Tag: murder

Nikki Yadav murder case: Victim’s family planning to write to PM for justice

[ad_1]
Jhajjar: The family members and supporters of Nikki Yadav, who was allegedly murdered by her purported husband Sahil Gehlot, so he could marry again, are planning to write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding that the accused be tried in a fast track court and receive stern punishment.
“We, along with 36 other communities, will jointly write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and demand the case be moved to fast track court,” Yadav Samaj district chief Virendra Yadav, commonly known as ‘Daroga’ in the area, said.
Daroga said that in coming days they will hold a meeting with the members of Yadav community and decide their further course of action. “We are also planning a candle march to pay our respects to the deceased Nikki,” he said.
“We want the case to be fast track and Daroga from our community is planning to write a letter to the PM. My fight will continue till the accused is hanged till death,” said Nikki’s father Sunil Yadav, in his house at village Kheri Khummar, two km away from Haryana’s Jhajjar city and 144 km from Delhi.
Daroga said that there is extreme anger among the villagers and community members over the brutal murder of Nikki Yadav. “She should be given justice and the only way to give justice is if the case is heard in a fast track court and the culprit gets capital punishment,” he said.
Days after it was believed that Nikki and Gehlot were both live-in partners, the accused interrogation had revealed that the couple had actually tied a knot at an Arya Samaj temple in nearby Greater Noida in October 2020.
Nikki Yadav’s body was found in a fridge at dhaba, owned by Gehlot, in Mitraon village, outskirts of Delhi on Valentine’s Day (February 14). He had allegedly killed her on February 10 and gone on to marry another woman on the same day.
Police have also arrested Gehlot’s father, his two cousins Ashish and Naveen (a constable in Delhi Police) and two friends, Amar and Lokesh, for hatching a conspiracy to get rid of Nikki and go ahead with the wedding with another girl.

The interrogation of Gehlot revealed that he had earlier planned to push her out of a moving car and show her death as an accident.
As his plan could not work out, he then strangled her with a charging data cable in the car at Nigambodh Ghat parking and then stuffed her body inside the fridge in his dhaba.
Meanwhile, Nikki’s family members said that the murder of their daughter was not done in fit of rage but was a pre-planned conspiracy and so far they are completely satisfied with the ongoing Delhi Police’s Crime Branch investigation.
“As we see the circumstances of the murder, from no possible way it was the result of sudden outrage. They had planned it and Gehlot went to Bindapur flat with the intention to kill her. Everybody who is involved in the murder should be given a death sentence,” Parveen Yadav, Nikki’s uncle, said.
Nikki’s uncle is a Kargil war veteran and had even lost a part of his right arm during the war.
Nikki’s father, who runs an automobile business in Gurugram had shifted back to their house in the village from Dwarka in 2020 after Nikki’s grandfather Ramkishan asked them to, however, Nikki continued her studies in Delhi, said a relative.
[ad_2]
#Nikki #Yadav #murder #case #Victims #family #planning #write #justice
( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 22, 2023
Guwahati twin murder: Motive is still not known, say police

[ad_1]
Guwahati: In the sensational twin murder case in Guwahati, where a woman has been charged with killing her husband and mother-in-law, chopping their bodies into multiple pieces, and later disposing of the body parts in some other place, the police said that the actual motive behind this gruesome crime is still not known.
The murders happened in July and August last year, but came to light only on Monday.
Diganta Barah, the Commissioner of Police, told reporters here, “The accused — Bandana Kalita — filed a missing complaint at the police station for her husband Amarjyoti Dey and mother Shankari Dey, allegedly after killing both of them. She even alleged that the police were not doing enough to trace the missing duo.”
Shankari Dey was a retired state government employee, and she used to live in the city’s Noonmati area while her son Amarjyoti Dey was living in Narengi.
“Nirmalya Dey, the nephew of Sankari Dey, had also filed an FIR in Novemnber last year at Noonmati police station suspecting probable kidnapping of her aunt. Unfortunately, the police could not find much clue in both the missing cases,” the officer said.
However, when Nirmalya Dey later approached the Assam CID, a special team was formed to investigate the whole incident. Meanwhile, the accused Kalita also went to the Police Commissioner’s office demanding a fresh probe.
The special team noted some anomalies in the statements of Nirmalya Dey and Bandana Kalita and initiated an interrogation of them.
“Though Bandana Kalita initially tried to mislead the police more than once, after two days of thorough interrogation, she broke down and confessed her crime,” Barah added.

Narrating the chain of events, the officer said that Kalita killed her husband and mother-in-law with the help with two of her close friends, Dhanki Deka and Arup Deka.
On July 26 last year, Kalita went to Shankari Dey’s house with Arup Deka, strangled the lady to death, and later beheaded her with a sharp machete. The body was later cut into three pieces.
In the meantime, her other associate, Dhanki Deka, was waiting outside the house with polythene bags. They packed the body parts in polythene bags, covered them with rugs, and drove to the Shillong-Cherapunjee Road in neighbouring Meghalaya in the wee hours of July 27 to dispose of the body parts and the murder weapon.
“On August 17, Kalita, Arup Deka, and Dhanki Deka went to Amarjit Dey’s house and hit him with a heavy rod. As Dey lay unconscious, his head was chopped off and his body was cut into five pieces. The next morning, the trio followed the earlier tactic and disposed of the body parts in a dense forest in Meghalaya’s Dawki area,” Barah said.
The senior police officer added that Dhanki Deka has been arrested from Tinsukia, while another accused, Arup Deka, was nabbed by the police in Guwahati.
“A special police team went with the accused persons to the place where Shankari Dey’s body was disposed of. Some of the body pieces could be recovered and efforts are on to retrieve Amarjit Dey’s body parts,” the officer said.
When Barah was asked about the motive behind the heinous crime, he said, “A lot of investigation needs to be carried out to reach a conclusion.”
[ad_2]
#Guwahati #twin #murder #Motive #police
( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 20, 2023
Budget session: Oppn to target Odisha govt over minister’s murder

[ad_1]
Bhubaneswar: The budget session of Odisha assembly will be stormy as Opposition BJP and Congress have decided to target the state government over the brutal murder of minister Naba Kishore Das.
The BJP held its legislative party meeting on Monday while the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and Congress would hold their meetings on Tuesday to prepare strategies for the session.
“A cabinet minister was killed in broad daylight by a police official. Though 23 days have passed since the murder of Naba Das, the crime branch is still in dark about the conspirator behind the murder case,” said BJP chief whip Mohan Majhi.
Alleging there is no law and order in the state, Majhi said his party will raise the minister’s murder case as its major issue in the budget session.
Apart from the murder case, the BJP will also raise farmers’ plight, irregularities in Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), hijack of free rice scheme of central government and sexual harassment case against Tirtol BJD MLA during the session.
Similarly, the Congress party will also raise the murder case. Congress legislature party leader Narasingha Mishra said the main issue for the budget session is deteriorating law and order situation in the state.
How can the government, which has failed to protect its own minister, provide safety and security to the people and their property?, he asked.
The law and order situation has collapsed in the state. The killing of Naba Das in broad daylight by a policeman showed that ‘jungle raj’ prevails in the state, Mishra alleged.

The Congress leader alleged that Das’ murder was not accidental. “It did not occur all of a sudden, but as a result of a deep-rooted conspiracy,” claimed Mishra.
The Congress party would also raise issues like rising crime in the state, mismanagement in paddy procurement, unemployment and inflation, he informed.
On the other hand, the treasury bench has decided to raise the central government’s neglect issue to counter the Opposition. The ruling party would raise reduction of the budgetary allocation for paddy procurement and discontinuation of distribution of 5 kg free rice under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY).
The BJD will also raise the issue relating to Jayanarayan Mishra, who allegedly manhandled a lady police officer.
Government chief whip Prasanta Kumar Muduli said the ruling party is always ready to discuss any issue, which is in the interest of the state and its people.
Strategy to counter the opposition will be decided at the BJD legislature party meeting to be held on Tuesday, he said.
The budget session will be held in two phases – first phase from February 21 to March 1 and second phase from from March 10 to April 6.
The budget session will start with the address of Governor Ganeshi Lal on Tuesday while the annual budget for the year 2023-24 will be presented in the House on February 24.
[ad_2]
#Budget #session #Oppn #target #Odisha #govt #ministers #murder
( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 20, 2023
Govind Pansare murder: Several outfits hold ‘jawab do’ protest

[ad_1]
Nagpur: Several political and social outfits on Monday held a protest against the 2015 murder of communist leader and rationalist Govind Pansare.
He and his wife were shot at in Kolhapur city on February 15, 2015. Pansare died five days later, while his wife survived.
Among the outfits that took part in the ‘jawab do’ (give answers) protest at Nagpur’s Samvidhan Square were the Communist Party of India, the Janata Dal (Secular), the Nationalist Congress Party, the Socialist Unity Centre of India and the Maharashtra Andhshraddha Nirmoolan Samiti.
“It has been eight years since Comrade Pansare was killed but the police has still not arrested the real conspirators. Only some suspects have been arrested,” alleged CPI (Nagpur) secretary Arun Wankar.
Charges were framed against 10 accused in the case by a court in Kolhapur in January this year, which sets the criminal trial to begin.
The 10 accused have been charged under Indian Penal Code sections for murder, attempt to murder, conspiracy as well as provisions of the Arms Act.
Subscribe us on

[ad_2]
#Govind #Pansare #murder #outfits #hold #jawab #protest
( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 20, 2023
Bhiwani murder case: Arms license of cow vigilante Monu Manesar to be cancelled

[ad_1]
Jaipur: A Rajasthan court on Saturday sent one accused to police remand for five days in connection with the alleged abduction and murder of two men by cow vigilantes, while Haryana authorities moved to cancel the arms licence of Bajrang Dal member Monu Manesar who is among the four evading an arrest in the case.
The family members of Nasir (25) and Junaid alias Juna (35), residents of Ghatmeeka village in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan whose charred bodies were found inside a burnt car in Loharu in Bhiwani in Haryana on Thursday morning, met Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot who assured them that all the accused would be arrested at the earliest.
Rajasthan police had booked five persons linked to Bajrang Dal in the case and arrested one of them Rinku Saini.
Separately, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said that Rajasthan and Haryana police were cooperating and the guilty would not be spared.
Meanwhile, Haryana police said they are investigating a complaint filed in Nuh by the mother of one of the accused, Shrikant Pandit, alleging that Rajasthan police had forcibly taken away her two other sons after assaulting her family members, including her full-term pregnant daughter-in-law who lost her child after the incident.
Varun Singla, Superintendent of Police of Nuh, said that a probe has been initiated on the complaint from Dulari Devi and they were verifying the facts.
AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi, who was in Rajasthan on a two-day visit and met the grieving families in Bharatpur, alleged that “delay” by the Rajasthan government in acting on the missing complaint lodged by the family members of two men allowed the accused to flee the state. He also accused the BJP of protecting such vigilante groups.
Members of Hindu outfits including Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal held a protest in Gurugram and other districts in Haryana, demanding a CBI inquiry in the case.

“The arrested accused Rinku Saini was produced before the court today from where he was sent to five days police remand. The accused will be further interrogated,” Station House Officer of Gopalgarh Ramnaresh Meena said.
Saini, 32, a resident of Firozpur Jhirka in Haryana’s Nuh district, was arrested on the basis of interrogation and technical analysis on Friday night. He works as a taxi diver and was involved with a cow vigilante group, the Rajasthan police said.
One of the key accused in the case is Mohit Yadav alias Monu Manesar, the Gurugram district president of Bajrang Dal who was a member of the district cow protection task force.
He was earlier named in an attempt to murder case registered at Pataudi police station in Gurugram on February 7 and police said they were trying to nab him.
Officials said they have started the process of cancellation of his arms licence.
DCP Manesar Manbir Singh under the rules, an arms licence is cancelled if the licence holder is booked for a heinous crime.
“The process of cancellation of the arms license of Monu Manesar has started and it will be cancelled soon,” he said.
Monu, who frequently courts controversy over the actions of his cow protection group, had posted a video on social media denying his involvement in the case.
He is known for sharing videos of vigilantes chasing, confronting and nabbing alleged cow smugglers. The videos, mostly live streams, have thousands of views and comments.
Junaid had a criminal record of cattle smuggling and five cases were registered against him at different police stations, a police officer said.
“Family members had demanded justice and early arrest of all the accused. Chief Minister has assured that the accused will be arrested and cooperation from Haryana will be sought if it is required,” Rajasthan Minister of State for Education Zahida Khan, who led the delegation which met Gehlot, told reporters.
Owaisi said that it is not a matter of Muslims, but of all those people who believe in rule of law and the Constitution.
“Nobody has the right to take the law into their hands. Otherwise where will be the need for police, administration and courts,” he said.
“Had the Rajasthan government taken immediate action on the missing complaint related to Junaid and Nasir, then they (abductors) would have not been able to cross the Rajasthan border,” Owaisi told reporters He said it was a painful incident.
“If the BJP keeps sheltering such radicals then it is not right for the country. These incidents occur only and only because the BJP helps such organisations, gives them strength and shelters them due to which police and administration do not take immediate action,” Owaisi alleged.
But protesting members of right-wing Hindu outfits on Saturday demanded an apology from the Gehlot government, accusing it of “defaming” Bajrang Dal and its members and alleged that Rajasthan police was wrongly implicating members of cow protection groups in the case.
“There should be an impartial inquiry into this entire matter first because we feel that the Gehlot government, by adopting a policy of appeasement under a conspiracy, wants to gain political mileage in the upcoming elections by implicating the cow vigilantes in false cases,” said Ajit Yadav, Gurugram district president of the VHP.
In Nuh, complainant Dulari Devi alleged that a team of over 40 personnel of Rajasthan police forcibly entered her house and asked about the whereabouts of her son Shrikant.
“When I told them that my son was not at home, they thrashed me and my son’s pregnant wife Kamlesh. They uttered abuses and took away my two sons Vishnu and Rahul with them and we still don’t know about their whereabouts,” she claimed.
Devi claimed that her daughter-in-law had completed nine months of pregnancy.
“The cops also kicked the pregnant wife of Shri Kant on her stomach and she started having stomach pain. She was admitted to Mandi khera hospital and soon after referred to Nalhar Medical College where her child was born dead,” she claimed and added her daughter-in-law is still hospitalised in critical condition.
“Both my sons Vishnu and Rahul should be recovered and strict action should be taken against the culprits,” Dulari said in her complaint.
A senior police officer said on condition of anonymity that the family buried the body of the child without a postmortem. In this situation, it is a matter of investigation first.
“As per the complaint, we are verifying the facts. Further action will be taken as per the law,” said SP Singla while speaking to PTI.
Superintendent of Police of Bharatpur Shyam Singh had said the FIR was registered at Gopalgarh police station against five people – Anil, Shrikant, Rinku Saini, Lokesh Singhla and Monu – on the basis of a complaint lodged by the victims’ family members.
The accused have been booked under sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 365 (kidnapping), 367 (grievously hurt after kidnapping) and 368 (wrongfully keeping in confinement) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), he said.
On the victims’ families alleging the Bajrang Dal’s role in the killings, the Rajasthan BJP has said it is not justified to malign an organisation before the investigation is completed.
[ad_2]
#Bhiwani #murder #case #Arms #license #cow #vigilante #Monu #Manesar #cancelled
( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 18, 2023
Bhiwani murder case: VHP, Bajrang Dal seek ‘fair probe’

[ad_1]
Gurugram: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bajrang Dal on Saturday submitted a memorandum to the President through the Gurugram district administration, seeking a CBI probe into the death of two Muslim men from Rajasthan whose bodies were found at a car in Haryana’s Bhiwani district.
The memorandum was accepted by ‘Naib Tehsildar’ Sushil Kumar.
“We demand a fair probe into the matter. Those named in the FIR are associated with the Bajrang Dal but whether they were involved in the crime or not is yet to be known. We also condemn the incident as extremely unfortunate and stringent action needs to be taken against those who are guilty,” Kulbhushan Bhardwaj, an advocate, said.
Criticising the Rajasthan Police, he said the name of Bajrang Dal was being dragged into the case due to “political bias”.
“The accused must be punished after ‘a fair investigation’ into the case. Two state police are involved in the case, so the matter should be investigated by an independent agency. Till the completion of the probe, no one should be nabbed,” Devender Singh, a member of VHP, said.
Subscribe us on
[ad_2]
#Bhiwani #murder #case #VHP #Bajrang #Dal #seek #fair #probe

( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 18, 2023
Nikki Yadav murder: Delhi court sends 5 accused to 2-day custody

[ad_1]
New Delhi: A Delhi court has sent Sahil Gehlot and four co-accused in the Nikki Yadav murder case, to two-day police custody.
Gehlot had strangled the 23-year-old woman at Kashmiri Gate on February 10.
The police had produced the five arrested people before the court on Friday night.
On Wednesday, the court had sent Gehlot to five-day police custody for interrogation.
In a recent development, Gehlot has told the investigators that the two had married in 2020.
Police have also arrested Gehlot’s father, his two cousins Ashish and Naveen (Constable in Delhi Police) and two friends Amar and Lokesh for hatching a conspiracy to get rid of Yadav and go ahead with the wedding with another girl.
According to a senior police official, the prime accused Gehlot was interrogated at length during police custody and disclosed that Yadav was dissuading him from marrying someone else as they had already solemnised their marriage in 2020.
“She was pleading with him not to go ahead with the marriage fixed by his family with another girl on February 10. However, Sahil along with his father, two cousins and two friends hatched the conspiracy and planned to remove the deceased from their way,” said the official.

“Sahil executed the plan and murdered her and informed the other co-accused persons about it on the same day and then all of them went ahead with the marriage ceremony,” said the official.
“All the five co-accused were thoroughly interrogated and arrested after verifying and ascertaining their role,” the official added.
According to the official, on the night of February 9, Gehlot, a resident of Mitraon village, went to meet the woman at her Uttam Nagar residence where she lived with her younger sister.
“Sahil stayed there for two-three hours and later both of them went to Nizammudin railway station. But as they could not get tickets to Goa, they decided to go to Himachal Pradesh instead and reached ISBT, Kashmere Gate,” said the official.
When the duo reached ISBT, an argument broke out between them. He then strangled Nikki with his mobile phone data cable inside the car, probably around 8 a.m on February 10, drove to his dhaba to hide her body, and then proceeded with his wedding on February 10.
[ad_2]
#Nikki #Yadav #murder #Delhi #court #sends #accused #2day #custody
( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 18, 2023
Hyderabad: AIMIM demands murder case against Medak cops over man’s death

[ad_1]
Hyderabad: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has demanded that policemen involved in the alleged torture of a youth leading to his death in Telangana’s Medak district be booked for murder.
A 35-year-old daily wage labourer, Mohammad Qadeer, on Friday succumbed to the injuries he had sustained due to torture by the police.
The man was picked up from his sister’s house in Hyderabad on January 29 on suspicion of being involved in a theft case and was brought to Medak.
In a statement while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Medak, he alleged that he was kept in custody for five days and beaten up by policemen though he kept telling them that he was innocent.
“The cops said the person involved looks like me,” he said.
The police let him off on February 2 when he was unable to move his hands. They (police) asked him to tell others that he was kept in custody for one night. They also asked him to sign a paper and as he was unable to even hold the pen, one of the policemen signed the paper.
Qadeer named the two constables and the Sub-Inspector (SI). He said while the SI only slapped him twice or thrice, the two constables beat him up all over the body.
Due to the alleged torture, Qadeer could not stand on his feet, and his kidneys were also damaged. His wife Siddeshwari, alleged that police used third-degree methods on him. On February 9, he was admitted to a hospital in Medak.

As Qadeer’s condition kept deteriorating, he was referred to Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad for better treatment. However, he succumbed to his injuries on February 17 and is survived by his wife and two children.
The body was handed over to the family members early Saturday morning after autopsy and it was later taken to Medak for last rites.
Qadeer’s death triggered public outrage. Local Muslim community leaders urged Bharat Rastra Samiti (BRS) MLA M. Padma Devender Reddy to take action against the policemen involved.
Subsequently, the MLA spoke with the Medak Superintendent of Police (SP) Rohini Priyadarshini, demanding an investigation into the incident.
The SP transferred SI Rajshekar and the two constables, Pavan and Prashanth.
AIMIM MLA from Hyderabad, Kausar Mohiuddin visited Medak and attended the funeral on Saturday morning. He slammed the police for the restrictions imposed on the funeral and questioned if Qadeer was a “naxalite or terrorist”.
The MLA demanded that the three policemen involved in the case should be booked for murder. He said the FIR should be changed to include the names of the SI and the two constables.
[ad_2]
#Hyderabad #AIMIM #demands #murder #case #Medak #cops #mans #death
( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 18, 2023
Brazil ministers to visit site of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira’s murder

[ad_1]
Indigenous activists are planning to take some of Brazil’s top ministers to the spot where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were murdered in the Amazon rainforest amid reports security forces are poised to launch a major environmental clampdown in the remote border region.
Leaders of Univaja, the Indigenous association for which Pereira worked in Brazil’s Javari valley, said senior politicians, including justice minister Flávio Dino and the minister for Indigenous peoples Sônia Guajajara, would travel there on 27 February.
The visit is part of a high-profile push by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s new government to beat back the illegal miners, loggers and poachers who wrought environmental havoc during the four-year term of his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.
Last week special forces operatives from the environmental protection agency Ibama and federal police launched what is expected to be a months-long operation to drive tens of thousands of illegal miners from the Yanomami indigenous territory after claims its 28,000 inhabitants had faced “genocide” under Bolsonaro.
Beto Marubo, one of Univaja’s main leaders, said the government delegation would be taken to the decrepit riverside base which guards the entrance to the Javari Valley territory, the world’s largest refuge for Indigenous tribes living in isolation.
The ministers would also be taken to the spot where Phillips, a British journalist who reported for the Guardian, and Pereira, a Brazilian Indigenous expert, were shot dead on 5 June last year as they traveled by boat down the Itaquaí river.
“We will show them,” said Marubo. “This is going to be a historic moment.”
As the activists spoke, the Brazilian newspaper O Globo reported that the defense ministry planned to launch a “mega-operation” in the Javari valley on the same day as the ministerial visit. The springboard for that operation will reportedly be Atalaia do Norte, the isolated river town Phillips and Pereira were trying to reach when they were attacked by a trio of men apparently enraged by Pereira’s defense of the region’s Indigenous communities.

An aerial view taken from a Brazilian helicopter patrolling the area of Atalaia do Norte in the search for Phillips and Pereira in June 2022. Photograph: João Laet/AFP/Getty Images
The Univaja activists welcomed the new government’s moves to protect Indigenous communities and the environment but voiced skepticism about the “mega-operation”. Rather than a cinematic, headline-grabbing crackdown, Beto Marubo said they wanted to see a forceful, long-term intervention that would protect Indigenous communities and activists from ongoing violence.
“The threats continued [after Phillips and Pereira were murdered]. The invasions continue. We are constantly being threatened … No one is safe in our region – be they Indigenous people or those we call ‘the whites’,” said Paulo Marubo, Univaja’s president.
Paulo Marubo said urgent government action was now needed in the Javari valley – which, as well as environmental crime, has become a major thoroughfare for cocaine produced over the border in Peru – “so that what happened to the Yanomami Indigenous territory doesn’t happen here”.
“We lost a great friend,” he said of Pereira. “And we do not feel safe on our own land … There is no security in our region … We are human beings too. We have lived on these lands for thousands of years … and we are the greatest protectors of the forest.”
The planned ministerial visit to the Javari is another highly symbolic gesture of how Brazil’s attitude towards the environment and environmental defenders has changed since power passed from Bolsonaro to Lula on 1 January.
After Phillips and Pereira went missing, Bolsonaro’s administration faced international condemnation for dragging its heels with the search effort. Bolsonaro claimed the men had embarked on an “ill-advised adventure”. No ministers visited the Javari region in the days or months after their murders.
Lula’s ministers, in contrast, have voiced solidarity with the families of the murdered men and the Indigenous communities whose plight they were chronicling when they died. After Lula’s election last year, his environment minister, Marina Silva, said the new government would battle to honour the memory of the rainforest martyrs killed trying to safeguard the Amazon.
[ad_2]
#Brazil #ministers #visit #site #Dom #Phillips #Bruno #Pereiras #murder
( With inputs from : www.theguardian.com )

February 16, 2023
Nikki Yadav murder case: Accused taken to crime scene at Kashmiri Gate

[ad_1]
New Delhi: The police team probing the Nikki Yadav murder case took the accused Sahil Gehlot to the crime scene in Kashmiri Gate where he had allegedly killed her, police sources on Thursday.
Sources said that the murder was allegedly committed near the Kashmiri Gate area and Gehlot then drove with the body all the way to his dhaba near village Mitraon – a distance of around 45 km – where he stuffed it in a refrigerator and proceeded coolly with his wedding on February 10
Meanwhile, police teams are also scanning CCTV around the place and on the route to verify all this.
“The complete sequence is being examined so that the exact place and time of Nikki’s murder can be known. Police have also summoned Ashish, Gehlot’s brother, in whose car he strangled Nikki with a data cable, for questioning,” said the sources.
Sources also said that the police team will also take Gehlot to Nizamuddin and Anand Vihar railway stations, where he had taken Yadav in the car the day he killed her.
According to the official, on February 9 night, the accused Gehlot, a resident of Mitraon village, went to meet the woman at her Uttam Nagar residence where she lived with her younger sister.
“Gehlot stayed there for two-three hours and later both of them went to Nizammudin railway station. But as they could not get tickets to Goa, they changed their plan to go to Himachal Pradesh and reached ISBT, Kashmere Gate,” said the official.
“When the duo reached ISBT, an argument broke out between them. In between the fight, Gehlot kept receiving back-to-back calls from his family, which he says triggered him to his threshold point and he turned violent,” said a source.

He then strangled Nikki with his mobile phone data cable inside the car, probably around 8 a.m on February 10, drove to his dhaba to hide her body, and then, proceeded with his wedding on February 10.
[ad_2]
#Nikki #Yadav #murder #case #Accused #crime #scene #Kashmiri #Gate
( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 16, 2023