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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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June 17,2020

Moradabad, Jun 17: Two children died after they accidentally got locked inside a car while playing in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad, the police said.

Four children, aged between 4 and 7 years, locked themselves inside the car while playing and were found unconscious soon after, the police added.

"All four children were found unconscious in a car and they were taken to the hospital. Two of them died and the other two are undergoing treatment at the hospital," said Amit Kumar Anand, superintendent of police (city) Moradabad.

The children were related to each other, the police said.

The man who owns the car said the children had locked themselves inside. "When we reached, the children were in an unconscious state. Two of the four children died. The incident occurred around 8 am."

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July 19,2020

Thane, Jul 19: A 34-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly killing his wife after picking up a fight as he did not like the food she cooked, Thane police said.

Sachin Godane, a resident of Gaikwad Pada in Ambernath, locked his two children and an aunt in one room of the house on Friday afternoon and brutally beat up his wife Chandrakala (28) with a log and then strangled her, said Assistant Inspector JB Bhoyer of Shivajinagar police station.

Godane has been remanded in police custody for four days, he added. 

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July 28,2020

Noida, Jul 28: A doctor admitted at a private hospital in Noida has been accused of sexually harassing a patient in his isolation ward, where both were undergoing treatment for COVID-19, the police said.

The 20-year-old woman, in her complaint to the police, alleged that the incident took place on Monday and based on that a case was filed at the local expressway police station, they said.

A senior police official said an investigation is underway and there might be lapses on part of the hospital which allegedly admitted a man and a woman in the same isolation ward, in violation of the norms.

The woman and the doctor had tested positive for coronavirus last week, according to officials.

"The woman was in the isolation ward of the private hospital. There was a man, a medical practitioner, who too was infected with coronavirus and was sharing the ward with her," Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Noida, Ranvijay Singh said.

He said the woman alleged molestation and upon being informed, the police immediately lodged a case and initiated a probe into the matter.

"There appears to be some irresponsibility on part of the hospital too. We are communication with the medical departments to check whether the patients were being kept in accordance with the guidelines," Mr Singh said.

He said the accused is still in isolation but the police will reach out for his statement following due protocols of COVID-19.

"All necessary action will be taken as per the truth that will emerge after a thorough investigation," Mr Singh said.

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