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NEW DELHI: In a fresh twist to the alleged molestation of an American national at an IPL party on Friday, an Indian member of IPL’s Team Bangalore allegedly helped accused cricketer Luke Pomersbach, first when the Australian tried to enter the victim’s room a second time and again by warning her to drop the case.

The victim, Zohal Hamid, told TOI that a “skinny Indian guy” had tried to get Pomersbach into her room after he had attempted to molest her and attacked her partner, Sahil Peerzada. The same man, she said, approached her at Primus Hospital later that day, and asked her to withdraw the charges against his teammate.

Based on CCTV footage, police have identified the cricketer as K P Appanna, a left-arm spinner from Karnataka who has played several games for Team Bangalore in the current IPL season. Despite several attempts, the team management could not be contacted on phone, and did not answer an e-mailed questionnaire on Appanna’s alleged role in the affair.

Delhi Police officials said they would investigate the matter. “This is a fresh allegation and we are investigating it. We have identified the man with Luke in the CCTV footage as IPL player Appanna,” said Additional CP (New Delhi) K C Dwivedi.

The CCTV footage obtained from the hotel shows Luke, along with hotel security guard Vikas Yadav and another man – identified by cops as Appanna – walking out of the lift towards Zohal’s hotel room.

While the man, along with the guard, is seen walking towards the room, Luke hangs back. The Australian later walks towards the room and then backtracks after being refused entry.
Delhi Police officials told TOI that Appanna had come to ask Zohal if a Bangalore team official was in the room. Zohal claimed to TOI that when she opened the door slightly, the “skinny Indian guy” tried to force it open, even as Luke too tried to barge in.

“I was trying to close the door because I was already very frightened and Sahil was lying inside the room all bloody and beaten up. The skinny Indian guy and Luke tried to open the door while I had to force it shut. The hotel guard was standing outside doing nothing to help me,” she alleged.

Zohal told TOI that she was approached by different men at the Primus Hospital and later at the ITC Maurya Sheraton hotel who threatened her, and asked her to drop the charges against Luke. Among these men, the same “skinny Indian guy” threatened her, she said.

“There was a big white guy with Luke at the hospital on Friday morning. He was wearing a yellow t-shirt or a shirt and wanted to talk to me. He was outside the hospital entrance and kept saying something to me. All I heard was ‘Drop the charges’ and I ran inside the building to avoid him,” she said.

Later, when Sahil’s wound was being stitched, Zohal said another person approached her but she refused to speak to him. “He was this short chubby guy and said that he was from the IPL team. He identified himself as Avinash and gave my friend his number, asking me to call him. I was really scared.”

She said that this person was accompanied by the same “skinny Indian guy” who had tried to enter her hotel room along with Luke earlier in the day. “This skinny Indian guy kept following me back and forth, while I was rushing around inside the hospital. I screamed at him, ‘Leave me alone’ but he would not let me go and kept following me. He told me, ‘Withdraw the case. It’s not going to take you anywhere’, but I rushed away from him. I mentioned this to the police as well but they have not written it in the FIR,” she said.

She also said that when she returned to the hotel on Friday morning to collect her belongings, there were five-six “white men” waiting at the entrance of her room to speak to her. “I rushed inside. The men wanted to speak to me but I was in shock and felt in danger after what had taken place a short while ago. I didn’t allow anyone to come into my room. Even when we were leaving, the men were still standing there and tried to talk to me.”
Zohal said cops had told her that they would scrutinize the CCTV footage, adding that these incidents took place between 10 and 11.20am. “I can identify the guys if I see the footage. One of them had either white or sharp blonde hair,” she said.

Asked about the allegations, additional CP Dwivedi said, “The FIR was registered at 10.30am and the alleged incident happened at 11.30am when she went to pick up her clothing. Moreover, the statement on which the FIR was based was in English, dictated and signed by her.”

Meanwhile, cops recorded Sahil Peerzada’s statement. “He told us that he and Zohal had moved to Maurya Sheraton from Hotel Leela on May 16. The room had been booked through Hyderabad IPL team owner Venkat Ram under Sahil’s name. He said after the party on Friday morning, Luke accompanied them to his suite for drinks and then molested the complainant. When Sahil tried to stop him, Luke punched him repeatedly and he fell down,” a senior officer said.
Sahil also said Zohal was his girlfriend and that he had known her for six years, the officer said.

Cops are waiting to record the statements of Sahil’s friends Miraz and Moiz, who were inside the hotel room at the time of the alleged incident. “Both flew to Mumbai on Friday, after Sahil was admitted in hospital. We have asked them to come to Delhi to give their statement on what took place inside room 1640, where Zohal and Sahil were staying. We will be questioning them closely as soon as they come to Delhi,” said a senior police officer.

Cops claim that they want submit the case chargesheet soon, and are hoping to finish their investigations within a fortnight.

Meanwhile, as rumours did the rounds that Zohal had earlier been married to Mumbai-based businessman Shlok Bhagtiani, Zohal told TOI, “I know him as Sahil’s friend. Sahil tells me he has known Shlok for two years.”

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MUMBAI: Pakistani gunman, Ajmal Kasab, has turned vegetarian in Arthur Road jail. Earlier, six police personnel who worked as cooks, provided him non-vegetarian fare occasionally. However, following objections by the Mumbai Police, the cooks were removed from jail last month. So Kasab now eats food prepared by the inmates.

“Kasab gets vegetarian food now since non-veg is not allowed in the jail. Earlier, when food was being cooked for around a dozen police personnel and Kasab, the cooks would prepare non-veg at times. But, today, Kasab gets what other petty criminals eat,” said a jail official.

Kasab, son of a Pakistani mutton seller, was convicted in 2010 for killing hundreds of people during the November 26, 2008, terror attack. Kasab, who would get his dinner after sunset earlier, is now served his dinner around 3.30pm since that is the “barrack closing time for the jail” (though Kasab is already in a closed barrack).

The food is cooked by two dozen undertrials and some convicts. Earlier, Mumbai police personnel who were posted outside Kasab’s cell would prepare food for themselves. “They would sometimes make spicy non-veg food and biryani, too. But since the police cooks were removed last month, Kasab is being given food meant for the undertrials,” said a jail source. Even in police custody during his interrogation, Kasab was provided non-veg food.

Last month, the Mumbai Police raised objection to six police cooks being moved to Arthur Road Jail “illegally” for Kasab and seven jailors. The irregular transfer of cooks came to light during an internal review of the police’s staff deployment and orders were issued by the police top brass for them to be immediately returned to their original postings.

It is learnt that the review team found that three years ago, a head cook and two cooks of Mumbai Police, Jyotiram Satar, Krishna Turaskar and Jagdish Shetty, were inexplicably moved to Arthur Road Jail from Naigaon, Worli and Tardeo. They were made to prepare food for Kasab as well as seven jailors who were on deputation. The cooks returned to their original postings in April.

It is to be noted that earlier, the state’s prison inmates used to get non-veg food. The practice was stopped a few years ago. Some undertrials have filed a petition before the Aurangabad court in this regard. The court is yet to decide on it.

Prison menu

7am (Breakfast): Poha, upma, 100 ml of milk and a cup of tea

10am (Lunch): Dal, roti, rice and vegetables

3.30pm (Dinner): Dal, roti, rice and vegetables

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NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Sunday stepped up her advocacy for P A Sangma as president, rallying support across the political spectrum. She called up BJP veteran L K Advani, who is believed to have told her that he was “positively inclined” towards Sangma personally but a decision would only be taken only after consultations within the party and with NDA leaders.

The NDA is likely to discuss its strategy by Tuesday in light of the intense lobbying for the former Speaker by the AIADMK chief.

Jayalalithaa also spoke to CPM general secretary Prakash Karat, CPI’s A B Bardhan, TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal, the AIADMK said.

YSR Congress leader Jaganmohan Reddy is also learnt to be in favour of Sangma’s candidature. In a coordinated move, Jayalalithaa and her Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik had floated Sangma’s name on May 17.

While Jayalalithaa and Patnaik had propped up Sangma as a “tribal” candidate, Advani is learnt to be of the view that the NCP leader’s credentials as a “Christian” has greater weight as the tribal block is fragmented, while the Christian block less so.

In fact, Advani is learned to have received a letter from the Council of Churches, a body of Christian clerics, who without naming Sangma, seem to be backing him. The letter pointed out that there had been presidents from other minority communities -three Muslim presidents and one belonging to the Sikh community – implying that a Christian should get the top job this time.

After Jayalalithaa’s phone call to Mulayam, SP said it was not a hurry to decide on the presidential candidate and that the party had not taken a decision on whom to support. The CPI said it would decide on the issue after a party meeting on May 23.

Interestingly, the Nationalist Congress Party, to which Sangma belongs, has ruled out supporting his candidature, saying it would go with the UPA decision.

Lok Janshakti Party chief Ramvilas Paswan said in Tiruchirapalli on Sunday that his party would support the UPA candidate for presidency. Asked about Sangma’s candidature, he said, “All are our friends. But we will support only the candidate chosen by UPA.”

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CHANDIGARH: Not parting with information has cost a principal of engineering college in Punjab dear as the state information commission has directed Punjab government to initiate minor misconduct proceedings against him.

Kulbhushan Agnihotri, the applicant, had in April last year, sought to know from the department of technical education and industrial training about minutes and action taken reports of all the meetings of board of governors, finance committee, buildings and work committee of Shaheed Bhagat Singh College of Engineering and Technology, Ferozepur, Punjab.

The public information officer of principal secretary, technical education, directed principal of Shaheed Bhagat Singh College to provide the requisite information. However, several months later, after perusal of various documents available on record, the commission noted that “it is but evident and crystal clear that such a huge delay has occurred only because of the inaction of the principal and the careless and evasive approach adopted by him during all this time.”

In scathing remarks against the principal, the commission has noted: “It appears that even the PIOs were made to act as instructed by the principal, and they cannot be held responsible for delay. Even in the affidavit submitted by the principal T S Sidhu, he has tried to put back the blame on the applicant-appellant himself.”

The commission recommended to the principal secretary, technical education and industrial training, to “initiate disciplinary proceedings for minor misconduct under the applicable rules against Sidhu, principal, at whose instance, highly delayed information has been provided to the appellant as late as nearly 11 months.

Significantly, the former principal secretary of department of techanical education and industrial training, Suresh Kumar, had recommended dismissal of Sidhu for his alleged involvement in mass coping and leakage of IIT paper in Giani Zail Singh College of Engineerng and Technology, Bhatinda, when he had additional charge of principal of that college.

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