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11 Most Mysterious and Sensational Cases of Murder in India
11 Most Mysterious and Sensational Cases of Murder in India
Let’s have a look at some of the most sensational murder cases of India:
NEW EXPRESS
Arushi Talwar and Hemraj Banjade are two names that shook India on
16th May, 2008. The then 14-year-old Arushi was murdered along with 45-
year-old Hemraj and a lot of names appeared on the accused list. The
case aroused a lot of public interest and received incredible amounts of
media coverage.
For the longest time, the nation kept on conjecturing who the murderer
was: was it her father or her mother? Could it be the other two servants?
We don’t know. What we now know is that the parents have been acquitted
and as of now, no one really killed Arushi.
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However, just recently, a report has come out that claims a Class XI
student killed him to postpone the exams. As the picture gets murkier,
many are questioning how the bus conductor came into the picture in the
first place?
3. Jessica Lal
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Anyone who grew up or lived in Delhi in the 90s remembers the Jessica Lal
case. Back in 1999, the headlines on most newspaper read ‘no one killed
Jessica’. Eyewitnesses had amnesia and very few came forward to give an
account of how the aspiring model was shot dead. Finally, it emerged that
businessman Manu Sharma had shot Jessica after she refused to serve
him liquor.
4. Sheena Bora
HUFFPOST
The gory death of Sheena Bora shocked the nation. Even more shocking
was the arrest of her mother Indrani Mukerjea for deliberately plotting her
murder. Mukerjea had never admitted to having two children and even
claimed Sheena was her sister. The murder brought the spotlight onto the
murky financial dealings of Indrani and her husband Peter Mukerjea.
5. Amar Singh Chamkila
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DYNAMITE NEWS
She allegedly died a day after she accused Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar
of stalking her husband on Twitter. When Pushkar’s body was sent for
post-mortem, the conclusion was that she had committed suicide.
However, a report from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences doctors
claimed injury marks, followed by the death of drug overdose.
7. Chacko
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Chacko’s fault was that he resembled a man named Sukumara Kurup. The
latter killed him in order to claim an insurance amount of Rs 8,00,000. As
per reports, Chacko was strangled and his body was burnt inside
Sukumara Kurup’s car.
Sukumara, who is now one of the most wanted criminals in Kerala is said
to have fled abroad and his whereabouts are still unknown. This murder
mystery is officially one of Kerala’s oldest unsolved cases.
8. Adnan Patarwala
MIDDAY
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One of his friends, Maria Susairaj, who even filed a complaint with the
police that he went missing was later found to be involved in the killing. It
was then discovered that Maria’s boyfriend killed Neeraj in a fit of rage,
suspecting that his wife was having an affair. If you want to have a hang of
the movie, you might want to check Not a Love Story – an adaptation that
closely reflects what really happened then.
10. Pramod Mahajan
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We all know Mahajan from his flamboyant life and his son who lately
became part of several TV shows, but have we made our peace with his
murder mystery? The Bharatiya Janata Party politician was killed in broad
daylight inside his house. Pramod was shot dead by his younger brother,
Pravin on April 2006, who immediately walked to the nearest police station
and confessed. I am Pravin… I shot Pramod.” he said. His brother’s open
declaration on the murder surprised a lot of people. Pravin was given life
imprisonment and died in in March 2010 of a suspected brain
haemorrhage.
11. Sharath
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But the real twist in the story came when the police found out that
kidnappers were his friends. A really close friend of the victim, Vishal was
the mastermind behind the murder and abduction. 19-year-old Sharath was
an engineering student and was killed by his friends because they wanted
to clear off a loan.