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Female photojournalist identifies all four accused who raped her

By Tariq Khan

would serve as crucial evidence in the trial. he female photojour“The victim and her male nalist who was gang friend identified the four raped on August 22, on accused - Salim Ansari, Friday identified the four ac- Mohammed Kasim, Siraj cused in a test identification Rehman Khan and Vijay Jadparade (TIP) held in prison. hav in the Byculla prison. This comes after the accused The TIP was held in the preswere transferred to judicial ence of the judicial magiscustody when their custody trate along with court and with the crime branch prison officials. lapsed. According to crime The four accused were branch sources, the identifi- made to stand along with cation was “positive” and other persons when the two

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Officials will now seek a production warrant in the magistrate court following which they will re-arrest the accused in the latest case of gang rape involving a teenager that took place on July 31.

victims specifically identified them. We are expecting a positive report from the magistrate,” said an official from unit-3 of the crime branch. However, according to rules, crime branch officials were not present inside the cell where the TIP was conducted. Joint CP (crime) Himanshu Roy confirmed the development. A special section was temporarily erected for the TIP in the prison, sources said. The

He really managed to fake it

Accused moved around as Additional Superitendent of Police, until he got caught by the real one

Hemant Patil finally in police custody, but not before he managed to move around in full uniform (right), giving lectures and speeches at various functions.

By Suresh Golani

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ith a moustache styled like actor Ajay Devgan in ‘Singham’, short hair-cut and an IPS officer’s uniform, complete with fake badges and name plates, there was no stopping for 35-year-old Hemant Dattatray Patil who moved around as an Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP). However, Patil’s luck ran out when the actual ASP of the region, Sangramsingh Nishaandar, got suspicious about his activities and instructed the local police to keep a watch on him and finally a police team led by API

Ramdas Vakode nabbed him from his house on Thursday. According to the police, Patil, a resident of Santosh Compound in Valiv village, posed in the neighbourhood as an IPS officer, currently posted as ASP in the Godla region of Gondia district. Moving around as he did in a white car donning a police uniform, not only the villagers, but local politicians saw no reason to suspect anything amiss and invited Patil as a chief guest and at times as a speaker at functions and events. In one such gathering of school students, Patil had even delivered a speech on how to become an

IPS and the challenges of performing its duties. “We were informed about Patil, moving in the area posing as an IPS officer claiming to be posted as ASP at Godla. However, I was aware that this post did not exist in that jurisdiction”, said ASP Sangramsingh Nishaandar. Investigations revealed that Patil was educated till XII standard and after doing odd jobs in private companies, started moving around as a police officer, he procured the uniform from a Mumbaibased tailor, who will also be questioned, police said. “His attire, physical attributes and mannerisms led

people including his friends and kin to believe him. We are inquiring whether he had financially duped people”, said Senior Police Inspector Rajedndra Mohite, appealing victims who might have been cheated by the imposter to come forward and inform the Valiv police. A case under sections 170, 171, 419 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered against the accused who has been remanded to police custody. The police have recovered a uniform set and have also seized a Chevrolet Beat car. Further investigations are being carried out by API Vakode.

female victim and her male friend had also identified the minor accused on Wednesday in the juvenile remand home. Officials will now seek a production warrant in the magistrate court following which they will re-arrest the accused in the latest case of gang rape involving a teenager that took place on July 31. While officials are confident of a conviction in the August 22 case, due to

matching DNA samples from the victim’s body and the accused, they are circumspect about the July 31 case since most of the evidence is suspected to have been eliminated since the crime took place a full month ago. “However, the only advantage here is with the new section 376 (D), amended after the Delhi gang rape, where the burden of proof lies on the accused,” the officer added.


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