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Sunday, Apr 10, 2005

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`Criminal' held

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, APRIL 9. A notorious criminal from Mumbai, wanted in several cases of kidnapping, extortion, murder and rape, has been arrested by the Central Delhi police for allegedly kidnapping a 24-year-old woman from a railway hospital in broad daylight. Incidentally, the constable who had arrested him in the Capital about two-and-a-half years ago again proved to be his nemesis.

According to the police, Constable Eid Mohammad of Chandni Mahal police station was on his beat when he noticed a familiar looking man moving around with a woman clad in `burqua' near Chitli Kabar on Friday afternoon. When he stopped him for questioning, he recalled that he had arrested the same man, identified as Feroz Khan, in a theft case in Paharganj about two-and-a-half years ago.

Feroz, initially tried to dodge the Constable but the woman narrated her plight to him following which the accused was arrested.

The police said Feroz had kidnapped the woman from a railway hospital, Kalyan, where the she worked as a laboratory assistant, around 1-30 p.m. on April 2. The victim was coming out of the hospital when Feroz and his five associates forced her into a Tata Sumo vehicle and then took her to a hideout at Ulhas Nagar in Kalyan. The police were informed and a case was registered at Mahatma Phule police station in Thane, Mumbai.

From Ulhas Nagar, Feroz took the girl to his brother's house in Karnataka where he kept her in confinement. He also used to beat her up brutally and threaten to get her sister and the son of a friend killed if she tried to escape or raise an alarm.

Feroz also forced her to wear dresses of his liking and got her ear and nose pierced so that she could also wear jewellery of his liking. He never allowed her to meet anyone and always kept a small blade in his possession to threaten the victim. Later, in order to keep her identity a secret, he also forced her to wear a `burqua'.

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