Tag: Gujarat Police

  • Congress MLA’s wife’s iPhone snatcher arrested

    Congress MLA’s wife’s iPhone snatcher arrested

    Ahmedabad (IANS). The Gujarat Police has arrested a person who snatched the iPhone of Diptiben Chowdhary, wife of KhedBrahmin Congress MLA Dr. Tushar Chowdhary.

    According to the report, this incident is being told on the evening of 23 June. The MLA’s wife was on an evening walk when an unidentified bike-borne person snatched her iPhone. Whose cost was Rs 60,000.

    MLA Tushar Chowdhary informed the city police commissioner about the matter. After this, the police took immediate action and arrested 27-year-old Saurabh Vijaybhai Mundhra. Saurabh is a resident of Saroli. The police have also recovered the bike used in the crime and the stolen iPhone from the accused.

    The victim, Dr Deepti Chowdhary, works as a physiotherapist at SMIMER hospital run by the Surat Municipal Corporation.

    According to the accused, Saurabh, a commerce graduate from MS University and belonging to the Maheshwari community, committed the crime out of greed for money to feed his alcohol addiction.

    He claimed that this was his first snatching incident and he was unaware of the victim’s identity as the wife of a sitting MLA. The CCTV footage played a vital role in identifying and apprehending the suspect. The accused earlier worked as a food delivery agent.

  • Drug smuggler arrested from Nepal border

    Drug smuggler arrested from Nepal border

    Surat (IANS). Fugitive drug smuggler Salman Zaveri has been arrested by the Gujarat Police from near the Nepal border while he was trying to flee the country on expiry of his parole in a drug case.

    Zaveri was granted interim bail for 10 days from May 9, but instead of returning to jail, he went into hiding.

    Surat’s crime branch team caught him at Haviganda in Bihar’s Kishanganj just before crossing the Nepal border.

    Investigation revealed that Zaveri had reached the Nepal border via Mumbai and his intention was to flee to some other country. The operation was led by the Surat Police.

    Salman Zaveri, also known as Aman Mohammad Hanif Zaveri, first came on the police radar in September 2020, when he was caught with six packets of different drugs in his car.

    After his arrest, the Crime Branch sent him to Lajpore Jail. The matter is under investigation.