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Italy-based Indian man held for impersonating Vice President

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New Delhi: A 22-year-old Indian based in Italy was arrested for allegedly posing as the Vice President of India by creating a fake WhatsApp account using Jagdeep Dhankhar’s picture as his profile display to dupe people and seek favours from senior bureaucrats, police said on Monday.
The accused, Gagandeep Singh, who hails from Jammu, has been living in Offanengo, Italy since 2007 with his family. He studied till Class 9 in India and passed 12th from Italy where he worked as a labour in a company, they said.
Police said that Singh got the idea of impersonation after watching several YouTube videos.
An associate of his, Ashwani Kumar, 29, has also been arrested. Kumar supplied the OTP, or One Time Password, to Singh to create a fake WhatsApp account.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations) Prashant Gautam said that before creating the fake WhatsApp account using a picture of the Vice President, Singh watched several YouTube videos and got contact details of senior government officials from the internet.
“After that, he obtained an OTP from his associate to create a WhatsApp account with an Indian mobile number. After creating the WhatsApp account, he took a picture of the Vice President of India as a profile picture. Using this impersonating account, he started sending messages to senior government officials to seek favours from senior bureaucracy,” he said.
The matter came to light after someone informed the police about the scam, following which a case was registered.
“Immediately, details of the impersonating WhatsApp profile were obtained from WhatsApp and the IP address of the sender was traced to Italy. The team started working on all technical aspects and conducted raids, following which a person identified as Ashwani Kumar, a resident of Samana in Punjab, was apprehended who had shared OTP with the imposter to create the WhatsApp account,” Gautam said.

During its investigation, police identified the main accused as an Indian national — Gagandeep Singh, who was living in Italy.
“The team collected details about the accused from Foreigners’ Regional Registration Office (FRRO), Banks and regional passport office and subsequently, the accused was apprehended from IGI airport,” the officer said.
Police said that five mobile phones used in the commission of crime have been recovered from his possession.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 6, 2023
Telangana: Social Entrepreneurship Summit – Impulse 2023 held

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Hyderabad: The Social Entrepreneurship Summit – Impulse 2023 commenced by welcoming over 500 social entrepreneurship practitioners and enthusiasts.
The annual flagship event of Bala Vikasa Center for Social and Responsible Business (CSRB) was organized in partnership with the Telangana State Innovation Cell (TSIC).
The event was supported by T-Hub, We-Hub, Nexus Incubator, Social Alpha, AgHub, and Arthayan along with TISS (Mumbai), ISB, CBIT, and Deloitte.
The Social Startup Expo was inaugurated by BVR Mohan Reddy, Founder-Chairman, Cyient, Anshu Gupta, founder, Goonj, André Gingras and Bala T. Singareddy Gingras, founders of Bala Vikasan under the presence of Dr. Shanta Thoutam, Chief Innovation Officer, Telangana.
At the event, various panel discussions and interactive workshops social entrepreneurship enthusiasts, including impact investors, incubators, and mentors participated.
Around 70 startups, exhibited their social innovation products and services like safety devices for mining workers and improve digital literacy, education innovations that improve social-emotional intelligence in children, support equipment for persons with disabilities, health innovations that support people with mobility issues, and many other innovations that contribute to sustainable social change.
Speaking at the summit, Andre Gingras said, “The social entrepreneur always keeps in their mind that the innovation should benefit the 300 million poor people in India living at a grass root, especially the women should be the center point of their work”
Dr. BVR Mohan Reddy spoke of how corporates contribute to nation-building through employment generation, wealth creation, foreign exchange earning, and corporate social responsibility.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 5, 2023
UP: Advocate held after woman alleges rape

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Agra: A senior advocate in Agra has been arrested by the New Agra police for allegedly raping a woman.
The victim threatened suicide if no action was taken against the advocate, the police said.
The victim alleged that the advocate raped her on multiple occasions, made obscene videos of the act and also extorted Rs 40 lakh from her.
She claimed she had approached the police many times but when no action was taken. Later she went to the Police Commissioner to narrate her ordeal.
The advocate’s phone had been stolen a few months back and videos and photos of his intimate moments with several women recorded on the phone, had gone viral on social media.
One of those women who said she was sexually exploited by the advocate, approached Agra Commissioner Preetinder Singh and said the advocate had called her to his house on January 4 and raped her after threatening to defame her by making her obscene videos viral.
Interestingly, the advocate had already filed a complaint against the woman at Sikandra police station, accusing her of demanding Rs 2 crore from him. The Sikandra police are already investigating this complaint.
The woman told reporters, “I had a dispute with my husband following which I came in contact with the accused as he represented me in court.”

She said during the lockdown, the advocate had started visiting her house and one day he moved into her house saying that he had a dispute with his wife and he wanted a place to stay for a few days.
During this period, the advocate raped her several times and also made obscene videos saying that a lot of money could be earned by selling these videos. Apart from this, the woman also alleged that the advocate took Rs 40 lakh from her to contest the election, which he is yet to return.
DCP Vikas Kumar said that the victim has accused the advocate of rape and other criminal offenses and the police have registered a case against him. The matter is being investigated and the accused has been taken into custody.
Police Commissioner Preetinder Singh said that the woman appeared before him and threatened that if no action was taken against the advocate, she would be forced to commit suicide.
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February 5, 2023
Assam: Crackdown against child marriages continues; over 2K held

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Guwahati: Continuing the crackdown on child marriages, Assam Police have arrested a total of 2,258 people so far, an official said on Saturday.
Rajib Saikia, PRO of Assam Police, has said that the highest numbers of arrests were reported from Biswanath district where 139 people were held and 97 cases were registered against child marriage.
Barpeta district has the second highest number of arrests, which stands at 128 against the total number of 81 cases lodged.
The Muslim-dominated district of Dhubri logs the third-highest arrests. Already 127 people have been arrested by the police. Here, 374 complaints of child marriages have been registered.
Meanwhile, many women in different parts of the state have expressed displeasure over the arrest of their husbands. They have been protesting outside the police stations against the crackdown. Some of them even asked “who will feed the family if their spouses are jailed”.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday, however, made it clear that the police operation against child marriage will continue in the state.
“People should not try to draw sympathy on this issue. This is extremely necessary to save the future generation,” he said.

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February 4, 2023
Woman drug peddler held, heroin worth Rs 5 lakh seized

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New Delhi: Delhi Police have arrested an active woman drug peddler in North Delhi and recovered 44 grams of heroin worth Rs 5 lakh in international market from her possession, said an official on Saturday.
The accused identified as Kiran (40), a resident of Aruna Nagar, Manju Ka Tila is also found previously involved in conspiracy of a gang rape case registered in Civil Lines police station.
Police said that she used to bully locals and no one dared to give information about her to police.
“We had launched a special drive against the active drug peddlers especially in the area of Majnu Ka Tilla, to break the chain of drug supply. A team was working relentlessly and developing information about drug peddlers when some inputs about Kiran, engaged in drug peddling, was received,” said Sagar Singh Kalsi, Deputy Commissioner of Police (north).
“But despite best efforts, she could not be nailed down, due to extra precautions taken by her. The team relentlessly kept looking for the right opportunity to nab her. Local people were afraid of giving any information about her misdeeds because she belongs to the Sansi community and used to bully and threaten the locals for passing information about her misdeeds,” said the DCP.
However, on February 3 at 04:00 p.m., Kiran while carrying 44 grams heroin in one black colour polythene bag was nabbed.
During interrogation, Kiran disclosed that she used to purchase the contraband drugs from a person known as Achhu who meets her in the area of Bhajanpura, Delhi on a regular basis.
“She takes the stock of contraband drugs i.e heroin/smack after paying Rs 5,000 per pack of five grams. She used to make small packets and then she sold the same to the drug addicts of the local areas for Rs 300 to earn easy money,” said the official.

Police raids were conducted at the possible whereabouts of the main supplier of contraband drugs, but he was found absconding.
“Efforts are being made to nab him and to ascertain the role of others in this racket,” the official added.
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February 4, 2023
Vietnam’s coffee festival to be held in March

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Hanoi: Vietnam will host a coffee festival in the central highlands Dak Lak province, its largest coffee grower, from March 10 to March 14.
The Buon Ma Thuot coffee festival, to be held for the 8th time, will feature a range of events including a specialty coffee-making competition, a coffee culture exhibition, a conference on trade promotion in the coffee industry, and other cultural activities, Vietnam News Agency reported, citing the event’s organiser Dak Lak’s People’s Committee, as saying.
The festival, which will be held in Buon Ma Thuot city and other localities of Dak Lak, aims to promote the local coffee brand and develop Vietnam’s specialty coffee, with the target to turn the city into a global coffee center, said H’Yim Kdoh, vice chairperson of the provincial People’s Committee, Xinhua news agency reported.
Dak Lak has the largest farming area of around 210,000 hectares with an annual output of more than 520,000 tons. Its Buon Ma Thuot is home to some of the finest coffee in Vietnam, according to a report by Vietnam News Agency.
Coffee is Vietnam’s second biggest export product after rice. In 2022, the country exported 1.68 million tons of coffee, reaping $3.9 billion, local newspaper Tuoi Tre (Youth) reported.
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February 4, 2023
3-year-old girl gang-raped in Delhi, 2 held

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New Delhi: A three-year-old minor girl was allegedly gang-raped by two men in a forest area in south Delhi, the police said on Friday.
According to a senior police officer, on Friday, a woman along with her three-year-old daughter came to Fatehpur Beri police station and lodged a complaint in this regard.
“In her complaint, the woman stated that her daughter went missing in the morning. While she was looking for her daughter, her neighbour told the woman that she had seen her daughter walking near the jungle area. The neighbour had also seen two persons going in the same direction towards the jungle area,” said the official.
After some time, the child was found crying.
“The complainant saw that her daughter was bleeding from her private part. When the woman asked her about what happened, the child kept on crying,” said the official.
“The woman told the incident to her husband and they reported the incident to the police station. The victim (child) has been sent for medical examination and treatment to AIIMS hospital,” the official added.
Police said that both the accused, who took the girl inside the jungle, have been apprehended, and an investigation was underway.

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February 3, 2023
Hyderabad: RPF rescues 27 child trafficking victims, 6 held

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Hyderabad: The Railway Protection Force rescued 27 child trafficking victims and detained six alleged traffickers from Danapur Express on Wednesday in collaboration with NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan under Operation Action against Human Trafficking (AAHT).
The operation was conducted in collaboration with the Bachpan Bachao and was based on intelligence generated from continuous data analysis by the RPF’s Cyber Cell.
Raids were conducted from Kazipet to Secunderabad. The operation was carried out by the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) from Secunderabad. RPF officials involved in the bust kept a close watch on suspected coaches to identify and pinpoint the seat and coach numbers of the traffickers.
The rescued children are from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh state
The RPF team recorded statements from the children and carried out further inquiries for legal action with the assistance of Sri. Venkateshwarlu, BBA State Coordinator and the District Child Protection Unit/HYB.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 2, 2023
Video: Two Muslim minors tied to tree, beaten in UP’s Barabanki dist, 3 held

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Three persons – a father and his sons – were arrested on Wednesday on charges of assaulting two Muslim minor boys in Khasparia village of Barabanki district, Uttar Pradesh.
According to police, the incident happened on January 29. The victims – Shadab and Shakeel – had gone to the village to collect fodder for their goats.
As they were returning home, they were suddenly intercepted by Triloki and his sons – Sonu and Suraj – who tied them to a tree and started beating them with sticks.
A video has gone viral on social media platforms regarding the incident. In the video, abuses are being hurled at the minor boys who look visibly scared.
The boys were soon rescued by nearby villagers. They informed their father Majbulla who immediately rushed to the spot and took his boys home.
A police complaint was lodged against Triloki, Sonu and Suraj under sections 342 (Whoever wrongfully confines any person shall be punished with imprisonment), 323 (Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (Punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.
However, police said that Triloki has alleged he beat Shadab and Shakeel because they were caught harassing his minor daughter.
While Triloki is in his 50s, Sonu and Suraj are majors. Investigations are still on, police said.

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February 1, 2023
MP: Woman with alleged PFI links held for recording court proceedings

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Indore: Police have arrested a 30-year-old woman having alleged links with the banned outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) for filming the proceedings of a court during a hearing in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore district, an official said on Sunday.
The woman, identified as Sonu Mansuri, later told the police that an advocate had asked her to make the video to be sent to the Islamic outfit PFI and she was given Rs three lakh for the work, Additional Commissioner of Police Rajesh Raghuvanshi told PTI.
During the hearing of a case related to Bajrang Dal leader Tanu Sharma on Saturday, his advocates Amit Pandey and Sunil Vishwakarma noticed the woman shooting the video in court room no. 42 of Indore district court, he said.
“The advocates got suspicious and with the help of women lawyers caught the woman. They then alerted the MG Road police who detained her on Saturday evening and formally arrested her at night,” he said.
Mansuri, a resident of Indore, claimed before the police that senior advocate Noorjahan Khan had given her the task of making the video to be sent across to the PFI, the official said.
The woman also told the police that she was given Rs three lakh for this work, the official said, adding the money has been recovered.
“Further investigation is on and Sonu is being interrogated to extract more information about her link with the PFI. She will be produced in a court on Sunday afternoon,” Raghuvanshi said.
Action will also be taken against advocate Noorjahan Khan if there is substantial evidence, he added.

The Centre had in September 2022 banned the PFI and several of its associates for five years under a stringent anti-terror law, accusing them of having “links” with global terror groups like ISIS and trying to spread communal hatred in the country.
Before the ban, the National Investigating Agency (NIA), the Enforcement Directorate(ED) and various state police forces had carried out raids in a massive pan-India crackdown on the PFI and arrested several of its leaders and activists from various states for allegedly supporting terror activities in the country.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

January 29, 2023