QCrime: Delhi Murder Mystery Solved; More Demonetisation Frauds
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1. Mumbai Physiotherapist Was First Strangled, Then Sodomised: Police
The gruesome rape and murder of 25-year-old physiotherapist Shraddha Panchal on Tuesday morning has left Mumbai in shock. According to news reports, police have now said that the physiotherapist was first strangled to death and then raped and sodomised.
The investigation into the case has been stepped up owing to the brutality of the crime and the lack of any solid leads so far. Deputy Commissioner of Police Ashok Dudhe is overseeing the probe.
Read the full story on The Quint
2. Rape Horror: 10-Year-Old Girl Set on Fire For Resisting Rape, Battling For Life
A 10-year-old girl is battling for life after she was set on fire by a group of men and thrown into a dried well for resisting rape in a Jharkhand village, police said on Thursday.
Police have registered attempt to rape and murder charges against two men who are missing and have detained five suspects for questioning.
The Class IV girl, whose father is a daily-wager, was playing outside her home in Seraikela-Kharsawan district’s Kandra village on Wednesday morning when two men tried to lure her with sweets.
When she refused, they picked her up and took her to a stone-crushing unit in the village, police said. They stripped her and tried to rape her, but she resisted. She tried to escape, but the men caught her. They poured kerosene on her back, set her on fire and threw her in an abandoned well, the girl, who is in a hospital, told police.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
3. Delhi Killings: Dispute Over Rs 6 lakh Led to Both Murders, Says Police
A day after Delhi Police identified the bodies of two women found mutilated in Vasant Vihar on 18 November and 25 November and said they suspect the victims knew each other, police have found out that a dispute over Rs 6 lakh led to the murders. Police have also identified three more accused and have sent teams to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh to nab them.
According to police sources, both the women used to work at an escort services company and their owner owed them a total of Rs 6 lakh. “The women’s family and friends told police that the two had been insisting to the employer to give their payment, but the accused refused to do so. When the women started to build pressure on their employer, the latter hatched a plan and murdered the duo. He also mutilated their bodies so that no one is able to identify them,” said a source.
Police, who have gotten in touch with the family members of the two women, said they lived in rented accommodations near Munirka.
(Source: Indian Express)
4. Demonetisation Effect: Misappropriation of Notes Amounting to Rs 2.95 Cr in Hyderabad Post Offices
Surprise checks conducted by the CBI and vigilance officials of the postal department at different post offices in Hyderabad late last month following demonetisation have found misappropriation of new currency notes to the tune of Rs 2.95 crore, the probe agency said on Thursday.
Four people have been arrested as part of the investigation and remanded in judicial custody by a court, a release said.
CBI and ACB, Hyderabad have registered three separate cases to investigate the alleged frauds, it said.
Investigation so far has found that “a senior postal official has ‘dishonestly and fraudulently’ exchanged crores with various businessmen for a commission”, the release said.
He had been absconding for the last few days but has surrendered and was now being interrogated, it added.
(Source: PTI)
5. Note Ban: Malaysian Tourists Duped on Pretext of Exchanging Demonetised Notes
Two Malaysian tourists alleged on Wednesday that they were duped of their Indian and foreign currency notes by a west Delhi resident, on the pretext of demonetisation and cash crunch.
The tourists accused Rishabh of cheating them of exchanging Rs 10,000 in the scrapped Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denominations with new bank notes. In the complaint, they also said that the man took away 1,000 US dollars and 200 Malaysian Ringgit from them, apart from fraudulently using their credit cards for paying his bills.
The Malaysians met the Delhi resident through Couch Surfing, an online hospitality service, which provides a platform for its members to stay at the other member’s home as a guest. After landing in Delhi from Malaysia on 27 November, they stayed at Rishabh’s Sunder Vihar home near Peeragarhi in west Delhi for the next two days.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
6. One of Delhi’s Most Wanted Gangsters Manjeet Mahal Held
One of Delhi’s most wanted criminals, Manjeet Mahal – involved in a series of murders, extortions and other heinous crimes in the Capital and its neighbouring states, was arrested on Thursday.
Delhi Police said Mahal was also involved in planning the murder of former Indian National Lok Dal MLA from Najafgarh, Bharat Singh, brother of Delhi gangster Krishan Pehalwan. Six to seven men armed with automatic firearms gunned down Singh at a farmhouse in Najafgarh, where he was attending a wedding on 29 March 2015.
Mahal ranks second in Delhi Police’s list of top ten criminals. He had been absconding for over two years and carried a reward of Rs 50,000, a senior police officer said.
He mostly operated on the outskirts of Delhi. His gang comprises over 50 criminals from Delhi, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
7. How Many ‘Swathi’ Murders Must Chennai Endure? Now, 23-Year-Old Killed by Jilted Lover
She was waiting for her transport home in a public place. A young man approached her and they had an altercation. The man then takes a pen knife out of his pocket and slits the neck of the girl. Chillingly similar to the murder of Infosys techie Swathi, six months earlier at the Nungambakkam railway station, Chennai.
This time the victim was a 23-year-old girl and the killer is, again, a jilted lover.
The girl, identified as A Soniya, was waiting at the Perungalathur bus stop around 6:30 pm on Thursday when S Prashant, who police said was her estranged lover, confronted her. As they stood there arguing, he took out a pen knife and slit her neck before the others standing in the vicinity could react.
The public rushed Soniya to the nearby government hospital immediately, but doctors there declared her brought dead. Meanwhile, Prashant surrendered himself at the Peerkankaranai police station.
(Source: The New Indian Express)
8. Dholpur BSP MLA Sentenced to Life in 2012 Murder Case
A trial court on Thursday sentenced sitting BSP MLA from Dholpur, BL Kushwah to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 in a murder case of December 2012. Kushwah, who is in judicial custody, was found guilty and subsequently sentenced along with one of his aide Satyendra Singh in connection with the murder case.
The murder case was lodged against Kushwah four years ago under Sections 302 and 120B of IPC for allegedly killing one Naresh Kushwaha, a resident of Jheel Ka Pura village in Dholpur district, while accusing Naresh of being in a relationship with his sister.
Naresh’s family had alleged that Kushwah had hired Satyendra Singh and Roban Singh to kill Naresh; Roban is still absconding.
(Source: Indian Express)
9. Woman, Boyfriend Held For Actor’s Murder in Chennai
Four days after a small-time actor, 49-year-old Jayaseeli, was murdered in her apartment at Saligramam, Chennai on Sunday, a friend of hers and her boyfriend were arrested for killing her and escaping with ten sovereigns of gold jewellery.
D Jayaseeli was found dead in her house in Periyar Street on Sunday and the jewellery kept in the almirah was missing. Police took the call record details and questioned her friend Haseena (45), whom the victim had last spoken to. She admitted that she and her boyfriend Sirajuddin, 29, committed the offence to escape with the jewellery.
Haseena told police that Jayaseeli had a lot of money. Whenever she demanded money from her she refused and insulted her. So, she and her boyfriend decided to kill her and take the money .
(Source: The Times of India)