Woman’s casual dinner turns into nightmare
■Engaged
in construction
business at
Amravati, accused
Rajesh Kumar Talreja
had migrated from
Pakistan about
25 years ago
Staff Reporter :
THE Intelligence Bureau (IB) and
Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) have
launchedaparallelinvestigationinto
the molestation case after finding
that one ofthe accused persons was
a migrant from Pakistan. The officials of both agencies are investigating the case fromthe terror angle
as thehusbandofthe victimwoman
is working for a central agency.
The three residents of Amravati
were arrested by the police on
Friday for following a
woman from Hotel
Ashok up to her residence. The police
investigations uncovered that one of the
accused person was a
Pakistani migrant who
was at the forefront of
stalking and harassing the
woman.
The Pakistani migrant accused has
been identified as Rajesh Kumar
Talreja (43), a resident of Navjeevan
Colony,Amravati.The other accused
include Manoj Kumar Chhabra (53),
a resident of Shankar Nagar Road,
Amravati, and Suraj Narayan
Kurhadkar(25),are sident of Ganpati
Nagar, Amravati. Talreja is engaged
in the construction business and
Kurhadkar was his driver. While
Talreja and Chhabra are coolingheels
behind the bars, Kurhadkar was
released on bail by the court.
After receiving information that
Talreja is a Pakistani migrant, the
anti-terroragenciesquicklylaunched
a probe into the case.
Talreja, who migrated from
the Sindh area of Pakistan about 25
years ago, had been living in Arwi
town of Wardha district, before settling in Amravati. After shifting to
Amravati, he engaged in the construction business.
The anti-terror agencies
are suspecting Talreja’s
involvement in other
serious crimes and are
scrutinising his connections, including
examining his call
records for any links to
Pakistan.
The wife of a senior official serving with a Central
Agency had gone to Hotel
Ashoka on April 22 for dinner. She
was pursued by the accused up to
her residence late at night. The
accused persons also got into an XUV
700 SUV (without registration number) and started chasing her.
One of them came out of the SUV
and went up to the lobby of the
woman’s house. After examining
footage from around 400 CCTV cameras, the police managed to arrest
the culprits.