City teen found murdered; pals suspected

March 28, 2012

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Bangalore, March 28: The mutilated body of a 13-year-old boy was recovered from the foothills of Hanumagiri hill at Ittamadu here on Tuesday morning.


The Subramanyapura police have zeroed in on four boys from a nearby slum as suspects in the alleged murder of Abhishek, a class VIII student of Ittamadu Government High School. A case has been registered and the suspects are being questioned.

Abhishek went missing on Monday evening after appearing for his annual examination. Worried when he did not return even late at night, members of his family launched a search. On Tuesday morning, they contacted the boy with whom Abhishek was last seen.

Sources said by the time the family reached Hanumagiri hill, guided by the boy, police were already there trying to identify a naked body with 13 stab wounds on the forehead, eye and left part of the chest. It was identified as Abhishek’s.

The police immediately detained the boy who had led the family to the spot. Based on information from him, four more boys of the same age group were detained, two of them Abhishek’s classmates and others dropouts from a nearby slum.

The boys reportedly met Abhishek around 4.30 pm on Monday and asked him to join them for a swim in a pond on the other side of Hanumagiri hill. It is alleged the boys were drunk and a brawl ensued amongthem. Abhishek is said to have hit them with a bat and chased them away. The group returned by late evening and took him away.

Michael Raj, a Parish Council member of a church on Hanumagiri Hill, spotted the boy’s body and reported it to the police. He said the incident might have occured between 12.30-1 am, as the neighbouring houses and the church watchman heard the street dogs barking. They ignored the commotion, presuming it to be a pack of dogs fighting, he said.


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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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News Network
February 20,2020

Nagpur, Feb 19: The Central Bureau of Investigation said that it has arrested a former employee of Union Carbide Bhopal, who was absconding since 2016.

A senior CBI official said on Wednesday that the agency sleuths arrested S I Qureshi from Maharashtra’s Nagpur on Tuesday, who was convicted by a local court here in connection with the Bhopal gas tragedy case.

The official further said that he had been absconding since 2016.

He added that the convict would be produced in a district court.

On December 3, 1984, forty tonnes of methyl isocyanate leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide factory and settled over slums in Bhopal

A Bhopal court convicted eight people in 2010 to two years each in jail over the gas plant leak that killed thousands of people.

The eight convicted included the Chairman of the Indian arm of the Union Carbide (UCIL) Keshub Mahindra, Managing Director V P Gokhale, Vice-president Kishore Kamdar, Works Manager J Mukund, Production manager S P Chowdhury, Plant superintendent K V Shetty and Production Assistant Qureshi.

The CBI had taken over the Bhopal gas tragedy case on December 12, 1984.

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