Russian embassy officer helped woman flee: Cops

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police has informed Supreme Court that Russian embassy counsellor (head of consular division) Arthur Gerbst had actively helped Viktoriia Basu fly the state unauthorisedly, taking her lad calved from her matrimony to an Indian, by arranging a taxi which took her to Narkatiaganj (Bihar) from wherever she went to Kathmandu.

It said different Kathmandu-based Russian arranged for her introduction into the Nepal superior successful the archetypal week of July, from wherever she took a formation to Sharjah (UAE), from wherever she took disconnected for Moscow. An SC seat led by Justice Surya Kant had taken beardown objection to the Russian woman, Viktoriia, illegally taking the kid retired of the state successful breach of SC orders and, astatine its insistence, the Indian embassy initiated the process for her repatriation to Delhi.

Pursuing Interpol announcement against Russian woman, says Delhi Police Status study of Delhi Police, placed by further solicitor wide Aishwarya Bhati, stated that Gerbst had asked 1 Vivian Sehgal to initially put for a taxi to Sanauli successful UP. Later, helium asked for a taxi to Narkatiaganj which Sehgal booked done KTC (India) Ltd.Police said Gerbst paid Rs 75,000 successful currency towards taxi fare. Viktoriia and her insignificant kid were received astatine Narkatiaganj by 1 Sameer Ansari, alias Munna, who helped them transverse the India-Nepal border.

A announcement was issued to Air Arabia, which the Russian pistillate took to scope Sharjah, for details of immigration, and details of the idiosyncratic who booked the tickets for her and her son, the mode of outgo to found the integer banking way of radical progressive successful arranging their onward travel and facilitating amerciable removal of the insignificant kid from India successful usurpation of SC orders, constabulary said.Delhi Police said Interpol bluish country announcement issued against her is being actively pursued with agencies acrophobic for contiguous enactment connected immoderate information/clue regarding the whereabouts of the pistillate and her child.