Ranjit Kumar Kohli alias Rakibul Hussain, who was on the run for torturing his wife Tara Shahdeo and forced her to convert to Islam, was arrested in a joint operation of Delhi and Jharkhand Police.
Kohli was hiding in a house in Nasirpur area of South West district and was arrested after Special Cell of Delhi Police managed to track him down. Kohli was picked up from the house of a hotel employee who works in hotel at Mahipal Pur area. Kohli's mother Kaushalya was arrested from a different location. Kohli and his mother were produced in a court on Wednesday and were flown to Ranchi on three days transit remand. Police officials are perplexed that Kohli has taken the help of the sitting judge of a court in Ranchi. The judge in question was found staying in a hotel in Mahipal pur area. Investigators said that they were trying to piece together the sequence of events and were also probing Kohli's alleged liaison with the judge.
Kohli has been accused of deceiving national shooter Tara Shahdeo into marriage and forcing her to convert to Islam. Mother and son duo escaped to Delhi from Ranchi on August 24 after the issue created quite a stir in Jharkhand. Kohli was not using cellphone to avoid being detected. Delhi Police sleuths managed to locate him after they started tracking the cellphone number of his mother.
Earlier in the day, the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Satish Kumar Arora sent Kohli and his 65-year old mother Kaushlya Rani to transit remand asking the Jharkhand Police to produce them before the concerned court within three days. "I have heard the submissions of Special Cell, Delhi Police and gone through the records that NBW have been issued against accused Ranjit Kumar Kohli and his mother by the CJM court, Ranchi. "Transit remand is granted for three days," the CMM said. The accused was produced in the court amidst tight security provided by the Delhi Police and the Jharkhand Police sleuths.
There was chaos in the court room when lawyers tried to click pictures of the accused following which the CMM ordered for in-chamber proceedings. During the in-chamber hearing, the Delhi Police informed the court that Kohli was arrested at 10:30 pm on Tuesday night near Dwarka sector 6 market, while his mother was arrested on Wednesday from Nasirpur area in Dwarka where she was staying with his son's friend. The Investigating Officer (IO) Inspector Brahmajeet told the court that Kohli was nabbed while he was making calls to his mother and friends from the mobile of strangers in order to evade arrest.
Police officials also seized a laptop and money from Kohli. A case of deceit, exploitation and torture was lodged in Ranchi by Kohli's newly-wed wife Tara. In her FIR, Tara alleged that she came to know about her husband's faith only after marriage. She also alleged that her husband assaulted her when she refused to convert. Tara said she was able to send SMS to her family on August 19 when she got an opportunity to text after being taken to Delhi that led to her rescue. Non-bailable warrants (NBW) were issued against Kohli and his mother by Ranchi court on August 25.