Mail News Service
Jamshedpur, April 27: Taking stern and quick action in the case involving running illicit activities including a spa at Hotel Alcor in Bistupur, police on Monday arrested hotelier and prominent businessman Rajiv Duggal who is also the owner of Alcor and a past Board member of CII and four other industrialists and businessmen including a woman from Kolkata to jail today.
Those arrested were The Alcor Hotel’s owner Rajiv Duggal, hotel manager Dhananjay Singh, industrialist and Circuit House resident Sharad Poddar, Rahul Agrawal and the girl who is a resident of Kolkata and was staying at the hotel.
Meanwhile, railway contractor Rajesh Mangotia alias Laddu Mangotia, Deepak Agrawal and Rajat Jaggi, had been arrested from a room close to the spa in the same hotel �on Saturday night and had been released on PR Bond the same night but were called to the Bistupur police station where they were �interrogated before being sent for medical checkup.
Laddu Mangotia is a well known railway contractor and a resident of Jugsalai while Rahul Agrawal is also a resident of Jugsalai and runs a travel agency.
The arrest of the five persons was made after the Senior SP Anoop Birtharay initiated a fresh enquiry into the Hotel Alcor case, suspecting those released on PR bond might have been involved in illegal and immoral activities at Hotel Alcor during the period of lockdown.
SSP Anoop Birtharay said that they arrested five persons, including a girl�and forwarded them to the Ghagidih Central Jail after producing them before a Judicial Magistrate on Monday.
Acting on a tip off, Bistupur police had arrested three persons from The Alcor Hotel on Saturday.� They were arrested for breaking lockdown norms and later released them on PR Bond the same night.� However, as the news spread the police had to take concrete steps.
Speaking to newsmen, Birtharay informed, �We came to know that some illegal activities were also going on in the hotel and so I set up a team which carried out a thorough investigation in the hotel on Sunday.� There we found a girl who was staying at the hotel since March 23.� On being interrogated the girl revealed that she had a relationship with one Sharad Poddar and hence she was staying at the instance of Poddar there.�
On the basis of the girl’s statement we further probed the matter and concluded that this was a case under the purview of Immoral Traffic Act.� And hence we arrested Poddar, one of his associates Rahul Agrawal, Hotel Alcor owner Rajiv Duggal and hotel manager Dhananjay Singh.”
