Latest Murder Case News & Updates

Kolkata, May 10 (IANS) As the investigation into the murder of Chandranath Rath, the personal assistant of West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, is underway the investigators say the car used in the murder was brought from Jharkhand and money was sent online from that car, a senior police officer said on Sunday. The search for the accused is underway based on that source. However, no one has been arrested yet.A Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been formed by the West Bengal Police to …

Ahmedabad, May 9 (IANS) A DNA report has confirmed a positive match in the suspected 1992 murder case in Ahmedabad’s Vatva area, leading the Crime Branch to begin the process of registering an FIR in what investigators describe as a breakthrough in a more than three-decade-old case.​ Confirming the development to IANS, Crime Branch Deputy Commissioner of Police, Ajit Rajian, said: “DNA report has come in the Vatva murder case of 1992. There is a positive match. Now the FIR is being registere…

New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Reiterating that the right to a speedy trial is a fundamental guarantee under Article 21 of the Constitution, the Supreme Court has granted bail to an accused in a murder case who had remained in custody for nearly four years without examination of a single witness. A Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Vijay Bishnoi passed the order while allowing a special leave petition (SLP) filed by Sahil Manoj Machare, challenging a Bombay High Court order that had denied him bail …

Bengaluru, April 22 (IANS) A major twist has emerged in the Bengaluru murder case, where a young man identified as Kiran was allegedly killed by his girlfriend Prema. The accused has now confessed to the crime during police interrogation, police said on Wednesday.According to police sources, Prema admitted that she blindfolded Kiran and tied his hands and legs to a bed, poured kerosene on him, and set him on fire after he refused to marry her and began distancing himself.Deputy Commissioner of P…

Jaipur, Feb 5 (IANS) The chilling Indore honeymoon murder case of Sonam Raghuvanshi had barely faded from public memory when a strikingly similar crime surfaced in Rajasthan’s Sri Ganganagar, this time not on a tourist trip, but on a deserted village road.At the centre of the plot was a newly married woman who allegedly conspired with her longtime lover to eliminate her husband, just three months after marriage.The wife accused of plotting her husband’s killing has been taken into police remand….

Jaipur, Jan 22 (IANS) Nearly nine years after the murder of former Jurathada Sarpanch Sardar Rao, the SC-ST Court in Rajasthan’s Sikar pronounced its verdict on Wednesday. Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and one more accused were acquitted, while three were sentenced to life imprisonment and six others to 10 years each. The court held the accused guilty on Tuesday (January 13).Lawrence appeared via video conference, while the remaining accused were brought to court amid heavy security before the fin…

Mumbai, Dec 27 (IANS) Maharashtra NCP chief and MP Sunil Tatkare on Saturday described the incident of murder in Khopoli of Mangesh Kalokhe (45) as “extremely condemnable” and demanded that Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis constitute a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the incident.Kalokhe, a former councillor and the husband of Manasi Kalokhe, the newly elected Shiv Sena councillor from Ward No. 3, was killed in Khopoli in Raigad district.Tatkare urged the Chief Minister to widen th…