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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
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Topic: Murder case

Nikki’s death deserved facts. What we got was a carousel of theories from TV news

The death by fire of Greater Noida’s Nikki Bhati has been a puzzle surrounded by a maze of conflicting claims and evidence. Worse, television news — and some newspaper reports — have confused...

Acquitted in 2002, convicted in 2024: Why SC quashed Punjab & Haryana HC order in 1998 murder case

Reiterating 'settled principles of law', SC held that interference with an acquittal is permissible only when the trial judge’s findings are 'perverse and impossible.

NIA arrests one more accused in 2019 Tamil Nadu Ramalingam murder case

The probe agency launched search operations across 9 locations and arrested Imthathullah, the owner of Ambur Biryani Hotel, for sheltering absconding POs at his outlets since 2021.

NIA raids 9 locations in Tamil Nadu in connection to 2019 Ramalingam murder case

In May this year, the NIA chargesheeted one accused, namely Mohammed Ali Jinnah, for harbouring the proclaimed offenders in the Ramalingam murder case for six years.

Honeymoon in Shillong—Raja Raghuvanshi’s murder will now be a Bollywood movie

Raja Raghuvanshi’s brother Vipin, who has written the film’s script, said the protagonist has been named Raja, but the makers will be changing the wife’s name.

Idaho student killer gets life term sentence for 2022 murders, declines to reveal motive

Pleading guilty on 2 July, Kohberger admitted to sneaking into an off-campus house before dawn, and fatally stabbing 4 Idaho University students in November 2022.

SC grants 3-months furlough to Nitish Katara’s murder convict Sukhdev Yadav

Yadav sought a furlough till the time the apex court decides on his appeal seeking remission, as he has completed 20 years of sentence.

‘My son is innocent,’ says mother of prime accused Raj Kushwaha in Raja Raghuvanshi’s murder in Meghalaya

Raja was allegedly killed during his honeymoon in Meghalaya by contract killers hired by his wife Sonam Raghuvanshi.

An autorickshaw driver wanted in a 2001 murder case, arrested in Maharashtra

Harun Ali Mustakin Ali Sayyed (43) is accused of murdering a passenger following a dispute over the fare. In a fit of rage, Sayyed allegedly stabbed the victim.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.