Rice Farmer Madhusudan Bagchi murder case (Episode 275, 276 on 27th-28th July 2013)

Madhusudan Bagchi (real name Krishna Chandra Mal, 50) is a successful wealthy Rice farmer and because of his farming success, he has good relation with big companies who buys rice from him. A morning while moving for his farm he gets a anonymous threatening letter to pay money for safety of his family and him. He reports this to police.

Police thinks that this might be warning from Naxalites. He asks Madhusudan to put the money at the place describes in the letter. Police will capture the men who threatened. Whole night goes but no one comes to take the money.

Police goes back and later they gets confirmation that this was not done by any Naxalite group. Madhusudan puts some extra protection in his home but, brutally killed by attackers a night when he goes out of his home for toilet.

During the investigation police comes to know the involvement of Amit Sen and Aparna (played by Geetanjali Mishra).

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Woman who planned murder of husband, raped by hired killers

Based on POLBA (HOOGHLY - West Bengal) case which is 60 Km far from Kolkata.
Krishna Chandra - a Trinamool supporter was living with his wife and a teenager son Kushal and owned a 25 bigha of fertile land. That mid night Krishna left his bedroom to go to the toilet which was located out of the building. His wife followed him for there. As well as Krishna opened the door, 4 person attacked him. Two of then pinned him of the floor while rest followed his wife. The men handling Krishna pulled out a dragger and slit his throat.

After Krishna fled into blood, the criminal entered into the room where his wife was confined. According to the lady, criminals first abused her sexually and had gang rape with her. Her medical check ups revealed that she was sexually assaulted while the lady did not tell police herself about her rape.

One of the criminals was identified by Krishna's son Kushal and according to Kushal, he has seen that man many time at his granny's home at Balagarh. Later the man identified as Zico Pal alias Potla who was also a married man and had illicit relation with Krishna's wife. Though he was 14 year younger than the woman, decide to kill Krishna to marry her.

Police Said, "The woman had a kind of obsession for Potla. The two would meet whenever she went to her maternal home in Balagarh. Potla would even visit her house on a motorcycle when her husband was not around. The two would spend some time in private on the terrace. After arresting the criminals who raided Mal's house, we came to know that they were hired by Potla. The conspiracy became clear thereafter. During sustained interrogation, the woman broke down and confessed to her involvement,"

Thanks to: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-03/kolkata/31280547_1_robbers-slit-woman-lover

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SonyLiv:
Part 1: http://www.sonyliv.com/node/48978
Part 2: http://www.sonyliv.com/content/ep-275-july-27-2013
Part 3: http://www.sonyliv.com/node/49009
Part 4: http://www.sonyliv.com/node/49007
Part 5: http://www.sonyliv.com/node/48999

YouTube:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmW4lRKNh4g
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwsNnwQTCKQ

Here is the inside story of the case:
http://thrill-suspense.blogspot.com/2013/07/crime-patrol-robbers-kill-farmer-and.html

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Crime Patrol: Teacher pays student to kill wife, chop and dump body (Episode 274 on 26th July 2013)

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MUMBAI: The principal of a junior college in Nalasopara (East), a former student of his and the latter's friend were arrested on Friday for killing his wife. The body was chopped into pieces and the parts dumped in separate locations.

Amarjeet Singh (30), principal and commerce teacher at Thakur Vidya Mandir School and Junior College hatched a plan to kill his wife Kiran (28) as she used to check his cellphone, suspecting him of having affairs with his students, the police said. Singh roped in his former student Akbarali Warsi (20), paying him Rs 50,000 to kill Kiran, who was a housewife.



On February 20, Amarjeet, father of two, called Kiran from his college and told her he had planned a surprise.



Amarjeet said Warsi would fetch her and take her to a place. An excited Kiran did as told since she knew Warsi.



She was taken to a flat in Santosh Bhuvan, Nalasopara (East), where Warsi's accomplice Rajaram Das (23) was waiting. The couple's flat, too, is in Santosh Bhuvan.



Warsi and Das administered chloroform to Kiran, who fell unconscious, and then got down to work. They hacked off her head and then cut up the body. They put the head in a gunny bag and dumped it in Gavrai Pada, an isolated marshy area in the region. The police recovered it in the evening after getting calls from individuals who had stumbled upon the head. The accused told the police the body was dumped in Bhayander creek. The police are yet to recover the parts, said inspector Kishore Khairnar of the Thane Rural crime branch.



After recovering the head, while the police tried to establish her identity, Amarjeet registered amissing complaint—on February 21. When the police showed him the head, he identified it as his wife's.



The police, suspicious, kept Amarjeet under watch and tapped his phone. They found he was making and getting calls from Warsi. Amarjeet would also call the police regularly to know if his wife's killers had been nabbed. He told the police that his wife might have had an affair, which led to the murder. To his children, Amarjeet said their mother had gone somewhere and would return soon.



When the police picked up Warsi, who claims to have studied till Class XII and works in a Nalasopara factory, he confessed to the crime. The police have not found any criminal record against Warsi; the accused have been remanded in police custody till July 1. The police are looking for two of Das's friends, who they suspect helped in the body's disposal.



Amarjeet used to get obscene SMSes from his female students, said Thane Rural additional superintendent of police Sangramsingh Nishandar. The police are investigating if he indeed had an affair with any of them.

Thanks To:

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-06-22/mumbai/40133138_1_warsi-amarjeet-police-custody

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Crime Patrol: Robbers kill farmer, rape his wife (Episode 275, 276 on 27th-28th July 2013)

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POLBA (HOOGHLY): Less than 24 hours of a woman being raped by robbers in South 24-Parganas' Canning, a gang of four murdered a wealthy farmer in Hooghly's Polba around midnight on Tuesday, raped his wife before fleeing with valuables.



Patna village, where the incident took place, is around 60 km from Kolkata. The woman was sent for a medical examination after she broke down and narrated her ordeal before senior police officers.



Krishna Chandra Mal, 50, who owns around 25 bighas of fertile land, lived with his 40-year-old wife and teenaged son. Around midnight on Tuesday, he left his bedroom to go the toilet, which is located outside the main building. His wife followed him outside. As soon as Mal opened the courtyard door, four men allegedly pounced on him. Two of them pinned him down while the rest turned their attention to his wife. Before she could get over the shock, she was gagged and trussed up. The goons pushed her into a room.



The men then entered the room where Mal's son Kushal, 14, was asleep. They gagged and tied him up before starting to loot valuables from the house. By then, Mal had managed to break free from his captors and rushed towards the house. At this point, one of the miscreants pulled out a dagger and slit his throat. After Mal fell on the ground, he was stabbed repeatedly.



"Even as Mal bled to death in the courtyard, the criminals entered the room where his wife was confined. According to the woman, the men abused her sexually before leaving with the valuables they had looted. After some time, Kushal succeeded in freeing himself and went to his mother's help. Mal had died by then. The two then raised an alarm," a police officer said.



On Wednesday morning, a large number of villagers led by Trinamool Congress leaders gheraoed Polba police station, demanding arrest of the accused. Initially, a case of murder and robbery was registered at the police station. Later, when additional SP Ashis Biswas reached the village, the woman broke down and told him that she was raped. She said she decided to break her silence after receiving support from the villagers. She was sent to the Imambara Hospital in Chinsurah for a medical examination.



"Before leaving, she spoke to us but could not say why somebody would want to kill her husband or rape her. Mal had sold the potatoes he had grown some time ago and deposited the money in the bank. His wife told us that he had obtained a tractor on hire-purchase recently. Some EMIs are still pending and Mal had allegedly received some threat calls in this regard. We shall look into this angle," the officer added.



Barely a month ago, a widow from Polba was lured by a relative to a place where some miscreants were having alcohol and raped. Four persons have been arrested in that case.



"We have got some clues and are investigating the matter. We hope to make a breakthrough soon," Biswas said.



Thanks To:

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-29/kolkata/31253787_1_loot-valuables-police-station-gheraoed

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Woman raped by goons she hired to kill husband



POLBA (HOOGHLY): Police have dug up a fact more bizarre than fiction in the gangrape of a 39-year-old woman in Hooghly's Polba, 60km from Kolkata. Investigators say she was raped by the killers she had hired with the help of her lover to murder her husband.



The lover, Zico Pal alias Potla, is a rich, married farmer 14 years younger to the woman. He wept inconsolably in the police station as he narrated how he tried to stop the killers from raping her, sources said. But the gang tied him up and went on raping the woman.



The four killers had been hired by Potla from Belgharia on the city's fringes, Baranagar and Bandel, police said. He and the woman have confessed to the crime. The lovers and the killers have been arrested.



Police grew suspicious of the woman because she seemed reluctant to file a complaint of rape although a medical examination had confirmed sexual assault. Her FIR mentioned only dacoity and murder. It was her 14-year- old son, Kushal, who told the villagers she had been raped. She added a rape complaint at their insistence.



The incident occurred around midnight on March 28 in Patna village of Polba. The woman's 50-year-old husband, Krishna Chandra Mal, a wealthy potato farmer, was attacked in his courtyard when he got up to go to the bathroom. The robbers slit Mal's throat and stabbed him repeatedly before they ransacked the house to make it look like a dacoity. They tied and gagged his wife and son. But before leaving with the loot, they took turns sexually assaulting the woman.



Potla has admitted he had led the way to Mal's house and was present during the incident, police said. He had not told the gang of his involvement with the woman and was shocked when they decided to rape her before leaving the house. He tried to stop them but in vain. It was Kushal who managed to free himself and alert neighbours.



Inconsistencies in woman's statements alerted police: Police say the woman had a kind of obsession for Potla. "The two would meet whenever she went to her maternal home in Balagarh. Potla would even visit her house on a motorcycle when her husband was not around. The two would spend some time in private on the terrace. After arresting the criminals who raided Mal's house, we came to know that they were hired by Potla. The conspiracy became clear thereafter," an officer said. "During sustained interrogation, the woman broke down and confessed to her involvement," he added.



"There were inconsistencies in the woman's statements from the start. Since the time we started the investigation, we suspected that there was more to the incident than what was being said. It was after sustained interrogation of the woman and the four accused that we got to the bottom of the matter," said Hooghly SP Tanmoy Roy Chowdhury.



Thanks To:

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-03/kolkata/31280547_1_robbers-slit-woman-lover

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Shaitaan - A Criminal Mind: 70-yr-old woman’s death in Hinjewadi not accident, say cops; grandson, aide held (Episode 51 on 7th July 2013)

The Inside Story

'Supari' killing over property dispute, say police.



Investigation by the crime branch of Pune police into the death of a 70-year-old woman of Hinjewadi, who was earlier believed to have died in a road mishap, has revealed that it was actually a 'supari' (contract) killing planned by her grandson who gave "blood money" for the purpose.



The victim, identified as Shankuntala Laxman Chavan (70) of Rutuja Residency in Hinjewadi, was knocked down by a four-wheeler while she was out for some work around 7 am on April 22.



Shakuntala's son Madhukar Laxman Chavan had lodged a complaint against the driver at the Hinjewadi police station.



During investigation, havaldar Mahesh Pawar received a tip-off that Shakuntala's grandson Santosh Prabhakar Chavan and his two accomplices allegedly killed her by knocking her down intentionally and made it look like an accident. An old dispute over property was believed to be the motive behind the killing.



A crime branch team, led by inspector Sunil Pawar on Friday, arrested Santosh (27) and his aide Ganesh Uttam Chavan (32) of Dehugaon. Police have launched a search for the third suspect Vijaykumar Chandrakant Zadke of Keshav Nagar in Chikhli. Police have also recovered the vehicle used in the crime.



Police said Shakuntala owned the five-storey building in Hinjewadi where she lived with her second son. Her grandson Santosh resides on another floor of the same building . Santosh allegedly wanted an apartment on the third floor of the building to which Shakuntala refused.



Harbouring a grudge, Santosh allegedly decided to eliminate her. With the help of his relative Ganesh Chavan, he offered a 'supari' of Rs 50,000 to Vijaykumar Zadke, who kept a close watch on Shakuntala's movements and knocked her down with his vehicle on April 22, police said.



Man arrested for killing mother in Pimpri



Thanks To:

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/70yrold-woman-s-death-in-hinjewadi-not-accident-say-cops--grandson-aide-held/1108199

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Rising: Purvi (Shweta Katti), a girl born an brought up in Mumbai'S red light area gets scholarship from America (Episode 273 on 20th July 2013)

Story of Purvi (real name Shweta Katti), a girl who born and brought up in a red light area of Mumbai and got scholarship from USA.

Shweta is eldest among her 3 sisters. His mother is a worker in a factory their. His father is actually his step-father who did not like her because of her black skin. She brought up at a place where abuse and confinement of women is common. She is now 19 her intense desire of study is keeping her going. The girl hailing from Mumbai's biggest red-light area, Kamathi Pura, had offers of 3 American universities for her bachelor degree in psychology. She was listed by Newsweek as one of the 25 under-25 women in the world to watch out for. The list includes women like Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai, who have battled adversity to become symbols of resistance and she has only just heard from New York's Bard College, who have accepted her as a student for the coming semester. They've offered her a $30,000 scholarship that covers her tuition fees for the year, as well as half her accommodation cost.

Shweta's life was not more than a brothel who suffered an alcoholic, abusive father. "Tera dil tere skin ke jaisa kala hai, a words said my my father." Shweta said.

The opportunity came to me via a NGO named Kranti who arranged the formalities those are required for admission. "Aaj mai jo bhi noon apnea maa ki wajeh se noon, unhone mere liye jo kia wo kisi ne nai kia.", Shweta continues.

That was a biggest blow for her to know that his father is his step-father and his fastest friend Kavita is her half sister from her biological father. May this was the reason his father did not like her.

Shweta scored 71% in her 10th exam but during her childhood she was very low on self-esteem. She never liked to study. The girl who used to sleep during her classes, encouraged by a sex worker itself. A girl living near her home taught her several times to keep study and get rid of this brothel. Now she wants to help her community, so that they can follow a correct way.

Here is a video from IndiaTV where they titled it as "Daughter of Sex Worker Won Scholarship to study in US". As a comment in the video, Shweta clarifying herself that her mother was not a sex worker and the channel is spreading a wrong news.

We request you all readers of the blog to approach the channel to change the video title or remove the video.

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Here are some links and online episode:
http://thrill-suspense.blogspot.com/2013/07/crime-patrol-daughter-of-mumbai-devdasi.html

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Crime Patrol: A Child's Fees (Episode 272 - 19th July 2013)

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Surrogacy helps couple become parents after 13 years

RAIPUR: Amanpreet and Deepak (name changed) were childless even after 13 years of marriage. But thanks to a surrogate mother and the IVF technique, the couple are now the proud parents of twins.



Examination using a laparoscope showed that Amanpreet had medical complications and was unable to conceive. Dr Neeraj, an IVF expert here, who examined Amanpreet advised her to go in for a test tube baby, with egg donation from a donor and surrogacy. "A young surrogate mother was identified and after completing all the legal procedure, the IVF was done using the husband's sperms and the donor's eggs. Four embryos were made and transferred into the uterus of surrogate mother who conceived twins last month," the doctor said. Interacting with media persons on the occasion of Mother's Day, the surrogate mother, Neha (name changed) said, "I am happy that I have become a part of family's happiness." Admitting that she had been paid handsomely for the surrogacy, she said the money would help her educate her own two children.



Thanks To:

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-05-13/raipur/39227098_1_surrogate-mother-ivf-surrogacy

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A Child's Fees: Surrogacy, an alternative to child adoption (Episode 272 on 19 July 2013)

Chanda (played by Neena Singh) belong to a lower class family in Mumbai who works as a maid in several homes. His husband (played by Chandresh Singh) is a factory worker and their monthly income is not more that ten thousand. The couple has 2 kids. Their economic condition is not strong even Chanda is conscious about her kids and their schooling is running in a very big school. The couple is hard to pay fees of their child and the fees is becoming over due.

School administration warns her to pay fee on time otherwise they can terminate their kids schooling. Chanda starts over work also asks for big amount near 40,000 rupee to the people where she works. His husband is also trying to arrange money but they get disappointed. Finally Nakul is dismissed from the school.

Chanda does not want her kids will suffer throughout the life as she suffer during her childhood. During her childhood she was willing to get literate but because of her family condition, her parents didn't carried her study.

One of lady where Chanda works, tell her a way to earn money. She sends Chanda to a Doctor and doctor describes her about surrogacy.

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What is Surrogacy?
The Surrogacy came from a latin word Subrogate which means to appoint someone for our work.

Today's time which couple do not want to have their own children but due to some bad circumstances some women are deprived to have a baby in their womb. Their may be several reasons of this like infection in uterus, hysterectomy, diabetes, cancer, etc. But through surrogacy, a couple can arrange another lady to keep their baby in her womb. Surrogacy has become a great medical treatment for such kind of cases. There are two types of surrogacies:

1. Traditional surrogacy
This involves artificially inseminating a healthy surrogate mother with the male sperm. In this method, the child is genetically related to the sperm donor i.e. father and the surrogate mother.

2. Gestational surrogacy
When the intended mother is productive but is not able to carry a baby to term due to hysterectomy, diabetes, cancer, etc, her egg and the intended father's sperm are used to create an embryo (initial fetus). The embryo is transferred into and carried by the surrogate mother. The resulting child is genetically related to its parents while the surrogate mother has no genetic relation.

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Crime Patrol: Geetika Sharma, a former air hostess with MDLR, committed suicide on 5 August 2012 (Episode 170, 171 on 13th, 14th July 2013)

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Geetika Sharma Suicide Notes

Kanda launched MDLR Airlines in 2007. The initials were those of his father, Murli Dhar, and son, Lakh Ram. MDLR shut down in 2009 and in October 2010 became a part of Emirates Airlines.



Geetika Sharma, a former air hostess with MDLR, committed suicide on 5 August 2012 and in her suicide note she accused Kanda of harassment. Allegations have been made that before her suicide Kanda sent a letter to Emirates saying that she had been a poor employee and had defaulted on a loan, and her family said that he had sent her threatening e-mails using several identities. Kanda has denied the allegations and stated that he had encouraged Sharma by sponsoring her on an MBA course. He also said "She was also made the chairman of the trust which managed an international school at Sirsa."



Following the incident Kanda resigned from the post of home minister in Haryana. Delhi Police, later booked Kanda for abetting Sharma’s suicide.



Sharma wrote two suicide notes. Sharma had alleged that Gopal Goyal was having an illicit relationship with another woman Ankita with whom he has a child.



Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, said that his former minister not helping the police in the suicide probe is "unfair".



On 7 August 2012 India TV published the suicide note that Geetika wrote before she committed suicide.



As of 23 August 2012 he was in police custody, and an employee of his that Geetika had also accused of harassment was in judicial custody. Charges include abetting her suicide, criminal conspiracy and criminal intimidation, and sending false electronic messages.



On 15 February 2013 Geetika's mother, Anuradha Sharma also committed suicide. She chose the same method of suicide and left a suicide note at the same place as her daughter.



Thanks To:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopal_Goyal_Kanda

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नई दिल्ली। गीतिका शर्मा ने 12वीं पास करने के बाद एयर होस्टेस का कोर्स किया था। गीतिका ने 18 अक्टूबर, 2006 को कांडा की कंपनी एमडीएलआर एयरलाइंस में बतौर ट्रेनी केबिन क्यू ज्वाइन किया। 28 अगस्त, 2008 को उसे सीनियर केबिन क्यू प्रमोट किया गया। 31 मार्च, 2009 को उसे कोआर्डिनेटर बना दिया गया। 22 मई, 2010 को गीतिका ने कंपनी से त्यागपत्र दे दिया था।



साल 2006 से 2010 के बीच गीतिका शर्मा इस कदर प्रताड़ित हो चुकी थी कि उसने आखिरकार मौत का रास्ता चुन लिया। हरियाणा का पूर्व मंत्री गोपाल कांडा को गीतिका शर्मा को आत्महत्या के लिए उकसाने का जिम्मेदार ठहराया जा रहा है।



आरोप है कि कांडा लगातार गीतिका पर नजर रखता था और उसे अकेला नही छोड़ता था। तंग आकर गीतिका कांडा से हर हालत में पीछा छुड़ाना चाह रही थी, लेकिन कांडा उस पर लगातार कुछ दस्तावेज साइन करने का दबाव बना रहा था।



गीतिका का शारीरिक शोषण हुआ था। पुलिस को शक है कि शायद इसी वजह से गीतिका शर्मा ने मौत का रास्ता चुना। एमडीएलआर एयरलाइंस की नौकरी छोड़ कर वह दुबई स्थित अमीरात एयरलाइंस में ट्रेनिंग के लिए चली गई, लेकिन वहां भी कांडा ने उसका पीछा नहीं छोड़ा। कांडा वहां भी उसे फोन कर परेशान करता था। उसने अमीरात एयरलाइंस को ई मेल कर उस पर तरह-तरह के आरोप लगाए, साथ ही उसके चरित्र पर भी सवाल खड़ा किया था। इसके बाद कंपनी ने गीतिका को बर्खास्त कर दिया।



प्रोफाइल अरुणा चड्ढा

गीतिका शर्मा को आत्महत्या के लिए उकसाने के मामले में हरियाणा के पूर्व मंत्री गोपाल कांडा की सहयोगी अरुणा चड्ढा भी सह आरोपी है।



गौरतलब है कि अरुणा चड्ढा, गोपाल कांडा की कंपनी एमडीएलआर एयरलाइंस में सीनियर मैनेजर के पद पर कार्यरत थी। इसी कंपनी में गीतिका एयर होस्टेस थी। जिसका कांडा शोषण करता था और अरुणा चड्ढा उसे इस काम में मदद करती थी। स्पष्ट कहें तो अरुणा की भूमिका एक मध्यस्थ की थी। गीतिका शर्मा ने अपनी सुसाइड नोट में अरुणा का नाम भी लिखा था और उसे भी आत्महत्या के लिए जिम्मेदार ठहराया था। इस मामले में अरुणा भी गोपाल कांडा के साथ जेल में बंद है।



Thanks To:

http://www.jagran.com/news/national-who-was-gitika-sharma-aruna-chadha-full-profile-10378566.html

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Shaitaan - A Criminal Mind: Umaria’s murdered scribe was involved in kidnapping: DGP (Episode 51 on 6th July 2013)

The Inside Story

24/02/12

Bhopal: The special task force (STF) is learnt to have solved the mystery behind the sensational murder of journalist Chandrika Rai and his family in Umaria following arrest of five persons, who were allegedly involved in the kidnapping of a PWD officer’s son.



The accused, said sources, are residents of Shahdol and were involved in kidnapping of SDO Hemant Jharia’s son Anant (7). The accused murdered Chandrika on suspicion that he was in possession of the ransom money given by SDO for his son’s release, said sources.



On last Sunday, when the accused approached Chandrika demanding the ransom money, he denied. This allegedly led to an altercation between Rai and the kidnappers. They attacked Chandrika with iron rods and other heavy objects, killing him on the spot.



“After killing Rai, the accused eliminated his wife and two children to ensure no witnesses were left,” said a police officer wishing anonymity.



“It’s clear that these five were involved in kidnapping and the murder but whether or not Chandrika was involved, is yet to be confirmed. We cannot simply rely on what these criminals claim” the officer said. Investigation is still on to collect corroborative evidences.



Director General of Police (DGP) SK Rout is likely to make an official announcement of the case on Friday evening. After SDO Hemant Jharia’s son Anant was released by abductors on February 18 , the Umeria police had called a press conference to announce this, and gave a clean chit to the two suspects they had rounded up. They had also said that the release was made without ransom. The murders took place a few hours after the press meet.



“We hope to soon solve the mystery behind the murder which was committed by professional persons,” STF additional director general of police (ADGP) Sanjay Choudhry told reporters in Umaria.



He reached there to inspect the murder site and visited the house of the slain journalist before leaving for Nourojabad in connection with the incident.



PCI team to visit Umaria: The three-member team fact-finding team of the press council would be headed by Kosuri Amarnath and include Rajeev Ranjan Nag and Kalyan Barooah, a council statement said. All the three are members of the council. The task before the team is to investigate into the murders and submit a report to the council at the earliest.



The council sought the cooperation of the state authorities on behalf of its team.



“The Madhya Pradesh authorities are being requested to give all cooperation to this committee so that it can discharge its duties effectively,” the statement said. The Council has been taking the issue of journalists security with several state governments.



BHOPAL: A seven-year-old boy, the son of a sub-divisional officer (SDO) of the public works department (PWD), was allegedly abducted from Umaria town on Wednesday evening. The police have no clues about the child or the identity of abductors even 24 hours after the incident. It is the third incident of kidnapping in three days in the state. On February 13, a 14-year-old boy, the son of an industrialist was abducted from Bhopal. The next day, a son of trader was kidnapped from Ratlam.



The victim's family reportedly received ransom calls demanding Rs 6 lakh for the release of the child. Though tight-lipped about the case, the police admitted that calls were received from neighbouring Uttar Pradesh. The police have not succeeded so far in tracing the origin of calls.



"The case is under investigation. We are not in a position to reveal anything,'' SP Manohar Singh Jhamra told TOI. Sources in the police department, however, said a team comprising an additional SP and three investigating officers is being sent to Uttar Pradesh.



The kidnapped boy, Anant Jhariya, is a student of class II. The son of SDO PWD (electrical and mechanical) Hemant Jhariya, Anant, had gone to tutorial classes with a friend. After tutorials, the two boys walked together till the stadium before going their ways. Anant, who was last seen walking towards his home alone, went missing between 6 and 7 pm, the police said. When the boy did not reach home, his parents began looking for him.



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Crime Patrol: Punjab acid attack victim Inderjit Kaur fights on for justice (Episode 267, 268 on 6th, 7th July 2013)

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The Inside Story

Morinda: Inderjit Kaur has undergone six reconstruction surgeries, tried to commit suicide twice and finally decided she won't put up with a life brought upon her by an acid attack in December last year. I will fight for justice, says the 24-year-old resident of Morinda in Punjab.



Inderjit's life changed for the worst when Manjit, a man who wanted to marry her, threw acid on her after his wedding proposal was turned down. Manjit belongs to Zirakpur in Punjab.



Inderjit lost one of her eyes in the attack. Doctors are hopeful her other eye can be saved. Inderjit's poor family spent Rs. 9 lakh on her reconstruction surgeries and approached the courts, but it's been a far rougher ride that the mother and daughter would have imagined.



The first lawyer they hired never filed any case. The second, they say, tried to put pressure on them to strike a compromise with Manjit, who allegedly made threatening calls from jail after his arrest.



"I feel ashamed to be born in India," says Inderjit, who sees life from behind a veil now. "Had I been born is the US or some other country, such a thing would have never happened."



She says she had thought of committing suicide but decided to fight on so that her case serves as an inspiration for other victims of acid attacks that are so common in India.



Manjit Kaur, Inderjit's mother who cooks at the local gurdwara, says: "My daughter wanted to study further, do an MA and then PhD. She was working in a private company. We had many plans for her."



The family says raising more money for Inderjit's treatment is almost impossible and the courts are their last hope.



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State to pay acid attack victim Rs 3 lakh



The Punjab government on Wednesday informed the Punjab and Haryana High Court that will pay Rs 3 lakh from the Chief Minister's Relief Fund to an acid attack victim from Morinda, Inderjit Kaur, so that she can undergo an eye surgery at Sankara Nethralaya in Chennai.



The division bench was hearing of two separate petitions filed by Poor Patients Relief Society in Chandigarh regarding what steps had the government take for the rehabilitation of acid attack victims. Moreover, the court directed the Punjab government to take a decision on coming up with a scheme to provide free medical treatment and grant compensation and rehabilitation to such victims.



"An acid attack is worse than murder. An acid attack victim faces ordeal throughout her life," the bench observed. The case will now come up for hearing on March 22.



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Provide free treatment to acid attack victims: HC



The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday issued notices to Punjab on a public interest litigation (PIL), filed by th` 'Poor Patients Relief Socie'y', seeking free treatment, including plastic surgery for an acid attack victim.



The petitioners have submitted that having been spurned, a Zirakpur resident entered the house of Inderjit Kaur of Morinda on December 8, 2011 and threw acid on her face and other parts of her body. The incident disfigured Inderjit's face, damaged her eyesight and caused serious injuries on her neck, hands and other parts of body.



Belonging to a poor family and having lost her father two years ago, she is unable to arrange funds for her plastic surgery. The petitioners stated that after the incident, Inderjit, who was studying her BA, also lost her teaching job in a private school. They also pointed out that the High Court had come to the aid of another acid attack victim, of one Prerna of Rohtak, by directing the Haryana government to release Rs 15 lakh for Prerna's plastic surgery expenses.



The petitioner also referred to the recommendations, made by National Commission for Women to the Centre in 2009, stating that in cases of acid attack, the government should immediately release an interim financial assistance of Rs 5 lakh to the victim and thereafter pay up to a maximum of Rs 20 lakh or more, directly to the hospital for treatment of such acid attack victims. The society has sought directions to the Punjab to release adequate amount to Inderjit Kaur for her treatment.



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Crime Patrol: Software engineer found dead in car (Episode 266 on 5th july 2013)

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BANGALORE: A 25-year-old software engineer was found dead in his car at
Mahadevapura area with his head covered in a plastic bag and his body wrapped in
cellophane tape, police said.



The man, Srirag, hailing from Kozhikode in Kerala, was working for Hewlett
Packard in the city, police said.



They said the post-mortem had been conducted and the body has been kept at the
government-run Bowring hospital for his parents to claim it.



Police said they are questioning Srirag's colleagues and company officials in
connection with his death.



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The Man Who Faked His Murder

On his return from work, Sreerag Subramanian, a software engineer with Hewlett
Packard in Bangalore, called his mother in Palakkad. This was the evening of 21
May. By the account of the police, they spoke for 10 minutes, during which he
asked how she was and whether she had taken her medicines and had her food on
time. He ended the call by saying he missed and loved her. Sreerag then went to
his aunt’s house for dinner, after which he stayed back a while to play with his
cousin’s child, taking the little one around the house on his back on all fours.
His uncle admonished him for keeping them up so late, and asked him to either
stay over or get back home.



Sreerag pretended to drop a pen and fell at his aunt’s feet for her blessings.
He then left for the flat he shared with Vivek Bhoshy, an engineering college
friend. Once he reached home, he whisked out his laptop. At some point, say the
police, he suddenly logged off and started putting on a pair of jeans. Bhoshy
asked where he was going. “Just driving around,” he replied. It was not an
unusual thing to do. He had bought a Volkswagen Polo just a month earlier, and
often drove it at odd hours. Around 1 am, he parked the black car at a secluded
spot in the locality of Mahadevapura.



Then, as the police account goes, he did something strange. He picked up a roll
of duct tape he had in the car and began taping his own legs together.
Altogether, he wound 16 layers of tape. Satisfied that he could not move his
legs anymore, he tried tying up his hands. It proved difficult. Cutting the
tape, particularly—the scissors were too unwieldy. He tugged at it nevertheless,
but all he achieved was the tape twirling into a string. He gave up. He then
popped 16 tablets of Gardinol into his mouth, one of which fell back onto the
seat as he took a swig of water from a bottle to swallow the pills.



Next, he wound 13 layers of tape around his mouth and pressed it against his
face to make it stick. After that, he put three plastic covers over his head.
The Gardinol started working. Its active ingredient is sodium lauryl sulphate, a
foaming agent used in soaps, shampoos, detergents, toothpastes and other
products that foam. It is also a poison that blocks the lungs’ access to air and
suffocates its victim—a surer death than what sleeping pills assure.



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Residents of Mahadevpura noticed the black car in the morning. Those who peered
into it saw a man on the backseat, his head in a plastic bag and legs skewed
sideways. They tried to open the doors, but the car was locked. The police
arrived at around 10.30 am. They traced the registration number, reached the
doorstep of Sreerag’s aunt, and then Sreerag’s flat half a kilometre away.
There, they found a set of duplicate keys, and had the car opened. By now,
forensic teams and a dog squad had arrived.



The sniffer dog led its handler back to Sreerag’s flat, an indication that the
victim had driven to the spot from his home. The police started recording the
proceedings on video.



“Prima facie, it looked like murder,” says Inspector KS Nagaraja, Mahadevapura
Police Station’s house officer. At first, the police thought the HP employee had
been robbed and killed. So they registered a case of murder.



But the police were not entirely sure it was murder. They were perplexed by the
duct tape, pair of scissors and car key found next to Sreerag on the back seat.
They questioned his roommate Vivek Bhoshy, who said that the roll of duct tape
was similar to what they usually kept in their flat, and that Sreerag often used
large quantities of it since he liked to keep everything well packed. But even
if the tape and scissors were Sreerag’s, there was still the possibility of its
presence in the car when he was attacked; his killer/s might have found it
handy.



Bhoshy told the police that Sreerag was in love with a girl with whom he would
talk for long hours on his cellphone and exchange emails and SMSes. The odd part
was that Sreerag had never seen the girl. In following this lead, the police
took Sreerag’s laptop to his HP office and asked his employers to give them
access to his email account.



Sreerag’s last mail had been sent at 2.37 am on 22 May. This, they figured, was
after he had parked his car and got onto the backseat with the laptop. It was to
a girl he called ‘Jenny kutty’ in which he said he would not trouble her anymore
and that she would soon learn what became of him.



It was beginning to look like suicide, not murder. Sreerag’s call records
featured hundreds of calls to a particular number. It was Jenny kutty’s, as the
police suspected. “Around 11,000 messages had gone back and forth,” says the
inspector, “He had messaged her 7,500 times, and she, 3,500 times.” The cops
called the number and summoned her to the police station. The story she told
them was stranger still.



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On 21 January, a telemarketer named Gayathri, whose full name is Jennifer
Gayathri Lourdeswamy, calls Sreerag to sell an insurance product. He speaks
politely, unlike the usual responses she gets to her cold calls. She calls him
persistently, and over time they become phone friends. They exchange personal
contacts. Gayathri, a team leader at the call centre, is educated only up to
class 7, but her conversational English is excellent. As the friendship
develops, she tries to impress him with lies about getting an MBA. She also says
she is an aspiring fashion designer keen to showcase her clothes at fashion
shows in Milan, for which she is saving money by working at the call centre.



Sreerag gets infatuated and takes to calling her Jenny kutty, an affectionate
nickname. He sends her his pictures and asks her to do likewise. Gayathri gets a
good looking college girl’s photograph and mails it to Sreerag. Within a few
weeks, their exchange of messages and mails turns into a daily affair. “He grew
desperate to meet her,” says Inspector Nagaraja.



Sreerag buys her a teddy bear and wants to gift it in person. His phone friend
says she cannot meet him because she is engaged to be married and will soon be
leaving for London a wedded woman. Sreerag demands to know why she cannot break
off the engagement and meet him instead. He also wants to see a picture of her
fiancé. Gayathri finds a picture of a stranger on the net, and sends it to him.
She then asks her friend to pose as her mother and advise Sreerag to stop
calling her. This tips him over, turning him suicidal.



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Gayathri, who was booked by the police for cheating and impersonation, told the
police that Sreerag had filled a void in her life. No one had loved her so much,
she said, but since she had lied so grandly, she simply couldn’t face him in
person. “She feared he would reject her if they came face-to-face,” says Deputy
Commissioner of Police KS Bhat.



Sreerag’s parents, bedridden in their Palakkad home, and his brother, who worked
in Mumbai, had no clue what he was going through, though. Nor did his
acquaintances in Bangalore. “He was a normal 25-year-old geek at work too, glued
to his laptop and living life to the full,” says an HP colleague who does not
want to be named.



When Open called Gayathri, she did not answer the phone. Out on bail, she has
been avoiding the media, though she told another reporter that she felt
responsible for Sreerag’s death and had not eaten for four days.



Gayathri says she was waiting for his call the night he died. After she received
the mail, she sensed something was seriously amiss, and called him several
times—but there was no response.



Sreerag, who used to scour the internet for medicines to buy his mother, kept
himself well informed on drug formulations; a post-mortem report confirmed that
he died not of asphyxiation by plastic bags but of Gardinol poisoning.



Sreerag’s inspiration for this duct-tape set up, according to DCP Bhat, was On
Death Row, an American crime show of which he had a DVD. One of its episodes has
a convict who ties his victim with duct tape and puts a bag over the head.



But, if the man was heartbroken, why would he want his suicide to look like
murder? To shield her from being held responsible for his death, says DCP Bhat.
“As he explained in his last mail,” he says, “he had deleted her phone numbers
from his mobile, and the pictures and mails they had exchanged from his hard
disk—‘so that no one will be able to contact you in case something happens to
me. I don’t want you to get tangled up in all this:-’.”



“By making it look like murder,” says DCP Bhat, “he wanted to end this chapter
in his life and deflect attention [from his heartbreak].”



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