1. FB Friendship Turns Into Obsession, Man Commits Suicide After Killing Woman Friend in South Delhi
It was three years ago, when 23-year-old Ayoshna Kundu, a graduate in multimedia from Kolkata’s St Xavier’s college, received a message on Facebook from Avinash Mandal.
The social media connect soon developed into friendship and before Kundu could realise, it grew into Mandal’s obsession to marry her, said her father Anitya Kumar Kundu, a Kolkata-based businessman.
On Monday, 26 November, evening, Delhi Police found both Mandal and Kundu dead at a flat in south Delhi’s Chhatarpur. Police said Mandal had slit Kundu’s throat and then he allegedly hanged himself to death from the ceiling fan in the same room.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
2. Couple Behind Chit Fund Fraud Held
A couple who allegedly ran a chit fund, disappearing with the money invested by over 400 people, were arrested on Tuesday, 27 November. Ramachandra Chilveri and his wife, Roopa, were the brains behind one of the oldest chit-fund schemes in Kamathipura-Nagpada area. Started in the early 2000s, the scheme was operated from a small shop in Kamathipura's 8th lane.
Ramchandra stopped collecting money around Dussehra and on 20 October, people found the shop locked. There was no trace of Chilveris, who had accumulated deposits totalling Rs 14 crore.
The Mumbai police's Economic Offence Wing registered a FIR after the couple's vanishing act.
(Source: Mumbai Mirror)
3. Man Kidnapped at Gunpoint, Gagged, Locked in Car’s Boot for 4 hours, And Robbed
A 22-year-old driver was kidnapped at gunpoint, tied up and locked in the car’s boot for four hours after which he was let go in an isolated area by five men, who fled with his car, wallet and mobile phone, police said on Tuesday, 27 November.
Mohammad Nazeem, a resident of Palwal who drives his car for an e-tailer in the city, was kidnapped by a group of five men when he was waiting outside the company office around 11am on Sunday in Bilaspur, said assistant sub-inspector Rajender Kumar, who is the investigation officer in the case.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
4. 38-Yr-Old Woman Held for Murder in Pune’s Chandan Nagar
Following the murder of a woman in Chandan Nagar and the firing at a crime branch officer, the crime branch has arrested 38-year-old Sandhya Puri from Delhi. The investigation has revealed that Puri had shared detailed information of the victim’s husband Brijesh Bhati and his family to the contract killer Shivlal Rao. She had also shared the name and location of their children’s school along with their family photograph.
Ekta Bhati, Brijesh’s wife, a resident of Indramani Society, Chandan Nagar was shot dead on 21 November, by the contract killers allegedly hired by Puri. Pune and railway police nabbed 39-year-old Shivlal Rao and his son Mukesh alias Monty Shivlal Rao (19), both hailing from Delhi, in connection with the murder.
(Source: Pune Mirror)
5. Ghatkopar Man Held for Duping South Mumbai Family of Rs 26 Lakh
The Mumbai crime branch arrested a Ghatkopar-based man for allegedly cheating a south Mumbai family of Rs 26.50 lakh by creating a fake profile on a matrimonial website. The accused had pretended to be working for a tech giant and claimed to have a flat in south Mumbai to cheat the family.
An officer said that the accused, Nimesh Chautaliya (32), had met the family members of a girl after coming across her profile on a matrimonial website. While the girl was in the US, he met the family and pretended to be very rich.
The accused then called up the girl in the US and claimed that he had been caught by the US customs for carrying undeclared cash. He then asked the girl that she would have to pay some fees for the custom officials to allow him to go. Under various pretexts, the girl ended up paying Rs 26.50 lakh.
(Source: The Indian Express)
6. Gurugram Serial Killer Identified By Families of Two Victims He Had Raped, Murdered
Gurugram Police officials have said that the family members of two minor girls, who were allegedly raped and murdered by Sunil Kumar in 2016 and 2017 in separate instances, identified the accused on Tuesday, 27 November.
The SIT had called the families to the district court to identify the accused man as the police had a lead on his involvement in these two unsolved cases.
A five-member SIT team took the accused, Sunil Kumar, to the district court in the afternoon to collect his electronic fingerprints. The police custody of the accused will end on Wednesday and the police are expected to seek an extension to his remand, to track evidence in more alleged murders.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
7. Man Beheads Woman for ‘Witchcraft’, Arrested
Police on Wednesday, 28 November, arrested a 21-year-old man for allegedly beheading a 50-year-old woman on suspicion of being a witch at Bhorgha village, 30 km from Chhota Udepur town.
According to police, Reshli Rathwa (50) was beheaded on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday while she was sleeping in her room.
(Source: The Indian Express)
8. Minor Girl Raped By Juvenile in Outer Delhi
A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a juvenile in outer Delhi's Aman Vihar area, police said Wednesday, 28 November.
The accused took the victim to an isolated area on the pretext of buying chocolates and raped her on Tuesday evening, a senior police officer said. The 16-year-old accused used to live in the same locality and lured the girl in the absence of her parents, who are daily labourers, the officer said.
(Source: PTI)
9. Ghatkopar Youth Arrested for Deliberately Running Over Dog
A 22-year-old Ghatkopar resident, Sanket Satam, was arrested by the Pantnagar police station for fatally running over a stray dog recently.
Following complaints by the local animal activists and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India, the accused was held on November 24, and later released on bail, on charges of animal cruelty and rash driving under IPC sections 429, 279 and under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960.
After receiving information that the youth killed a stray dog by purposely running his car over it, Mumbai Police filed an FIR against the perpetrator.
(Source: The Times of India)
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