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Class 8 student murders senior citizen to buy video games

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June 13, 2012

Chennai, June 13: Police have arrested a class 8 student along with two others for murdering of a 69-year-old woman and throwing her charred body in the bushes near Thiruperumbudhu. The boy had allegedly devised a plan to kill her for money to buy video games.

Mahesh (name changed) of Ambattur studying in a private school visited his aunt Saritha's house in Eakaadu village near Tiruvallur. He asked Saritha to buy him a video game that cost Rs 8,000 but she told him she did not have the money. Mahesh and Saritha had invited their neighbour, Rajammal, to their house on Sunday afternoon. Mahesh and Saritha strangled the woman using a towel and smothered her to death before taking away her five sovereign gold chain and earstuds. Saritha then informed her husband Baskar, who was away at work. Initially, they decided to bury Rajammal's body behind their house, but decided against it after they watched a TV show that telecast how the police crackdown a three-year old murder in Villupuram.

On Sunday night, Baskar and Mahesh wrapped Rajammal's body in a gunny bag and took it to Sengadu village near Thiruperumbudhur on a scooty. They dumped the body in the bushes, doused petrol and set it on fire.

Rajammal's husband Jayaseelan had died due to illness several years ago. Their son Daniel, a businessman in Purasawalkam, tried to reach his mother and inquired with the neighbours. Meanwhile, Thiruperumbudhur police teams narrowed down on Baskar and Saritha after some villagers had told police that they saw the old woman entering Saritha's house on Sunday afternoon. The police took Daniel to the morgue in the government hospital in Tiruvallur, where he identified his mother's body.

Baskar and Saritha were arrested after they confessed the murder. "We also arrested the boy," said Thiruperunbudhur police inspector M Ramamurthy. Police recovered the stolen gold chain and earstuds from Baskar's house and seized Baskar's scooty. Mahesh will sent to the juvenile home soon, he said.

On Monday morning, police recovered the charred body of a woman in Sengadu near Thiruperumbudhur. Based on the complaint of the village administrative officer (VAO) Amsavalli, police registered a case and arrested three accused.



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July 22,2020

Mathura, Jul 22: A local court in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura on Wednesday sentenced 11 policemen, including the then Deputy Superintendent of Police, to life imprisonment in a case pertaining to the murder of royal Raja Man Singh in 1985.

District Judge Sadhana Rani Thakur announced the life imprisonment sentence a day after holding them guilty of the killing. Three policemen were, however, acquitted. Four men died during the trial.

The policemen were convicted under Section 302 (murder), 148 (rioting) and 149 (Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) of the Indian Penal Code.

The verdict comes 35 years after Man Singh was killed. He, along with two others, was shot dead in police firing a day after he crashed his jeep into the then Rajasthan Chief Minister Shiv Charan Mathur's helicopter in a fit of anger.

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July 31,2020

Amaravati, Jul 31: Nine people have died after allegedly consuming sanitiser in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh today, the police said.

Prakasam district Superintendent of Police Siddharth Kaushal said the people had been consuming sanitiser for the past few days, mixing it with water and soft drinks.

"We are also investigating whether they laced the sanitiser with any other toxic substances," the official said.

"Their family members say these people have been consuming sanitiser for the past ten days. We are sending the sanitiser stocks, being sold in the area, for examination," he added.

Kurichedu in Prakasam district has been under lockdown due to rise in coronavirus cases and hence, liquor shops have also been shut since the past few days.

Habitual drinkers were said to be consuming sanitisers that have alcohol content, apart from illicitly distilled arrack.

The police said two beggars near a temple were the first to fall victim on Thursday night. While one of them was found dead at the spot, another died in the government hospital in Darsi town, they said.

A third person was also taken to the Darsi hospital late on Thursday night after he fell unconscious but he was declared brought dead. Six others who fell ill after allegedly consuming sanitiser, died this morning.

Others who fell ill after consuming sanitiser are undergoing treatment at their residences in the village, the police added.

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January 3,2020

Unnao, Jan 3: The Uttar Pradesh Police has submitted a charge sheet in a court here in connection with the death of a 23-year-old Unnao rape victim, who was allegedly set ablaze by five men.

Additional Superintendent of Police Vinod Kumar Pandey, who is heading a Special Investigation Team in the case, said the charge sheet was submitted on Wednesday.

"There is ample proof against the five accused persons, and the charge sheet was prepared based on those evidences," he said on Thursday.

The 23-year-old Unnao rape victim, who was airlifted to Delhi and admitted to Safdarjung Hospital with 90 per cent burns after being set on fire, died following a cardiac arrest on December 6, 2019.

The woman was set afire by five men, including two of her alleged rapists, on December 5 morning when she was going to Rae Bareli to attend a court hearing in the rape case filed by her.

In her statement to Sub Divisional Magistrate Dayashankar Pathak, the woman had said she was attacked when she reached Gaura turn near her home on her way to the court.

She had specifically named Harishankar Trivedi, Ram Kishore Trivedi, Umesh Bajpai, Shivam Trivedi and Shubham Trivedi as the persons who set her on fire.

The woman had also alleged that Shivam and Shubham Trivedi had abducted and raped her in December 2018.

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