Gangster deported from Thailand arrested at airport by G Noida cops
Ravi Kana, a Greater Noida-based gangster and scrap dealer, and his friend Kajal Jha were arrested from the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on Friday following their deportation from Bangkok, Thailand, officers aware of the matter said on Saturday.
On Saturday, Kana was sent to 14-day judicial custody in the District Jail in Luksar, Greater Noida.
Ravi Nagar alias Ravi Kana alias Ravindra Singh, 42, a resident of Dadupur village in Greater Noida, is accused of running a scrap business by threatening other scrap dealers and robbing them of scrap before selling it in the market. Jha, 30, is also accused of being involved in the same.
According to police, following their arrest, Jha and Kana were questioned regarding their scrap-dealing business. “Kana was questioned about how long
he has been handling the business, how much movable and immovable property he has acquired from illegally-earned funds, how many others are involved in the crime, how many people did he extort from and so on,” said an officer, adding: “During questioning, Jha said that she used to handle Kana’s finances and investments.”
The Greater Noida Police will apply for Kana’s police custody remand on Monday at the district court to interrogate him further with links to his scrap dealing business and extortion allegations, said officers.
Disclosures made by Kana to
police are part of the investigation and cannot be made public, said officers.
Kana was booked on December 30, 2023, for the gangrape of a 25-year-old woman by Noida police. Kana left India after an FIR was registered against him under Gangster Act on January 2. Officers believe that Kana, his wife Madhu Nagar, and friend Jha fled India in the first week of January.
Madhu was arrested from IGI Airport in Delhi on February 16 when she came from Thailand to India, to meet her children believed to be in Dehradun, said officers. Later, charges under
Gangster Act were slapped against Kana and 15 others, for alleged illegal activities in Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad for over two decades.
In the last three months, 15 of Kana’s aides, including his wife, have been arrested and police attached their property worth ₹250 crore, including ₹120 crore of Kana, the officers added.
According to deputy commissioner of police (DCP) (Greater Noida) SM Khan, the Interpol arrested both Kana and Jha in Bangkok on Thursday and then they were deported to India.
“In January, a lookout circular and Red Corner notice were issued against Kana to prevent him from fleeing the country. However, we later learned that Kana had already fled,” he said.
Following intelligence sources’ inputs, call records and interrogation of Kana’s arrested associates, his location was traced to Bangkok. The Noida police wrote to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which informed the Interpol.