QCrime: 7-Yr-Old Raped, Murdered in UP; 3 Bodies Found in Sohna
Here are the top crime stories of the day.
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1. Gurgaon: Three Bodies Found in Sohna Forest, Autopsy Shows Sexual Assault
Three people, including two women, were found dead in a forested area near Gurgaon’s Ghamroj village on Tuesday, 17 April, with police saying their throats had been slit and the women had been sexually assaulted.
A case has been registered against an unknown person, but police said the husband of one of the two women, who has been missing since the incident, is the prime suspect.
Police said the three dead include a resident of Madhya Pradesh’s Papra village, his wife, and a woman from their neighbourhood. Police suspect the couple ventured into the forest with their neighbour and her husband to collect firewood, around 10 am Monday.
(Source: The Indian Express )
2. 7-Year-Old Raped and Murdered During Wedding Ceremony in UP’s Etah
A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered in Etah district, metres away from a wedding she had come to attend. The crime was committed by a youth hired to set up tents for the ceremony, according to the police, and was reported from Sitalpur village, 2 km away from Kotwali Nagar police station in Etah, early on Tuesday, 17 April.
The girl’s body was found in an under-construction home close to the wedding venue. After the discovery, the accused, identified as Sonu Jatav, fled, but was later caught by police. According to sources, the girl, a resident of Sitalpur, had come with her parents to attend the wedding of a local journalist’s sister.
(Source: The Times of India)
3. Ghaziabad: After Shootout With Police, Five Held for Trying to Kill Journalist
Eight days after journalist Anuj Chaudhary was shot at outside his residence in Ghaziabad, five people were arrested Monday, 16 April, following exchange of fire between them and the police. Behind the shooting was a family dispute dating back to 1990, a series of murder and attempt to murder cases filed by both sides, and the killing of the journalist’s uncle in 2003, police said.
Late Monday night, as police were conducting raids in parts of Ghaziabad, a team was allegedly attacked in Ator Nangla village when they asked two accused to stop their motorcycle.
(Source: The Indian Express)
4. Delhi: 78-Year-Old’s Throat Slit at Home
A 78-year-old man was found with his throat slit in his house in west Delhi’s Rajouri Garden Tuesday, 17 April. Police said the house had been ransacked.
According to police, Jugal Kishore’s body was discovered by his wife Shashi, when she returned home from the market. The main door of the flat was open, there were no signs of resistance and the body was lying in a pool of blood. She immediately informed neighbours and a police call was made.
(Source: The Indian Express)
5. Charge-Sheet Filed Against Four DU Students for ‘Stalking’ Irani
The Delhi Police have charge-sheeted four Delhi University students for allegedly misbehaving and stalking Union Minister Smriti Irani in 2017, the police said on Tuesday, 17 April.
The investigating agency filed the charge-sheet in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Snigdha Sarvaria at the Patiala House Court under Sections 354 D (stalking), 509 (uttering any word or making any gesture intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 185 (driving by a drunken person or by a person under the influence of drug) of the Motor Vehicles Act.
(Source: The Hindu)
6. 2 Workers Kill Contractor Over Payment in Delhi
A man have been arrested for bludgeoning a contractor to death after the victim refused to give the accused and his friend the remuneration they had asked for. The incident took place in west Delhi’s Jafarpur Kalan. The second accused has not been arrested yet.
Cops said that they received a call from a local on 1 April, stating that the victim, Lalu, was lying unconscious, in a pool of blood. A police team rushed the man to the hospital, where he was declared brought dead.
(Source: The Times of India)
7. Tattoo Only Lead on Woman Found Dead in Airoli Sewer
The Navi Mumbai police is struggling to identifying a woman whose body was found in a sewer in Airoli on 9 April. A tattoo of a flower on her arm is the only lead, which they are investigating. “At that point, the body had already been in water for at least two to three days, our forensic expert told us,” said an officer of Rabale MIDC police. The decomposed body was found in a sewer carrying industrial waste.
DCP Sudhakar Pathare, under whose jurisdiction the body was found, said they first need to identify the woman.
(Source: The Indian Express)
8. Four Held for ‘Kidnapping, Robbery’ in Sion
Four people have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and robbing a 28-year-old truck driver in Sion on Sunday, 15 April. Police said the four accused allegedly posed as policemen and snatched the wallet and mobile phones from the truck driver and his helper, before assaulting them, said police.
According to police, the complainant truck driver, Raju Rai, was driving towards Parel from Ulwe in Navi Mumbai, along with a helper Santosh Kumar on Sunday morning.
(Source: The Indian Express)
9. Elderly Woman Duped of Rs 50 Lakh with Fake Cheques
An elderly woman has lost her dream of making a home for the aged after being conned of Rs 50 lakh through eight dubious cheque transactions from her bank account in south Delhi’s Neb Serai. The cheque series, through which the bank officials claim they transferred the money, are lying intact with 61-year-old Sukhjit Kaur.
The victim’s parents passed away a year ago. Being an only child, she sold her parents’ house for Rs 2.5 crore. Since the last wish of her parents was to make an old-age home, Kaur decided to invest the entire amount in it.
(Source: The Times of India)
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