Crime Diary : Crime that shook the Criminal Justice System

On 17th Dec 2019 Bijnor saw unprecedented scenes, one history sheeter criminal named Shahnawaz  who was accused in a murder case and was brought on hearing to Bijnor by Delhi Police was shot dead by three men Sahil, Sumit and Akhraj inside CJM court. Shahnawaz was shot 12 times. All three accused were caught by policemen present inside the court. The court officials and policemen showed exemplary courage and facing grave danger they caught all the three accused. Constables Manish Kumar, Vikas, Ravi Kumar, Sanjeev and others did exemplary work. This was a huge incident and created a huge problem. Orders were passed for proper security of the courts.

 

This incident was all over the media national and state both.

 

 

This was a revenge killing over property dispute. On 28th May 2019 property dealer Haji Ehsan and his nephew Shadab were shot by Shahnawaz and his men over property dispute. Haji Ehsan's son Sahil conspired with Sumit and Akhraj to kill Shahnawaz and his men inside court. There was no feeling of any remorse.

This case went on for 52 months. 157 hearings took place. This case was closely monitored by our team and on every day of hearing stringent security protocol was put in place. Our Investigating team, monitoring cell and prosecution team did a good job and on 23rd May Honourable Court awarded life imprisonment to main accused Sumit. Hope this will bring a permanent closure to a series of killings in which 3 persons were killed in last 5 years.

Conviction was also covered widely by the media.

 

This case is very important for the entire criminal justice system mainly on three points:

• Security of our courts
• Security of witnesses 
• Speedy disposal of such cases
  

Hope incidents like this will never happen in our courts.

Crime Diary : Bijnor Shocker

On May 16th/17th midnight at about 0040 hrs my PRO informed me that two girls (5 and 7 years old) had been found murdered in one room house in Goahawar Jait village coming under Noopur Police Station. This was a sensational information so I immediately rushed to the crime scene along with my team. Field unit team along with Dog squad team was also called in.

We reached the crime spot in about 45 minutes. The crime scene was a house with just 3.5 m by 2.5 m size room. This family is a very poor family. There are 5 daughters (13 years, 11 years, 7 years, 9 years and 5 years old) and 1 year old son. The first two daughters are from first marriage of Kavita (name changed)  and remaining are from her current husband Namdev (name changed). Wife is sick and husband works in a kiln close by. The entire village was in a shock and about 100 odd people including women and children were present there. We tried hard to console the inconsolable father. It was a heart wrenching crime scene. Two innocent girls of 5 and 7 were lying on ground with their bodies covered by a sheet. Who can kill these little girls?

There was no sign of struggle or forced entry in the room. The eldest daughter told me a story coming straight from a film that two men wearing black clothes, black masks and black gloves entered the house and strangulated the two girls and ran away while entire family was sleeping in the same room. No one heard any sound. The girl was frequently changing her statements. 

The crime scene and her frequent changing of statements raised enough suspicion so we called a very competent female Police Officer to interrogate the girl. The girl broke down and told us a very terrible, shocking and mortifying story. She confessed that she herself strangulated her two younger sisters in their sleep with her dupatta. 

We tried hard to find the reasons of this horrifying murder. The reason behind this crime came from two uneasy childhood trauma:

• The eldest daughter was from first husband and the deceased daughters from the current husband. There was a sibling envy coming from the very fact that the biological father of eldest daughter was not with her while her younger sisters were living with her own parents. Father used to dote his biological children more than his step children.
• The eldest daughter used to do all the household chores and villagers told us that she used to get frustrated of the daily work and used to complain a lot.

These two terrible daily experiences might have caused her 13 year old mind to do the unthinkable crime. 

Everyone including each one of us, media and others were finding it extremely challenging to believe that a 13 year old kid can kill her sisters in their sleep. This girl is victim as well as accused and has been sent to Juvenile care centre. 

Bijnor Police official press note/byte

https://x.com/bijnorpolice/status/1791299264485663020

Coverage by media

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/13-year-old-strangles-2-younger-sisters-in-ups-bijnor-my-family-was-big-i-had-to-do-all-domestic-chores-9334850/

https://www.aajtak.in/uttar-pradesh/story/bijnor-13-year-old-girl-killed-two-younger-sisters-strangled-them-with-scarf-told-reason-to-police-lclam-1945819-2024-05-17

https://hindi.news18.com/news/uttar-pradesh/bijnor-13-year-old-step-sister-strangled-two-younger-sisters-to-death-in-bijnor-police-revealed-shocking-details-8330230.html

This incident will continue to haunt all of us who attended the crime scene and were involved with the investigation.

May Bhagwan give shanti to the family and also bless the eldest daughter.

Crime Diary : Sometimes Truth is stranger than Fiction

Policing gives so much experiences that sometimes it becomes really tough not to believe the depravities that humans are capable of. In last one week I came across two such crime stories from Bijnor that shook my normal Policing attitude.

Case 1: The first case is from Seohara Police station. In this case one lady brutally tortured her husband. No one could have believed the story of husband that her wife tortured him if that entire was not caught in the camera. This story caught the focus of national media and some international media people also covered it. Bijnor Police did a good job and arrested the lady within a day and sent her to Jail where she rightly belong. This also underscores the main point about our cognitive and societal biases where women are mainly considered victims in almost all matrimonial disputes. We need to get rid of all our such biases.

https://www.abplive.com/states/up-uk/up-bijnor-a-wife-burnt-her-husband-private-part-with-cigarette-and-tried-to-cut-private-parts-police-arrested-ann-2682277

https://www.aajtak.in/uttar-pradesh/story/up-woman-tortures-husband-with-cigarette-burns-victim-told-reason-video-viral-lclk-1938973-2024-05-07

Detailed press note is here:

https://x.com/bijnorpolice/status/1787033230140445151

Case 2: The second case is from Dhampur Police Station. In this case one serving Police constable planned a heinous crime to put pressure on the family of girl with whom he had tumultuous affair few years back. He called his friends and after liquor session he asked his friend to shoot him in the leg so that later he can blame brother of the girl for the attack. His story was almost fullproof but the detailed investigation and interrogation cracked his story. All his accomplices (3 in number) and he were arrested on 12th May and sent to jail.

Detailed press note is here:

https://x.com/bijnorpolice/status/1789646306983469135

The degeneration of humans knows no limits and a criminal mind is capable of doing each and every depravity that we are not even capable of comprehend.

As someone rightly said somewhere "Sometimes Truth is stranger than Fiction".