Delhi Police launch parallel probe against Ahmedabad conman

September 8th, 2009 Ahmedabad, Sept 8 (IBNS) A judicial probe said the 2004 killing of young college girl Ishrat Jahan and three others suspected to be on a mission to ‘kill’ Chief Minister Narendra Modi was a case of ‘fake encounter’ by the police. Ishrat Jahan, a 19-year old student of Khalsa College, Mumbai, and three others - Javed Ghulam Sheikh alias Pranesh Kumar Pillai, Amjad Ali alias Rajkumar Akbar Ali Rana and Jisan Johar Abdul Gani - who the police claimed were Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives, were killed by Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) officials near Ahmedabad on June 15 2004, a day before they were officially shown as having died in a police encounter.

August 2nd, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - To probe the alleged nexus between bootleggers and police, the Gujarat government has ordered scrutiny of the service records of the cops allegedly linked to the illicit liquor deaths in the state last month. The scrutiny is being carried out to know if these policemen were earlier posted in any other area in Gujarat where cases against bootleggers had been filed previously.

June 22nd, 2009 AHMEDABAD - A large number of accountants have been appointed in Gujarat to calculate and maintain the record of cash and jewellery recovered from alleged conman Ashok Jadeja, police said here Monday. "With millions of rupees and jewellery being recovered from the residences of Jadeja, his agents and relatives since his arrest in Ahmedabad, keeping record of the recoveries has become a problem.

June 13th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Ashok Jadeja, accused of duping large numbers of people of huge sums of money while posing as a godman, says he just ran a scheme of multiplying people's money without forcing them to invest. Jadeja told police Saturday that people "voluntarily" offered him money and he had never asked them to invest in his scheme, a crime branch official said here.

June 10th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Alleged conman Ashok Jadeja, who is accused of cheating large numbers of people of huge sums of money, had bought land worth Rs.33 crore in various parts of the country, police Wednesday quoted his aide Shaitan Singh as saying. Singh provided this information to the Criminal Investigative Department (CID) Wednesday, a senior crime branch official said.

June 9th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Ashok Jadeja, the alleged conman who has been charged with duping thousands of people across the country, faced more trouble Tuesday when police here started investigating into a deal in which he is suspected to have grabbed panchayat land illegally and built his home and other property on it. A crime branch police officer said the land of about 300 square metres belongs to Makarba village panchayat on the outskirts of Ahmedabad where Jadeja is alleged to have built his house, six shops and a temple in 1996-97.

June 8th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Police are investigating if arrested conman Ashok Jadeja, who is accused of duping thousands of people across India of millions of rupees by posing as a godman, made investments in the stock market and real estate last year. Jadeja and his wife Neetu were arrested by police May 31 while trying to flee with Rs.1.98 crore (Rs.19.8 million).

June 8th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - A city court Monday allowed police to interrogate till Thursday Maanbai Rathod, an aunt of conman Ashok Jadeja who is accused of duping thousands of people across India of millions of rupees by posing as a godman. Maanbai was first detained for questioning by the Gujarat police after she was picked up from her Naroda home Sunday afternoon.

June 7th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Police Sunday detained for questioning a close relative of arrested conman Ashok Jadeja, who is accused of duping thousands of people across India of millions of rupees by posing as a godman, officials said. "We have detained for questioning a close relative of Jadeja, who is suspected to have been the mastermind behind his long cheating record across Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat," a senior crime branch official said.

June 6th, 2009 LUCKNOW - As many as 100 residents of different localities in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district Saturday registered a complaint against alleged conman Ashok Jadeja for duping them of over Rs.5.5 million, police said. The case against Jadeja has been lodged by the residents of Mat, Kosi and Govardhan towns in Mathura, about 300 km from here.

June 5th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Ahmedabad police said Friday they could question some Bollywood producers in connection with arrested conman Ashok Jadeja, who duped thousands of people by posing as a godman. "We are going through a diary recovered from Jadeja which has a large number of names.

June 4th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Conman Ashok Jadeja, arrested for allegedly cheating thousands of his gullible followers while posing as godman, faces more trouble as income tax officials are keen to probe not only his assets but also those of his victims. Jadeja claimed he had divine powers and offered to triple money in a matter of days, attracting people from Gujarat and other states who gave him large amounts of cash and jewellery, police say.

May 31st, 2009 AHMEDABAD - A conman who duped people in Rajasthan by claiming he had spiritual powers to triple their money was arrested here Sunday with Rs.1.9 crore (Rs.19 million) in cash, police said Sunday. The Crime Branch arrested Ashok Jadeja from Shyamal Charrasta locality here.

March 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Monday condemned the terror attack on the Lahore police academy, saying it offered its deep sympathy to the people of Pakistan. 'We don't have full information.

February 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Teachers Solidarity Group of the Jamia Millia Islamia Friday presented its fact-finding report on the shootout at Batla House here last year in which two alleged terrorists and a police official were killed. The group questioned the resistance to an independent probe into the incident.