laid on the emerging threat of Vehicle Based Improvised Explosive Devices (VBIEDs) and other modes of potential militant attacks including Fidayeen.

    Sensing the gravity of the threat after audacious attack in Poonch last month on Army and the presence of a militant in 5-star hotel, elite Marine Commandos (MARCOS) and National Security Guards (NGS) are being placed for the security of G20 Group meeting in Srinagar.

    The official said that the hotel management had no knowledge about the driver having militant links. He further said that Wani had developed links several months after working in the hotel.

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    ( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

  • Man, who fled Delhi’s 5-star hotel without paying Rs 23 lakh bill sent to two-day custody

    Man, who fled Delhi’s 5-star hotel without paying Rs 23 lakh bill sent to two-day custody

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    New Delhi: A Delhi court on Sunday remanded a man arrested for allegedly staying at a five-star hotel here for about four months by posing as a functionary of the UAE royal family and fleeing with an outstanding bill of more than Rs 23 lakh in two days’ police custody.

    Duty Magistrate Shivangi Vyas sent Mahamed Sharif for custodial interrogation, noting that police had to recover certain articles from his residence in Delhi, which were allegedly stolen by him.

    Sharif checked into The Leela Palace hotel on August 1 last year. He stayed in room number 427 for about four months and fled on November 20 with hotel valuables and without paying the bills, police told the court.

    “Considering the fact that the recovery of the case property — the stolen articles — are yet to be effected, accused Mahamed Sharif be remanded in police custody for two days,” the judge said.

    The accused impersonated a member of the royal family of the United Arab Emirates and booked the hotel room at a discounted price.

    He was apprehended on January 19 from Karnataka’s Puttur and four days’ transit remand was taken from a court in the southern state.

    The counsel for the accused opposed the police’s plea for remand, claiming that he was illegally arrested and no article was stolen.

    According to police, besides cheating the hotel to the tune of Rs 23.46 lakh, he decamped with valuables, including silver bottle holders.

    The accused registered himself at the hotel as an important functionary of the “Office of His Highness Sheikh Falah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan” of the UAE government and gave a fake business card, the police said.

    It claimed that the accused also provided a UAE resident card on arrival at the hotel.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )