CCTV tapes hold vast secrets: girlfriend

CCTV tapes hold vast secrets: girlfriend
HERALD REPORTER
PANJIM, JAN 11
Israeli drug lord David Driham alias Dudu’s girlfriend Zarina Mazhrunova today claimed that CCTV cameras installed outside Dudu’s house in Anjuna would show the footage of what transpired on the night of Dudu’s arrest on February 21, 2010.
Zarina alleged that the disgraced police sub-inspector Sunil Gudlar and Superintendent of Police Veenu Bansal threatened to arrest her but was assured by the police team that Dudu would be released in the next two hours at about 2:30am (February 22, 2010).
“I was with Dudu the entire evening of the February 21; we were returning home late night in a car we had rented. When we got home, we were surrounded by a number of men in lay clothes who later claimed to be police officers. Among them was PSI Gudlar whom I’d met for the first time that day & also present was SP Veenu Bansal whose name I learnt later on. He was the person who shouted at me & threatened to arrest me,” reads her statement copy.
She has described the physical appearance of an Anti Narcotics Cell (ANC) team member who was also present during the raid.
“There was also one police official who was rather stout & dark in complexion, I don’t know his name but I will be able to identify. I was later told that he was a senior police officer in the ANC at Panjim. I have seen him in the office of the ANC on other days…” she further said in the statement to the Crime Branch Deputy Superintendent of Police Shamba Sawant, copy of which is available with Herald.
Zarina, who first met Dudu in December 2008 admitted of being a part of the sting operation along with Ayala wherein Gudlar is seen negotiating with them over the sale of drugs.
Coming back to February 21st night, she stated the raiding team had also threatened another Israeli couple of arrest. Fearing this, the couple fled in a motorbike.
“Here I may say there was another Israeli couple in the car with us on our way home. Bansal threatened to arrest them if they did not go away,” she further states refusing to divulge identity of the couple.
The car in which Dudu and Zarina were present was taken away by the police team. While she was ‘pulled out of the car’, Dudu was shoved into another car.
“I got to understand from Dudu that there were CCTV camera’s installed outside his house. These should show the footage of what transpired on the night of the arrest,” she added.
Within 15 minutes, Ayala came into the scene after which both girls were assured that Dudu would be released within about 2 hours.
“After Bansal had gone with Dudu & our car was driven away, Ayala & I were still left standing with some of the police including Gudlar at the spot. Because we were assured that Dudu would be released within about 2 hours by 2.30 in the morning, Ayala arranged for a car from a neighbour and we went to Panjim,” she said adding that the sting on Gudlar was carried out at her Parra house. She said that she was fitted with a button camera and wired under her t-shirt.
Zarina also echoed Ayala’s claims that Dudu was lodged in a room next to Bansal’s cabin.