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Former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore was injured in the face when he was stabbed outside the district court complex here Monday. He was coming out of court after appearing in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, for which he has been convicted.(IANS)

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Police will have to take a lesson or two in handling virtual crime sooner than it thinks it should. The IT-propelled e-revolution in Punjab has brought along with it cyber criminals with specializations ranging from online frauds to hacking.

Data provided by Punjab Police makes it amply clear that cyber-thugs are here to stay and their crimes, in fact, are on the rise in Punjab.

According to data, Punjab Police has registered over 150 cases of cyber crime under the IT Act, 2000 and various sections of IPC in the last eight years. And most of these cases were reported to the police in the last two years. While a total 16 cases of online fraud were registered, 45 other cases of electronic cheating have come to light since 2000.

Cases of providing false electronic evidence, obtaining fake digital signatures, tampering with computer files and even hacking have been registered by Punjab Police.

A total of 42 cases of producing fake currency and stamps using electronic means also came to light.

Along with online frauds, what really is bothering Punjab Police is the problem of obscene MMSes.
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Haryana police booked six most wanted gangsters

CHANDIGARH:Haryana Police has arrested six most wanted accused of an Inter-State Gang while they were planning to commit a dacoity in district Yamunanagar and recovered three 12 bore guns, five alive cartages, one khukri and a without number Indica Car from their possession.

While giving the details here on Thursday, a spokesman of the Haryana Police Department said that the accused were identified as Abdul Gaffar of Chhatisgarh, Amit Kumar, Munish Kumar, Jabbar and Narinder Kumar of Yamunanagar and Parveen Kumar of Mujafarnagar.

He informed that similarly the Police had also arrested Manjesh alias Monu of Uttaranchal and Rakesh Kumar of Farakpur and recovered 330 grams Smack, 1.30 gram Opium, a revolver of 22 bore and 22 bore alive cartages from the possession of Monu whereas 550 grams Smack, a pistol and four alive cartages from Rakesh Kumar. A case had been registered against them under NDPS Act, he added.

He said that further investigation were being conducted by the concerned officers.

Source :- Punjab News Line

High alert in Haryana and Punjab after blast

CHANDIGARH: Haryana and Punjab have been put on high alert after an attack on Dera Sacha Sauda chief Baba Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh`s cavalcade in Karnal district last evening.

The police said that though Baba Rahim escaped unhurt, eight people, including six security men, were injured in the attack.

The Haryana Additional Director General of Police, V B Singh said that unidentified persons from a truck passing by the Dera Chief`s cavalcade hurled a tyre packed with explosives at it.

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Panchkula: Snehlata, wife of Padam who was found murdered at a farm house near here last week, was remanded in three-day police custody by additional chief judicial magistrate Ritu Garg at the local court here today. She was arrested on charges of murdering her husband yesterday.

According to police, Snehlata had strained relations with her husband and he used to beat her up frequently. She had illicit relations with a nephew of Padam and when the latter came to know about this, he became more brutally. The police said Snehlata attacked Padam with sharp-edged weapons while he was sleeping on the night of January 13, killing him on the spot.

However, Snehlata has said her husband was murdered by a trespasser on that night.

Source: TNS

Chandigarh: Various techniques, concepts and measures pertaining to cyber crime, computer forensics, handwriting’s significance in forgery, counterfeit currency were among the lessons taught to the officials of the Chandigarh Police. The workshop was held at the Central Forensic Sciences Laboratory, Sector 36, during a day-long session on “White Collar and Cyber Crime”.

The session was organised by Government Examiner of Questioned Documents — the second oldest such unit in the world, after the Scotland Yard.

Emphasising the need for upgradation of human resources in pace with the technology and significance of the preventive forensics/ vigilance for reducing the crime-graph, Superintendent of Police (CBI) Mahesh Aggarwal, said, “Updated skill can detect the white-collar and cyber crime more efficiently. The role and need of detective forensics in white-collar crimes for bringing culprits to the book should be emphasised.

The crime-investigation agencies need to be ahead of criminals, who indulge in white-collar crimes.”

Giving background of the GEQD, Shimla, Sood said the laboratory has handled more than 2,500 actual crime-cases in the last six months.
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Panchkula: Criminals looted more than Rs 5 lakh from the cashier of Berkely Automobiles, a dealer in Maruti cars, here today. The cashier, accompanied by the driver, was robbed when he was going to deposit the money in a bank in Sector 11 market.

The robbers, in their thirties, threw a stone on the car, damaging a window and parked their Zen car in front of Wagon R of the victims. Pointing a pistol, they snatched the bag containing the cash and fled. The robbers took away the car before fleeing.

Source: TNS

Chandigarh: After 17 months of investigation in the murder of Punjab-based gangster Prabhjinder Singh Dimpy, UT Police have zeroed in on a Bathinda resident considered to be Dimpy’s confidant-turned-enemy. Rocky, however, is still at large.

Till a few years ago, Rocky was working with Dimpy when the former was affiliated with UP-based gangster Mukhtar Ansari’s group, said police. Though investigating officers refused to divulge further details, sources said they are planning to question Rocky at length. Police said, these days, he is enjoying the patronage of certain senior Uttar Pradesh politicians.

Rocky, who is also wanted for an attempt to murder case last year, had emerged as a prime suspect in the Dimpy murder case, said police. In August, 2006 Chandigarh Police asked for his consent to narco-analysis and polygraph tests. It was followed by a reminder in September. Rocky refused and has been absconding ever since.

“Though the evidence available was quite vague, the information that we managed to collect turned the needle of suspicion towards Rocky. Initially, we were also suspecting Sandeep Bhau, another man of Dimpy’s league and a close confidant of Mukhtar Ansari. Bhau’s interrogation has not yielded much. Though we have not given him a clean chit as yet, it appears that Rocky, who had a tiff with Dimpy over money, may have got him bumped off,” said an officer.
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Chandigarh: The police booked a group of persons of Sector 25 on the charges of rioting and causing hurt for allegedly assaulting their neighbours this morning.

The police said Kala of Sector 25 colony reported, alleging that Rinku, Saroj and Ravi along with others, hurled a brick at him last night and assaulted him. He let the matter go and decided to report the matter in the morning. Today he went to the residence of the accused along with his wife to inquire the matter when the accused assaulted them. He and his wife sustained injuries and the matter was reported to the police.

The police admitted them to the Sector 16 Government Multi Speciality Hospital. The police registered a case of rioting, causing hurt, criminal intimidation and trespassing against the accused, who are still at large.

Maninder Singh said the medical reports are awaited and sections would be included subsequently into the case depending upon the gravity of the injuries.
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Chandigarh: Thieves decamped with Rs 1.50 lakh and jewellery after breaking into a house in Sector 38-C.

Vijay of Sector 38-C has reported to the police that Rs 1.50 lakh and four tolas of gold were stolen from his house during the intervening night of January 8 and 9.

He told the police that the thieves gained entry by breaking open the locks. A case has been registered in the Sector 39 police station.

Cars stolen

Ashish Mittal of Sector 10, Panchkula, has lodged a complaint with the police that his Maruti car (HR-44-A-0030) was stolen from Sector 9 yesterday.

Inderjit Singh of Sector 24 also reported that his Maruti car (CH-01-W- 7690) was stolen from his house last night.

Two cases of theft have been registered.
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