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| Mafia Don Babloo Srivastava gets lifer for murder |
| 2006-07-03 |
| Using its "discretion" to overcome the hurdle of witnesses turning hostile, a trial court on Monday sentenced notorious don Babloo Srivastava and co-accused Nitin Shah to life in prison for masterminding the August 1992 murder of businessman Lalit Suneja over a financial dispute. Unlike the Jessica Lal case — in which the court rejected the statements of hostile witnesses lock, stock and barrel — additional sessions judge Rajender Kumar, in his 37-page judgment, took into account the statements of such witnesses to the extent they were favourable to the prosecution's case. For establishing the accused’s motive and subsequent guilt, the judge relied upon a number of psychologists and their interpretation of human behaviour in specific situations. Delving into aspects of human behaviour along with the strong circumstantial evidence against the duo — in particular Srivastava's criminal antecedents — the court remarked, "Lalit Suneja had apprehended danger to his life. The accused were alleged to have threatened him. Considering the basic instincts and behaviour of a human being in particular circumstances, in my opinion an ordinary prudent person could have presumed only the assertion that both the accused were responsible in the killing of Suneja." The sentence was awarded under section 302 (murder) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC and the duo was also slapped with a fine of Rs 20,000 each. A strong circumstantial evidence which went against the accused was the record of their meeting with Suneja in a city hotel, recovered from the entry register of the hotel. The accused met Suneja to pressure him for a compromise on the financial dispute he had with Shah. |
| Posted by:john |
| #2 Rajan’s right hand man Babloo Srivastava is also being ‘used’ by sensitive agencies whenever his services are needed. At present Babloo is in the Lucknow jail but he is enjoying the full ‘five-star facilities’ inside, courtesy the security agencies. He still manages his kidnapping business with Rajan’s help. Babloo Srivastava is providing information about Dawood to the sensitive agencies who used this info during the Secretary level talks between India and Pakistan. In fact, this is all being done at the instance of Indian sensitive agencies to put pressure on Pakistan to hand over Dawood to India or abandon him to be killed by the goons of Chota Rajan-Babloo Srivastava. |
| Posted by: john 2006-07-03 19:57 |
| #1 Links to the Indian RAW, IB and the Pakistani ISI Babloo Srivastava was first allegedly used by Indian sensitive agencies in the murder of Mirza Dilshad Beg who was a Dawood-ISI front man in Nepal. Sources say that Babloo’s henchmen Ravi and Vikki had killed Beg, an MP in the Nepalese Parliament, on June 29, 1995 when two ‘unknown’ assailants fired at him. Initially, Babloo was very close to Beg, and Beg even had managed a fake passport for him to go abroad to avoid arrest by the Indians. But after the 1992 Bombay Bomb Blast, ‘patriotism’ and ‘nationalism’ prevailed, and Babloo and Chota Rajan parted ways from Dawood and his gang. |
| Posted by: john 2006-07-03 19:56 |