NOV 15 - High drama was witnessed at the Police
Headquarters in New Delhi on Wednesday when a criminal
arrested in connection with cases of kidnapping and robbery
claimed that he wanted to kill Bollywood damsel Mallika
Sherawat.
Rajesh Dalal, who was carrying a reward of Rs 25,000 on
his head and evading the Delhi Police dragnet for the last
two months, was arrested in Maharashtra's Sangli district
by the inter-state cell of the Crime Branch.
Police have been on his trail for cases like attempt to
murder, kidnapping, criminal intimidation, assault on
police officials and escape from custody, prompting him to
flee the capital.
Senior police officials claimed that his arrest from the
remote village of Jaisinhpur, around 40 km from Kolhapur,
was a major success, but they were in for a surprise when
they paraded him before the media at the police
headquarters.
On seeing the cameraman, he started shouting that he
went to Maharashtra to kill actress Mallika Sherawat, whom
he said has hurt the sensibilities of Haryana and the Jat
community of which she is a member.
Police, however, rubbished his claims, saying he was
doing this for cheap publicity. "Now that he is caught, he
is trying to divert attention from his cases," Deputy
Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Neeraj Thakur said.
A resident of Nangloi in West Delhi, the Commerce
graduate began his criminal life by kidnapping his
estranged wife in 1999. He is accused in several kidnapping
cases, robbery of a petrol pump manager and attack on
policemen.
He has been living in Sangli under the guise of a
computer graphics engineer, police said.
Mumbai or Karachi?
NOV 14 -
Mumbai officials are unhappy with Hollywood couple Brad Pitt
and Angelina Jolie who have been moving around the city in
a yellow Maruti Esteem with a Karachi number plate PL 2077.
Angelina
Jolie, who is shooting for the film, A Might Heart, drove
in the car with Pitt to different locations in the city for
over four hours without permission. Meanwhile, Jolie’s
bodyguard was evicted from the Mumbai Port Trust building,
Thackersay House, at 3.30 pm yesterday. A scene featuring
Jolie had to be shot in a lane nearby in Ballard Estate.
Her guard had entered the building before the shoot to
conduct a safety check. “He can’t just walk into government
premises as he did and move about in a suspicious way. We
had to push him outside. Only members are allowed inside
the premises,” explained the general secretary of the
building, Raju Sawant.
NOV 15 - High drama was witnessed at the Police
Headquarters in New Delhi on Wednesday when a criminal
arrested in connection with cases of kidnapping and robbery
claimed that he wanted to kill Bollywood damsel Mallika
Sherawat.
NOV 14 -
Mumbai officials are unhappy with Hollywood couple Brad Pitt
and Angelina Jolie who have been moving around the city in
a yellow Maruti Esteem with a Karachi number plate PL 2077.
Angelina
Jolie, who is shooting for the film, A Might Heart, drove
in the car with Pitt to different locations in the city for
over four hours without permission. Meanwhile, Jolie’s
bodyguard was evicted from the Mumbai Port Trust building,
Thackersay House, at 3.30 pm yesterday. A scene featuring
Jolie had to be shot in a lane nearby in Ballard Estate.
Her guard had entered the building before the shoot to
conduct a safety check. “He can’t just walk into government
premises as he did and move about in a suspicious way. We
had to push him outside. Only members are allowed inside
the premises,” explained the general secretary of the
building, Raju Sawant.
