{"id":301526,"date":"2018-08-19T10:05:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T10:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301526"},"modified":"2018-08-19T10:05:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T10:05:59","slug":"wanted-in-113-cases-delhi-police-arrests-godmother-of-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/wanted-in-113-cases-delhi-police-arrests-godmother-of-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted in 113 cases, Delhi Police arrests &#8216;Godmother of crime&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301527 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/delhi-women-don-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/delhi-women-don-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/delhi-women-don-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/delhi-women-don-696x535.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/delhi-women-don-547x420.jpg 547w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/delhi-women-don.jpg 712w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/>Delhi Police on Saturday arrested a 62-year-old Basiran also known as \u201cGodmother of crime&#8221;, involved in 113 crime cases from South Delhi\u2019s Sangam Vihar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Her 8 sons are also part of the criminal activities including smuggling, bootlegging, robbery, extortion, theft, contract killing, kidnapping, and murder. The police had also nabbed her two sons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She is accused of heading a crime syndicate in Sangam Vihar region and was arrested after Delhi Police launched a search operation for her alleged involvement in the contract killing of a man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Basiran had been absconding for eight months after she and her gang members took up a contract to kill a man, the gang members killed the man and burnt his body in the forests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Basiran anticipated her arrest and fled from Delhi. She moved around in several towns of Uttar Pradesh for about eight months. Basiran returned back to the city and went to meet her family and was caught by the police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Before running away eight months ago, she was running a water supply mafia also.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It was in the early 1980s Basiran moved to the Capital with her husband and slowly established her crime syndicate.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Police on Saturday arrested a 62-year-old Basiran also known as \u201cGodmother of crime&#8221;, involved in 113 crime cases from South Delhi\u2019s Sangam Vihar. Her 8 sons are also part of the criminal activities including smuggling, bootlegging, robbery, extortion, theft, contract killing, kidnapping, and murder. The police had also nabbed her two sons. She is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[3613,4217,517,4218,4219],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301528,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301526\/revisions\/301528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}