Life sentence confirmed for man killing friend filmy style

March 2, 2012

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Bangalore, March 2: Convict pushed victim off a cliff on the pretext of taking pictures with him

The High Court on Thursday confirmed the life sentence of a person who had killed his friend by pushing him off a cliff on the pretext of taking his pictures.

In an incident believed to be inspired by Kannada film ‘Amruthavarshini,’ the accused, Junaid, had murdered Ashwak Ahmed on the pretext of taking pictures with him.

Junaid, a resident of BTM Layout, was working as a cleaner with lorry driver and childhood friend, Ahmed. The latter was residing in Gurguntepalya along with his wife Firdous. Junaid was a regular visitor to Ahmed’s house. According to Firdous’ statement, Junaid had taken a liking for her.

Ahmed sacked Junaid after the police arrested him in a theft case and told him not to visit his house. After a few days, when the couple planned to visit Dodda Dargah near Shivanasamudra on June 30, 1999, Junaid came to their house and insisted on accompanying them to the Dargah to offer prayers. He said he wanted to turn over a new leaf.

According to Firdous, despite her objections, Ahmed decided to take Junaid along. After prayers at the Dargah, Junaid - on the pretext of getting himself photographed with Ahmed (Firdous was told to take the pictures) pushed him off the cliff, snatched the camera from Firdous and escaped.

Following a complaint, the Kollegal police produced the accused before the court, who was then serving his term in the Bangalore central prisons for another offence.

The Mysore Sessions Court, on March 23, 2007, sentenced him to life imprisonment. However, the accused appealed against the sentence before the High Court, pleading not guilty. In his submission, Junaid said the trial court had committed a grave error in holding him guilty of the offence.

He said all the witnesses were relatives of the deceased and that their version suffered from several infirmities. He sought that the order of the Mysore Sessions Court be set aside. State Public Prosecutor Chandramouli, in his submission, said, “Detailed narration by the wife of the deceased is sufficient to sentence him, as the accused tried to take shelter under the alibi that he was in prison (at the time of the crime), but was not able to prove it.”

The division bench comprising Justice K Bhaktavatsala and Justice H S Kempanna dismissed the appeal and confirmed the sentence.


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May 19,2020

Bareilly (UP), May 19: Samajwadi leader Chhotelal Diwakar and his son, Sunil Diwakar, were shot dead in broad daylight in Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday. The entire incident was caught on camera.

The murder was apparently a fallout of a dispute over laying of a road under MGNREGA.

Chhotelal Diwakar had contested the 2017 assembly elections on a Samajwadi Party ticket.

Superintendent of Police, (SP), Sambhal, Yamuna Prasad, said, "Some work was being carried out under MGNREGA due to which some dispute happened. Two people have been shot dead. We will reach the spot of the incident to find more details."

According to his family members, Diwakar and his son had gone for a walk in the fields when the assailants came on a motorbike and after a brief altercation, shot them dead. They fled on foot, leaving their motorbike behind.

A large number of SP workers reached the village soon after the news of the double murder spread.

SP Yamuna Prasad who reached the spot that falls under Behjoi police station, soon after the murders, said that a manhunt has been launched for the assailants. He said that further investigations were underway and the bodies have been sent for post mortem.

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Police sources said the assailant, with a masked face, had ransacked the man's house by break-opening the door at midnight lat night and stabbed Lijeesh on his arm and fled from the scene.

The nearby residents took Lijeesh to a nearby hospital and was put back on quarantine. 

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Kota (Rajasthan), Jun 6: A 14-year-old boy allegedly hanged himself to death on early Saturday morning shortly after he stopped playing PUBG throughout the night and went to sleep, said police. 

Railway Colony police station’s in-charge Hansraj Meena said the boy, a class 9 student and son of an Army man, was found hanging from the grill of the ventilator in his bedroom on early Saturday morning. 

Meena said according to the boy’s family members, the boy had downloaded the gaming programme on his mother’s mobile phone only three days back but had been playing the game virtually continuously for the last three days. 

He kept on playing the game till 3 am in a room in which his brother was studying, said Meena, adding the boy went to adjoining to sleep after that. His body was found hanging from the ventilator’s grill in the morning, he said, adding the boy was rushed to MBS Hospital, where he was declared “brought dead”. 

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