Love affair, sexual exploitation and a macabre plan: How a Bihar man used sleeping pills to commit 10 murders

Hyderabad: To conceal the homicide of a lady, a person from Bihar dedicated 9 extra murders by throwing the victims right into a nicely in Telangana’s Warangal district final week, the police after it claimed to crack the case.

The police recovered 9 our bodies from an open nicely at Gorrekunta village close to Warangal city on May 21 and 22. They later arrested one Sanjay Kumar Yadav (24), who confessed to committing the ugly crime to cover the homicide of a lady with whom he had a live-in relationship.

Revealing the small print of the macabre murders, Warangal Police Commissioner V Ravindersaid that the accused killed 9 individuals, together with six members of 1 household, by spiking their meals with sleeping capsules and later dumping them one after the other into a close-by nicely. 

Bodies of Mohammed Maqsood Alam and 4 family members have been recovered from the nicely at Gorrekunta village close to Warangal city on May 21. The subsequent day our bodies of two extra relations of Maqsood and two males from Bihar and one from Tripura have been additionally present in the identical nicely.

The lifeless have been recognized as Maqsood (55), a local of West Bengal, who labored at a gunny bag manufacturing unit in Warangal for final 20 years, his spouse Nisha (48), daughter Bushra Khatoon (22), sons Shabaaz Alam (20), Sohail Alam (18) and Bushra’s three-year-old son. The our bodies of Sriram Kumar Shah (26), Shyam Kumar Shah (21), each natives of Bihar and Mohammed Shakeel (40) of Tripura have been additionally recovered from the nicely. They have been all employees in the identical gunny bag manufacturing unit.

The police came upon that Sanjay was in a relationship with Nisha’s niece Rafika (37), who had come from West Bengal after separating from her husband and was employed on the identical manufacturing unit. Yadav had taken a room on hire and was reportedly residing along with her. Police investigations revealed that Rafiqa had lately admonished him for making an attempt to sexually exploit her daughter.

The accused hatched a plan to kill Rafiqa and knowledgeable Maqsood’s household that he’s taking her to West Bengal to speak to her elders for marriage. They boarded the Garib Rath prepare to Visakhapatnam on March 6, however throughout the journey, he purchased buttermilk and after mixing sleeping capsules, served it to Rafiqa. After she fell asleep, he strangulated her and threw the physique from the prepare close to Nidadavole in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh.

The accused bought down from the prepare at Rajahmundry and returned to Warangal. When Nisha and her husband enquired about Rafiqa, he mentioned she had reached her village and would come again later. When Maqsood’s household threatened to strategy the police, he hatched a plan to eradicate all of them. According to the police, the accused visited the manufacturing unit and examined the encircling areas. He determined to commit the crime on May 20. 

As May 20 was Shabaaz’s birthday, he got here to their home within the night and combined as many as 60 sleeping capsules within the meals ready at house. Later, he went to Sriram and Shyam’s room, each hailing from Bihar, and combined sedatives of their meals since, they’d seen him at Maqsood’s home. Shakeel, a local of Tripura who had come to Maqsood’s home on the latter’s invitation, too grew to become Sanjay’s sufferer.

After everybody began turning unconscious, Sanjay stuffed the our bodies one after the other into gunny baggage and dragged them to a well-located close by and threw them into the water. All the 9 individuals, who have been inebriated, drowned.

The police commissioner mentioned the CCTV footage of the accused leaving his home on the night of May 20 and returning the following morning supplied the very important clue to the investigating crew. “We have no evidence that there is any other person involved in the crime,” the police chief mentioned, dismissing stories that 4 individuals have been picked up in reference to the case.