6 ‘upper caste’ men get death for killing three Dalit youths

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January 21, 2018

Five years after the deaths of three Dalit youths in a case of ‘honour’ killing in Ahmednagar’s Sonai village, the Nashik sessions court on Saturday sentenced six people to death.

The court had last week convicted six of the seven accused for the murder of Sachin Gharu (24), Sandeep Thanvar (25) and Rahul Kandare (20) on January 1, 2013. Their mutilated body parts were found in a septic tank.

The victims were sweepers at Trimurti Pavan Pratishthan School and College in Ahmednagar’s Nevasa Phata. Sachin was in a relationship with a student of the college, who was from the Maratha community. Police said that the victims were the sole breadwinners of their families and belonged to the backward Mehtar (Bhangi) community.

On January 1, the Darandale family asked Sachin, Sandeep and Rahul to clean the septic tank in their house in Sonai village, which is 30 km from the college. They were hacked to death there between 3.30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Those found guilty and sentenced to death on Staurday are Ramesh Darandale (43), Prakash Darandale (38) and Ragunath Darandale alias Popat (52), Ganesh alias Praveen Darandale (23), Sandeep Kurhe (37) and Ashok Phalke (44).

The police said that Ramesh and Prakash reported that Sandeep allegedly drowned while cleaning the septic tank. When the police pulled his body out, they noticed that Sandeep was six-foot tall and the tank barely contained two feet of water. Ramesh later changed his version and alleged that Sachin and Rahul murdered Sandeep and fled after dumping the body in the tank. The police found Sachin’s decapitated body and severed limbs in a nearby well. Rahul’s mutilated body was also found with severe wounds in the head.

After the six were held guilty, Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, told reporters last week that, “ Persons who arrogantly flaunt the superiority of their caste by keeping up an unfair status quo through means of violence and other means of spreading hatred should not be allowed to roam scot-free.”

He had urged the court to award the death penalty to the six convicts.

Mr. Nikam said, “The murders are a blot on humanity and a cruel reminder of prevailing caste prejudices. A conspiracy was hatched by the Darandales [who belong to the Maratha community] and the plan was carried out with incredible brutality just because a boy from backward caste fell in love with a girl from a higher caste.”

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March 3,2020

Daman, Mar 3: A BJP councillor was shot dead on Monday in the Union Territory of Daman, police said.

Salim Memon was sitting in his motorcycle showroom when three to four unidentified persons shot four to five bullets after asking a visitor there to move out, an official said quoting eye-witnesses.

While fleeing, they also shot two rounds close to this visitor who was standing outside, he said.

"Memon was rushed to a hospital in Marwad area but was declared dead on arrival. CCTV footage is being scanned to nab the culprits," said Daman Superintendent of Police Vikramjit Singh.

Memon was elected to Daman municipality as a Congress candidate but then switched over to the BJP.

Sources said Memon, who also has a land brokerage business, had come out of jail a few months back in connection with a case of rivalry.

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February 18,2020

New Delhi, Feb 18: A Delhi court today sent Sharjeel Imam, who has been named as an "instigator" by the Delhi Police in its chargesheet on violent protests against the amended citizenship act at New Friends Colony near Jamia in Delhi last year, to judicial custody till March 3.

Sharjeel Imam was arrested on sedition charges last month.

The Delhi Police has filed a chargesheet before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Gurmohina Kaur, naming Sharjeel Imam as an instigator of the violence.

It said it has attached CCTV footage, call detail records and statements of over 100 witnesses as evidence in the chargesheet.

The court had on Monday sent Sharjeel Imam to one-day custody of Delhi Police in the case.

Protestors had torched four public buses and two police vehicles as they clashed with police in New Friends Colony near Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi during the demonstration against the CAA on December 15, leaving nearly 60 people including students, cops and fire fighters injured.

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June 19,2020

New Delhi, Jun 19: India on Friday added 13,586 new COVID-19 cases for the first time in a single day, pushing the tally to 3,80,532, while the death toll rose to 12,573 with 336 new fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data.

In some positive news, the number of recoveries crossed the two lakh-mark and stands at 2,04,710, while there are 1,63,248 total COVID-19 active cases, according to the updated official figure at 8 am.

One patient had migrated.

"Thus, around 53.79 percent patients have recovered so far," an official said.

The total number of confirmed cases include foreigners. 

India registered over 10,000 cases for the eighth day in a row.

Of the 336 new deaths reported till Friday morning, 100 were in Maharashtra, 65 in Delhi, 49 in Tamil Nadu, 31 in Gujarat, 30 in Uttar Pradesh, 12 each in Karnataka and West Bengal, 10 in Rajasthan, six in Jammu and Kashmir, five in Punjab, four each in Haryana and Madhya Pradesh, three in Telangana, two in Andhra Pradesh and one each in Assam, Jharkhand and Kerala.

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