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convictions in sev- eral cases of kid- napping and mur- der. He had been arrest- ed twice earlier for running a fake gas agency and was also jailed for run- ning a kidney rack- et in different states. “Sharma was serv- ing a life sentence in Central Jail, Jaipur in a murder case and was out on parole for 20 days in January this year after spending 16 years in jail. But he jumped parole and stayed at his native village for a while before mov- ing to Delhi in the beginning
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March. Our team arrested him after we received information about his hideout on Tuesday,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime), Rakesh Paweriya, said. “After getting his BAMS degree, Sharma started a clinic in 1984 in Jaipur and then in 1992, he invested in a gas dealership scheme but was cheated and suffered a financial crisis. So in 1995, he started a fake gas agency and later got involved in criminal activities”, he added. “His accomplices robbed trucks carrying LPG cylinders by killing the driver. They unloaded the trucks in his fake gas agency and then the robbed truck would be dismantled and the bodies of the drivers dumped in a canal, which had crocodiles, so there was no chance of retrieval of the bodies,” the DCP said. In some cases, he sold on the robbed taxis to customers. In 1994, Sharma also got involved in an interstate kidney trans- plant racket, he and several other doctors were arrested in 2004 in the Gurgaon kidney racket case. From 1994 to 2004, Sharma carried out more than illegal 125 kidney transplants. During interrogation, he also confessed to being the mastermind of more than 50 murders registered in police stations of different states.
from Russia
DIDI DRIVES INTO RUSSIA WITH TAXI SERVICE
Ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing announced on Tuesday 25 Au- gust that it has launched a taxi service in Russia, the latest stop on its global roadmap as it aspires to take on global leader Uber.
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According to CX Tech Didi said it has launched its DiDi Express service in southwestern Kazan, the capital and largest city of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan, home to the country’s largest IT park. The com- pany, which began recruiting drivers in late July, will only charge drivers ten per cent commission and promises a safe value-for-money trans- portation option for riders in the city. The Russian market is potentially a rich source of customers for Didi. A 2019 study by HSBC bank found that 45 per cent of Russians have at least one ride-hailing app on their phones, third only behind China and Mexico. Locally owned Yandex Taxi, a major competitor with 27 per cent of the market, ac- quired Uber’s Russian business in 2017. The move adds to a list of countries outside Didi’s home market where it now operates, including Australia, Japan, Brazil, Mex- ico, Costa Rica, Chile, Colombia and Panama. Didi’s China busi- ness rebounded to its pre-pandemic level in July 2020, according to a company press release, and the company is doubling down on plans aimed to reach 800 million monthly active users globally as part of an ambitious three-year growth strategy.
from South Korea
KOREAN DRIVER ARRESTED FOR STABBING FARTING PASSENGER
In a truly bizarre story, a taxi driver from Busan, South Korea has been arrested after stabbing a passenger who kept farting in the car. The Busan Ilbo reported that a man in his 20s was stabbed about ten times by the taxi driver who was in his 50s near Mangmi-dong Station in Suyeong-gu at 11pm on 1 August. He’s suspected of having stabbed the victim with a 20-centime- ter long weapon which was found in the car. The taxi driver reportedly got into an argument with the victim after he opened the window because of the smell and the pas- senger kept repeatedly farting. The victim suffered serious injuries, but they are not life-threat- ening. A police official said that they are considering attempted murder charges against the driver.
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