The first three killings came in a space of 72 hours earlier in the week, while the fourth victim, from Bhopal, fell prey a few hours before Dhurve was arrested.
In further progress of the probe into the serial killings case, the two persons arrested for alleged murder of a 16-year-old girl, have confessed to killing two more women and burning their bodies to destroy evidence, a senior police official said on Saturday. Chandrakant Talwar and Sayron Rodrigues were arrested by Goa Crime Branch in Mumbai on Friday for allegedly killing Evita Rodrigues.
By naming a sworn swayamsevak for vice president, the Modi-Shah duo have sent out a clear and positive message to Nagpur, where the RSS headquarters is located, explains N Sathiya Moorthy.
Do you think Pandher will walk free in the other Nithari cases too? Three years on, do you think justice has been done to the victims of the Nithari killings?
What should have ideally been a slow-burn thriller pretty much turns into a game of predictive, uninteresting moments that simply delay the almost obvious climax, notes Divya Nair.
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Maninder Singh Pandher, a businessman, and his servant Surinder Koli have been accused of raping and killing children at his Noida residence.
The eighth chargesheet for the kidnap, rape and murder of Deepali was filed by the agency in the court of Special CBI Magistrate Sapna Mishra.
Till now, police had not found any parts from the torsos of the 17 people killed at Nithari, giving rise to speculation that Pandher and Koli might have been involved in illegal organ trade.
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The direction comes after DGP UP submitted a report on the serial killings mentioning that 19 cases had been registered between December 13, 2006, and January 1, 2007, in connection with the case.
"We have submitted a list of 38 missing children along with their FIRs to the CBI for their consideration and further investigation," said Padmini Kumar, a social worker representing the parents of missing children.
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No charges were framed against co-accused Pandher in the document.
According to the chargesheet filed in the court of Special Judge Sapna Mishra in Ghaziabad, the CBI said Koli had lured nine-year-old Rachna Lal while she was on her way to play on April 10, 2006.
However, the documents attached with the report prepared by the then sub-inspector in-charge of the Nithari police post allegedly had glaring flaws, raising doubts about the police handling of the matter.
Thousands across Assam on Tuesday paid a tearful homage to those who lost their lives in the serial blasts that had rocked the state on October 30, 2008. Ninety people were killed and over 540 were injured when nine serial blasts ripped through four places in the state Guwahati, Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon and Barpeta Road on that 'black friday'.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal said this was not a matter to be mentioned before it since the National Human Rights Commission and the National Commission for Women were looking into it.
"The commission has received a report from the state government. We shall see the report and take appropriate action," NHRC Chairman V Shivraj Patil told reporters in Lucknow on Saturday.
The two were charged with rape and murder and sentenced to death by a lower court in the killings in Nithari, Noida, that horrified the nation with the details of sexual assault, brutal murder and hints of possible cannibalism.
Patrick Graham's crime documentary The Dupatta Killer gives all sides of the story and leaves it to the viewer to fill in the blanks, notes Deepa Gahlot.
Tests revealed that the forensic examination of skeletal remains, including 16 complete and three incomplete skulls, suggested that four of them were of adult females, an equal number of male children and the remaining were of girl children.
Abu Bakar, Saiyad Qureshi, Mohammad Shoeb Qureshi alias Shoeb Bawa and Mohammad Yusuf Ismail alias Yusuf Bhatka, all residents of Mumbai, were on the run for 29 years.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal in a rally in Delhi, comparing him to notorious criminal Charles Sobhraj and accusing him of spreading lies about the BJP government in Haryana mixing poison in the Yamuna river. Modi said Kejriwal's claims are an insult to India and that the AAP is desperate due to the fear of defeat in the upcoming Delhi elections. He also highlighted the BJP's track record of fulfilling promises and urged people to give him a chance to serve them. The attack comes as the Delhi election campaign heats up, with the AAP and BJP locked in a tight race.
A division bench comprising Justices Ashutosh Kumar and Jitendra Kumar disposed of the death reference moved by the state government on the order of a special National Investigation Agency court, and ruled that the four convicts shall serve "30 years in prison".
14 blasts rocked Ahmedabad on Saturday evening killing 15 and injuring more than 100 people. The explosions occurred at Maninagar, Isanpur, Narol circle, Bapunagar, Hatkeshwar and Sarangpur bridge, Sarkej and Odhav and created a wave of panic.
The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the death sentence of Surinder Koli, prime accused in the Nithari serial killings case and domestic help of businessmen Moninder Singh Pandher, whose house in Noida was the scene of a series of horrific rape and killings of several young girls and women, nearly three years ago. A bench of Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice B S Chauhan, while staying the death sentence, sought a response from the CBI.
Thirteen years after 56 people were killed in a series of bomb blasts in Gujarat's Ahmedabad, a special court in the city has concluded the trial against 77 accused, while reserving its verdict in the matter.
A team of Central Bureau of Investigation has arrived in Guwahati to take over the probe into the October 30 serial blasts that rocked four places in Assam, killing 93 and injuring close to 550.
Locals gathered in front of house number D-45 in Sector 31 of Noida soon after the verdict was pronounced and shouted slogans against police and the Central Bureau of Investigation. Rimpa's mother Dolly Halder was also among the protestors.
A special court in Ahmedabad on Friday awarded death sentence to 38 convicts in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case, which had claimed 56 lives and left over 200 injured.
Simranjeet Kaur, whose house in Meerut the CBI raided last week, was summoned to the headquarters of the investigating agency and questioned at length over her alleged proximity with Moninder Singh Pandher, a main accused in the serial killings.
The parents also threatened to return the compensation money and the plots of land given to them by the state government if Rathore had to go from Noida.
"Inordinate delay" in deciding Koli's mercy plea led to the HC verdict.
The duo were produced before special CBI Judge Sapna Misra, who sent them to 14 days remand for the murder of Nanda Devi, Pandher's maid servant.
The bones, portions of jaws, were discovered by the families of victims who have been holding protests in the area for the last three days.
The Allahabad high court on Monday granted bail to Moninder Singh Pandher, a prime accused in the infamous Nithari serial killings, in five cases but he is unlikely to come out of the jail as at least eight other cases of murder were still pending against him.
A suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist was arrested on Tuesday by Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad in connection with the 2011 serial bomb blasts in which 26 people were killed.
The seven were arrested from the Dhomdoma area in the Nalbari district and had been handed over to the Guwahati police for interrogation, district Superintendent of Police Jitmol Doley said.
What goes in favour of Asur 2 is its pace and novelty, even though the approach has all the hokiness of a comic book, observes Deepa Gahlot.
