The police include infant’s name in FIR filed against his family, three others in a case of a flat rented out by forging papers
Some lessons take time to be driven home, something the Malvani police are proving.
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Officers at the police station recently filed a cheating and forgery case against a 13-month-old baby, no less. And this after they were reprimanded by a court last month for arresting a physically challenged woman in an assault and molestation case. The case deals with subletting of a flat in the area through fraudulent means, in which seven members of the infant’s family and two agents have also been booked.
The case
The infant and his family got entangled in the issue after one Zahir Qazi, a tenant of a flat in Mahalaxmi building, forged papers to show the tenement was in his name and sublet it to them. Zahir and his wife Arshi had taken the flat on rent from an agent, Naeem Khan. It’s registered in the name of Zainularab Adhikari, who gave its power of attorney to his brother-in-law Salim Parmar. The illegality came to light after Parmar visited the flat on failing to get rent from Zahir. He then informed the Adhikari family and then Zainularab lodged a complaint against Zahir.
The Malvani police, while taking down Zainularab’s complaint, named all those staying in the flat as accused, including the 13-month-old, Ofair Huzair Sayyed.
Besides the Qazis, the other booked have been identified as Rehana Sayyed and her husband, Sana Sayyed and her husband Umair, Huzair Sayyed and Farha Huzair Sayyed, all of the family, and agent Salman Sheikh.
Police says
In defence, Senior Police Inspector Milind Khetle said, “We took down all the names that the complainant gave us and booked them. Now that we know that one of them is the baby, we’ll go through court to get the infant’s name removed from the FIR.”
When contacted, Zainularab refused to comment.
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