Dated: 8.09.2013
CRIME BRANCH
PRESS RELEASE
Ø BIGGEST GANG OF POACHERS/SMUGGLERS BUSTED.
Ø SURAJPAL AND SURAJBHAN ARRESTED.
Ø SURAJPAL @ CHACHA REIGNED SUPREME IN WILDLIFE SMUGGLING/POACHING AFTER ARREST OF SANSAR CHAND.
Ø EVADING ARREST FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS.
Ø TIGER SKULL, BONES, NAILS AND TEETH, VALUED SEVERAL CRORES IN THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET SEIZED.
Ø DERIVATIVES WEIGH MORE THAN EIGHTEEN KILOGRAMS.
Ø SEIZED ONE TATA INDIGO MAANZA LUXURY CAR & Rs.52.70 LACS CASH.
INTRODUCTION:-
The Crime Branch has successfully arrested three criminals, (two of them being very desperate, notorious old timers) indulging in the illegal sale & supply of derivatives of endangered animals under the Wild Life Protection Act 1972. Two of them were indulging in this illegal trade for the last many years.
INFORMATION:-
The Crime Branch received an information that a person namely Sarju is indulging in the illegal trading of leopard and tiger skins. It was also informed that Sarju and his father Daliya used to be a poacher for Sansar Chand. Sansar Chand is a notorious criminal and presently in jail in a case of Wild Life Protection Act 1972. After the arrest of Sansar Chand in 2005, this gang became the most active and notorious in this field.
TEAM:-
Various teams of Forest Conservative Department, Maharashtra and Wild Life Crime Control Bureau, Delhi were searching for Sarju desperately. A team of officers of Crime Branch led by Inspr Jai Bhagwan and comprising of SI Jai Kishan, ASI Harshvardhan, HCs Jitender, Azad Singh, Kirshan Kumar, Kamal, Cts Jagat and Harender, under the close supervision of ACP OP Singh and over all guidance of DCP Bhisham Singh was constituted to develop these inputs and nab the culprits.
OPERATION:-
The team made strenuous efforts and deployed sources to nab the culprits. The sources confirmed the information and gave a specific input that the culprit Sarju with his aide would be coming in a Tata Maanza Car on GTK by-pass via ISBT Kashmiri Gate alongwith derivatives of the endangered animals. The team swung into action, took along the staff of Forest Department of Maharashtra and Wild Life Crime Control Bureau of Delhi for identification purpose and laid a trap at Chandgi Ram Akhara red Traffic T-point.
At the instance of the informer, the target car was stopped with the help of barricades and two persons were apprehended. They were identified as Suraj Bhan @ Sarju and Naresh @ Lala. Cash amount was also recovered from under the front left seat. More than eighteen kilograms of skull, teeth, nails, bones of a tiger were recovered on searching the dickey of car. Accordingly, a case vide FIR No.155/13, under various sections of the Wildlife Protection Act 1972 has been registered in PS Crime Branch.
INTERROGATION:-
Both the accused were subjected to intensive interrogation, during which they disclosed that they have purchased these derivatives’ from one Gujjar herdsman, who is a resident of Nagina in Uttar Pradesh. Nagina lies in the foothills below Uttarakhand and is adjacent to and right in between the two major national parks and tiger reserves of Jim Corbett and Rajaji national parks.
They further disclosed that they were lured by Surajpal @ Chacha of Adarsh Nagar, to bring skin and derivatives of Tiger. For this, they were given an advance amount of Rs.6 lacs by Surajpal@ Chacha. Surajpal @ Chacha is the biggest trader in this field and active in this field for the last more than 20 years.
At the instance of the arrested accused persons, Surajpal @ Chacha has also been arrested and Rs.50 lacs cash and tiger nails from his house. Chacha originally belongs to Khaga, Fatehpur, UP and was now staying at B-539, Gali No-5, Majlis Park, Adarsh Nagar, Delhi. He runs a very big network of illegal sale & supply of wild life items. His source of supply is from the poachers of denotified tribe belonging to different villages of Sonipat, Haryana and other parts of India. Initiated into this crime by Khalique Hussain, he is known to have contacts with about 50-60 families of Rathdhana in Sonipat and other villages, who kill animals for him. Even after being active in this field for such a long time, he was clever enough to evade his arrest for a long time. He has been arrested for the first time.
His network of poachers and smugglers is spread all over India and is the biggest and strongest in this field. Even in terms of trading, Chacha is rated as the best supplier of tiger skins, all over India. This was revealed during Sansar Chand’s interrogation many years ago.
During interrogation, an interesting fact came to light is that the poachers used to offer their domestic animals, pasted with poison, as a bait to attract tigers and after eating the same, the tiger dies within a radius of 6-10 KMs. These poachers keep an eye over the activities of the tiger and immediately after the death, they take away the tiger from the jungle to their cordoned area. The skin and all the derivatives are taken out, dried and applied preservatives before being smuggled.
Surajbhan @ Sarju has disclosed that earlier also, he had procured 6 tiger skins and derivatives for Surajpal @ Chacha from Nagpur, Maharashtra. Chacha had given a sum of Rs.20 lacs to Sarju as an advance money for this deal. He had purchased the skins and derivatives of tigers @ 3.5 lacs each. These products are very much in demand in China and Far East. A well preserved and stuffed tiger sells for several crores in international market. They have inter-state contacts. They are also involved in several cases of wild life poaching and smuggling in Maharashtra. Two cases have been registered this year at Amrawati and Nagpur in Maharashtra. Malghat sanctuary is reportedly affected by their activities.
PROFILE:-
1. Suraj Bhan @ Sarju s/o Daliya r/o Village Akbarpur Bharota, PS Kundli Distt, Sonipat Haryana, Age-28 years is an illiterate and committing this crime since the last many years.
2. Naresh @ Lala s/o Rampat Sharma r/o Village Akbarpur Bharota PS Kundli, Distt Sonipat, Haryana, Age-32 years is a class 6th pass and a school dropout.
3. Surajpal @ Chacha s/o Jagmohan Prasad r/o B-539 Gali No.5, Majalis Park, Adarsh Nagar, Delhi, Age 65 years, is illiterate and doing this trade for the last more than 20 years.
Further investigation of the case is in progress.
(RAVINDRA YADAV) IPS
ADDL. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE:
CRIME: DELHI.
ORDER
1. Whereas, there is a mushrooming of BPOs (Business process outsourcing Centers) prominently known as Call Centers, Corporate houses, Media Houses, companies, organizations and firms in Delhi and other parts of the NCR offering employment opportunity for the youth.
2. And whereas, the employees including young women from across the country have been staying in various parts of Delhi while their work place may be in the NCR region and their employers are providing cab service for the purpose of picking up and dropping them from their places of stay to office and back. As these organizations are functioning round the clock, the cabs are ferrying employees even at late night hours. Such employers are reported to have hired cabs on contract basis and have not been able to properly monitor these cab operators and their drivers for ensuring safe and secure transportation of the employees resulting in grave danger to human life, safety and security of the employees, especially of women employees.
3. And whereas, it has come to notice that certain criminal and anti-social elements look for soft targets, particularly during odd hours and the women employees who travel during late night hours are vulnerable to crime and criminal acts by such elements, if they are not dropped securely and safely at their places of stay.
4. And whereas, it is rendered imperative to put some regulatory checks on organizations having such service of picking and dropping their employees and transporters, security agencies, drivers and security guards involved in the same so that anti-social and criminal elements may not cause danger to human life and safety and their property and it is felt that immediate action is necessary in this regard.
5. Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the virtue of section 144 Cr.P.C. 1973 (No. 2 of 1974) read with Govt. of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi’s Notification No. U-11036/(i) UTL dated 09.09.2010. I, SANJAY SEHRAWAT, ACP/Kalyan Puri, do hereby make this written order that all such organizations like BPOs, Corporate and Media Houses, having the system of picking up and dropping their employees and the concerned transporters, security agencies, drivers and security guards in the jurisdiction of Sub-Division Kalyan Puri, East District, Delhi shall :-
a. Maintain a database of all employees, security personnel, cab drivers and contractual workers working with them, for access by the police as and when required.
b. Hire security personnel and other contractual personnel as far as possible from licensed agencies only.
c. Ensure verification of antecedents of all their employees including contractual employees.
d. Ensure that women employees are not made to travel alone with the cab driver and a duly verified security guard or a male colleague (Regular employee of the company) is invariably deployed in each cab carrying women staff during night hours i.e. 8 PM to 7 AM.
e. Choose the route in such a manner that as far as possible a woman employee is not the first one to be picked up or the last one to be dropped.
f. Ensure that during night hours the cab involved in transportation of women employees picks up and drops such employees right at their houses, remains halted at the point where a woman employee has been dropped till she confirms her arrival/reaching at their residence/place of stay through a telephone call.
g. Ensure that, whenever the house of a woman employee is so located that the approach road is not motorable, the duly verified security guard or the male colleague, during night hours, accompanies the employee on foot up to her house and takes a confirmation about her safe arrival.
h. Exercise effective check and control on the vehicle’s movement in order to check any unwarranted activities of the cab drivers, such as picking up strangers, straying away from the designed route etc.
i. Get GPS System installed in the cabs used in transportation of such employees, especially women employees.
6. These orders shall come into force with effect from 08.09.13 and shall remain in force for a period of 60 days i.e. up to 06.11.13 (Both Days Inclusive) unless withdrawn earlier.
7. Any person / employer / transporter etc. contravening these orders shall be liable to be punished in accordance with the provision of Sec. 188 of the IPC, and
8. As the notice cannot be served individually on all concerned, the order is hereby passed ex-parte. It shall be published for the information of the public through the press and by affixing copies on the notice board of the offices of all DCsP, Addl. DCsP, ACsP, Tehsil offices, all police stations concerned and the offices of NDMC and MCD.
(SANJAY SEHRAWAT)
Asstt. Commissioner of Police
Sub Division Kalyan Puri
No. 7269-7368/ACP/Kalyan Puri dated, Delhi the 08.09.2013.