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  • Bhopal Horror! Man Strangulates Wife Over Suspected Affair; Takes Body In Auto To Burn, Buries Later – Chilling Details |

    Bhopal: A 26-year-old man allegedly strangled his wife to death after suspecting her of having an affair, took the body in his auto-rickshaw, burnt it and then buried it near a dump yard in Bhopal, police said on Sunday. The incident took place on May 21 and the man, identified as Nadeem Uddin, was arrested on Saturday, said Nishatpura police station sub-inspector MD Ahirwar, who is the investigation officer in the case.

    The police have also recovered some unburnt body parts of the 22-year-old victim and sent them for an examination, he said. The woman was staying at her parents’ home in Murli Nagar after her relationship with her husband turned sour, he said.

    She went missing on May 21 following which her parents lodged a police complaint. The Nishatpura police started an investigation and picked up the man who, during questioning, admitted to have killed his wife, the official said. The accused told the police he suspected his wife was in a relationship with another man, he said.

    On May 21, the accused called his wife on her mobile phone and asked her to come to Karond crossing. When she met him, the accused took her mobile phone and after seeing a video in it, he got angry and in a fit of rage, he allegedly strangled her to death, Ahirwar said.

    He then took the body in his auto-rickshaw to a spot about 2 km away and burnt it after pouring kerosene on it at a waste dump where later buried it, the official said. Some unburnt body parts have been recovered and sent for an examination, he said. The accused has been booked under Indian Penal Code section 302 (murder) and other charges, the official said.

    The police were interrogating the accused and conducting further investigation into the case, he added.

  • Delhi Jal Board: Delhi L-G pens open letter to CM Kejriwal, slams govt over water scarcity issues

    Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena has written an open letter to jailed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, claiming the death of a woman in a fight over fetching water reflects the government’s failure and Water Minister Atishi used the incident for “narrow political goals”. Atishi hit back at Saxena over the open letter, holding him responsible for the stoppage of Delhi Jal Board (DJB) works.

    The Delhi water minister had a few days ago written to the L-G, asking him to suspend the CEO of Delhi Jal Board (DJB) after a woman was killed following a quarrel with her neighbour over fetching water from a common tap in the Farsh Bazar area of northeast Delhi.

    In the note, Atishi urged Saxena to “institute an independent enquiry into the acts of omission and commission of the chief secretary, as well as officers of the finance department, urban development department and DJB”. Days after the communication, Saxena penned a strongly worded open letter to Kejriwal, currently lodged in Tihar jail after his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case linked to the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy scam case.

    “I was deeply distressed at the insensitive communication from the Minister for Water… Atishi on Sunday. While I was yet to receive the letter, it characteristically found its way on various social and mainstream media platforms, the moment it was signed. She has chosen to use the unfortunate death of a woman in East Delhi for narrow and partisan political goals,” he charged.

    Having underlined the inadequate supply of water as the cause behind the incident, Atishi has ironically indicted her own government of more than nine years, the L-G said. “Her note indeed is a prima facie admission of guilt, inaction and inefficiency over the past almost 10 years,” he said in the letter. Asserting that this “unfortunate incident (woman’s death) is not the only such case of its kind in the context of Delhi”, he said many such incidents over water scarcity have happened in the past primarily due to the failure of the government.

    “Such instances have become a recurrent phenomenon year after year and have been widely reported in media over the last 10 years. I am enclosing a snapshot of some news clippings, starting 2017 for illustration. Water woes in the capital, especially in settlements where the poor live, have exacerbated over the last decade.

    “Your minister’s hasty missive to me is an admission of these failures and defaults of performance of your government and amount to facile attempts at shrugging responsibility off, a complex problem,” he added.

    Saxena cited official figures to highlight his points. He cited The Economic Survey 2023-24, tabled in the recent Budget Session of the Delhi Assembly.

    “Over the last decade, water treatment capacity grew marginally from 906 MGD to 946 MGD, barely a 4.4 per cent increase. During the same period, the population of the city has grown significantly by 15 per cent.

    “The overall shortfall in water supply amounts to about 290 MGD. Of the total water being supplied, 120 MGD comes from groundwater extraction, which is also a gross exaggeration. I am sure that you are aware that of the 16 Ranney wells, five are non-functional. Similarly, a large number of tubewells are also dysfunctional,” he added.

    The percentage of “unaccounted for water” — a sum of water leakages by way of transmission and distribution losses, water theft and non-payment of dues — saw a sharp increase from 45 per cent in 2015 to 58 per cent in 2022-2023, the L-G said.

    “By implication, in 2015, of the 906 MGD of water treated, only 498 MGD was accounted for. In 2022-23, of the 946 MGD treated, barely 397 MGD is accounted for. Accordingly, over the last decade, net water availability has decreased by more than 100 MGD due to the criminal neglect by your Government,” Saxena added.

    He said that of the about 2.5 crore people in the city, more than two crore are deprived of drinking water supply in varying degrees, especially in unauthorized colonies, slum clusters and to a lesser extent, even in organized developed colonies.

    “It simply points to the fact that there has been no effort whatsoever during the last ten years for plugging the leaks and we seem to be spending thousands of crores in pumping water into a leaking bucket,” the L-G said.

    Hitting back at Saxena, Atishi held him responsible for stopping DJB’s works

    The L-G encouraged the officers who obstructed work and did not take any action against them despite repeated requests, the Delhi water minister alleged.

  • Soumya Vishwanathan murder case: Delhi court likely to pronounce order on sentence on Thursday

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: A Delhi court is likely to pronounce on Thursday its order on the quantum of sentence against the five accused in the killing of television journalist Soumya Vishwanathan in 2008.

    Vishwanathan, who was working with a leading English news channel here, was shot dead in the wee hours of September 30 on Nelson Mandela Marg while she was returning home from work.

    Police had claimed that the motive behind the killing was robbery.

    On October 18, Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Ravindra Kumar Pandey convicted Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla, Baljeet Malik and Ajay Kumar for the offence of murder and common intention under the IPC.

    They were also held guilty under provisions of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) for committing organised crime resulting in the death of the person.

    The offences entail the death penalty as the maximum sentence.

    The court also convicted the fifth accused Ajay Sethi under section 411 (dishonestly receiving stolen property) and MCOCA provisions for conspiring to abet, aid or knowingly facilitate organised crime and for receiving the proceeds of organised crime.

    “Be put up for order on sentence after compliance of guideline, on October 26,” the court had said. Follow The New Indian Express channel on WhatsApp

    NEW DELHI: A Delhi court is likely to pronounce on Thursday its order on the quantum of sentence against the five accused in the killing of television journalist Soumya Vishwanathan in 2008.

    Vishwanathan, who was working with a leading English news channel here, was shot dead in the wee hours of September 30 on Nelson Mandela Marg while she was returning home from work.

    Police had claimed that the motive behind the killing was robbery.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    On October 18, Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Ravindra Kumar Pandey convicted Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla, Baljeet Malik and Ajay Kumar for the offence of murder and common intention under the IPC.

    They were also held guilty under provisions of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) for committing organised crime resulting in the death of the person.

    The offences entail the death penalty as the maximum sentence.

    The court also convicted the fifth accused Ajay Sethi under section 411 (dishonestly receiving stolen property) and MCOCA provisions for conspiring to abet, aid or knowingly facilitate organised crime and for receiving the proceeds of organised crime.

    “Be put up for order on sentence after compliance of guideline, on October 26,” the court had said. Follow The New Indian Express channel on WhatsApp

  • Two accused arrested for doctor’s murder in UP’s Sultanpur

    By PTI

    SULTANPUR: Two accused in the brutal murder of a doctor about a fortnight ago, including the main accused carrying a cash reward of Rs 50,000, were arrested here on Monday, a senior official said.

    Main accused Ajay Narayan Singh and his associate Deepak Singh in the murder of Dr Ghanshyam Tripathi (53) were arrested and sent to jail, Superintendent of Police (SP) Somen Burma said.

    Before the arrest of these two accused, two others – Jagdish Narayan Singh and Vijay Narayan Singh – had already been arrested and sent to jail, Burma said.

    The doctor, a resident of Shastri Nagar in Kotwali Nagar and working at the Jaisinghpur Community Health Centre, was allegedly thrashed by the main accused and his men over a land dispute, leading to his death.

    A case under sections 302 (murder), 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) and 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code and the Criminal Law Amendment Act was registered against the main accused, the SP had earlier said.

    A delegation of the Indian Medical Association had met the district magistrate and sought justice for the doctor’s family.

    According to the SP, Dr Tripathi had purchased a land parcel from Ajay Narayan Singh.

    “The accused were demanding more money and were not giving the possession of the land to the doctor,” Barma had said.

    SULTANPUR: Two accused in the brutal murder of a doctor about a fortnight ago, including the main accused carrying a cash reward of Rs 50,000, were arrested here on Monday, a senior official said.

    Main accused Ajay Narayan Singh and his associate Deepak Singh in the murder of Dr Ghanshyam Tripathi (53) were arrested and sent to jail, Superintendent of Police (SP) Somen Burma said.

    Before the arrest of these two accused, two others – Jagdish Narayan Singh and Vijay Narayan Singh – had already been arrested and sent to jail, Burma said.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    The doctor, a resident of Shastri Nagar in Kotwali Nagar and working at the Jaisinghpur Community Health Centre, was allegedly thrashed by the main accused and his men over a land dispute, leading to his death.

    A case under sections 302 (murder), 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) and 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code and the Criminal Law Amendment Act was registered against the main accused, the SP had earlier said.

    A delegation of the Indian Medical Association had met the district magistrate and sought justice for the doctor’s family.

    According to the SP, Dr Tripathi had purchased a land parcel from Ajay Narayan Singh.

    “The accused were demanding more money and were not giving the possession of the land to the doctor,” Barma had said.

  • ‘Killed her because I got scared’: UP man who kidnapped toddler, kept body in bag 

    By PTI

    NOIDA: The Noida Police on Tuesday said they have arrested a man who is accused of killing his neighbour’s two-year-old daughter whose body was found stuffed in a backpack hung behind a door at his rented accommodation.

    The accused Raghvendra alias Raghav Singh was arrested on Tuesday from a prepaid taxi booth near the Ghaziabad railway station, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central Noida) Rajiv Dixit said. 

    Singh had kidnapped the toddler on April 7 from her home in the Devla village and wanted to demand ransom for her release after he learnt that her father had made some money recently, he said.

    A missing person’s complaint was lodged at the local police station the next day. 

    While the police had launched an investigation to find the child, her body was found on April 9 from Singh’s accommodation after other residents of the building noted a foul smell emanating from it, Dixit said.

    The accused and the victim’s family live as tenants in the same building in the Surajpur police station area, he said.

    The body was stuffed in a backpack and there was no one in the house as Singh had fled after strangulating the child to death with a shawl, which has also been recovered upon his arrest on Tuesday, the officer said.

    Both the accused and the girl’s father are daily wage earners.

    Singh lived in the rented house with his wife and two children, aged 3 and 9, and all had left home some 20 days ago, according to the police.

    “Upon questioning, the accused told the police that he had thought of kidnapping the child with the intention to demand a ransom from her family. He had come to know that the girl’s father had made some money recently and was planning to construct a house,” Dixit said.

    “When we asked him why he killed the toddler if all he wanted was ransom money, the accused told the police that he got scared that he would get caught and his plan would be revealed. Otherwise, he said he would have returned the child to her home upon getting the money,” the additional DCP said.

    Singh is a native of Ballia district in eastern Uttar Pradesh and had gone untraceable since the killing, the officer said, adding that multiple police teams were formed to ensure his arrest at the earliest.

    “Police teams were sent to his native place as well as to locations where he had relatives but the breakthrough came when our surveillance team traced him in adjoining Ghaziabad, from where he was nabbed this morning. An FIR was lodged under the Indian Penal Code section 363 (missing) initially but later charges under section 302 (murder) were also added to the case, the police said.

    NOIDA: The Noida Police on Tuesday said they have arrested a man who is accused of killing his neighbour’s two-year-old daughter whose body was found stuffed in a backpack hung behind a door at his rented accommodation.

    The accused Raghvendra alias Raghav Singh was arrested on Tuesday from a prepaid taxi booth near the Ghaziabad railway station, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central Noida) Rajiv Dixit said. 

    Singh had kidnapped the toddler on April 7 from her home in the Devla village and wanted to demand ransom for her release after he learnt that her father had made some money recently, he said.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    A missing person’s complaint was lodged at the local police station the next day. 

    While the police had launched an investigation to find the child, her body was found on April 9 from Singh’s accommodation after other residents of the building noted a foul smell emanating from it, Dixit said.

    The accused and the victim’s family live as tenants in the same building in the Surajpur police station area, he said.

    The body was stuffed in a backpack and there was no one in the house as Singh had fled after strangulating the child to death with a shawl, which has also been recovered upon his arrest on Tuesday, the officer said.

    Both the accused and the girl’s father are daily wage earners.

    Singh lived in the rented house with his wife and two children, aged 3 and 9, and all had left home some 20 days ago, according to the police.

    “Upon questioning, the accused told the police that he had thought of kidnapping the child with the intention to demand a ransom from her family. He had come to know that the girl’s father had made some money recently and was planning to construct a house,” Dixit said.

    “When we asked him why he killed the toddler if all he wanted was ransom money, the accused told the police that he got scared that he would get caught and his plan would be revealed. Otherwise, he said he would have returned the child to her home upon getting the money,” the additional DCP said.

    Singh is a native of Ballia district in eastern Uttar Pradesh and had gone untraceable since the killing, the officer said, adding that multiple police teams were formed to ensure his arrest at the earliest.

    “Police teams were sent to his native place as well as to locations where he had relatives but the breakthrough came when our surveillance team traced him in adjoining Ghaziabad, from where he was nabbed this morning. An FIR was lodged under the Indian Penal Code section 363 (missing) initially but later charges under section 302 (murder) were also added to the case, the police said.

  • ‘Dead’ woman in MP appears before police 9 years after her ‘murder’; says her kin didn’t ‘kill’ her  

    Express News Service

    BHOPAL: Legal documents declare her dead. The “dead” woman appears before the police and says she is very much alive.

    The cops in the Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh are baffled.

    Kanchan Uike appeared before the police on Friday after coming to know that her father and her brother are in jail for her “abduction” and “murder”. 

    She went missing in June 2014. Amarwara police registered a case and investigated into the matter.

    The Singodi police arrested her father and her brother in 2021. The duo allegedly confessed to the police that they murdered her. Police exhumed the skeletal remains of Kanchan from the spot where they allegedly said they buried her. Police have filed a charge sheet in the case. The DNA analysis report is still awaited.

    Meanwhile, her father was granted bail by a court last month while her brother continues to remain behind bars.

    Surprisingly, the police documents relating to the recovery of skeletal remains in 2021 mention the recovery of 210 bones. The human body has 206 bones.

    According to Kanchan’s uncle Sukhdas Uike, the place from where “Kanchan’s” skeletal remains were recovered was where other members of the extended family were buried. It could have been the skeletons of anybody else.

    This is what the “dead” woman told the reporters: “I went on my own in anger following a tiff in the family in 2014. I later got married. I live with my family, including two kids in Agar-Malwa district now. I recently came to know about my father and brother being in jail on false charges of murdering me. Hence, I rushed here.”

    She accused the cops of torturing her father and brother to make false admission of murdering her.

    Confronted with a complex situation now, the ASP-Chhindwara Sanjiv Uike, while confirming that a married woman claiming to be Kanchan Uike met the police, said, “Nine long years have passed since she went missing. Many changes have taken place since then. The appropriate legal procedure will be followed in the matter and her DNA too will now be matched, based on the outcome, further action will be taken.” 

    BHOPAL: Legal documents declare her dead. The “dead” woman appears before the police and says she is very much alive.

    The cops in the Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh are baffled.

    Kanchan Uike appeared before the police on Friday after coming to know that her father and her brother are in jail for her “abduction” and “murder”. googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    She went missing in June 2014. Amarwara police registered a case and investigated into the matter.

    The Singodi police arrested her father and her brother in 2021. The duo allegedly confessed to the police that they murdered her. Police exhumed the skeletal remains of Kanchan from the spot where they allegedly said they buried her. Police have filed a charge sheet in the case. The DNA analysis report is still awaited.

    Meanwhile, her father was granted bail by a court last month while her brother continues to remain behind bars.

    Surprisingly, the police documents relating to the recovery of skeletal remains in 2021 mention the recovery of 210 bones. The human body has 206 bones.

    According to Kanchan’s uncle Sukhdas Uike, the place from where “Kanchan’s” skeletal remains were recovered was where other members of the extended family were buried. It could have been the skeletons of anybody else.

    This is what the “dead” woman told the reporters: “I went on my own in anger following a tiff in the family in 2014. I later got married. I live with my family, including two kids in Agar-Malwa district now. I recently came to know about my father and brother being in jail on false charges of murdering me. Hence, I rushed here.”

    She accused the cops of torturing her father and brother to make false admission of murdering her.

    Confronted with a complex situation now, the ASP-Chhindwara Sanjiv Uike, while confirming that a married woman claiming to be Kanchan Uike met the police, said, “Nine long years have passed since she went missing. Many changes have taken place since then. The appropriate legal procedure will be followed in the matter and her DNA too will now be matched, based on the outcome, further action will be taken.”
     

  • Jury convicts 3 of murder in death of rapper XXXTentacion

    By Associated Press

    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.: Three men were found guilty of first-degree murder on Monday in the 2018 killing of star rapper XXXTentacion, who was shot outside a South Florida motorcycle shop while being robbed of $50,000.

    Michael Boatwright, 28, Dedrick Williams, 26, and Trayvon Newsome, 24, were also convicted of armed robbery by a jury that rendered its verdict less than an hour after beginning its eighth day of deliberations.

    Their sentencing, which Circuit Judge Michael Usan set for April 6, will largely be a formality; Florida law dictates a life sentence for first-degree murder convictions.

    The defendants, two dressed in suits and one in a button-down shirt, showed little emotion as they stood one by one to be handcuffed by a bailiff. There was no audible reaction from family members and other observers in the courtroom. Before the verdicts were read, Usan warned that anyone who caused any kind of disruption would be held in contempt of court.

    The Broward State Attorney’s Office thanked the jurors and prosecutors in a statement but said it would not comment further until the sentencing.

    Williams’ attorney, Mauricio Padilla, told The Associated Press that he doesn’t feel his client was afforded a fair trial. He noted that a crucial defense witness was stricken and that he was prohibited from deposing a key witness. Phone messages were left with attorneys representing Boatright and Newsome.

    “It is obvious from the days the jury was deliberating that they had questions and I only wish I would have been able to properly defend my client,” Padilla said in an email.

    During the monthlong trial, prosecutors linked Boatwright, Williams and Newsome to the June 18, 2018, shooting outside Riva Motorsports in suburban Fort Lauderdale through extensive surveillance video taken inside and outside the store, plus cellphone videos the men took showing them flashing fistfuls of $100 bills hours after the slaying.

    Prosecutors also had the testimony of a fourth man, Robert Allen, a former friend of the defendants who said he participated in the robbery. He pleaded guilty last year to second-degree murder. He has not been sentenced pending the conclusion of this trial. He could get anywhere between time served, meaning he could soon be released, and life, depending partly on how much weight prosecutors give to his assistance.

    Defense attorneys accused Allen of being a liar who was motivated by his desire to avoid a life sentence. They also said prosecutors and detectives did a poor investigation that didn’t look at other possible suspects, including the Canadian rap star Drake; he and XXXTentacion had an online feud.

    Boatwright was identified as the primary shooter. Twice last week, the jury asked to review 17 text messages that prosecutors said he sent to various people from the time he woke up about 10:30 a.m. until 3 p.m., about an hour before the shooting. He then stopped texting for about two hours.

    About an hour after the shooting, Boatwright sent a text saying, “Tell my brother I got the money for the new phone.” Minutes after that, he sent someone a screenshot of a news story saying XXXTentacion had been shot, prosecutors said.

    XXXTentacion, whose real name was Jahseh Onfroy, had just left Riva Motorsports with a friend when an SUV swerved in front of him and blocked his BMW.

    Surveillance video showed two masked gunmen emerging and confronting the 20-year-old singer at the driver’s window, and one shot him repeatedly. They then grabbed a Louis Vuitton bag containing cash XXXTentacion had just withdrawn from the bank, got back into the SUV and sped away. The friend was not harmed.

    Newsome was accused of being the other gunman. Williams was accused of being the driver of the SUV, and Allen of being inside the vehicle.

    Allen testified that the men set out that day to commit robberies and went to the motorcycle shop to buy Williams a mask. There they spotted the rapper and decided to make him their target. Allen and Williams went inside the shop to confirm it was him. They then went back to the SUV they had rented, waited for XXXTentacion to emerge and ambushed him, according to testimony.

    The rapper, who pronounced his name “Ex ex ex ten-ta-see-YAWN,” was a platinum-selling rising star who tackled issues including prejudice and depression in his songs. He also drew criticism over bad behavior and multiple arrests, including charges that he severely beat and abused his girlfriend. 

    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.: Three men were found guilty of first-degree murder on Monday in the 2018 killing of star rapper XXXTentacion, who was shot outside a South Florida motorcycle shop while being robbed of $50,000.

    Michael Boatwright, 28, Dedrick Williams, 26, and Trayvon Newsome, 24, were also convicted of armed robbery by a jury that rendered its verdict less than an hour after beginning its eighth day of deliberations.

    Their sentencing, which Circuit Judge Michael Usan set for April 6, will largely be a formality; Florida law dictates a life sentence for first-degree murder convictions.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    The defendants, two dressed in suits and one in a button-down shirt, showed little emotion as they stood one by one to be handcuffed by a bailiff. There was no audible reaction from family members and other observers in the courtroom. Before the verdicts were read, Usan warned that anyone who caused any kind of disruption would be held in contempt of court.

    The Broward State Attorney’s Office thanked the jurors and prosecutors in a statement but said it would not comment further until the sentencing.

    Williams’ attorney, Mauricio Padilla, told The Associated Press that he doesn’t feel his client was afforded a fair trial. He noted that a crucial defense witness was stricken and that he was prohibited from deposing a key witness. Phone messages were left with attorneys representing Boatright and Newsome.

    “It is obvious from the days the jury was deliberating that they had questions and I only wish I would have been able to properly defend my client,” Padilla said in an email.

    During the monthlong trial, prosecutors linked Boatwright, Williams and Newsome to the June 18, 2018, shooting outside Riva Motorsports in suburban Fort Lauderdale through extensive surveillance video taken inside and outside the store, plus cellphone videos the men took showing them flashing fistfuls of $100 bills hours after the slaying.

    Prosecutors also had the testimony of a fourth man, Robert Allen, a former friend of the defendants who said he participated in the robbery. He pleaded guilty last year to second-degree murder. He has not been sentenced pending the conclusion of this trial. He could get anywhere between time served, meaning he could soon be released, and life, depending partly on how much weight prosecutors give to his assistance.

    Defense attorneys accused Allen of being a liar who was motivated by his desire to avoid a life sentence. They also said prosecutors and detectives did a poor investigation that didn’t look at other possible suspects, including the Canadian rap star Drake; he and XXXTentacion had an online feud.

    Boatwright was identified as the primary shooter. Twice last week, the jury asked to review 17 text messages that prosecutors said he sent to various people from the time he woke up about 10:30 a.m. until 3 p.m., about an hour before the shooting. He then stopped texting for about two hours.

    About an hour after the shooting, Boatwright sent a text saying, “Tell my brother I got the money for the new phone.” Minutes after that, he sent someone a screenshot of a news story saying XXXTentacion had been shot, prosecutors said.

    XXXTentacion, whose real name was Jahseh Onfroy, had just left Riva Motorsports with a friend when an SUV swerved in front of him and blocked his BMW.

    Surveillance video showed two masked gunmen emerging and confronting the 20-year-old singer at the driver’s window, and one shot him repeatedly. They then grabbed a Louis Vuitton bag containing cash XXXTentacion had just withdrawn from the bank, got back into the SUV and sped away. The friend was not harmed.

    Newsome was accused of being the other gunman. Williams was accused of being the driver of the SUV, and Allen of being inside the vehicle.

    Allen testified that the men set out that day to commit robberies and went to the motorcycle shop to buy Williams a mask. There they spotted the rapper and decided to make him their target. Allen and Williams went inside the shop to confirm it was him. They then went back to the SUV they had rented, waited for XXXTentacion to emerge and ambushed him, according to testimony.

    The rapper, who pronounced his name “Ex ex ex ten-ta-see-YAWN,” was a platinum-selling rising star who tackled issues including prejudice and depression in his songs. He also drew criticism over bad behavior and multiple arrests, including charges that he severely beat and abused his girlfriend. 

  • Shocker: Man chops off woman’s body into pieces, buries it at different locations in Kashmir

    Express News Service

    SRINAGAR: In a shocking and bizarre incident, a man killed a 30-year-old woman by chopping off her head and cutting the body into pieces and burying the parts at different locations in central Kashmir’s Budgam district.

    A police official said on March 8, one Tanveer Ahmad Khan of Soibug of central Kashmir’s Budgam district submitted an application to the Police that his 30-year-old sister has gone missing since March 7.

    The woman had left for the coaching classes from home on March 7 but didn’t return home in the evening.

    After lodging a missing report, police started an investigation into the case.

    “Police picked up several suspects including one Shabir Ahmad Wani R/O Mohandpora, Budgam.  During sustained questioning, Shabir confessed to his involvement in the abduction and murder of the missing woman,” a police official said.

    Shabir told the police that after killing her, he chopped off her head and cut the body into pieces. The accused is said to be a carpenter by profession.

    “After cutting her body into pieces, he buried the body parts at different locations in the neighbourhood,” the police official said.

    On his disclosure, the body parts of the victim have been recovered, he said. The medico-legal formalities are underway and further investigation is going on, he added.

    The shocking incident has caused outrage across the Valley with the people demanding awarding of stern punishment to the accused to prevent such incidents from happening.

    Earlier, in November last year, the country was shocked after a similar kind of incident had taken place in Delhi, where a man had brutally killed his live-in partner.

    Aftab Amin Poonawalla had killed his live-in partner Shraddha and chopped her into 35 pieces and scattered the body parts across Delhi.

    SRINAGAR: In a shocking and bizarre incident, a man killed a 30-year-old woman by chopping off her head and cutting the body into pieces and burying the parts at different locations in central Kashmir’s Budgam district.

    A police official said on March 8, one Tanveer Ahmad Khan of Soibug of central Kashmir’s Budgam district submitted an application to the Police that his 30-year-old sister has gone missing since March 7.

    The woman had left for the coaching classes from home on March 7 but didn’t return home in the evening.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    After lodging a missing report, police started an investigation into the case.

    “Police picked up several suspects including one Shabir Ahmad Wani R/O Mohandpora, Budgam.  During sustained questioning, Shabir confessed to his involvement in the abduction and murder of the missing woman,” a police official said.

    Shabir told the police that after killing her, he chopped off her head and cut the body into pieces. The accused is said to be a carpenter by profession.

    “After cutting her body into pieces, he buried the body parts at different locations in the neighbourhood,” the police official said.

    On his disclosure, the body parts of the victim have been recovered, he said. The medico-legal formalities are underway and further investigation is going on, he added.

    The shocking incident has caused outrage across the Valley with the people demanding awarding of stern punishment to the accused to prevent such incidents from happening.

    Earlier, in November last year, the country was shocked after a similar kind of incident had taken place in Delhi, where a man had brutally killed his live-in partner.

    Aftab Amin Poonawalla had killed his live-in partner Shraddha and chopped her into 35 pieces and scattered the body parts across Delhi.

  • Hong Kong model murdered, body parts found in refrigerator

    By AFP

    HONG KONG: Hong Kong police have arrested three persons for the murder and dismemberment of a 28-year-old model after a financial dispute with her ex-husband’s family, authorities said today.

    The partial remains of well-known influencer Abby Choi, who last week appeared on the digital cover of fashion magazine L’Officiel Monaco, were found in a village house set up as a butchery site, police said.

    “We are still looking for the head,” superintendent Alan Chung told reporters, after disclosing that a woman’s limbs had been discovered inside a refrigerator.

    The house was equipped with an electric saw and a meat grinder that had been used to mince human flesh, Chung said.

    “Two pots of stew believed to contain human tissue” were left at the scene, he added.

    The father, mother and elder brother of Choi’s ex-husband – who is still at large – have been arrested and will face murder charges, he added.

    “We believe the victim and her ex-husband’s family had many financial disputes involving huge sums,” Chung said.

    “Someone was dissatisfied with how the victim handled her assets, which became a motive to kill.”

    Choi was first reported missing on Wednesday.

    She was allegedly last seen by her ex-husband’s brother, who also worked as her chauffeur. Police said the family had earlier lied to mislead investigators.

    The village house had been recently rented and was unfurnished – suggesting it was set up to dispose of Choi’s body, he added.

    HONG KONG: Hong Kong police have arrested three persons for the murder and dismemberment of a 28-year-old model after a financial dispute with her ex-husband’s family, authorities said today.

    The partial remains of well-known influencer Abby Choi, who last week appeared on the digital cover of fashion magazine L’Officiel Monaco, were found in a village house set up as a butchery site, police said.

    “We are still looking for the head,” superintendent Alan Chung told reporters, after disclosing that a woman’s limbs had been discovered inside a refrigerator.

    The house was equipped with an electric saw and a meat grinder that had been used to mince human flesh, Chung said.

    “Two pots of stew believed to contain human tissue” were left at the scene, he added.

    The father, mother and elder brother of Choi’s ex-husband – who is still at large – have been arrested and will face murder charges, he added.

    “We believe the victim and her ex-husband’s family had many financial disputes involving huge sums,” Chung said.

    “Someone was dissatisfied with how the victim handled her assets, which became a motive to kill.”

    Choi was first reported missing on Wednesday.

    She was allegedly last seen by her ex-husband’s brother, who also worked as her chauffeur. Police said the family had earlier lied to mislead investigators.

    The village house had been recently rented and was unfurnished – suggesting it was set up to dispose of Choi’s body, he added.

  • UP teacher strangled to death on camera while giving online class

    By PTI

    GONDA: A 32-year-old teacher was strangled by two men at his house in this district while he was giving online video lessons, police said on Wednesday.

    The mobile phone, using which the teacher Krishna Kumar Yadav was giving online classes continued to record the video that was later retrieved by police to identify the assailants.

    Yadav, a native of Ambedkarnagar district, was living in a rented accommodation in Forbesganj locality here, police said.

    Additional Superintendent of Police Shivraj on Wednesday said Yadav was strangled on Saturday evening while he was alone in his room and giving an online tuition class.

    “We have arrested both the attackers,” the Additional SP said.

    Police said one of the accused said he was in a relationship with the teacher’s sister and was angry at being rebuked by Krishna Yadav over the issue.

    “The attackers, Sandeep Yadav and Jawahir Mishra alias Jagga, entered his house and strangulated him after an argument,” the officer said.

    Police sources said Yadav worked at a private school and lived with his sister who was also a teacher.

    The main accused, Sandeep Yadav, started talking to Krishna Yadav’s sister, who was also a teacher.

    Krishna Yadav rebuked Sandeep over the issue.

    “Sandeep informed us during interrogation that he killed Krishna Kumar Yadav because he was against his relationship with Krishna Yadav’s sister,” the officer said.

    “Sandeep sought help of his friend Jagga to murder Krishna Kumar Yadav. Both the attackers have been arrested and were sent to jail,” he added.

    GONDA: A 32-year-old teacher was strangled by two men at his house in this district while he was giving online video lessons, police said on Wednesday.

    The mobile phone, using which the teacher Krishna Kumar Yadav was giving online classes continued to record the video that was later retrieved by police to identify the assailants.

    Yadav, a native of Ambedkarnagar district, was living in a rented accommodation in Forbesganj locality here, police said.

    Additional Superintendent of Police Shivraj on Wednesday said Yadav was strangled on Saturday evening while he was alone in his room and giving an online tuition class.

    “We have arrested both the attackers,” the Additional SP said.

    Police said one of the accused said he was in a relationship with the teacher’s sister and was angry at being rebuked by Krishna Yadav over the issue.

    “The attackers, Sandeep Yadav and Jawahir Mishra alias Jagga, entered his house and strangulated him after an argument,” the officer said.

    Police sources said Yadav worked at a private school and lived with his sister who was also a teacher.

    The main accused, Sandeep Yadav, started talking to Krishna Yadav’s sister, who was also a teacher.

    Krishna Yadav rebuked Sandeep over the issue.

    “Sandeep informed us during interrogation that he killed Krishna Kumar Yadav because he was against his relationship with Krishna Yadav’s sister,” the officer said.

    “Sandeep sought help of his friend Jagga to murder Krishna Kumar Yadav. Both the attackers have been arrested and were sent to jail,” he added.