Chhabed Sathee: Shahnawaz a business partner in New York, has filed a life-threatening lawsuit against Partha Gupta an expatriate instrumentalist from the United States, using Photoshop technology to trap his opponent. Inexperienced photoshopped photos and news have been published in the US media. The news was published in the New York Daily News on Friday (January 14), local time.
The Daily News reports that a man in Queens accused his former business partner of threatening to shoot him. To substantiate the allegations, he posted a photo of the pistol in the hands of his opponent through Photoshop and submitted it to the New York City Police Department at Northern Boulevard-115 area of Jackson Heights in 1:29 am on September 10 last year.
New York criminal court has dismissed a life-threatening case filed against Partha Gupta on January 12. Shahnawaz his business partner falsely accused the police of killing him by posting firearms through Photoshop with photos from Facebook.
At the virtual first hearing at 9:30 a.m. local time on Wednesday (January 12), wise judge Mary L Bejarano of the Queens County Criminal Court in New York dismissed the case.
Shahnawaz alleged to police that he had sent a text message threatening to kill (murder) and threatened to shoot him with a pistol after a program. In support of this he showed to police the picture of pistol on the bed next to picture of Partha Gupta.
Two months earlier on August 29, at a street fair organized by Bangladeshis on 76-37 Street in Jackson Heights, he was beaten by a group of people, including a popular instrumentalist Partha Gupta a former partner of Golden Age Home Care, at around 6:30 pm. During this time they displayed dangerous devices (pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns or machine guns) intended to kill him (case docket number- ‘CR-020560-21QN’). He wants police help to secure his life. He complained to the police about the death threat. Following the allegations Taylor Scala, a police officer in the Northern Boulevard-115 area of Jackson Heights called Partha to the police station for questioning on the evening of October 4 last year. After receiving a phone call, Partha Gupta voluntarily went to police station and detained him at Northern Boulevard-115 police station till night after interrogation.
The next day on October 5, Partha Gupta was sent to the nearest criminal court and the wise judge granted him bail. The court also directed to maintain distance from the plaintiff Shahnawaz.
Shahnawaz, a New York home care and insurance businessman, dismissed the case (CR-020560-21QN), arranged and planned by Mary L. Bejarano, a wise judge of the Queens County Criminal Court in New York, for failing to prove the allegations against him. The court also acquitted businessman and instrumentalist Partha Gupta.
Gupta and his lawyer say the image of a gun clumsily Photoshopped into a picture of Gupta is the likeliest reason for the case’s dismissal.
Partah Gupta, pictured, was arrested in October over an alleged threat against Shah Nawaz, but the photo Nawaz gave prosecutors of a wide-smiling Gupta sitting in a room with a pistol on a bed was actually just Gupta’s profile picture, at left, edited to add a gun, at right, according to Gupta’s attorney.
The picture in question shows Gupta sporting a big smile as he saw in a room with a tiny pistol on a bed next to him.
“He Photoshopped it. He took a picture of my Facebook [image] and he put the pistol in the picture and then showed the [police] precinct,” a frustrated Gupta told the Daily News in an interview before the charges were dropped.
“This case is bulls–t,” Gupta said.
“It was the most obvious photoshop job since the [Microsoft] application ‘Paint’ was created,” said Cary London, who represented Gupta.
London said the cops and prosecutors who used the photo as evidence to back Gupta’s arrest must have been “blind.”
Gupta had been charged with menacing, harassment and aggravated harassment.
Nawaz accused Gupta, who had previously been a business partner, of threatening him at a music festival where Gupta, a musician, was performing, according to the initial criminal complaint.
While at the show, the complaint said, Gupta and another person approached Nawaz. When the nidentified man pushed Nawaz, the complaint said, Gupta pointed a gun at him.
“I will kill you immediately on the spot. Wherever and when I get an opportunity, I will shoot you to kill,” Gupta allegedly told Nawaz in a text.
But London claims that Nawaz never provided the text message to prosecutors, and that when asked about it he told them that he received the text from a private number.
“He said that came from a private number. You can’t get texts from a private number,” London said.
Prosecutors sought the case’s dismissal on Wednesday.
“I’ve never seen a case I’ve been more disgusted by the DA’s office with. They should be embarrassed. It’s the most fake gun I’ve ever seen,” London said.
Nawaz could not immediately be reached for comment. A spokesman for Queens DA Melinda Katz said they could not comment on a dismissed and sealed case.
Shahnawaz a New York-based home care businessman in the United States sought refuge in Partha Gupta a business partner by keeping secret the information on the Pay-Check Protection Program (PPP) loan (waiver) obtained from two home care businesses. Shahnawaz a businessman accused the police of threatening to defeat Partha Gupta the partner by placing firearms in his Facebook photo through Photoshop to harass him.
Last year, the Corona epidemic in the United States escalated, prompting the federal government to provide Pay-Check Protection Program (PPP) loans to various businesses including small ones. In his two home care businesses (Bengal Home Care Inc. and Golden Age Home Care), he swindled 140 employees out of about $ 5,24,729 (approximately Tk 4,46,01965 in Bangladeshi currency) through fraud Pay-Check Protection Program (PPP) Loans.
Received Pay-Check Protection Program (PPP) loan (waiver) information is kept secret from business partner Partha Gupta and resorted to fraud. Shahnawaz a businessman alleged that he threatened to kill the partner by placing a firearm in Photoshop on Partha Gupta’s Facebook photo to harass the partner for demanding the exact amount and account of the loan.
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