Gzb magistrate arrested for assaulting wife

Ghaziabad: Former Ghaziabad city magistrate Manoj Kumar, at present posted as officer on special duty (OSD) at the Meerut Development Authority, was on Monday morning arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife, with the intention of forcing her to commit suicide. He was also booked for dowry harassment and criminal intimidation.

His wife Ranju showed police officers several recent contusions allegedly caused by beatings. According to Ghaziabad police chief L Ravi Kumar, Ranju also claimed to the police that her husband had extra marital affairs, though she did not mention it in her FIR. She alleged that her husband used to harass her for good postings in the state as she was well connected. The couple have been married for 10 years, and have an eight-year-old son. Manoj Kumar was city magistrate in Ghaziabad from June 11, 2007 to February 3, this year.

Bail rejected: A trial court on Monday denied bail to inter-state gangster Brijesh Singh, who is facing charges including murder and attempt to murder in over two dozen cases in various parts of the country. The accused had filed a bail application in an extortion case. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Sanjeev Aggarwal refused to grant bail to Singh who has been brought here from Mumbai after being discharged in the 1992 J J Hospital shooting case. ‘

‘Keeping in view the fact that accused was involved in so many cases in UP and other places, I don’t find any ground for bail at this stage,’’ the court said. It refused Singh’s plea that the alleged offences that he is accused of committing do not carry a punishment of a jail term of more than three years. Singh also said that he was being implicated in the case.

Opposing Singh’s plea, Delhi Police claimed that the accused was a mafia don and if he released, he is likely to threaten witnesses and tamper the evidences. They also submitted that the accused was wanted in 28 cases in Uttar Pradesh and other states under various sections of the IPC including that of murder and attempt to murder.

Singh, who was allegedly working for the Dawood gang and was involved in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, is suspected to have international links as well.

Source:- The Times of India 21 October Delhi P.6
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