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FORMER JOURNALIST SANTANU SAIKIA AND OTHER ASSOCIATES HELD FOR STEALING & SELLING  OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS OF MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM TO THIRD PARTY BY CRIME BRANCH ,DELHI POLICE

New Delhi: There was information that two persons alongwith their associates are involved in procuring/obtaining/stealing the official documents by trespassing into the offices of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) at Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi and on 17.02.2015, they would intrude in the night. A trap was laid and three persons came in an Indigo car near Shastri Bhawan. Two persons alighted and went inside while the third remained sitting in the car. After around two hours, when the two persons entered the car, all three persons were apprehended. They were identified as Lalta Prasad (36 yrs) r/o Khichdipur, Delhi, Rakesh Kumar (30 yrs) r/o Nauroji Nagar, Delhi and Raj Kumar Chaubey (39 yrs) r/o Vaishali, Ghaziabad. Official documents were recovered. Duplicate keys used by them for accessing the offices of the MoPNG officials, forged Id-card and fraudulently obtained temporary passes were also recovered. The indigo car was having an unauthorized signage declaring the car to be of Bharat Sarkar/Government of India and case was registered at PS Crime Branch.

All the three arrested persons were subjected to interrogation. It was revealed that Lalta Prasad and Rakesh Kumar are both brothers and both had earlier been temporarily employed as Multi Tasking Staff at Shastri Bhawan. In the year 2012, both left the employment. During their stint at Shastri Bhawan, they realized that they could easily lay hand on the official documents. They further disclosed that they were assisted by their father Asharam and Ishwar Singh, both Multi Tasking Staff employees at Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi. Recently CCTV cameras had been installed at Shastri Bhawan. In order to evade the surveillance of CCTV cameras, they got disabled CCTV cameras during the time they entered Shastri Bhawan. Asharam (58 yrs) r/o Nouraoji Nagar, Delhi and Ishwar Singh (56 yrs) r/o Nangloi, Delhi have been arrested.

Investigations further revealed that the stolen documents were being sold to some individual of private energy consultancy companies as well as to those in the Petrochemical/Energy industry.

The team that has busted this case was led by ACP KPS Malhotra consisting of Insprs. Sunil Kumar, Arvind Kumar, Kulbir Singh, PC Yadav, Pankaj Singh, SIs Neeraj Kumar, Ritesh Kumar, Vishal Singh, Sanjeev Yadav, Ravinder Tevatia, Gurmeet Singh, Dataram, HCs Ajeet, Surender Rathee, Vijay Pratap, Rakesh Rawat, Aslup Khan, Cts Satbir, Vijender, Ranjeet, Anoop, Mohit, Sikander and Rahul under the guidance of DCP Bhisham Singh and overall supervision of Addl. CP Ashok Chand.

Further investigation is in progress.

(RAVINDRA YADAV) IPS

JOINT COMMISSIONER OF POLICE,

CRIME: DELHI

Source:Delhi Police (PR CELL)