Latest Murder Case News & Updates

Bengaluru, July 16 (IANS) A law student, who was allegedly stabbed by the brother of her former boyfriend-turned jilted lover in Bengaluru’s Kodihalli area, succumbed to her injuries, prompting the registration of a murder case and the arrest of both accused, police said on Thursday. The deceased, identified as Amrutha (22), was pursuing a law degree and was employed at a diagnostic centre. Some inputs gathered by police also stated that she had worked at a pizza outlet. The incident took place…

New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday deferred the hearing on the Meghalaya government’s plea challenging the grant of bail to Sonam Raghuvanshi, the prime accused in the Raja Raghuvanshi honeymoon murder case, till July 14 and directed the state authorities to place on record the arrest memo and other documents supplied to the accused at the time of her arrest.A Bench of Justices Manoj Misra and Shree Chandrashekhar did not pass any interim order staying the bail granted to Son…

New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) Fresh findings in the investigation into the alleged murder of Ketan Agarwal have revealed that the two accused, Siya Goyal and her alleged lover Chetan Chaudhary, used coded language and nicknames to communicate, in an attempt to evade surveillance after the crime, police sources said. Police also claim that in an alleged Snapchat conversation between Siya and one of her friends that has surfaced during the probe, she chillingly stated that the “wedding is never going t…

Ranchi, July 1 (IANS) The Himanshu Singh murder case in Jamshedpur has triggered a major political storm in Jharkhand, with the BJP announcing a city bandh in Jamshedpur on July 3, demanding murder charges against police personnel allegedly responsible for negligence in the case.The party has also called for a torchlight procession on the evening of July 2 as a mark of protest against what it claimed was a complete collapse of law and order in the state.Addressing a Press conference at the BJP s…

Shillong, June 19 (IANS) Meghalaya Police will challenge the court order granting bail to Sonam Raghuvanshi, the prime accused in the murder of her husband, Indore-based businessman Raja Raghuvanshi, Director General of Police (DGP) Idashisha Nongrang said on Friday. Speaking to reporters here, Nongrang confirmed that the state police have initiated steps to contest the bail order before a higher court.“We are challenging the court order granting bail to Sonam Raghuvanshi,” the DGP said, rei…

New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) The Supreme Court has granted bail to a man in Uttar Pradesh convicted in a 1983 murder case involving the killing of his younger brother, while issuing notice on his plea challenging the Allahabad High Court judgment that had upheld his conviction and life sentence earlier this year. A Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Atul S. Chandurkar was hearing a special leave petition (SLP) filed by Vijay Singh against the Allahabad High Court’s February 9 judgment af…

New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought a response from the Delhi Police on a bail plea filed by former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Tahir Hussain in the larger conspiracy case linked to the 2020 riots.A division bench of Justices Neena Bansal Krishna and Madhu Jain also sought a reply to his request for condonation of the 67‑day delay in filing an appeal against the order of a Karkardooma court dismissing his bail plea in the case registered under the Unlawful A…

Chennai, June 3 (IANS) Expressing heartbreak over the tragic news of the death of one-and-a-half year old toddler Arshid in Panavoor in Kerala, one of the country’s iconic singers K S Chithra has expressed a wish for such cruel incidents never to happen ever again. Taking to her X timeline to pen her thoughts on the demise of the poor child whose body was found to have sustained 51 injuries, K S Chithra wrote, “The news of the passing of Arshid Mon, who was merely one-and-a-half years old, is he…

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…