Crime file: Man hammers nail into wife's head; techie refuses to marry lover, held; father killed for not funding auto and more

Suspecting infidelity man hammers nail into wife's head

New Delhi: In a barbaric incident, a man hammered a five inch nail into the forehead of his wife, whom he suspected of infidelity, and left her bleeding for the whole night with their three hapless children, before the neighbour's came to their rescue in the morning. 

Mamta (27) has slipped into coma after the attack while her husband Pappu was arrested yesterday following the incident in South-East Delhi's Sangam Vihar area. The incident took place late Thursday night when Mamta and Pappu were in their room while their three children were sleeping in an adjacent room in their G block residence. "Pappu had been suspecting that Mamta was cheating on him. 

On Thursday night they had an argument over the issue which soon tuned ugly. In a fit of rage, Pappu tied her hands and legs and gagged her with cloths. "He then brought a five inch long nail from outside and hammered it on her forehead. 

After half of the nail went in, he locked the house from outside and fled from the spot," said a police official. It was the children who saw the mother lying in a pool of blood and untied her. They kept crying lying next to her all night. 

It was only in the morning that the landlord heard the children crying and the woman was rushed to a hospital where her condition is stated to be critical. Pappu who hails from Etah in Uttar Pradesh was arrested yesterday by the police. A case of attempt to murder has been registered against him.

Next: Techie refuses to marry lover, held

Techie refuses to marry lover, held

Hyderabad: A former employee of a software firm was arrested for reneging on a promise to marry a 26-year-old woman. Though the accused and the victim had worked for the same firm, they came to know each other over Facebook.

The accused, Sandeep Sinha, 29, dated the woman for more than a year, but recently refused to marry her as they belonged to different castes.

Sinha, a B.Tech graduate, is a native of Vizag while the woman is a BSc (computer science) graduate living in Arya Nagar, Lalapet. Lallaguda inspector Srinivas Reddy, said that though both of them worked for the same firm, they did not know each other and came in contact on Facebook after they left the firm.

“There is an alumni group of the firm on Facebook. The accused and the victim came in contact through this and became friends. Eventually, they fell in love,” he said.

Sinha used to come to Hyderabad and the victim used to go to Vizag to meet him. During their one-and-a-half-year affair, Sinha had promised the woman that he would marry her after convincing their elders.

However, when she asked him about marriage recently, he did not respond.  “When he was asked by the victim about marriage, he refused to marry her.

He also mentioned that since both of them belonged to different castes, they could not marry. He said that while he was from an upper caste, she belonged to a backward caste,” the inspector added.

The victim, who realised that she was cheated, approached the Lallaguda police on Wednesday and lodged a complaint.

The cops registered a case under section 417 IPC (cheating) and the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Sinha was arrested and remanded on Friday.

Next: Father killed for not funding auto

Father killed for not funding auto

Chennai: A 65-year-old, retired employee of Chennai corporation was allegedly beaten to death by his 28-year-old son after he refused to fund him to buy a new autorickshaw. The deceased was identified as Ramaiah, a resident of VOC Nagar in Pulianthope.

According to the police, his son Arjunan, who drives an autorickshaw on lease, had been pestering him for money to buy a vehicle of his own. “However, Ramaiah had been refusing to give him money.

On Thursday night also, they had a fight over the subject and Arjunan allegedly attacked his father with a club. Ramiah suffered injuries on his head. Though he was taken to hospital, he died there,” said the police, who have detained Arjunan.

Next: 16-yr-old boy commits suicide  

16-yr-old boy commits suicide  

Karimnagar: Body of a 16-year-old boy was found from a well on the outskirts of Mustafapur in Bimadevarpally mandal on Friday.

He is believed to have jumped into the well after his paternal uncle reprimanded him for stealing Rs 3,000 his pocket on Tuesday.  The boy has been identified as M. Pranay Kumar, an SSC student at government school in Kotthakonda village.

The boy lost his both parents 10 years ago. He was studying while staying with his uncle. Police registered a case of suspicious death.

Next: Couple ends life after row

Couple ends life after row

Karimnagar: A couple committed suicide by consuming pesticide at their residence at Meelojipally village in   Boinpalli mandal on Friday morning. Family disputes are said to be the cause.

The deceased have been identified as V. Tirupathi, 32, and his wife,  Pochavva, 28. The pair resorted to the extreme step following a quarrel over some petty issue.

While Tirupathi died on the spot, Pochavva breathed her last while being shifted to a hospital,   Boinpalli sub-inspector Upendar said.

Tirupathi brought his wife from her parents’ house in Jagtial three days back. Pochavva went to Jagtial after the couple had a fight a month ago.

The couple had migrated to Warangal district in search of livelihood three years ago. They returned to the village on Thursday evening. They are survived by three girls and a boy. 

Based on a complaint lodged by the relatives of Pochavva a case was   registered under Section 174 (death under suspicious circumstances) of   the Criminal Procedure Code (Cr.P.C).

Investigation is on. The bodies were shifted to Sircilla Government hospital for post-mortem. In a separate incident, a 48-year-old farmer, A. Ganga Reddy, ended his life by consuming poison.

Police said the man was diagnosed with a chronic disease at Malyal mandal headquarters on Friday. Depressed over the ailment, he reportedly ended his life. Ganga   Reddy is survived two daughters and wife.

Next: Valuables worth Rs 50 lakh stolen from trader’s house

Valuables worth Rs 50 lakh stolen from trader’s house

Chennai: Gold weighing 1.25 kg, worth over Rs 35 lakh, 20 kg silver worth Rs 10 lakh and over Rs 4 la­kh in cash were burgled from the house of a fertiliser shop-owner located less than 100 metres from the Kan­agamma Chathiram police station near Tiruttani, in Tir­uvallur district, on Thursday night.

The theft came to light when businessman Ravindra Babu and his family returned home from their native place in Madurai district on Thursday night after conducting his son’s marriage. Babu owns a fertiliser shop, located near the Kanagamma Chathiram police station. His house is situated behind the shop which is near the police station.

The burglars, who seemed to know his schedule very well, had entered the house by breaking open the backside grill of the building. They broke open a bureau and stole 1.25 kg of gold jewellery, 20 kg of silver ornaments and utensils, besides over Rs 4 lakh in cash, police sources said.

A forensic team lifted fingerprints from the scene of cr­i­me. “A police sniffer dog was al­so used to look for evidence,” the police said.

Next: 5kg gold seized from private chit fund

5kg gold seized from private chit fund

Kollam: Kollam East Police on Friday seized five kilograms of unaccounted gold from a private chit fund and arrested the proprietor Sathyan (48) near Uliyankovil here.

The chit fund was identified as Sathyan Finance & Sadgamaya, which was working without proper registration and had a finance deal of over Rs 100 crores.

Police registered a case against the proprietor of the form under Chit Fund Act, Money Lenders Act and Exorbitant Interest Act.

Next: Man held with 1kg gold dust at airport

Man held with 1kg gold dust at airport

Hyderabad: Customs officials at the Rajiv Gandhi International airport took a passenger into custody on Friday afternoon for smuggling a kilogram of gold dust into the city.

The accused, identified as Shaik Altaf Mohin, is a native of Mumbai. According to officials at the airport, Mohin was smuggling the gold dust hidden in packs from Muscat to Hyderabad.

The officials at the immigration thoroughly searched him after they became suspicious and found the gold dust. He was taken into custody, and the gold dust was seized.

Next: Tablet, Rs 49,000 cash stolen from parked car

Tablet, Rs 49,000 cash stolen from parked car

Hyderabad: Some unidentified persons stole a tablet and Rs 49,000 in cash from a parked car near the HDFC Bank in Vanasthalipuram on Friday afternoon.

The accused, who first broke open the window glass, found nothing much in the car and fled with what was kept in the dickey. According to Jagadish, detective inspector, Vanasthalipuram police station, the victim N. Ramanand, a trader, came to the bank in his car.

He got down and went to the bank after locking his car. When he returned after an hour-and-a-half, he found the car damaged and things missing.

The accused, who noticed that there is none in the car, first broke the window glass at the driver’s seat but found nothing valuable. They searched everywhere in the car, but found nothing inside.

“Though they searched inside, they could not get anything. Later, they opened the car dickey, where they found the tablet and the cash and fled away with it.” Jagadish said.

A case has been registered and investigated. Though the victim did not give any clarity on suspicious persons at the bank when he reached there, cops suspect that it would have been done by the snatching gangs which are on a prowl in the area and target customers at the banks.

Next: Mumbai woman killed in human sacrifice ritual, six arrested

Mumbai woman killed in human sacrifice ritual, six arrested

Thane: On the day Maharashtra legislature passed the much-awaited anti-superstition bill, Thane district police arrested six men for murdering a 50-year-old woman in a ritual human sacrifice. 

District Superintendent of Police Anil Kumbhare today said the accused were arrested last night. The victim, whose headless body was found last month, has been identified as Kalawati Ramasrey Gupta, a resident of Santacruz in Mumbai. 

According to police, Kalawati's son, who lived in Uttar Pradesh, kept unwell, and somebody advised her to meet Sarvajit Ramdeo Kahar (57), a godman. Ramdhani Kripashankar Yadav (33), who lived in the same area, took her to Kahar's house in the Airport colony in Santacruz in his autorickshaw on a few occasions. Yadav's wife too kept unwell, while his brother Gulab Yadav (27) had a strained relationship with his wife. 

Both the brothers were advised by Kahar to carry out a human sacrifice, which, he said, would solve their problems. The brothers allegedly decided to kill Kalawati. 

On November 16, 2013, they took her to Gulab Yadav's house in Nalla Sopara, saying that she was to perform some rituals which would cure her son. During the ritual she was beheaded. Kahar's relative Satyanarayan alias Pardeshi Rambali Gound (48), his son Pankaj (22) and Yadav's friend Shyamsunder Jawahar Gupta (42) abetted the murder, according to the police. The accused put the body in a gunny sack and dumped it by the roadside. 

The severed head was thrown off the Wasada bridge on Mumbai-Ahmedabad road. The anti-superstition bill, championed by the slain rationalist Dr Narendra Dabholkar, was passed by the state Assembly on Friday.