Port Blair, Apr 16: The Andaman and Nicobar Police have arrested one person for stealing ATMs cards of two newly recruit police trainee constables and subsequently withdrawing money unauthorisedly.

“On the complaint of two recruit constables undergoing training at Police Training School that their ATM Cards are missing and a total of amount of rupees 31,400 have been withdrawn from their accounts, cases of theft were registered,” S B S Tyagi, the Superintendent of Police of South Andaman said in a press release today.

Following the complaint, a police team led by SHO Stalin NS, HC Biswakarma, HC Sanjay, HC Manoj, HC Paresh, HC Budheswar and HG Sarkar questioned several suspects and zeroed in on one John Richardson, another trainee recruit, who is a friend of both the complainants.

“During interrogation, he admitted that he used to accompany the complainants for withdrawing money from ATM and knew their passwords. Finding an opportunity, he stole the ATM cards and withdrew cash. The ATM cards have been recovered from the possession of the accused,” the SP added.

The accused, Juon Richardson, who belongs to Nicobarese Tribal Community, has been sent to Judicial Custody today.

Two arrested for killing P Gopi

Staff Correspondent

Port Blair, Mar 28: All speculations over the death of seaman, P Gopi ended with arrest of two persons today. Death of Gopi had raised many doubts. While family members of Gopi were demanding a probe into his death, police department was terming the incident as an accident.

Later when family members of Gopi lodged complaint suspecting murder, police began investigating and soon the case was cracked by PS Aberdeen. The case was solved by A & N Police in a very professional manner.

According to reports, detailed study of the phone details help police to crack the case, in which wife of P Gopi had actually hatched the conspiracy to kill her husband with the help of her paramour one Venkat Durga Prasad (24) r/o Shore Point, a Seaman in TCI Seaways.

On Tuesday evening three persons were detained by police from Bamblooflat area and Gopi’s wife Sirisha (27), working as DRM in PBMC, was also detained from Port Blair. After thorough interrogation, Venkat and Sirisha accepted their crime.

According to police on the day of Murder, Gopi’s wife Sirisha had tipped Venkat about Gopi’s location, after which Venkat reportedly took a thick Steel Rod (used for bending steel rods) and a bike, from one of his friend and reached the Mazaar Pahar Road. Reports suggest that Venkat had followed the decesead’s movements for three days prior to the day of murder.

According to the plan, as Gopi went out for his evening walk Sirisha informed Venkat who followed him from Netaji Stadium towards Mazar Pahad and waited at a dark place for his return. When Gopi returned, Vankat had hit Gopi hard several times with the steel rod from back and escaped from the scene. Satisfied that he would not survive, Venkat headed for his house in Shore Point and on the way dropped the murdered weapon into the sea, opposite to Suryachakra Power Plant and washed his cloths in washing machine.

Accused Venkat and Sirisha have confessed that they had known each other since 2004 while studying in a computer institute at Haddo. Later Sirisha got married to Gopi, a seaman working in DSS, and had a son too. Venkat again met Sirisha in 2011 and stated seeing each other. Venkat wanted Sirisha to live with him for which both hatched a plan to eliminate her husband.

However, till the last report poured in Andaman and Nicobar Police could not recover the murder weapon from the coastal area of Bambooflat because of mud and high tide. Divers of Marine Police were called to recover the murder weapon, which would be one of the key evidence for police. Now Police is planning to demand Police Remand for Venkat so that the murder weapon could be recovered.

Both accused persons have been arrested on Wednesday and shall be produced before the Hon’ble Court on Thursday. Andaman and Nicobar Police is also interrogating two other friends of Venkat to know that to how much extend they were involved in the conspiracy.

Staff Reporter
Port Blair, Mar 18: After Times of India published news on 18, March 2012 issue, regarding former IGP Mr. Sanjay Beniwal’s Human Safari experiment for his family members, the Government of India today asked for a report from A & N Administration in this regard, sources told Andaman Sheekha.

A senior police officer, Mr. Sanjay Beniwal, has been transferred from Andaman following reports appeared in two local dailies of A & N Islands, of his taking his family and guests on a special “human safari” to meet the Jarawas on February 28, 2012.

Inspector general of police Beniwal, the second-in-command in the Andaman police force, was especially assigned the task of monitoring activities in the Jarawa reserve following the expose in January of police involvement in illegal tourism in the reserve that showed vile exploitation of the tribals.

The two videos, released by The Observer (UK), showed uniformed men recording semi-clad Jarawa girls dancing for food. Another clip zoomed into the girls’ and showed men pestering them to dance.

But there seems to be no shaming. Weeks later on February 28, flouting both rule and responsibility, IGP Beniwal allegedly took his relatives on a “human safari” where they met about 18 members of the tribe. Reports of his trip the next day in local dailies, saw Beniwal transferred.

Staff Correspondent
Port Blair, Mar 13: An unidentified youth, who has been living in a local hotel since last two months, gave a scary time to all intelligence agencies operating in remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

According to reports the police department had called intelligence agencies like IB, CBI, RAW, Naval Intelligence, Army Intelligence and Andaman Nicobar Command’s Head quarter Intelligence to establish the identity of the un-identified youth, who has been living in these Islands in a suspicious manner since last two months.

On 9, March 2012 the person was arrested by A & N Police from a local hotel, when he refused to pay the room rent for last two months and created trouble with the hotel owner.

During interrogation the person refused to cooperate with the police and did not reveal any information about his identity however a thorough check of his belongings revealed that his name is U. Ahalayan, 29 years.

But his PAN card had an address of Bangalore while Driving License had the address of New Delhi, which raised eye-brows of the Police Department and soon all intelligence units present in A &N Islands were alerted.

“We had to call all intelligence agencies for a joint interrogation first to establish the true identity of the person and secondly we thought the case was having little more potential,” SBS Tyagi, the Superintendent of Police of South Andaman told ‘Andaman Sheekha’ today.

On 10th March 2012 the Joint Interrogation were carried out by IB, CBI, RAW, Defence intelligence agencies to find out whether the person had links with terrorist organization but as per report through out the interrogation the person was behaving in a rude and arrogant manner.

During further interrogation it was established that U. Ahalayan is a resident of Bangalore and his father B U Pillai, is a Group Captain in Indian Air Force. Soon Group Captain Pillai was intimated about this case.

“According to his father U. Ahalayan had left home out of anger. We had produced U. Ahalayan, to the court of Sub Divisional Magistrate, from where he was released on bail. There is nothing serious in this case,” the SP added.

According to available report, U. Ahalayan left Port Blair on 12 March 2012, before his father could arrive at Port Blair to take him back to home.

However, it is still not clear why the youth had come to Andaman and Nicobar Islands and what was he doing here since last two months.

Staff Reporter

Port Blair, Feb 26: In an dramatic turn of event the accused, who had attacked a cop on 22nd February 2012 and suffered two bullet injuries in return, managed to escaped from a Government Hospital of Andaman on Saturday night.

However the accused was nabbed again by police this morning.

Sheikh Murtaza, a resident of South Point area of Port Blair city was brought to G B Pant Hospital with two bullet injuries on 22nd February 2012.

Murtaza had suffered first bullet injuries on his neck and while the second bullets reportedly brushed his neck when he along with four other members of his family had attacked a Head Constable of Andaman and Nicobar Police, who had come to arrest him.

The accused was kept in Male Surgical Ward Number I, of G B Pant hospital of Port Blair city under police guard since 22nd February but still he managed to trick the police guards and escaped from the Hospital on Saturday night.

“At around 3.00 am Murtaza asked for a wheel chair to go the restroom. When one of the constables went downstairs to get a Wheelchair Murtaza tricked the second constable and escaped from the hospital,” a senior officer told ‘Andaman Sheekha’ on the condition of anonymity.

Soon Police teams were deployed to nab the accused and at around 10.30 am Murtaza was nabbed by a Police team.

“He was hiding in busses behind in house at South Point area of Port Blair city. We are trying to send him to Judicial Remand,” he added.

At present other four members of Murtaza’s family are already in Judicial Remand for attacking a cop on duty.