THREE ACCUSED ARRESTED, HUGE CONSIGNMENT OF 201 ROLLS OF ‘CHINESE MANJHA’ RECOVERED, USING SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES & WEBPAGE ‘MONO KITE’.
(MOREPIC1) Face2News/New Delhi
A team of AGS/Crime Branch has arrested three accused named (1) Ali Hasan, 36 years, R/o Jawahar Colony, New Industrial Township (NIT) Faridabad, Haryana (2) Harsh Vardhan Khatri, 28 years, R/o New Industrial Township (NIT) Faridabad, Haryana (3) Ritik Kumar Chaurasia, 24 years, R/o Madanpur Khadar, JJ Colony, Delhi. With this arrest, a big racket of online sale of banned Chinese Manjha was busted. Total 201 rolls of the ‘Chinese Manjha’ have been recovered. In this regard, FIR No. 168/2023, U/s 188 IPC & 5/15 Environment (Protection) Act 1986, PS Crime Branch, Delhi was registered.
In view of recent unfortunate incidents wherein people, animals and birds lost their lives due to use of banned ‘Chinese Manjha’, Crime Branch was tasked to keep a close watch on the sale and dealers of deadly ‘Chinese Manjha’ in Delhi NCR. Specific information was received by HC Amit Kumar about illegal sale/purchase of Nylon based banned Chinese Manjha in the area of Madanpur Khadar, Delhi.
(SUBHEAD)Accordingly, a team led by Insp. Pawan Kumar comprising SI Ajay Singh, HC Ravinder, HC Sandeep, HC Amit, HC Badri Prasad, HC Rahul, Ct Radhey Shyam, Ct Manish and Ct Ashok under the close supervision of ACP Naresh Kumar was constituted by DCP Amit Goel and Joint CP S.D. Mishra to bust the racket.
A trap was laid in the area of Madanpur Khadar, Delhi and one Ritik Chaurasia was apprehended. Initially, he tried to deceive the team, however, during the search of his shop recovery of 16 rolls of banned ‘Chinese Manjha’ was effected. Accordingly, a case vide FIR No. 168/2023, u/s 188 IPC & 5/15 Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, PS Crime Branch, Delhi was registered.
Mr. Ravindra Singh Yadav, IPS, Special Commissioner of Police, Crime, said, at the instance of accused Ritik Chaurasia, another accused Harsh Vardhan Khatri was apprehended from L/38, NIT Faridabad, Haryana. Total 69 rolls of different brands banned of Chinese Manjha were recovered from his possession. He was selling these banned string through online as well as offline mode.
Thereafter, at the instance of accused Harsh Vardhan Khatri, raids were conducted at different places and one Ali Hasan was apprehended. 116 rolls of different brands of banned Chinese Manjha were recovered from his house i.e. Ward No.-5, Jawahar Colony, NIT Faridabad, Haryana. All accused persons were engaged in this illegal business in the greed to make easy money.
KNOW THE ACCUSED: Accused Ritik Chaurasia is residing at JJ Colony, Madanpur Khadar, Delhi. He studied upto 12th class. Earlier, he was running a shop at the ground floor of his house. In view of the high margin in the trade of banned kite string, he started selling Chinese Manjha. He was also using the social media platforms like Facebook for exploring the business.
Accused Harsh Vardhan Khatri hails from Faridabad. He did BBA degree from Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru College in 2014. After leaving the studies, he tried many business ventures but could not get succeed. He is tech savvy and was making the use of social media networks like Facebook and YouTube in the business and posted many pictures of Chinese Manjha and kite flying videos. He created a webpage ‘MONO KITE’ and would be purchasers used to contact him using the mobile number posted by him on social media platforms.
Accused Ali Hasan also hails from Faridabad, Haryana. He did his ITI diploma from Sector- 18, Old Faridabad in 2009. He was the main source of supply of Chinese Manjha and was supplying the banned string in the area of Faridabad, Gurugram, Delhi/NCR etc.
