Girl's father slits her lover's throat on west Delhi street

TNN
February 3, 2018

New Delhi, Feb 3: In a brazen act of "honour" killing in the national capital, a 23-year-old photographer was stabbed and his throat slit on a busy street in west Delhi's Raghuveer Nagar on Thursday evening, allegedly by the father of the 20-year-old girl he was to marry shortly.

The victim, Ankit Saxena, was kicked and punched repeatedly by the girl's father and uncle before the former stabbed him and slit his throat using a chopper and a knife while her two other relatives held his arms, police said. Ankit's mother, who came to his rescue, was attacked by the girl's mother.

Police have arrested the girl's father, uncle and mother for the murder. They have been sent to Tihar jail after being produced in court, according to DCP (West) Vijay Kumar.

The girl's brother, a minor aged between 16 and 18 years, was detained and sent to a correction home after being produced before a juvenile justice board. Police are likely to request the court to treat him as an adult.

Ankit and the girl he loved were from different communities. The girl has been provided security and sent to a shelter home after she expressed fears that she may be killed by her uncle's associates if she went back home.

The girl, in a statement to the police, said, "I was waiting for him at the Tagore Garden Metro station. He was on his way home to get his motorbike when someone informed me that he had been stabbed. My father and uncle have done all this."

DCP (West) Vijay Kumar said the arrested people have been sent to Tihar jail after being produced before a court. The girl's brother, aged between 16 and 18, has been sent to a correction facility after being produced before a juvenile justice board. The cops are likely to request the court to treat him as an adult.

The attack took place around 8.30pm on Thursday. Ankit's family said he was returning from work when he had got a call from the girl's father and went back towards his studio. "After some time, a youth from our neighbourhood came running to our house saying that Ankit was being beaten by a few people at the chowk on the main road. I rushed out and found the girl's father and uncle kicking him as he lay on the ground," said Ankit's mother Kamlesh, who has a broken rib.

"I tried to stop them, but the girl's mother pushed me to the footpath and kicked me on my chest. The family accused my son of abducting their daughter. I told them my son was innocent and that they could call the police to find out. I even asked them to search my house. They refused to listen and kept beating my son," said Kamlesh.

Eyewitnesses say, at one point, Ankit managed to get up and tried saving his mother when two of the youths held him by his arms and dragged him to the edge of the footpath. Then, the girl's father allegedly stabbed him twice on his ribs and slit open his throat. They threw him on the edge of the footpath and fled.

"He called for help while they were stabbing him and then fell unconscious. His mother tied her chunni on his throat to stop the blood flow and kept calling for help. But passersby, who had stopped to click photographs, did not help her. No one even called the police control room" claimed Ankit's father Yashpal.

Kamlesh said she managed to stop an e-rickshaw and take her son to a local hospital, from where he was referred to DDU hospital. He was declared dead on arrival at DDU. Kamlesh was admitadmitted with a fractured rib at Safdurjung hospital and released later in the day. The police were informed by the doctors at DDU.

Ankit's family staged a protest at the Khyala police station later in the evening, demanding death sentence for the accused. Police have recovered CCTV footage from a school opposite the area which has captured the incident.

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Ajith
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Sunday, 4 Feb 2018

Very Sad.. If people had helped him to take to the hospital instead of clicking photos ..then hope he would have saved

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May 25,2020

Hyderabad, May 25: Indicating foul play in the death of nine people, including six of a family, whose bodies were fished out from a well near Warangal, a forensic expert on Sunday virtually ruled out suicide theory, saying it appeared seven of them had been dragged and thrown into the water body.

Mystery shrouded the death of nine people, including six of a family, whose bodies were found in a well, five of them on Friday and four on Thursday, on the outskirts of Warangal in Telangana.

Police stepped up the probe and forensic analysis was also underway in the case.

The forensic expert, who visited the crime scene as part of the investigation citing preliminary tests, said that the seven of nine people had scratch injuries and appeared to have been "dragged" and "thrown" into the well.

Forensic reports are expected in 10 days, the forensic expert told media on Sunday adding after examining the crime scene it appears that the deaths were not suicides.

"We have preserved all organs and the same were sent to forensic science laboratory (FSL) for examination... some two or three persons might have been involved in the crime. There are scratch injuries on the bodies," he said.

"It appears that they were thrown into the water... There were no injuries on the child's body. We are awaiting the forensic report (to ascertain) whether they were poisoned. It didn't appear as if they committed suicide," the expert, who performed the post-mortem said.

Police sources said at least two people were picked up for questioning.

Bodies of the head of the family, wife, daughter and three-year old grandson were found floating and fished out on Thursday.

On Friday morning, some bodies were seen floating following which police pumped out the water from the well and found others.

The 48-year old man had migrated from West Bengal over 20 years ago and had settled down here. His family had been staying in two rooms on the premises of the unit, police had earlier said.

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January 20,2020

Ahmedabad, Jan 20: Cops in Gandhinagar fell in a catch-22 situation when a state government employee approached them with a complaint that the 26-year-old woman class teacher of his 14-year-old son had gone missing taking his son in tow. The man, who works at Udyog Bhavan in Gandhinagar said the woman had seduced his teenage son, who studies in class VIII and taken him away with her. The boy had gone missing from 4pm on Friday, and the classteacher was also missing.

A police official said the woman teacher had been too intimate with the allegedly missing boy for around a year, and the school authorities had recently rebuked them. “As their relationship was unaccepted, they left their homes on Friday,” he said. It was rare to find a case of a woman teacher eloping with her teenage student, the official added.

An FIR for elopement under Section 363 IPC has been registered with Kalol city police in Gandhinagar district. The complaint stated the teacher is a resident of Darbari chawl in Kalol town.

“When I reached home at around 7pm, I found my son missing. My wife told me he had left home at around 4pm. We searched for him in the neighbourhood and among relatives, but couldn’t trace him,” claims the teenage boy’s father in the FIR. “I went to the teacher’s house but they were not there,” the man stated.

Inspector K K Desai of Kalol city police said the missing duo could not be traced as they were not carrying cellphones.

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May 9,2020

New Delhi, May 9: A 23-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide at the AIIMS here after her mother died of cancer at the hospital, police said on Saturday.

She was reported missing after her mother passed away on Wednesday and her body was found near the new private ward block of the hospital on Saturday, they said, adding that she fell to her death from a building.

"Her mother was a cancer patient. She was being treated at the hospital and had died during treatment on Wednesday," Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Atul Kumar Thakur said.

Her father was busy in the formalities when she left the area. She was reported missing since Wednesday. The family hails from Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh, a senior police officer said.

Hospital staff noticed the body and informed the police. The block was closed due to which nobody found out about it earlier, police said.

Police said she had called her friends and told them that she was going to kill herself. The body has been recovered and an inquest proceeding is underway.

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