Crime Chronicle

Arun Gulab Gavali also known as Arun Ahir is a mobstet turned politician from central Mumbai area of Byculla and Chinchpokli. His cousin brother Sachin Ahir too is a seasoned politician . Arun Gavali began his life as a textile mill worker in Chinchpokli area. Those days textiles mills were facing multiple strikes. Due to which a few of the mills had to close down which rendered Arun Gawali unemployed or jobless. To earn his daily needs he had to resort to quick buck route of matka trading and hafta vasooli(Protection Money). Later on he joined Byculla Company,  mafia gang in the Byculla and Chinchpokli area   which was jointly run by Amar Naik and Babu Resham. Later on   Babu Resham was eliminated in an encounter by the police. Arun Gavali took charge of the Byculla Company after the demise of Babu Resham.  Arun Gavali rab his gang from his den Dagdi Chawl. It is said once D-Company and Byculla Company used to work in tandem. But later on Kishor Ahir bro...

Yakub Abdul Razzaq Memon or Yaqub Menon was the younger brother of mobster Tiger Memon. He was a Chartered Accountant by profession and looked after finances of his brother Tiger Memon as well as D-Company. He was the finance manager of the gang.  He was accused by the Indian agencies for handling the finances for the Bombay Bomb Blasts in 1993. Therefore he went absconding. He was accused of arranging for the finances for the plan, providing funds to the 15 people who were sent for training of the balst to an undisclosed location a d also arranging the finaces for the vehicles which carried the ammunitions.  Later on he surrendered to the Indian authorities. It is said that Tiger Memon had dissuaded him against his surrender. But Yaqub Menon went ahead with his plan of surrender and surrendered to the Indian authorities. He was executed in Nagpur Maharashtra on 30 July,2015.

Anees Ibrahim Kaskar is brother of Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar the mafia boss   who runs the gang D-Company. Since D-Company is Mumbai based syndicate both the brothers are originally Mumbai based mobsters. Their father Ibrahim Kaskar was a constable in Crime Investigation Department(CID) in Mumbai police. Both the brothers have multiple cases registered against them with Mumbai police involving drug trafficking, smuggling,extortion,contract killing etc.  Anees Ibrahim Kaskar is also named alongwith Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar for playing a major role in organising and executing 1993 Mumbai blasts. Since then both the brothers have been absconding and are wanted by India as well as United States of America. A red corner notice against both has been issued by the Interpol. Though Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar began his criminal career with his another brother Shabbir Ibrahim Kaskar who was murdered by Manya Surve on behalf Samad Khan of Pathan Gang. Later in the due course Anees Ibrahi...

Jimsher Dosanjh populay known as Jimmy Dosanjh was an Indo Canadian mafia boss during 1980 -1990. He and his brother Ronjit Dosanjh were regarded as the original indo Canadian mafia. Jimmy Dosanjh was a notorious gangster, drug trafficker,  bill collectior as well as a hit man. He was one of the early members of the street gang Los Diablos(The Devil's).   He had a large stature and therefore he was called as Big Jim for his king sized physical figure. He was quarrelsome and intimidtaing since his early life. He fell in bad company in his teenage and was called muscle for hire. He became involved in burglaries, mugging and robberies and street assaults which earned him the nickname Big Shot. When Bindy Johal and Roman Mann had separated from Los Diablos and had started their own drug trafficking business independently Jimmy Dosanjh was infuriated as it had put his business in direct competition with theirs which had hitherto enjoyed monopoly in locality and vicinity...

Bhupinder "Singh Johal alternatively known as Bindy Johal was an Indo Canadian mafia boss. Initially he worked Los Diablos  but later on he went his own separate way and found his own gang called Punjabi Mafia. Wherein majority of the gang members were migrants from Punjab, India. Since his early days of his life he had been violent and adamant and had disrespect and disregard for authority. He had been a problem kid at his school too.  His main criminal activity was drug trafficking. After quitting Los Diablos he began to deal directly with the Columbian drug traffickers which had pitted him directly against Jimmy Dosanjh. Therefore Jimmy Dosanjh hatched a deal to kill Bindy Johal with a hitman for $10000. The hitman double crossed Jimmy Dosanjh and spilled the beans to Bindy Johal. Who found out who was behind the contract. So he hatched a deal for $50000 to kill Jimmy Dosanjh.  Jimmy Dosanjh was killed in a broad daylight shoot out. And his elder brother Ro...

Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu  was a Punjabi pop and folk song writer cum singer famous with his stage name Sidhu Moosewala . He was shot dead on 29 May ,2022 in broad daylight. In his early days of career he had migrated to Canada. He began to write songs in the beginning. Thereafter he went on to sing themselves. He was popularl for hip-hop, Punjabi pop and folk songs. He moved back to India and began his full fledged career as a song writer cum singer. He someh, got himself engrossed in an inter gang rivalry and paid the price by his life. He was said to had alliances with the  Bamaiya Gang/Bambiha Gang.  His opponent Lawrence Bishnoi is said to have ordered his killing through his gang members even though he is lodged in jail. Coincidentally his security was removed by the state government just one before his murder. He had received death threats in the past that's why he was provided with the security cover the previous Congress Party government. He was a member...

1888 White Chapel , London   has become   a sensation in the history for  all the wrong reasons. 11 prostitutes were found murdered by slitting their throats and ripped abdomens. And that's why te the killer whose identity is still unknown is popularly known as Jack the Ripper. However, in officaial records he is regareded as WhiteChapel Murderer or Leather Apron. 11 murders from 3 April 1888 to 13 February 1891 are recorded as WhiteChapel Murders in official records. Wether to blame all 11 eleven murders to one single individual had been debated but 5 of the 11 murders which are called as The Canonical Five  are undisputed about being the work of the mysterious single murderer. His trademark murder was that he would first slit apart the throat and then ripped open the abdomen and finally stab vagina a few times. The  severity of wounds had suggested to the theory of vengeance. That the victims were prostitutes also gave an angle to the theory. Some ...

Raman Raghav was the serial killer from India who was active during 1965 - 1968 in Bombay, now Mumbai. He had many aliases like 'Sindhi Dalwai', "Talwai', 'Anna' etc. He was given the alias Jack the Ripper of India by educated class. Common people called him 'Kanpatti Maar'(Earlobe Hitter). He would kill slum dwellers or homeless people who would sleep in the night in the footpaths of the city or along the railway tracks. He too was homeless and also had mental sickness. In his first round of killings during 1965-66 in Eastern Bombay(Mumbai) he was supposed to have murdered around 14 people. He was detained and interrogated but was let go for want of evidence against him. He sat silent for quite some years may be because of fear of the police but later on he moved to new areas and began his crimes once again. In his second round of murders he was supposed to have killled around 19 people in the suburbs of Bombay (Mumbai). He would use heavy ...

Priya Rajvansh was Indian actress popularly known for her charismatic role in Heer Ranjha movie. Her real name was Vera Sunder Singh. She   was the discovery of Chetan Anand for the Bollywood and hence they both remained in a cordial and close relationship throughout their lives. After the death of Chetan Anand dispute appeared between her and two sons of late Chetan Anand Ketan Anand and Vivek Anand. Although   she had inherited some property after the death of Chetan Anand through a will the dispute centred around a bungalow at Ruia Park, Juhu  which was owned by Chetan Anand. She was found murdered on 7 March 2000 at the same bungalow. And on the basis of some handwritten notes by Priya Rajvansh to Vijay Anand  brother of late Chetan Anand who also was a Bollywood director and producer Ketan Anand and Vivek Anand were convicted and sentenced alongwith their house helps Chinnaswamy and Mala.

A special CBI court has acquitted Sooraj Pancholi from charges of abetment of suicide of Jia Khan today Friday, 28 April,2023. Special CBI court judge AS Sayyad delivered his verdict of no guilty today. Sooraj Pancholi was accused of abetment of suicide by mother of Jiah Khan Rabia Khan based on a 6 pages letter which is claimed to be written by the late Jiah Khan. Rabia Khan claimed that Jiah Khan was trapped in an abusive relationship with Sooraj Pancholi. And that Sooraj Pancholi would quite often subject Jiah Khan with mental and physical tortures. Which was the cause of her committing the suicide. Rabia Khan had moved the High Court to institute an inquiry into the case by the CBI. The Bombay High Court directed the CBI to investigate the case after going into the details of the case. Rabia Khan who wasn't in India and had arrived after the death of Jiah Khan had alleged in her application that neither the evidences were collected properly nor the investigation w...

T Siddalingappa  is a serial killer from Karnataka state of India. He had killed women and beheaded their bodies and dumped the head and torsos at different places so that the deceased couldn't be identified. He had confessed to killing the 3 women to avenge for his girlfriend Chandrakala . And he further wanted to kill 3 more women whom he and his girlfriend blamed for pushing her into prostitution.  He said that he loved Chandrakala and wanted to marry by he couldn't do so because his family won't accept her. He was also worried about the stigma of the society.   Her girlfriend had left her native village for seeking job in the city. She was duped and forced into the flash trade by the 6 women, three of whom were killed by him. Three were more to be killed. And for the purpose the couple had rented a house outside of the city in a small village.  I have written a story named ' Proxy Punisher, with a similar script.

Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel  is on the Ten Most Wanted list of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for killing his wife Palak Patel and absconding. Both wife and husband used to work at a Dunkin Donuts Store in Hanover, Maryland. The store is owned by one of their relatives.  It is found that the couplenused to fight over Palak Patel constantly demanding to return to India while Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel wanted to stay at America even though his visa was already expiered. On the fateful night they both were having a night shift at the store when the fight once again broke between the two. Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel is seen taking Palak Patel backside of the store and stabbing her multiple times with a kitchen knife. He was last seen near a hotel taking a taxi for a station. FBI is offering $100000 for any information that would lead to his arrest.

A district court in Australia found Balesh Dhankar a Bhartiya Janta Party(BJP) leader guilty of drugging and raping 6 South Korean women on Monday 24 April 2023. The court has charged against him on 39 counts. He was found guilty of luring the women through his web of lies and paralysing them by drugging and then raping them. He is polilitically a well connected person of Indian origin. As was expected from such person,he cried after the guilty verdict was delivered by jury at Downing Centre.  Balesh Dhankhar is the chief of the ‘Overseas Friends of the BJP’ in Australia. He is charged with 54 offences, including 39 counts of rape, four counts of attempted rape, 11 counts of aggravated sexual assault, and one count of indecent assault.  He will be presented before district court  again in May, and later in the year, he will be sentenced. He is said to be the worst of all the rapists during the recent times in Australia. He raped the women and made videos of hi...

Chandrakant Jha was arrested in July 2022 in Delhi for murdering and thereafter dismembering around 18 - 20 migrant labourers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. He was arrested in 1998 for murdering a migrant labourer. He was sentenced to death but later his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and was released on bail in 2005. After his release from the jail he went on befriending the migrant labourers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and then after disputing with them over minor issues like theft, cheating or eating non vegetarian food he would suffocate them to death. Thereafter he would dismember their dead bodies into pieces and throw it around Tihar Jail as a challenge and taunt to the police.

Niki Yadav was murdered by her husband Sahil Gehlot for resisting his marriage with another girl arranged by his family.  Niki Yadav was 22 years and Sahil Gehlot was 24 years old. The couple had fallen in love when they were teenager and used to meet on the bus they would take for going to their classes and college. After dating for many years they got themselves married In a Arya Samaj Temple. When Niki Yadav got the news of Sahil Gehlot getting married for the second time despite being married to her she contested his decision. Sahil Gehlot soothed her somehow. Of late younger sister of Niki Yadav arrived from her native village to stay with her. Niki Yadav told to her that she was going on a picnic with a friend. As the couple had planned to elope on the day of his marriage ceremony. However somehow parents of Sahil Gehlot got the wind and convinced him to dump her and go ahead with his marriage.  Sahil Gehlot met her and took her in his car around Delhi city t...

Devendra(Divendra) Sharma was a serial killer from Rajasthan. He had confessed to have killed 50-100 people. By profession he was an ayurvedic medicine prationer that's why he is called,' Doctor Death'.   He had acquired Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BANS) from Bihar. Thereafter he began to practice ayurvedic treatment in Rajasthan. He siffered great loss when he was duped of Rs. 11 lakhs through a fake gas agency fraud. To emerge from the loss he took the path crime. First he started with running a fake gas agency racket. Then took to illegal kidney transplant. Thereafter he began to kidnap taxi drivers and selling their taxis in grey market in Uttar Pradesh after mirdeing them.  He had clearly confessed to murdering 50 people and then he said that he had lost the count. His killings are estimated at around 100. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and was allowed a 20 days parole after 16 years in jail. He jumped the parole and was once again a...

26 April, 2023 Wednesday Maoists Naxalites killed 10 CRPF jawans including a driver and an officer through IED explosion in Dantewada district of Chattisgarh state.  They were travelling in a mini van when a roadside IED planted by the Maoist naxalites exploded and killed them all on the spot.  Agencies and police are making investigations and Chief Minister Bupesh Baghail had avowed to avenge the killings.  Reorts are coming that 40 kilograms of explosives were used which threw the vehicle 150 metres high in the air. Reports are coming that the motorcade of security included 7 vehicles in which 70 personnel were travelling. The distance between 2 vehicles were onserved of 100 and 150 metres for security reasons. The road on which the motorcade was traveling was blocked by wooden logs. When the motorcade had stopped to clear the road they were fired at by the naxalites which were hiding in the surrounding area. The third vehicle of the motorcycle was hit by th...

Nithari Serial Murder Case  was one of the India's most heinous crimes. Myths and mysteries still shroud the case. The case involves paedophilia, rape,murder and even cannibalism. The main culprits of the case  Moninder Singh Pandher and his aide Surinder Singh Koli   were even blamed for illegal organ trade. The case belonged to Nithari Village,near Noida NCR in Uttar Pradesh. Where the businessman Mohinder Singh pandher lived with his servant Surinder Singh Koli. 16 minors and one 20 years old woman Payal went missing. The relatives of the missing children and woman had suspected the culprit duo and had alerted the local police but they didn't pay any heed to their requests. The agitated parents and relatives together with village residents began their search at their own and it is said that some organs were recovered from the water tank at the residence of the culprits. Under pressure and agitation the police went ahead and decomposed body parts were ...

Geeta Chopra and Sanjay Chopra were kids of a high ranking naval officer Madan Mohan Chopra . Geeta Chopra was just 16 years and Sanjay Chopra was only 14 years of age therefore I have avoided posting there images  they being minors. They were kidnapped by Kuljeet Singh alias Ranga Khus and Jasbir Singh alias Billa for ransom. This case is called Ranga Billa Case . On Saturday 26 August 1978 , Geeta and Sanjay were scheduled to participate in a radio programme called the Yuva Vani on All India Radio . They were to reach the All India Radio office on the Sansad Marg by 7 pm. Their father was supposed to pick them up outside the All India Radio after programme at 9 pm. The siblings were kidnapped by Ranga Billa duo in a Fiat car bearing number plate HRK 8930. The siblings put a fight against their kidnappers which was noticed by many by passers. They tried to interfere the kidnap bid. Someone tried to to open the door of the car. One of them had put his bicycle i...

Shivani Bhatnagar Murder Case was one of the most sensational and mysterious murder cases of India. She was found murdered on 23 January 1999. She was employed with Indian Express. Her murder was one of the most mysterious and her death was most scandalous. Indian Police Service(IPS) officer Ravi Kant Sharma was chargesheeted by the investigating Delhi police official for the murder. Ravi Kant Sharma absconded after an arrest warrant was issued against him. Finally he surrendered on 27 September,2002 to the police.  Ravi Kant Sharma confessed to the crime and elaborated that he killed Shivani Bhatnagar because he had been having illicit extra marital relationship with her and that he feared that she may expose their relationship to the public as she had been threatening him to do so of late. IPS officer Ravi Kant Sharma along with Sri Bhagwan Sharma, Satya Prakash and Pradeep Sharma were accused in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case and they were convicted by a Delhi Tri...

Priyadarshini Mattoo was 25 years old law student who stayed at her uncle's house in New Delhi. She was found raped and murdered at her residence on 23 January,1996. She was strangulated with an electric wire and her face was smashed hard by a helmet beyond recognition. Santosh Kumar Singh who was the son of an influential IPS Officer was found to be the culprit who committed the crime. He had been stalking Priyadarshini Mattoo for past many years. He was her senior at her educational institution. His father was Inspector General of Pondicherry. As is usual in India person with influence go scot free with the crimes. Incidentally his father had acted as a Joint Commissioner  of police of Delhi and took part in the investigation of the case. The trial court but obviously absolved him of the charges. The verdict was challenged in the higher court which found many discripencies and liniencies in the investigation and handed over the case to the Central Bureau of Investigat...

Jessica Lal was a model in New Delhi and worked as an exclusive celebrity barmaid. On the night  of 29 she was working in Tamarind Court Restaurant owned by socialite Bina Ramani in south Delhi’s Mehrauli April,1999 facing the Qutub Minar.  Around 12:30 a.m. Siddharth Vashisht, also known as Manu Sharma, the son of Venod Sharma, an affluent and influential Congress Party leader from Haryana entered the bar which didn't have proper license and permission for the party. He demanded to Jessica Lal wine to be served to him. Since the bar was closed for the day and also had run out of the stock she refused him. He again demanded the wine and had offered Rs. 1000 for it. He was accompanied by some of his frineds. Jessica Lal had refused once again which had him enraged therefore he took out his gun and fired at the ceiling. Jessica Lal put an adamant stance which had infuriated Manu Sharma who, according to the witnesses fired at her. Commotion and chaos followed. Jessic...

Adnaan Patrawala was the teenage only son of a affluent businessman Aslam Patrawala. He was kidnapped on 18 August 2007 from iIn Orbit mall for ransom. His kidnappers were: Sujit Nair Ayush Bhat Amit Kausha Rajiv Dharaiya Kishore Ambavat The accused kidnapped Adnaan Patrawala from In Orbit mall located in Malad in the suburbs of Mumbai. Later they had demanded a ransom of RS. 2 crores from the family of Adnaan Patrawala. The news was spread all over the media and the accused fot scared and the next day on 19 August 2007 they killed Adnaan Patrawala and dumped his body at Palm Beach Road in Navi Mumbai which was a bushy and secluded place then.  After the discovery of his dead body police investigation led to the above-mentioned accused. The trial began and the court released 4 of acxused because they were minors so that till they turn major they can freely commit auch heinous crimes in the society without any concern for jail and sentence. Finally all of the accussed of...

On the fateful day of 27 December,2007 former Prime Minister of Pakistan Mrs. Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in broad daylight. She was daughter of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Mrs. Benazir Bhutto was campaigning for her party Pakistan People Party(PPP) for the ensuing elections in January 2008. She was the chief of her party.  Mrs. Benazir Bhutto was heading a election procession in Rawalpindi after a rally at Liaquat National Park. First many rounds of gunshots were fired at her and soon after suicide bomber had denoted a powerful bomb. She was severly injured and was rushed to the Rawalpindi General Hospital. She declined dead at arrival by the hospital. Twenty people also were killed by the assault alongwith Mrs. Benazir Bhutto. She had survived earlier attempt on her life in Karsaz Bombing in which 180 people were killed. Contradicting accounts as to cause of her death had emerged. Interior Ministry had declared cause of her death as ...

Pramod Vekatesh Mahajan was a Bhartiya Janta Party Member of Parliament from North East Constituency -Mumbai. Before that he had also been a member of the upper house Rajya Sabha. He was a flamboyant, amicable and loved by all kind of the politician. On 3 May 2006, he was met with an unfortunate and shocking death.  On the morning of 22 April 2006, Pramod Mahajan's estranged younger brother, Pravin Vekatesh Mahajan shot him with his licensed .32 Browning pistol at his own appartment. He was taken to the Hinduja Hospital and after struggling for 13 days he succumbed to his injuries and breathed his last.  Surprisingly Pravin Mahajan was once the most beloved younger brother of the deceased Pramod Mahajan who had been estranged from his brother for past some time. Pravin Mahajan surrendered himself at the Worli police' station. Pravin Mahajan said that he was being ignored, neglected, ridiculed and humiliated by his elder brother for quite some time. Pramod Vekatesh ...

Arun Tikku was father of an aspiring Bollywood actor Anuj Tikku. He stayed in a ownership flat in the posh colony of Lokhandwala Complex. Karan Kakkad was an estate and property broker.  Both the men met with death by the hands of criminal couple Simran Sood and Vijay Palande.  Simran Sood was a socialite,starlet and model. She was well connected with celebrities in the Bollywood.  Vijay Palande was once a stockbroker and double cases registered against him twice in the past. Simran Sood would introduce Vijay Palande to everyone as her brother while 8n fact they were couple. They used honeytrap and booby trap to lure people in their trap. They also lucre of Bollywood to trap people. Karan Kakkad had one day told to his brother that soon he was going to make a nice Bollywood movie and the very next day he was kidnapped and kept at a Lokhandwala Complex flat. Vijay Palande and Simran Sood alongwith their accomplices splashed lakhs of rupees on shopping and dinin...

Shakereh Khaleeli was murdered by her own second husband Murali Manohar Misra. Shakereh Khaleeli Namaizi was a socialite, real estate developer and philanthropist who was married to first with an Indian diplomat to Australia Mr. Akbar Mirza Khalleeli. After they both were divorced Shakereh Khaleeli got herself married to Murli Manohar Misra alias Swami Sharddhanand.  In 1991 her family noticed that she was missing and wasn't to be found anywhere. Her second daughter from her first marriage to Mr. Akbar Mirza Khalleeli, Saba Akbar Mirza Khalleeli found her mother missing so she kept inquiring about her to Swami Sharddhanand but he kept avoiding giving any straight answer about her disappearance. In 1992 Saba Akbar Mirza Khalleeli filed a habeas  corpus police complaint about her being found missing with Karnataka police. For three years Swami Sharddhanand kept busy the Karnataka police busy with his tricks but finally he had to confess. He told to the police that he...

In November,2019 a 26 years old veterinary doctor was raped and murdered by four culprits in Shamsabad. Her half burnt body was found a day later in Shadabnagar on 28 November,2019. On the fateful night of 27 November,2019 the victim had parked her scooter near a toll plaza. She was being observed by two truck drivers. They together with their cleaner cum assistants had flattened rear tyre of the scooty. When the lady doctor reached her scooter she was troubled to find her scooter with the flattened tyre. It was late night. The four culprits approached her with the excuse of helping her in getting her tyre repaired. They misguided her to a secluded place and raped her and then smothered her to death. After killing they tried to eliminate evidences and her identity by burning her by the fire but left it halfway and her half charred body was found the next day. Telangana state police checked for the CCTV images in the vicinity and arrested the four culprits.  Almost a wee...

Eight suspected members of a radical Islamist group were killed by the police in Madhya Pradesh on Monday, 31 October,2016, hours after they allegedly escaped from a high-security jail by slitting the throat of a prison guard and scaling the walls with knotted bedsheets. The police said the eight members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) were cornered on the outskirts of the state capital and shot dead when they fired on securitymen. A video clip purportedly showing policeman shooting at an apparently injured fugitive lying on a flat-topped rock raised doubts about the authenticity of the encounter, prompting rights groups and opposition parties to seek a probe. Another purported clip of the encounter surfaced later, showing the SIMI fugitives waving at the policemen from a rocky outcrop amid a scrub forest lowland. After a break, the video resumes to show one of the policemen firing a round from his rifle at the group on the rock. The police said the ...

15 June 2004, Ishrat Jahan Raza a 19 years old resident of Mumbra, Thane, was shot dead in an encounter alongwith 3 others by Ahmedabad Crime Branch and Susidiary Intelligence Bureau in Ahmedabad. Since the inception the encounter has been shrouded in the clouds of mystery. Congress and BJP contested in court and also outside of the court about the credibility of the encounter as well as about the claim that Ishrat Jahan Raza was an operative of Lashkare Tayyeba in India.  After the incident, an investigation was launched based on allegations that the description of the incident by the police was false and the killings were deliberate and unlawful. The police team involved in the incident had been led by DIG D.G. Vanjara, an officer who spent eight years in jail for his alleged involvement in the extrajudicial killing of a criminal gangster, Sohrabuddin Sheikh. Five years later, in 2009, an Ahmedabad Metropolitan court ruled that the encounter was staged. The decision w...

The ghastly attack on an Army truck in Poonch Thursday, 20 April,2023, which killed five soldiers, was an ambush orchestrated by a group of Pakistani terrorists who are believed to have carried out earlier attacks too, ThePrint has learnt. Sources in the defence and security establishment told ThePrint that the truck was forced to stop because logs of wood placed on the road. They said terrorists opened fire when two soldiers came down to remove the logs. One of the deceased soldiers was hit by multiple bullets, they said. Sources said two grenade pins were recovered from the spot, which would mean at least two were thrown at the truck. It is, however, believed the truck caught fire due to the burst fuel tank. Five soldiers who were killed in a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch have been identified by the Indian Army. The deceased soldiers were named as havildar Mandeep Singh, lance naik Debashish Baswal, lance naik Kulwant Singh, sepoy Harkrishan Singh and...

Advocate Shahid Azmi was a young and handsome, agile and passionate person. He practiced advocacy from his office in Taxi Mens' Colony,Kurla(West), Mumbai -70. He had turned the front part of his home into his office. He was shot at in the same office by the stranger assailants on 11 February,2010. Shahid Azmi was accused of crime at a young age; in 1992, aged 15, he was arrested for violence during the 1992 Bombay riots. Let off lightly as a juvenile, and due to lack of any proper evidence against him. As a young adult, he was again arrested, this time under Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, for plotting against the state. He spent seven years in Delhi's Tihar Jail. In jail, he was encouraged to resume his education, and by the time he was released, he had taken a degree in law. In 2003, he began practising as a criminal defense lawyer in Mumbai. The cases handled by him were almost exclusively of defending cases for those accused of terrorism, ...

Sohrabuddin Encounter Case is one of the most mysterious and malicious murder or encounter case of India. His encounter took place on 26 November,2005 in the state of Gujarat alongwith his wife Kaisar Bi. He was an inter state criminal. He had criminal of extortion, arms supply and murders etc. registered against him in the states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Gujrat. Sohrabuddin Sheikh was also claimed by the police to be associated with the banned global terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Pakistani intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence, and was alleged to have planned to create communal chaos in the state by assassinating "an important political leader". Although the target of Soharabuddin Sheikh's plans has never been officially revealed, the impression was given to political effect that it was to have been Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi. Soharabuddin Sheikh's wife Kauser Bi also disappeared on the same day as his killing....

Bhanwari Devi Murder Case was one one of the most complicated and complex murder cases of India. The murder rocked and shocked the people and politicians of Rajasthan as well as the whole of India. That people can go to any length to avoide their dirty linen being displayed in public is evident from the case. It is a nice candidate of case study for the students as well as scholars of the criminology. Bhanwari Devi was born in poverty in a village in Kishangarh block of  Ajmer, Rajasthan . Her parents worked as daily wage labourers; her father was also employed in the State's medical and health department. Bhanwari Devi studied in a  government school only   up to class 8. At the age of 16, she was married off to Amarchand of Borunda village in  Jodhpur . At the behest of her father, Bhanwari Devi studied  midwifery   and got the job as an  auxiliary midwife nurse  with the jealth department.   During the time of her murder, she w...