Crime Patrol: Mother, paramour killed 4-year-old for money (Episode 550, 551 on 29th, 30th Aug, 2015)

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The Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP) City 1, Ludhiana Nilambari Jagdale addressing a press conference at Ludhiana on Monday.



Ludhiana, November 25, 2013: Police have solved the murder mystery of 4-year-old girl Manpreet Kaur whose body was recovered from Alamgir village.



According to police, a woman and her paramour were allegedly involved behind the murder. The accused had to take this extreme step after their plan to extort Rs. 5 lakh went wrong.



Manpreet was recently kidnapped by her neighbour, Manoj Kumar, a labourer.



Addressing a press conference here on Monday, the Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP) City 1, Ludhiana Nilambari Jagdale said Manoj had been arrested.



She told that during preliminary investigations, Manoj revealed that he in connivance with the deceased’s mother Sunita had murdered the girl child.



Jagdale said Sunita was Manoj’s paramour. She added Sunita had also been arrested.



The accused had confessed to their crime, the police officer claimed.



Manoj hails from Kishanganj in Bihar.

Police officer said Manoj had been residing as a tenant at the Sunita’s house in Amarpura area here. With the passage of time, both of them got indulged into illicit relationship. When Sunita’s husband learned about this relationship he turned out Manoj from his house. Later on, the Sunita’s husband disposed off his house for Rs. 15 lakh and purchased another house in Janakpuri area for Rs. 10 lakh. At a later stage, Sunita told her husband that she wanted to leave him, the police officer said. Sunita also told her husband that she wanted to live with Manoj. However, Sunita’s husband did not agree.



Then, the police officer said, both Sunita and Manoj made a conspiracy to extort money from the deceased’s father following which Manoj kidnapped Manpreet on November 23 this year. Manoj gave a call to the Sunita’s husband and informed him that Manpreet was with him. On receiving the call, the Sunita’s husband informed the police and got registered a case of kidnapping against Manoj. When the accused learnt that the police had already started investigations into the kidnapping case, they decided to eliminate Manpreet. Finally, Manoj took Manpreet to Alamgir and drowned her in a pond followed by dumping the body on a vacant plot. The body of the girl child was recovered on Sunday.



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The murder case of four-year-old Manpreet Kaur took a shocking turn on Monday when the investigations revealed that accused Manoj Kumar kidnapped and murdered the girl with the help of Sunita, mother of the child.



Both the accused have confessed to the crime.



The police officers were shocked when Manoj, the main accused, confessed that he committed the crime in connivance with the victim's mother.



She admitted that she abducted and killed her own daughter to extort Rs 5 lakh from her husband Gurpreet Singh. Both were arrested by the police.



Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP) city-1 Nilambari Jagdale said Manoj, a resident of Kishan Gunj of Bihar, had illicit relations with Sunita when he lived as a tenant in their Amarpura area.



Gurpreet Singh, husband of Sunita, threw Manoj out of the house and also shifted from Amarpura to Jagatpuri.



Police said that Sunita had already told about her affair to Gurpreet and demanded Rs 5 lakh for leaving him but he refused to give money.



"On November 23, Manoj Kumar took the child and made a ransom call to Gurpreet Singh who in turn called the police," said the ADCP.



The accused drowned the child in a tubewell and dumped the body in a vacant plot which was found on late Sunday evening by the police.



Gurpreet married Sunita five years ago and Manpreet was born. Earlier, Sunita had three marriages and she divorced all three husbands.



"Sunita was aware that Gurpreet loves his daughter a lot and thus will give money. But he informed the police and they killed the girl," said the ADCP.



Thanks To:

http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/mother-paramour-killed--4yearold-for-money/1199493/

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In a shocking case, a woman and her paramour allegedly murdered her four-year-old daughter after their plan to extort Rs 5 lakh from her husband went awry.





Police cracked the case after a girl's body was recovered in Alamgir village. On investigation, they discovered the body was that of Manpreet Kaur, who had recently been kidnapped by her neighbour, Manoj Kumar, a labourer.



Police said on being arrested, Manoj revealed that he in connivance with his paramour Sunita, who is Manpreet's mother, killed the girl. Acting on Kumar's information, police arrested Sunita, who also confessed to her crime, the police claimed.



Giving details, additional deputy commissioner of police (ADCP) City 1 Nilambari Jagdale said Manoj, hailing from Kishan Gunj of Bihar, had illicit relations with Sunita during his stay as a tenant at her house in Amarpura area.



When her husband, Gurpreet Singh, a chemicals' trader, came to know about their illicit relations, he evicted Manoj from their house. Gurpreet later sold the house for Rs 15 lakh, and bought another one in Janakpuri area for `10 lakh.



The ADCP said Sunita cleared her intentions before Gurpreet that she wanted to leave him and spend her life with Manoj, and demanded Rs 5 lakh from him. However, Gurpreet refused her demand.



“In a fit of pique, Sunita and Manoj hatched a conspiracy to kidnap her daughter Manpreet to extort money from Gurpreet. On November 23, Manoj kidnapped Manpreet from her house, and made a call to Gurpreet informing him that his daughter was him. Thereafter, Gurpreet approached the police and registered a case of kidnapping against Manoj,” the ADCP added.



“Meanwhile, the accused got alerted that police had initiated investigation into the kidnapping case, and decided to kill Manpreet. Manoj then took Manpreet to Alamgir and drowned her in a pond. He then dumped the body on a vacant plot, before fleeing,” she added.



The police recovered the body on Sunday after information from residents of Alamgir village, and later arrested Manoj, and Sunita, following his statement.



The ADCP said Sunita married Gurpreet around five years ago and they had one daughter Manpreet from the marriage. It was Sunita's fourth marriage after she divorced her previous husbands. She has a 14-year-old daughter and eight-year-old son from previous marriages.



Jagdale added that Sunita was aware of Gurpreet's affection for his daughter and therefore figured kidnapping Manpreet would be the easiest way to extort money from him.



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http://www.hindustantimes.com/ludhiana/woman-paramour-held-for-abducting-murdering-four-year-old-daughter/article1-1155579.aspx

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Crime Patrol: Two bodies fished out from Lovers point in Vasai (Episode 549, 550 on 28th, 29th Aug, 2015)

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Two bodies fished out from Lovers point in Vasai



Autopsies reveal the 22-year-old was strangled to death, while the female victim was choked and slashed across her throat



The bodies of two 20-somethings were fished out from a nullah near the Vasai-Nallasopara Road early last morning. The police suspect that the two were murdered following which their bodies were dumped in the nullah.



The two were later identified as 22-year-old Joseph Prakash Salve, a resident of Nallasopara (East) and Priyanka Mohite (21), a Kandivli resident.



According to the Manikpur police, they received a call on early Tuesday morning from a local who saw the two bodies floating in the nullah located near a small bridge, about half a kilometre from Vasai’s Sun City.



“Their post-mortems were conducted at Navghar Hospital and their autopsies reveal that Salve was strangled to death while in addition to being strangled, a deep cut was also found on Mohite’s neck,” said K S Hegaje, inspector, Manikpur police station.



The authorities suspect the two of them knew each other, adding that the two of them were last seen on Monday afternoon together by a few locals. Cops also added that the spot from where their bodies were recovered was infamously known as Lovers Point and was a favourite among young couples owing to its deserted location.



Explaining how they determined the identities of their victims, Hegaje told MiD DAY that a document on Salve’s body helped them ascertain his identity. They then scanned his Facebook account and found Priyanka’s name on his friend’s list and her picture matched with that of the body. However, they were still tracing the girl’s family for an exact identification.



“As of now we have registered a case under Section 302 (murder) under the Indian Penal Code against unidentified accused. Once, we speak to both the families, we will also be able to ascertain if robbery was the motive behind the murder,” said Hegaje.



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http://archive.mid-day.com/news/2013/aug/140813-two-bodies-fished-out-from-lovers-point-in-vasai.htm

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In a new twist to the case of the bodies that were fished out from a nullah near the Vasai-Nallasopara Road, the Manikpur police arrested the owner of a beach lodge and his employee for disposing the bodies.



In the net: Cops believe since the accused Ramesh Nijai had rented out the room without any documentation, he thought that if he informed the police, he might get arrested

On August 14, MiD DAY reported how a call from a local had led the cops to the bodies of 22-year-old Joseph Prakash Salve and 21-year-old Priyanka Mohite (‘Two bodies fished out from Lovers point in Vasai’).



Their autopsies revealed that Salve was strangled to death while in addition to being strangled, a deep cut was also found on Mohite’s neck.



Breakthrough

During their course of investigations, the cops first went through the phone records of the deceased.



“Through the records, we zeroed in on a few common friends, who told us that Salve and Mohite were in a relationship. But, they were having trouble as Salve had heard that Mohite was having an affair with another boy named Tyson,” said API Anand Bhoir from Manikpur’s detection team.

Bhoir added that when they found the bodies, they knew it was not possible that the boy had killed the girl and then strangled himself at the spot.



“It was obvious that their bodies had been dumped there,” said Bhoir.

Friends also told authorities that the two would often meet each other at lodges near Kalamb Beach in Vasai village. Officials started making rounds of the various lodges around the beach.

Finally, on Monday the cops came to know that the two had booked a room on August 12 at Maldiv farmhouse resort for two hours.



“When we visited the lodge and searched the rooms, we found blood stains in one of the rooms,” said Bhoir. On further questioning, the owner of the lodge Ramesh Nijai (52) confessed to the police that he had dumped the bodies of the couple at the Sun City road with the help of his employee Suraj Bahadur (20).



Nijai said that on August 12 when he found that the couple had not vacated the room till 8 pm he went to the room to ask them to vacate. However, his knocks on the door went unanswered. It was then that he peeped through the window and found the couple dead.



“Since Nijai had rented out the room without any documentation, he thought that if he informed the police, he might get arrested. To evade arrest, he and Bahadur lifted the bodies and put them in the back seat of his car and drove to Sun City Road, which is about half-an-hour away, and threw them in the drain there,” said Sangramsingh Nishandar, additional deputy superintendent of police (Vasai).

The police have arrested the two on the charge of disposing off the bodies.



“We are now finding out the route the two had taken that night to evade nakabandis and whether they were involved in killing the couple,” said an officer from the Manikpur police station.

The police, however, suspect that Salve might have carried out the crime, as he did not like Mohite meeting Tyson.



“It is possible that the two fought and in a fit of rage, he slashed her neck and then hanged himself,” added Nishandar.



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http://www.mid-day.com/articles/vasai-couple-death-lodge-owner-employee-held-for-dumping-bodies-in-nullah/228026

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Crime Patrol: Mumbai: Mom, stepdad abandon girl in local train, file missing complaint (Episode 547, 548 on 22nd, 23rd Aug, 2015)

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The couple told the police on July 3 that they suspected their daughter had been kidnapped; when the cops found the 10-year-old yesterday, the girl told them that she had been harassed and verbally abused by her mom and stepfather ever since her father committed suicide two years ago and that they wanted her gone.



“I was harassed and hated by my parents, especially my stepfather, who used to scold me all the time. They wanted me gone. I don’t want to stay with my mother anymore. I’m scared of my parents,” 10-year-old Priyanka Gupta told the Kamothe police after they finally found her yesterday.



Desperate to get rid of her, Priyanka’s heartless mother, Punam, and stepfather, Mustafa, had allegedly abandoned her in a local train in the wee hours of July 3 and then sent the police on a wild goose chase by registering a missing complaint the same day. They told the police that they suspected she had been kidnapped.



The 10-year-old had, fortunately, made her way to her relatives in Chembur, who have been taking care of her since last week. Investigations led the police to the girl yesterday and Punam, Mustafa and a family friend they were staying with have now been arrested.

‘Life changed’

Priyanka told the police that her life changed two years ago, when her father, Vijay Gupta, committed suicide. She said she has been at the receiving end of verbal abuse from her stepfather, Mustafa, since then.



“My mother and stepfather had a daughter, Soni. They never abused her and only I was looked down upon and hated,” Priyanka told the police in her statement. She said that Punam and Mustafa abandoned her in a local train on July 3.

Police case

Around 10.30 am the same day, Punam and Mustafa approached the Kamothe police and filed a missing complaint. Mustafa posed as Vijay Gupta and the couple told the police that their daughter, Priyanka, had gone missing around 4.30 am and they suspected she had been kidnapped.

The police began a probe and started getting suspicious when they realised that Vijay Gupta had committed suicide two years ago. DCP (Crime, Zone II) Suresh Mengade said, “We formed seven teams and one of them was dispatched to Gupta’s native place in Uttar Pradesh.

On asking the neighbours, we found that Gupta had relatives living in three places in Mumbai, We checked all three places and found the girl at a relative’s home in MHADA colony in Chembur today (Wednesday).”

Brave heart

Priyanka told the police that she had got off the local train at Diva station as she knew the address of a relative there. The relative had taken her to the house of her other relatives in Chembur, where she was found by the police around 7.30 am yesterday.



“The stepfather wanted to get rid of Priyanka and, thus, the couple did all this,” said a police officer. The police have arrested Punam Gupta, Mustafa and their friend Dinesh Bhaskar, with whom the family was staying in Kamothe. They were booked under Sections 317 (Exposure and abandonment of child under twelve years, by parent or person having care of it), 177 (Furnishing false information) and 34 (Common intention) of the Indian Penal Code and are now in judicial custody. Priyanka will now stay with her relatives in Chembur. “We will present the girl in court tomorrow. Her relatives staying in Chembur have agreed to look after her. They have even enrolled her in a local municipal school,” said PSI V Salunke from Kamothe police station.



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http://www.mid-day.com/articles/mumbai-mom-stepdad-abandon-girl-in-local-train-file-missing-complaint/16355167

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Crime Patrol: Mumbai: 16-year-old boy accuses friend's mother of rape (Episode 546, 547 on 21st, 22nd Aug 2015)

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The matter came to light when the victim's parents saw changes in his behaviour and inquired with him as to causes. "My child is in Standard 10 and has been a good student, but of late I saw a lot of changes in him. He looked scared and his health was deteriorating," said the boy's father, a tailor by profession.



Claiming that his best friend's mother forced herself on him, made an obscene video featuring him and blackmailed him into having a physical relationship with her for the past three months, a 16-year-old boy last week filed a written complaint with the RCF police station. The shocked RCF police have opened a preliminary enquiry into the matter.



The boy, in his complaint, says that around three months ago, he had gone to meet his best friend at his residence in Chembur. There, his friend's mother said his friend was not at home, and asked him to come inside and wait.



The boy alleged that the woman offered him a soft drink spiked with some chemical which made him lose consciousness. That was when his friend's mother allegedly stripped him, forced herself upon him, and recorded a video of the act. The complaint says that the woman used the video to blackmail him, calling him to her house regularly and forcing him into sexual acts with her.



The matter came to light when the victim's parents saw changes in his behaviour and inquired with him as to causes. "My child is in Standard 10 and has been a good student, but of late I saw a lot of changes in him. He looked scared and his health was deteriorating," said the boy's father, a tailor by profession.



The father added "Initially, he did not respond to my enquiries, but later he told us the whole thing. He said that the woman would also take him on outings. Moreover, she claimed that she was pregnant and that she would accuse him of rape if he ever told anybody what had happened."



Speaking about the police complaint, the father continued, "The senior police officials were very helpful, they instilled faith in my child and told him to record his statement so that they could take action against the woman," said the victim's father.



Confirming the incident, senior police inspector Dilip Raut with the RCF police station told dna, "We have received a written complaint and are conducting a preliminary inquiry because the matter is very sensitive." He added, "We have not yet registered an FIR. It will be registered once the enquiry is completed."



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http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-raped-by-friend-s-mother-over-3-months-teenager-tells-cops-2073569

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38-year-old Chembur resident Rahat Zakira Khan, booked for sexually assaulting minor, claims she tied the knot with him in a Vashi temple.



Rahat Zakira Khan, the 38-year-old woman from Chembur, who was arrested for allegedly 'raping' a boy her son's age, claims that he is her 'husband' and that they were 'married' in a Vashi temple.



The 16-year-old boy, who is a friend of Rahat's son, has been a frequent visitor to her house over the past three months. When word of the 'relationship' spread and she was confronted by women in her building, she said she and the boy had married in a temple, and that they would marry legally in court once he came of age.



On one occasion, she was even taken to the police station, but the boy made no complaint, and she got away with a warning.



The alleged sexual harassment continued for three months before the boy filed a complaint with the RCF police this week. Rahat was arrested and booked under relevant sections of the IPC and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.



According to the police, sexual harassment of the boy began late last year in a Chembur colony where Rahat and the victim live two blocks apart. The boy told police that when he first visited her home to meet his friend, only Rahat was present, and she asked him to wait till her son returned.



"She sat next to him, pinched his cheeks and touched his shoulder," said boy's father, a tailor. "He was uncomfortable with this behaviour and rushed out. He told me about it, and I warned him not to go there again. Few days later, Rahat met him on the street and invited him home. Unaware of her intentions, my son went there."



Rahat allegedly spiked the boy's soft drink, forced herself on him, and allegedly made a video recording which she used to blackmail the boy.



"He wasn't unconscious, and knew what she had done," said Mohammed Bakai, a local resident who first coaxed the boy to reveal the harassment. "He was sacred as she threatened to file a rape case. She also said she would complain to his father and tell him about the video. She used to give money to her son and send him out, so that she'd be alone with the boy."



Bakai further said, "When word spread, some women approached Rahat and found the boy at her house. When they questioned her about his presence, she replied that he was her husband. The disgusted women got into an altercation with her and even took her to the police station. The boy was called to give a statement, but he didn't complain and Rahat was released."



Rahat's neighbours don't know much about her. "She interacted with us on and off, but didn't reveal much about herself," said one woman. "We've seen the boy coming to her house. He's grown up and aware about such a relationship. The woman shouldn't be the only one to be blamed."



The boy's father told Mirror that he learnt of the sexual relationship about a month ago. "I got a call from his tuition teacher, saying he wasn't attending. I realised he was losing sight of studies, was becoming depressed and losing weight. While he refused to tell me anything, my wife said that was spending a lot of time at Rahat's house. I told him we'd file a police complaint but he was scared. We also found a note he'd written, mentioning that if anything happened to him, Rahat would be responsible."



The breakthrough came on Monday when the boy plucked up courage and approached Bakai, saying he wanted to file a complaint. "We then approached the police," said Bakai.



The police are now collecting evidence to make a watertight case against Rahat. "We've got hold of pictures of them in a restaurant, and witnesses who saw them together. We've also found two people who were witness to their 'marriage' in a Vashi temple and pictures of the ceremony. She took him to a friend's home in Colaba and had physical relations there too," said API Hanumant Kamble, the investigating officer.



"We haven't found the video yet, but have sent her mobile phone for forensic tests," added Senior Inspector Dilip Raut of the RCF police.



RELATIONSHIP OVER: THE WOMAN'S FATHER DISOWNS DAUGHTER



Rahat Khan, who is unemployed at the moment, once worked as a bar dancer and lived in Nagpada. She has a 65-year-old father and a step-mother who have disowned her. "I don't care if she's alive or dead. Our relationship is over," her father told Mirror. A Girgaon resident, he's unaware of the case against his daughter.



He said that Rahat's mother died six years ago, after which he remarried. "In 1996, when she was around 20, she left home after a fight and we later heard she had married," he said. "I went to Saudi Arabia for a while and when I returned in 2001, she had a kid. We kept her at home for the kid's sake," he said.



The relationship, however, soured four years ago when Khan made allegations of assault and later rape, against her father. The cases, he said, were only to get him to part with one of his rooms, and she dropped the cases when he agreed.



There is some confusion over Rahat's marital status. While her father said she married, the man he calls her ex-husband, a 44-year-old businessman, said they did not.



"We were physically intimate, but never married," he said, not wishing to be identified. When asked if he's the father of Rahat's son, he said, "I don't know. Maybe, maybe not," adding that he has no relationship with the boy.



He said he's known Rahat for 15 years, but has had no physical relationship with her for 10 years, though they've been in touch. He said he often met her and give her money. "Between 2008 and 2010, I gave her Rs 8.4 lakh," he said.



However, in the past one year, she filed cases of assault and rape against him. "One day I went to her house to give her money. We had a fight and she complained to the cops. What started off as an assault charge was changed to a rape case," he said. The case is still being investigated. He added that Rahat has also filed other cases against him at a Kurla police station. "In fact, she told a friend that she'd withdraw the cases if I gave her money," he said.



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Crime Patrol: India jail-born man bails mother after 19 years (Episode 543 on 14th Aug 2015)

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Vijai Kumari got bail in 1994. But it took two decades for her to leave Lucknow women's jail, as son Kanhaiya, born in prison, raised money for a lawyer and a bond



Vijai Kumari named her son Kanhaiya, after Lord Krishna. It was on the suggestion of a doctor—like in the mythology about the Hindu god, he was born in jail. For the next two decades, as Kumari stayed behind bars despite being granted bail, what kept her going was her belief in her Kanhaiya. On May 4, the 19-year-old returned to take her mother home.



While the Allahabad High Court gave her bail in 1994, Kumari couldn't be released because she couldn't furnish two surety bonds. "The years passed without anyone coming to help me. But I had faith that my Kanhaiya will get me released just as Lord Krishna got his jailed parents freed," says the 50-year-old, now staying in a temporary accommodation at a rehabilitation centre in Kanpur, where her son lives.



Kumari was convicted of murder and was serving the first year of her life imprisonment when Kanhaiya was born. He spent his first four years in Lucknow's Adarsh Nari Bandi Niketan (women's prison) with her, before being moved to a government children's home in Lucknow.



Inside the jail, Kumari was soon forsaken by her family. "No one from my family, including my two sisters and two brothers, ever came to see me. My husband Kanti Prasad come to meet me once, seven years ago, only to inform me that he had re-married. He did not even answer letters I sent seeking his help to get my son and me released," she says.



Prasad also told her that her daughter, who was two-and-a-half years old when she was jailed, had got married, and that their elder son, who was about five years old then, had died of a dog bite.



Kumari recalls how she lived with her husband and children in Mehrauni village of Aligarh district. Then, on October 17, 1989, a child living in their neighbourhood was found dead in a garbage heap, and the family blamed Kumari.



A case of murder was lodged against her at the Iglas police station and she was arrested. On October 22, 1993, the Aligarh Additional District and Sessions Judge sentenced her to life imprisonment. Kumari was five months' pregnant at the time.



Prasad appealed in the Allahabad High Court against Kumari's conviction and sought bail for her, which was granted on January 10, 1994, on the condition that the appellant furnish a personal bond and two sureties each in the like amount "to the satisfaction of" the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aligarh.



Advocate Y D Sharma who had appeared for Kumari in 1994 says a copy of the bail order was given to Prasad, who carried it to CJM, Aligarh. However, Prasad was unable to furnish the two surety bonds, Sharma says. Later, he remarried and did not pursue the case.



Kanhaiya remained Kumari's only solace. After he was shifted to the children's home, says Kumari, she had trouble sleeping. "He would sleep with me in prison. I could not sleep for some days, but I consoled myself thinking that he was growing up somewhere. He would visit me every week or fortnight."



Kanhaiya studied till Class VIII at a government school while at the home. Around a year ago, he was sent to the Uttar Raksha Evam Punarvasan Kendra, a Kanpur-based rehabilitation centre that lodges teenagers coming from children homes after they turn 18.



The rehabilitation centre's vice-chairman, B B L Srivastava, says Kanhaiya came to them in July 2012. "He has a room here. We trained him in manufacturing of garments and he worked here for three months. After that, we sent him to another garment manufacturing factory in the city."



Even after moving to Kanpur, Kanhaiya made sure he met his mother at least once a fortnight.



About four months ago, one of Kumari's fellow inmates got bail. Kumari got from her the contact number of her Allahabad-based lawyer, Arvind Kumar Singh, and gave it to Kanhaiya.



Kanhaiya contacted Singh and went to Allahabad to meet him. It was his first time alone outside the children's home or centre. "I did not know how to travel in a train, how to find addresses. I got lost in Allahabad. After asking several people, I finally traced the lawyer," Kanhaiya recalls.



Singh took up the case and was shocked to realise that Kumari had already been granted bail in 1994. "Looking at the suffering caused to the woman and her child in 19 years, I decided to approach the Allahabad High Court. The court asked me to present the boy before them. I went with Kanhaiya to the court on the next date and the court directed the jail authorities that Kumari be released after submitting a personal bond of just Rs 5,000," he says.



The bench of judges Vinod Prasad and Anjani Kumar Mishra further observed, "We enquired from Kanhaiya why he had not made any endeavour to get his mother released; but...he had no answer except to shed his tears. We can understand."



Terming the matter "a very worrying case", the bench said "it cannot but express dismay on the inaction of the state government as well as the concerned district judges".



On May 11, Kumari went to Pahasu police station, under which her husband's village Farkana falls, to inform the station officer about her release and to seek a share in her husband's property. She did not go to Prasad's house 2 km away. "I showed Kanhaiya the road which goes to our village but we did not go there. What is the use of begging for help when nobody from there came to meet me even once in 19 years?" she says.



Prasad has now disowned Kanhaiya. He also claims not to have pursued Kumari's case as he was too poor to make ends meet. But Kumari is determined to fight for her and her son's share from Prasad's property. "Everyone should have a son like mine," she says. "He saved money from what he earned and paid the lawyer so that I could get released." With a share in the property, Kumari hopes she can settle down in Kanpur with her son. "I want to see him married so that I can have my family."



Rehabilitation centre chairman



H Rahman says they have got a bank account opened for Kanhaiya and he saves about half his salary. Kumari has been given a job at the office of the vice-chairman and a place to stay.



The woman who spent a lifetime behind bars may now help secure the release of others. Treating her petition as a PIL, the court appointed the additional advocate general as amicus curiae and sought the details of all such convicts lodged in state jails awaiting release after bail. "The court also said that Kumari be compensated adequately."



Retribution though is far from Kumari's mind right now. "On May 4, I left the jail in the morning without eating anything. It was after 19 years that I was out. I asked Kanhaiya where I would go. He told me to come with him to Kanpur," she says, her eyes welling up.



A day after they reached Kanpur, the mother and son went to the nearby market. From the money he has been long saving, Kanhaiya bought Kumari a sari for Rs 250.



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http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/a-son-gets-a-mother/1117735/0

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In a dusty tenement in a crowded neighbourhood in the Indian city of Kanpur, a young man takes out a bright yellow sari from a shopping bag and presents it to his mother.



"Do you like it?" he asks her. "Yes," is her reply.



It is an innocuous scene, except that the young man, Kanhaiya, has waited a long time to give his mother a gift.



Nineteen years ago, his mother Vijai Kumari was convicted of murder - wrongfully, she claimed.

She was granted bail on appeal but she did not have the 10,000 rupees ($180; £119) she needed to post bail. Her husband abandoned her and no-one else came forward to help her.



"I thought I'd die in prison," she says. "They told me in there that no-one ever gets out."



She was pregnant when she went to jail. Four months later, Kanhaiya was born.



"I sent him away when he got a bit older. It was hard but I was determined. Prison is no place for a young child," she says.



So she stayed in prison all these years, lost in the system and forgotten.

All she had to keep her going was a passport-size photograph of her son and his visits to her every three months.



'Think of her and cry'



Kanhaiya spent most of his childhood growing up at various juvenile homes. And he never forgot his mother.



"I would think of her and cry," he says, speaking softly and with a lisp.



"She was in prison, all alone. No-one else ever visited her. And my father turned his back on her."



Kanhaiya's mother Vijai Kumari only had a photo of her son in jail



Vijai Kumari only had a small photograph of her son Kanhaiya

As soon as he turned 18, he was trained to work in a garment factory. And he began saving up to get his mother out.



Eventually, he hired a lawyer.



"Someone told me about him. He was surprised to hear about my mother's case."



The lawyer took on his case and earlier this month, his mother was freed from prison.



Judges expressed their shock at her situation and the "callous and careless" behaviour of the authorities.



They have now ordered a sweep of all the prisons in Uttar Pradesh state to see if there are others like Vijai Kumari.



The reality is that hers is not an isolated case.



There are an estimated 300,000 inmates in India's prisons, 70% of whom are yet to face trial. And many of them have spent a long time in custody.



It is a reflection of India's shambolic and sluggish legal system where it can often take years for a case to be heard and a trial to be concluded.



But, for the moment, mother and son are reunited and anxious about their future.



"All I want is for my son to be settled," Vijai Kumari says, her voice breaking and her eyes moist.

"He's all I have in this world."



Kanhaiya and his mother plan to approach his estranged father and fight for their rights, including a share of the family property.



But for now, they are taking in the present and trying to make up for all the time they have lost.



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Crime Patrol: Man held for abducting, killing 8-year-old niece to avenge ‘insult’ (Episode 544, 545 on 15th, 16th Aug 2015)

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NAVI MUMBAI: An eight-year-old schoolgirl from Airoli, Franshela Vaz, who went missing on Monday, was kidnapped and throttled to death by her own uncle, Clarence Fonseca (40), and her body dumped in a nullah in the forest area along Ghodbunder Road, it has emerged.



The killing was Fonseca's "revenge" for his humiliation by the girl's mother (his wife's sister) during a bitter family quarrel at his Mira Road residence in May, deputy commissioner of police (crime) Suresh Mengade said. Fonseca was arrested early Friday.



Fonseca, a sailor by profession, even accompanied the girl's family to the Rabale police station the day after the kidnapping and murder, but what helped the police zero in on him was the eyewitness account of a 10-year-old boy from the girl's neighbourhood who told police that he had seen the girl talking to a man near her building and that she had accompanied the man in his "red" car. Fonseca's car, not red but a silver Hyundai i-20, was captured in the CCTV cameras at Airoli toll plaza, with Fonseca at the wheel and the girl seated next to him, some time after she had been reported missing. Following sustained questioning on Thursday night, he confessed to the police and led them to the spot where he had dumped the body.



The possibility of sexual assault has not been ruled out as the victim's school uniform was found to have been removed, the police said.



The family fight that Fonseca sought to avenge took place at his home in May. He has three children, and they and their cousin Franshela began a quarrel. Soon, the elders got into it, and it led to name-calling and abuse. "After the children quarrelled, Franshela's mother allegedly insulted Fonseca before the family members, telling him he better die in the sea as he worked as a sailor. Fonseca retaliated by saying she would soon see her death," DCP Mengade said.



At 6 pm on Monday, Fonseca met the schoolgirl near the building in which she lived, Ekvira Darshan in Sector 8, Airoli, soon after she had got off her school bus and asked her to accompany him in his car to his Mira Road home where her family had gone.



When she did not return home in time, her mother lodged a complaint with Rabale police, and the police formed 11 teams to crack the case.



As the girl's mother informed her sister that Franshela had gone missing, the latter called up her husband asking him to come home soon. Fonseca then told her he was getting late because could not find his bag on Ghodbunder Road. He came home at about 8.30 pm and then left home again for Ghodbunder Road with a friend (who did not know of the murder) to "find" the bag, and came back home again after he had "retrieved" it in front of the friend. This was meant to be an alibi for time spent on Ghodbunder Road earlier in the evening, police said.

Video of Press conference

Fonseca then accompanied his wife to the girl's home and, the next two days, went along with his sister-in-law and others to the local police station. However, the police claimed they suspected him right from the beginning.



Mengade said, "We suspected the close relatives as the girl had been spotted going willingly with a man in a car and interrogated them all. The prime suspect was Fonseca as his body language and behaviour was abnormal when he was grilled by the police."



"He was allowed to go, but the cops acted as his shadow and kept a vigil on his activities as we intended to rescue the kidnapped girl in case he had confined her in some place. Unfortunately, he had killed her within an hour of kidnapping her. On Thursday night, Fonseca was picked up from his Mira Road residence, and he confessed to have smothered his niece to death and led us to the forest where he had dumped her body," the DCP added.



A post-mortem report has confirmed the cause of death as "throttling."



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Crime Patrol: Elderly mother, bed-ridden son murdered in Rohini (Episode 540, 541 on 7th Aug, 8th Aug, 2015)

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NEW DELHI: Two months after a 40-year-old wheelchair-bound man and his mother were found murdered at their Rohini home, the crime branch on Wednesday claimed to have cracked the case.



The suspect, Sanjay Arora, alias Sanjay Kakkar (33)—who worked as a recovery agent for financial institutions—was arrested on Tuesday. He has confessed to murdering Jitender Mishra after the latter refused to repay the Rs 32,000-loan he had taken from him. His 62-year-old mother, who had allegedly witnessed the murder, was also eliminated.



Additional commissioner of police (crime) Ashok Chand said the case was cracked after extensive investigations. "The mother-son duo was found dead at their home in sector 5, Rohin on September 12. On Tuesday, Sanjay was apprehended from Japanese Park in Rohini by a team led by DCP Dinesh Gupta," Chand said.



"Two leads—an Imperial Blue whisky bottle and the CCTV footage of the area—proved to be crucial. The blood-stained wooden block used in the murder has been recovered as well," he added.



During interrogation, Sanjay revealed that he had come in contact with Mishra in 2007 through a common friend. They became friends as both had been fighting divorce cases with their respective wives.



Meanwhile, Jitender's wife Pratima had died in mysterious circumstances while the divorce case was being pursued.



In early 2014, Sanjay had given Rs 32,000 and a gold chain to the deceased as loan. Despite repeated requests, Mishra did not return the money. Meanwhile, Sanjay's financial condition worsened and he had borrowed money from other people who in turn pressured him to return their money, the police said.



On the day of the incident, Sanjay went to Mishra's house with a bottle of Imperial Blue whisky. During their drinking session, Sanjay demanded the money and gold from Mishra but this time too, the latter expressed his inability to pay him back.



This angered Sanjay, after which he went to the kitchen, picked up a knife and stabbed Mishra on his forehead. He then throttled him until he fell unconscious. Hearing the noise, his mother Usha rushed in and found Sanjay throttling her son. Before she could raise an alarm, Sanjay covered her mouth and dragged her to the other room and hit her with a wooden block.



In order to make sure that both of them are dead, Sanjay picked up a gas cylinder from the kitchen and bludgeoned both of them. He then ransacked the room to make it look like a robbery and fled, the police said.



His locations were verified with CCTV footage from the area and Sanjay was confronted during which he broke down and confessed.



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An elderly woman and her bed-ridden 40-year-old son were found battered to death at their residence in Rohini here on Friday. Although the house was found ransacked, the police ruled out robbery as the motive and said personal enmity could be the reason behind the murders.



The victims – Usha Mishra (62) and Jitendra – had an acrimonious relation with the family members of the latter’s now deceased wife Pratibha. The police said they would question Jitendra’s in-laws if need be but did not name them as suspects. It is pertinent to mention here that two years ago the two sides had a scuffle and a case was registered into the matter.



Ms. Mishra was last seen alive around 9 p.m. on Thursday purportedly by her neighbour Manorama Upadhyay, who was also the first one to spot the bodies and raise an alarm.



“Ms. Mishra was an early riser but I did not see her cleaning the front of the house at her usual time of 6 a.m. Around 8 a.m., I pressed the door bell but there was no reply. I repeated this another couple of hours later but no one answered this time either. I could hear the sound from the television set. Worried, I pushed the door and found it was not bolted from the inside. What I saw next shook me,” said Ms. Upadhyay.



According to her, she saw Ms. Mishra – with injuries on her face, forehead and skull – lying on the bed and her son on the floor of the next room in a similar state.



Only the mother-son duo had been living in the house since Jitendra’s wife passed away. The couple was childless while Ms. Mishra’s four daughters are married and live in different parts of the Capital.



For the past few years, Jitendra had been suffering from a form of arthritis that completely restricted his movement. This had taken a toll on both his health and finances as he could not run the book shop he inherited from his father.



A police officer told The Hindu that prima facie it appeared the assailants had a friendly entry into the house and that Jitendra’s health and his mother’s age could mean that there was little resistance to the attack. The incident, the police suspect, could have taken place on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday. “It seems that they were brutally attacked with a blunt object,” he said.



The police also summoned the CCTV footage from cameras installed outside neighbouring houses but said it did not provide any clue.



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