BE POLITE, DECENT TO PUBLIC, SAYS TOP COP

BE POLITE, DECENT TO PUBLIC, SAYS TOP COP

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In a recent notification to all staffers of Mumbai police, Commissioner Dr Satyapal Singh has requested them to be more sensitive towards the problems of citizens MUMBAI’S Commissioner of Police, Dr Satyapal Singh issued a notification yesterday asking all personnel to behave decently and be more attentive to the problems of the general public. In the announcement, which was made following the Vidhan Bhavan assault case, the police chief also proposed a personality development programme for the staff. The issue gained momentum after the suspended MLAs alleged that API Sachin Suryavanshi misbehaved with them. However, sources claim that Suryavanshi’s behaviour was a response to abusive language used by MLA Kshitij Thakur. “ There are a lot of people who might approach us with complaints that even God may find difficult to solve, but we should be able to guide them and give them solutions that are best to our ability, such as approaching the court etc,” the circular said. The commissioner has also suggested personality development courses for the policemen. “ The staff will benefit by this course as it would teach them important life skills such as how to talk to people in a sensitive manner. We are thinking of approaching management institutes like Welingkar’s and Symbiosis to conduct the courses,” said a source. Apart from the above mentioned suggestions, the commissioner has also asked all police stations to celebrate birthdays of staff by cutting a cake, presenting a bouquet and even writing their names on a board so that others can wish them too.

Police chief orders probe in death of ‘robber’ in custody

 Police chief orders probe in death of ‘robber’ in custody

 

Express news service : Mon Mar 18 2013, 02:23 hrs

Mumbai Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh has ordered Crime Branch, Unit XI to probe the alleged in-custody death of a robber in Malwani Police Station on March 5. Javed Hyder Ali, 35, was thrashed by the employees and owner of a dye manufacturing unit and handed over to police. However, the next morning, police said they tried to wake him up but he did not respond. He was taken to a hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival.

Injured man made to wait at police station, dies

Express news service : Tue Mar 26 2013, 03:07 hrs

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Sayyed Gazi Sheikh (65) died allegedly after he was made to sit at a police station with untreated injuries sustained in a fight with neighbours in Malwani Sunday night.
Police have still not registered a complaint of murder, saying they are awaiting post-mortem report.
His family claimed Sheikh was asked to report to the police station in an injured state after his neighbours made allegations of assault.
His daughter Tanvar (25) said Sheikh was in their Malwani home when neighbours barged in demanding a passageway.
"The family of Yaseen Shaikh has built an illegal house on mangroves just behind ours. They have been demanding a passageway through our house but my father did not agree," said Tanvar.
She said at 9 pm Sunday, Yaseen, his wife Yasmin and son Sameer barged into their house and beat up her father with rods, after which he approached police.
"The officers registered an NC and asked my father to go for an examination of his head injuries.
"When he returned, Yasmin went to the police station and alleged my father attacked her with a blade. My father was in hospital at the time. At 1 am, police called my father, registered a cross-complaint and made him sit in the police station for two hours. When he returned home at 3 am, he collapsed. We rushed him to hospital where he was declared dead," Tanvar said.
She said her father died due to police negligence. "My father had head injuries. In that condition he was made to wait at the police station." Jaywant Hargude, ACP (Malwani), said: "We are conducting inquiries and if police negligence is proved, we will take action against officers concerned."

Youth’s body fished out from mangroves

Youth’s body fished out from mangrovesYouth’s body fished out from mangroves
Mar 19, 2013 | Age Correspondent | Mumbai

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The Malwani police is investigating the murder case of a youngster whose body was found on Monday morning in Malad (west). The body was pulled out from the mangroves and efforts are on to identify it.
According to an investigating official from the Malwani police station, the murder came to light when locals of a Malwani church alerted the police control room. The body was lying in the mangroves below a nullah near Marve Beach on Marve Road.
“We received a phone call at around 10.45 am after which a police van was rushed to the spot,” said a police official. The body has been sent for an autopsy to Bhagwati Hospital in Borivali (west).
“There are injury marks on the body and the throat has been slit. Based on the nature of injuries, we have registered a case of murder under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at the Malwani police station,” informed Jaywant Hargude, assistant commissioner of police, Malwani division.
The deceased is aged between 20 to 25 years. He is dressed in a T-shirt and trousers. The police believes that he may be a local, but there are no clues yet. “He does not have a cellphone or an identity card. We could not find anything on his body that could ascertain his identity,” Mr Hargude said.

Police chief orders probe in death of ‘robber’ in custody

POLICE ORDERED PROBE IN DEATH OF ROOBER IN CUSTODY.
Express news service : Mon Mar 18 2013, 02:23 hrs


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Mumbai Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh has ordered Crime Branch, Unit XI to probe the alleged in-custody death of a robber in Malwani Police Station on March 5. Javed Hyder Ali, 35, was thrashed by the employees and owner of a dye manufacturing unit and handed over to police. However, the next morning, police said they tried to wake him up but he did not respond. He was taken to a hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival.

College girl commits suicide

College girl commits suicideByNitasha Natu, TNN | Mar 11, 2013, 04.20 PM IST
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MUMBAI: A 17-year-old girl committed suicide at her Malwani residence on Thursday afternoon. The police are yet to find out the motive. No suicide note was found. 
The deceased, Shabana Khan, resided in the gate no. 6 area of Malwani with her parents. While her father was at work and her mother had stepped out to buy groceries around 1 pm, Shabana hanged herself from the ceiling fan with her dupatta. 
A neighbour happened to glance through the window and found her hanging. He informed the cops and the girl's parents, following which she was rushed to the Bhagwati Hospital at Borivali. Doctors pronounced her dead before admission 
"Shabana studied in class XII of a Malad-based junior college. Her parents said they do not suspect any foul play in the case. We have recorded an accidental death and are probing what pushed her to take the drastic step," said an official from the Malwani police.

Businessman, aides arrested for 'lynching' thief

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TNN | Mar 7, 2013, 03.33 AM IST
MUMBAI: The owners of a dye manufacturing unit and their six aides were arrested by theMalwani police on Wednesday for lynching a robber.

A probe is also being conducted into allegations that the robber, Javed Ali, was thrashed by cops in custody. Javed's viscera has been sent to the state forensic science laboratory for analysis that will determine the exact cause and timing of his death.

Early on Tuesday, Ali had attempted to enter the dye manufacturing unit in Malwani around 1am on Tuesday. He was assaulted after the employees and owner of the unit owned by two brothers, Amarjeet and Vijay Singh. Vijay and three of his employees were asleep in the factory. Around 1 am, Vijay spotted a silhouette of a man barging in and woke up his employees. They nabbed Ali and thrashed him, before handing him over to the cops.

Ali was lodged in the police lock-up. Around 9 am, the cops entered the lock-up to take Ali for a medical examination, required as per law, to the hospital. But Ali appeared asleep and did not budge. Later, doctors at the Bhagwati Hospital declared him dead.

"We have arrested Amarjeet, Vijay and four of their employees on murder charges. However, if the inquiry reveals that he was thrashed in police custody by cops then they will not be spared," said a senior official.

Six women held for soliciting customers through autos

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ByNitasha Natu, TNN | Feb 12, 2013, 07.28 AM IST

MUMBAI: Six women were arrested from Madh village at Malad West recently for soliciting customers. Two autorickshaw drivers who were ferrying the women in their vehicles were also held. All the accused were booked under section 8 (b) of Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act(PITA).

The arrests took place on Friday afternoon while the Malwani police was patrolling the stretch. "We had received complaints of sex workers frequenting the area in autorickshaws and trying to solicit pedestrians. A crackdown was carried out between 2 pm and 5 pm on Friday. The illegal activity has been going on for sometime and the accused used to flee if they happened to spot a policeman around," said an official.

All the accused were later released on a cash bail of Rs 5,000 each.

7 months on, no leads in Malad murder

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ByNitasha Natu, TNN | Feb 22, 2013, 03.51 AM IST

MUMBAI: The last memory they have of their mother is bidding her goodbye while leaving for school. Everything else is a haze that returns to the memory of a burning odour emanating from their Malad residence, with no response from within and their constant banging on the door to get their mother's attention. 


It's been seven months since Susan Rodrigues was murdered and torched but with the police investigation coming to a standstill her two daughters are still groping for answers. 

Susan (46), was a homemaker and an active member of a womens' welfare cell affiliated to the local church. Her husband, Allwyn, works in Bahrain. The couple had a strained relationship. Their daughters Acacia (17) and Abisha (11) were very close to Susan and have since the time of the tragedy have moved in with their uncle, Steven. 

"We are slowly losing hope in the police department," Steven said. "The girls and I have been repeatedly quizzed. We have recounted the tiniest detail about Susan but there's been no breakthrough in the case. Susan could never take to any wrongdoing. We want to know what exactly happened in the house the day she died," he added. 

On July 16, 2012, Abisha returned home from school and waited outside as nobody answered the door. She then went downstairs where she met Acacia and they tried calling Susan but her phones were switched off. Neighbours gathered when the girls complained of a burning odour and summoned the fire brigade. Susan's body was recovered with pieces of paper stuck to it. But there were no bloodstains anywhere. "Two gold chains, Susan's wedding ring, Rs 15,000 in cash and 25 tolas of gold belonging to her friend were missing from the house. A personal diary belonging to |Susan had also vanished," Steven added. The cops had initially classified the case as an accidental death but the post-mortem report revealed that Susan had been stabbed and torched. 

The family has accused the police of conducting a shoddy probe. 

"No fingerprints were taken from the house nor was the dog squad summoned. For two hours after the body was found, acquaintances were freely walking in and out of the house with no cordoning. The cops used a digital camera from Susan's cupboard to take photographs of the crime scene, instead of calling a professional photographer. Then there was a tussle between the Malwani police and the crime branch," Steven said. 

When contacted, senior inspector Abdul Rauf Shaikh of the Malwani police station refuted the allegations and said they had questioned everyone close to Susan. "We have gone through her cellphone records as well. The probe is still on and the case isn't closed," Shaikh said.

Alleged robber beaten up, dies; 7 booked

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A 35-year-old alleged robber was thrashed by the employees and owner of a dyeing unit in Malwani on Tuesday and handed over to police. He was later declared dead on arrival in hospital.

While the dyeing unit employees claimed seeing him being beaten up in lock-up again, police said they rushed the alleged robber to hospital when he did not wake up in the morning.

Malwani police, who have booked seven people, including dyeing unit owner Amarjeet Singh and his brother Vijay, said alleged robber Javed Ali tried to enter the premises Tuesday early morning.

Following a series of robberies at the unit, Vijay and three employees had started sleeping at the factory, police said.

"At 1 am on Tuesday, Vijay noticed someone trying to break in and nabbed him. He then began beating him up," said an officer.

Employees, too, allegedly thrashed and dragged him to Malwani police station.

Police said they arrested Ali and put him in lock-up. At 9 am, they said, officers found him sleeping and tried to wake him up for a medical examination, but Ali did not move. Police then rushed him to Bhagwati Hospital where he was declared dead on arrival.

However, Harinder Singh, an employee of the unit, said after they handed Ali over to police, he was beaten up again. Mahesh Patil, DCP (Zone 11), said, "We are probing if Ali was beaten up by police."

Man rejects wife for giving birth to girl, booked for harassment

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Nearly a year after a 21-year-old woman from Malad was rejected by her husband and in-laws for giving birth to a girl child (Arhana), a case of harassment has now been registered against the husband. The couple got married in November 2009 and the wife, Zameera, was sent to her parents' house in Malwani when she was four months' pregnant. The husband, Ahmed Koti (27), warned her that if she gave birth to a girl, she would not be accepted. Koti, who did not even see his daughter, remarried within 11 months of the girl's birth.
The helpless mother, who has been living with her parents for over a year, wrote to the Malwani police in January 2012, asking them to intervene in the matter and register a case of harassment. "I had been waiting for my husband to come and pick me up. I waited for 11 months after my daughter was born, but nobody turned up. I could not see any alternative, so I approached the police thinking that my husband would at least listen to them," said Zameera.
On Wednesday, Mahesh Patil, deputy commissioner of police (Zone 11), gave his sanction to register a case of harassment under Section 498 of the Indian Penal Code against Koti. He is a resident of the Collectors Compound in Malwani and works for a private firm.
Koti is expected to be arrested soon by Malwani police.
In a follow-up to Zameera's letter, her case was referred to the Mahila Dakshata Samiti (MDS) for counselling. The MDS consists of a group of women from the area, selected by the DCP in November last year. The samiti is in charge of couselling couples on family issues and solves them without intervention by the police. Among the cases handled by the samiti so far, this is the first that has been turned into an FIR.
Qaiser Asif Fasahte, president of the samiti, said they have had 20 cases since November and have been able to solve seven. She, however, said Zameera's case was the most difficult as they could not conduct any counselling. "We appeal to the police to register a case only after trying in every way to cousel the couple. This case, however, was different. Koti had deliberately rejected Zameera for giving birth to a girl," said Fasahte.
It was the samiti which informed Zameera of her husband's second marriage. "My daughter Arhana was born a year ago and I kept praying for my husband to come and see us, but he did not turn up. When I wrote to the police, Fasahte got in touch with me and informed me about Ahmed's second marriage," said Zameera.
After studying Zameera's application, the samiti called her to the police station to understand the case. The members then checked Koti's background and found that he has already remarried. His second wife is 22 years old.
"In cases like these, we first see if there is any chance of reaching an agreement among family members through counseling. We try to talk to the complainant first, then to the accused separately. We then counsel both parties together and try to strike a dialogue between the two and resolve the matter," added Fasahte.
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