Crime Patrol: Meerut: Man identifies body of estranged wife (Episode 404, 405 on 9th, 10th Aug 2014)

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The police had uploaded the woman’s photograph on Facebook on Sunday as no one had come forward to claim the body.



The body of a woman, found four days ago and now lies in a mortuary in the Medical College in Meerut, has been identified by her estranged husband who saw her photograph on Facebook.

The police had uploaded the woman’s photograph on Facebook on Sunday as no one had come forward to claim the body four days after they found her lying unconscious on a street in Meerut. They had taken her to a hospital, where she was declared dead by doctors who said she was shot at point blank range.

The woman has now been identified as Neha Verma, from Vijay Nagar in Ghaziabad, where she lived with her mother. She is survived by a five-year-old daughter and a two-year-old son who live with her estranged husband, Vipin Verma, a jeweller. The two were married in 2008, but in 2012 had approached a family court in Ghaziabad for a divorce, which is still pending.

SSP Onkar Singh told The Indian Express: “She was using three SIM cards and when the police checked details, it was revealed that she was in touch with many people”. He said the police will now question these people.



Thanks To:

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/crime/meerut-man-identifies-body-of-estranged-wife/

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सोशल नेटवर्किंग साइट से खुला नेहा के कत्‍ल का राज



महज कुछ दिन पहले जिस लाश की पहचान मेरठ पुलिस के लिए एक पहेली बनी थी, उस लाश की पहचान क्या हुई, देखते ही देखते पुलिस ने कत्ल की पूरी साजिश बेनकाब कर दी. इस कड़ी में सबसे मददगार साबित हुई, फेसबुक पर लाश की तस्वीर का वो मार्मिक पोस्ट जो चंद घंटों में वायरल हो चुका था.

दरअसल, मेरठ के जिमखाना क्लब के नजदीक 17 अप्रैल की रात एक लड़की की लाश मिली थी. उसे फौरन अस्पताल ले जाया गया, लेकिन तब तक देर हो चुकी थी. चूंकि लाश के आस-पास दूसरा कोई सुराग नहीं था, ऐसे में पुलिस ने कातिलों तक पहुंचने के लिए सबसे पहले लड़की की पहचान पता करने का फैसला किया. अखबारों में इश्तेहार दिए गए. इसी बीच कुछ लोगों ने लड़की की लाश की तस्वीर के साथ फेसबुक पर एक पोस्ट अपलोड कर दिया और उसकी शिनाख्त की अपील की.

अपनी बेटी की तलाश में जुटे इस लड़की के घरवालों को भी फेसबुक से ही इस मनहूस खबर का पता चला. वो फौरन गाजियाबाद से मेरठ पहुंचे, जहां अपनी सहेली से मिलने जाने की बात कह कर दो दिन पहले घर से निकली उनकी बेटी क़ातिलों का शिकार हो गई. ये लड़की थी गाजियाबाद की नेहा वर्मा. नेहा शादीशुदा थी और उसके दो बच्चे भी थे, लेकिन अपने पति से अनबन की चलते वो अपनी मां के साथ अकेली रहती थी.



इस पोस्ट के जरिए पुलिस नेहा के घरवालों तक क्या पहुंची, नेहा का पूरा ट्रैक रिकॉर्ड सामने आ गया. छानबीन के दौरान ये पता चला कि नेहा की शादी दो साल पहले विपिन वर्मा नाम के एक शख्स से हुई थी, लेकिन नेहा के मेरठ के रहनेवाले वसीम इलाही नाम के एक नौजवान से भी नजदीकी रिश्ते थे. ये बात नेहा के पति को नागवार गुजरी. विपिन ने नेहा से तलाक की अर्ज़ी दी और दोनों बच्चों के साथ उससे अलग रहने लगा. इधर, नेहा और वसीम का मिलना-जुलना और भी ज्‍यादा हो गया.



आशिक ने सीने में मारी गोली

एक दिन नेहा अपने घर में किसी सहेली से मिलने जाने की बात कही और वसीम से मिलने मेरठ पहुंच गई. लेकिन यहां पहले से नेहा को ठिकाने लगाने की साजिश रच चुके वसीम ने उसे अपनी स्कूटी पर बिठाया और रात को जैसे ही शहर की बिजली गुल हुई, अंधेरे का फायदा उठा कर उसे स्कूटी से गिरा दिया और नजदीक से सीने में गोली मार कर फरार हो गया. इस काम में उसके दो दोस्तों आसिफ और शोएब ने भी उसकी मदद की. उधर, पुलिस के छानबीन शुरू करते ही वसीम और शोएब तो फरार हो गए, लेकिन आसिफ पकड़ा गया.



किसी और से इश्‍क करने लगी थी नेहा

आसिफ ने पूछताछ में उसने जो कहानी बताई वो बेहद अजीब थी. पुलिस को पता चला कि अपने पति से अलग हो कर वसीम के इश्क कर रही नेहा इन दिनों किसी और लड़के के भी करीब आ चुकी थी, जबकि वसीम उससे शादी करना चाहता था. ऐसे में नेहा का ये रवैया वसीम को इतना अखर गया कि उसने नेहा के कत्ल की साज़िश रच डाली.



Thanks to:

http://aajtak.intoday.in/story/facebook-helped-to-crack-neha-verma-murder-case-of-ghaziabad--1-762113.html

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Crime Patrol: After 13 years, court finds investigating officer was killer in case he probed (Episode 408, 409 on 22, 23 August 2014)

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RAMPUR: A court in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, acquitted the main accused in a murder case and charged the investigating officer instead for a crime that was as tragic as it was diabolical. Zahida Tabassum's photographer husband, Shamshad Mirza, was murdered in 2001, and it took 13 years for her to prove that she wasn't the killer as charged by the IO, sub-inspector PD Ratnakar. The case culminated dramatically earlier this week with the court pressing charges against the investigating officer himself of Mirza's murder, destruction of evidence, and misusing his office to implicate Mirza's widow, Zahida.



The court did so on the basis of evidence so far and witnesses' testimony, particularly Mirza's daughter, Sayeeda Fatima, who told the court she had seen IO Ratnakar among a group of masked men who barged into their Civil Lines home on the night of December 12, 2001, when they killed her father.



Mirza's 20-year-old son, Kamaal Ahmed, who died in January 2002 allegedly due to injuries during interrogation by sub-inspector Ratnakar, had said in his police complaint that four people with their faces covered had entered the house past midnight with guns and an axe. Kamaal wrote in the complaint that the intruders threatened the family against making any noise, had an altercation with his father, and then hacked Mirza to death with the chopper.

But Ratnakar arrested Zahida and Kamaal claiming Mirza was killed by them over a family dispute. But Mirza's daughter, Sayeeda Fatima's testimony proved crucial. She told the court Ratnakar had brought some lurid negatives to be developed into photographs to her father, who refused and but burnt the negatives. An angry Ratnakar and his cohorts then killed Mirza. She told the court she recognized Ratnakar after the wrap around his face fell; she also saw the IO's accomplice, Vishambar Das.



"All witnesses turned hostile and claimed the IO forced them to sign on blank pages," defence counsel (in State vs Zahida Tabassum) Devendra Kumar told TOI on Saturday. "The court found discrepancies. The IO could not give any satisfactory answer on why pages from the case diary were missing. Besides, there was no concrete reason given by the IO for the mother and son to kill Mirza. IO Ratnakar also claimed in his case diary that the two had poisoned Mirza before attacking him, but there was no medical report to substantiate this. Charges were framed against Ratnakar and Das. Few other senior police officers posted in Rampur can also be charged in this case," the defence counsel added.



Ratnakar later admitted to his chilling criminal history in court. "Many criminal cases have been filed against him. He was convicted in 2010 to seven years' imprisonment for a custodial death in Shahabad, and is now in Bijnor jail," said Vinod Sharma, Zahida's lawyer. "When people in custody asked for water, he would compel them to drink his urine," said Nazar Abbas Khan, an advocate, about Ratnakar.



Zahida, now over 60, lives in Delhi. Her former neighbour in Rampur, Umesh Dubey, also a witness, said, "She has found peace after 13 years. But she says her fight is incomplete and she will have Ratnakar proven guilty of the murder of her son."



Thanks To:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/After-13-years-court-finds-investigating-officer-was-killer-in-case-he-probed/articleshow/37871771.cms

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Crime Patrol: Honour killing: Man, sons shoot 19-yr-old daughter

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A 19-year-old girl of Thakur community was shot by her father and two brothers when they found a Dalit youth in her room at their house in Etmadpur police station area of Agra Monday night. The accused allegedly pumped five bullets in the girl's body.



The victim's father, Ashok Sikarwar, initially tried to frame the youth for the murder.

However, after preliminary investigation found his involvement in the murder, Sikarwar was arrested and produced before court Tuesday. Two of Sikarwar's sons, Sachin and Vipin, were also found to be involved and are absconding, said Etmadpur police station station officer (SO) Amit Kumar.



The SO said Sher Singh (25) of Chaugan village, who was allegedly having an affair with Ruchi (19) of the same village, reportedly entered the girl's house and went to her room Monday night. Ruchi's father woke up, called his sons and went inside the girl's room. As the girl ran outside, the father and sons are said to have fired at the girl with a licensed revolver and country-made weapons, killing her on the spot.



Sher Singh, however, bolted the door from inside. When he did not open the door, the girl's family locked the door from outside and raised an alarm. Locals rushed to the house and were told that dacoits had shot the girl and one of them was locked inside the room.



"A police team reached and took Sher Singh in custody," said the SO. During questioning, Sher Singh revealed that the girl's father and her two brothers had killed her. The girl's father was brought to the police station where he confessed to his crime.



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http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/honour-killing-man-sons-shoot-19yrold-daughter/1194800

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Crime Patrol: Father mercilessly killed for opposing eve-teasing of his daughter (Episode 400 on 1st Aug 2014)

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Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh: In a tragic incident in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad district a father of a teenage girl was mercilessly beaten to death after he opposed the eve-teasing of his daughter.

A distraught girl asked the administration to book the culprits.

The accused in question is a neighbour of the victim and was harassing the young girl since a very longtime. The accused had even threatened to kidnap the victim.



“He teased me a lot and threatened to kidnap me. I told this to my father, and when he went to oppose it along with my uncles, he along with his brothers beat them all up,” the girl said.

The father was brutally beaten with rods, daggers and knives in their hands.



A case has been filed against one of the accused and he has been arrested.



“After she complained to my brother about the whole incident, he went and spoke to the boy’s father. But the father said he did not care, and after that, the boy along with his brothers attacked my brothers with rods and bats. They were severely injured and admitted in the hospital. My elder brother has passed away and the other has a head injury,” he said.



They were hospitalized immediately, but because of their condition, the doctor asked us to shift him to a hospital in Meerut immediately,” he added.



“A case has been filed against them and one of accused Imtiaaz has already been arrested,” said Inspector S.K Tomar.



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http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/UP-father-mercilessly-killed-for-opposing-eve-teasing-of-his-daughter-4456741-NOR.html

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