Crime and police ignorance:Local police surprised when
Delhi team nabs most wanted
Orissa has virtually turned into the ‘most favoured abode’ of most wanted criminals of India! On January 21, Arman Islam, a notorious Bangladeshi criminal sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s aide was arrested from the pilgrimage city of Puri. Three days later, a special cell of the Delhi police arrested dreaded gangster of north India, Brijesh Singh, in the state capital Bhubaneswar. Arman Islam, one of Bangladesh's most dreaded criminals, had been staying in Orissa for the last eight months but the local police had no information. Bhubaneswar and Puri were his key hideouts. Bengal-Orissa CID officers arrested this high profile killer from a luxury hotel following a joint raid.Brijesh Singh, a dreaded mafia of UP wanted in several cases of murder and extortion, was finally nabbed in Bhubaneswar. The gangster, who had been operating in Orissa for the past three years, had changed his name to Arun Singh and procured a passport under the alias. Former henchman of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, Brijesh had managed to evade arrest in northern India for 20 years and had been operating under the cover of a real estate business in Bhubaneswar while the Orissa police was blissfully ignorant.Interestingly, when the heavily armed Delhi police surrounded Brijesh in front of a shopping mall, some local youths, presuming that anti-socials were trying to abduct a gentleman, tried to come to his rescue. However, the Delhi police introduced themselves as CID officers and asked them not to interfere. They then whisked him away to an undisclosed place. As the Orissa police did not have any inkling about this operation, a kidnapping case was registered and the city was sealed to nab the abductors. It was only when the police team was preparing to take the gangster to Delhi by a flight next morning from Bhubaneswar that the state police deployed at the airport came across them and pleaded that Brijesh be produced in the local court as per the law. Senior lawyer of Orissa High Court and a leader of the opposition Congress party, Sivananda Ray, blamed "police inefficiency and the huge intelligence failure for Orissa degenerating to a hotspot of high profile criminals". Reacting to this, ACP of Bhubaneswar, Y.B. Khurania, admitted: "The arrest came as an embarrassment for the Orissa police since it had no prior knowledge.
Orissa has virtually turned into the ‘most favoured abode’ of most wanted criminals of India! On January 21, Arman Islam, a notorious Bangladeshi criminal sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s aide was arrested from the pilgrimage city of Puri. Three days later, a special cell of the Delhi police arrested dreaded gangster of north India, Brijesh Singh, in the state capital Bhubaneswar. Arman Islam, one of Bangladesh's most dreaded criminals, had been staying in Orissa for the last eight months but the local police had no information. Bhubaneswar and Puri were his key hideouts. Bengal-Orissa CID officers arrested this high profile killer from a luxury hotel following a joint raid.Brijesh Singh, a dreaded mafia of UP wanted in several cases of murder and extortion, was finally nabbed in Bhubaneswar. The gangster, who had been operating in Orissa for the past three years, had changed his name to Arun Singh and procured a passport under the alias. Former henchman of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, Brijesh had managed to evade arrest in northern India for 20 years and had been operating under the cover of a real estate business in Bhubaneswar while the Orissa police was blissfully ignorant.Interestingly, when the heavily armed Delhi police surrounded Brijesh in front of a shopping mall, some local youths, presuming that anti-socials were trying to abduct a gentleman, tried to come to his rescue. However, the Delhi police introduced themselves as CID officers and asked them not to interfere. They then whisked him away to an undisclosed place. As the Orissa police did not have any inkling about this operation, a kidnapping case was registered and the city was sealed to nab the abductors. It was only when the police team was preparing to take the gangster to Delhi by a flight next morning from Bhubaneswar that the state police deployed at the airport came across them and pleaded that Brijesh be produced in the local court as per the law. Senior lawyer of Orissa High Court and a leader of the opposition Congress party, Sivananda Ray, blamed "police inefficiency and the huge intelligence failure for Orissa degenerating to a hotspot of high profile criminals". Reacting to this, ACP of Bhubaneswar, Y.B. Khurania, admitted: "The arrest came as an embarrassment for the Orissa police since it had no prior knowledge.
-Dhrutikam Mohanty
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