May 20, 2013: Cops recover naked, decomposed body of woman home guard

TNN | May 20, 2013, 03.41 AM IST

HYDERABAD: A 35-year-old woman home guard was found murdered at a private office in Nallakunta on Sunday. The victim was identified as G Suneeta, wife of Mangilal from Kothapet,who works as an attender at Astalakshmi temple in Kothapet. 

On Sunday morning, businessmen who have their offices in the two-storeyed building opposite the Fever Hospital, complained to the police about a foul smell emanating from a locked AMS Job Consultancy office on the first floor. 

The Nallakunta police broke open the office door and found the naked, semi-decomposed body of a woman. Based on the cellphone records and other documents found near the body, the police were able to identify the victim as Suneeta. 

During the initial probe, Mangilal told the cops that Suneeta was missing since she left the house on May 15. 

"We saw strangulation marks on the neck of the victim and the body has been shifted for post-mortem. Suneeta's family members claim she was a home guard. We are yet to ascertain where she used to work," Nallakunta inspector V Jaipal Reddy said. 

Police suspect that the victim could have been sexually assaulted prior to her death. They are currently looking for the job consultancy owners, Vijay Kumar and George, with whom the victim reportedly had an affair. 

"A case was registered under section 302 (Murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The two are absconding and we have launched a manhunt to nab them," the inspector said. 
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May 01, 2013: Lover killed Mangolpuri girl: Cops

Dwaipayan Ghosh, TNN | May 1, 2013, 05.08AM IST

NEW DELHI: The Class XII girl from Mangolpuri who was found dead in her friend's rented apartment in Rohini was strangulated. Arif, who was arrested for raping and kidnapping the girl, has now been charged with murder.

"The autopsy report confirmed death by strangulation. During interrogation, Arif broke down and confessed to his crime," said M A Rizvi, additional DCP (outer). The girl's family, however, claimed that they had to run for pillar and post to pursue the case, which cops tried to pass off as suicide.

"The postmortem was carried out on Saturday, but the cops never believed us when we said that our daughter was murdered. We refused to take her body until the murder section was added to the FIR," said the father.

Arif, police said, was planning the murder for several days. "He didn't approve of her being friendly with other boys. So he decided to bump her off. He took inspiration from Shahrukh Khan-starrer Baazigar, where his character had murdered his first girlfriend and made it appear as a suicide. Arif made her sign a suicide note, but removed it after killing her," said an investigator.
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April 25, 2013: Now, a five-year-old girl raped and murdered in Ranchi

Press Trust of India | Updated: April 25, 2013 22:27 IST

Ranchi: A five-year-old girl was raped and murdered in the Jharkhand capital, police said today.

"Post mortem report has confirmed that the girl was raped and strangulated to death," Superintendent of Police Manoj Ratan told PTI.

Her body was found in an under construction building near her house in Doranda police station this morning, the SP said, adding, whoever had committed the crime would be handed out stern punishment.

The police have launched raids to nab the accused.

Agitated locals demanded immediate arrest of the accused as inconsolable relatives grieved at the baby's brutal torture after the girl went missing two days ago. 
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Mar 24, 2013: Bargirl killed, police launch manhunt

PTI | Mar 24, 2013, 09.55 PM IST

MUMBAI: The Mumbai police have launched a manhunt to trace a person who allegedly killed a 21-year-old bar girl by strangulating her.

According to police, they got information from a hospital's casualty department this morning that a girl with visible strangulation marks had died during treatment. 

The police said that Sunita, a resident of MAHADA colony in Tardeo in Central Mumbai, was staying with her live-in partner, Radheye. 

Her neighbours found that Sunita, a bar girl by profession, was unconscious and took her to the Nair hospital where she was declared dead. 

"When we inspected her body, we found that she was strangled using a rope," said a police official adding that Radheye was missing from the place. 

"We suspect that Sunita was killed due to some domestic fight with Radheyeand were looking for him," he said.
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Mar 24, 2013: Minor gang-raped, in critical condition

Press Trust of India | Updated: March 24, 2013 15:16 IST

Ghaziabad: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by three men in the wee hours this morning at her home in Hindon Vihar area here.

The victim had woken up to go to the washroom when the three accused, who lived with her and her family in a shared accommodation, gangraped her, police said.

The girl was admitted to hospital in critical condition, they said.

One of the accused, Sher Mohammed, was arrested, while the other two Shadab and Sahib, who are Sher's nephews, are absconding, they said.

Family members of the girl have alleged that the accused also tried to kill the victim by strangling her, police said.

A case under IPC section 307 (attempt to murder) and 376 (punishment for rape) was registered against the three accused, SP (City) Shiv Shankar Yadav said. 
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Jan 20, 2013: Woman strangled to death by husband, brother-in-law over dowry

PTI | Jan 20, 2013, 05.13 PM IST
HOSHIARPUR: A woman was strangled to death allegedly by her husband and brother-in-law over dowry in a village here, police said today.

Paramjit Kaur was killed by her husband Balbir Singh and his brother Ramjit for dowry in Jangniwal village last night, they said.

On the complaint made by her father Sarabjit Singh, a resident of Banjerbagh area, a case of murder was registered against the two brothers, police said.

According to Sarabjit, his daughter, who was married to Balbir about eight years ago, telephoned him last night and told him about the frequent physical torture by her husband and Ramjit for dowry.

Sarabjit claimed that he along with few other residents of the area rushed to Balbir's residence, where they spotted the two brothers strangulating Paramjit.

She died on the spot, while Balbir and his brother managed to escape, he added.

A case has been registered against the two accused, police said adding, efforts are being made to arrest them at the earliest.
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Jan 13, 2013: Woman allegedly gang-raped, murdered, body hung from tree

Press Trust of India | Updated: January 13, 2013 23:29 IST

Bhagalpur: In a grim reminder of the horrific Delhi rape case, a woman who got down from a Delhi-bound train in Bhagalpur district was allegedly gang-raped, killed and her body hung from a tree in a mango orchard. 

Police said the 32-year-old victim, who was a passenger of the Brahmaputra Mail that was travelling to the national capital, was dragged to the mango orchard and allegedly gang-raped by unidentified persons after she alighted from the train between Vikramshila and Kahalgaon stations.

She was strangulated and her body hung from a tree late last night. Police recovered the body today and sent it to the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital in Bhagalpur for post-mortem.

The victim, who hails from New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal, took the train from Alipore to Delhi, along with her son. As the train was crowded, she tried to get down at Sahibganj but was prevented from doing so by co-passengers, ASP, Bhagalpur, Meenu Kumari told PTI.

When the train slowed down between Vikramshila and Kahalgaon stations, she jumped out. It is not clear why she took this step.

A group of inebriated people then allegedly dragged her to a nearby mango orchard and sexually assaulted her, police said.

Liquor bottles were found at the spot, Ms Kumari said.

A railway ticket and cellphone number of her village head written on a piece of paper was recovered from the victim's possession, police said.

The latest incident comes close on heels of the December 16 gang-rape of a 23-year-old paramedical student by six persons in a moving bus in south Delhi. She was brutally assaulted and thrown on the road without clothes. The victim died in a Singapore hospital on December 29.
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Dec 16, 2012: Rape 'victim' killed by accused

By Faiz Rahman Siddiqui, TNN | Dec 16, 2012, 02.01 AM IST

KANPUR: A minor girl, who had accused a local goon of raping her, was strangled to death by the hoodlum in full public view in a Fatehpur village after she refused to withdraw the complaint against him. 

The incident took place in Sidhaav village in bordering Fatehpur on Saturday morning when the accused, Narvada Nishad, barged into the house of the 16-year-old girl, Radha Sonker(name changed) and after beating her brutally, strangled the hapless girl to death even as the villagers looked on. 

The killer managed to escape unchallenged.The villagers later informed the Bahua outpost police about the incident who reached the village and sent the body for postmortem. 

The girl was allegedly raped by the accused in December last. Subsequently, the girl's father had lodged a case in this regard with the district's Lalauli police station alleging that Narvada Nishad had raped his daughter. The matter was sub-judice. 

Village sources said about a week ago, the accused had threatened the victim and her family members of dire consequences and pressurized them to withdraw the complaint, but they refused to do so. Moreover, the statement of the rape victim was recorded before a magistrate three days ago. 

Police claimed that angered over this, Narvada Nishad barged into the girl's house when her parents were away at work. Radha, who was sitting near the main entrance of her house, tried to run inside but the accused pounced upon her and dragged her outside the house. 

After brutally assaulting her, he strangled her to death in full public view and escaped. 

The rape victim's kin said they had informed the police about the regular "threats" from the accused but they failed to take any action. 

Police said a search has been launched for the absconding accused. 

Deputy superintendent of police Santosh Kumar Singh said: "A case has been registered under relevant sections of the IPC. We are on the lookout for the accused and will nab him soon." However, he had no reply when asked why the police didn't take any action on the girl's complaint. 

Tension prevailed in Sidhaav village over the murder of rape victim. "Additional police personnel have been deployed at the village as precautionary measure," informed another senior police official. 
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Dec 5, 2012: Newborn girl found in bin was strangled to death

TNN | Dec 5, 2012, 03.35 AM IST

MUMBAI: A day after the body of a day-old girl was found dumped in a garbage bin in Bhayander (W), the autopsy report on Tuesday confirmed that the child was strangled to death.

A ragpicker had found the newborn's body lying in a trash can in Bakery Gully at 9.15am on Monday. There were blood stains on the child's nose and a dupatta was wrapped around her neck. The body was wrapped in a plastic bag that carried the name of Saifee Hospital, Charni Road. Investigators believe that the child's body was dumped late at night.

The Bhayander police have registered a case under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code. A police team has been interacting with Saifee Hospital officials. Investigators are also visiting maternity homes in the region to gather information about newborns.

In October, a baby girl was flung out of a moving train between Naigaon and Bhayander stations. The CCTV cameras had captured an arm extending out of the train and throwing out the baby. The government railway police (GRP) has been unable to get any leads in the case.
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Nov 25, 2012: Man gets death for killing wife, 2 kids

TNN | Nov 25, 2012, 05.59 AM IST

HUBLI: A man convicted for murdering his family was sentenced to death by the second fast track court on Saturday. Fast track court magistrate R G Joshi sentenced Sanjay Chikkorade, 43, a security guard and resident of Nalband Galli in Gardenpeth, in Hubli to death. This is the first time that a fast track court in Hubli has awarded a death sentence. 

Sanjay strangled his wife, Vidya, 30, to death, and smothered his five-year-old son Tushar, 5, and two-and -half-year old daughter, Khushi, with a blanket at his residence on the midnight of November 13, 2011. 

He was arrested next by Ghantikeri police, S B Tumabagi, city special branch and investigation officer of the case, told TOI. 

J L Pawar, public prosecutor told reporters that, besides the death sentence, the court has imposed a penalty of Rs 5,000. 

Sanjay was a security guard in a private company and was an alcoholic. "We will challenge the order in the high court," S M Patil, standing counsel, for the accused said.
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Nov 7, 2012: Husband kills wife; stuffs body in gunny bag

TNN | Nov 7, 2012, 01.49AM IST

HYDERABAD: A fast food centre worker murdered his wife, stuffed her body in a gunny bag and left it at their house in Jeedimetla. The victim was identified as Kavita, 35, wife of Ramesh alias Saleem from Mallikarjuna Nagar in Jeedimetla. 

According to police, Ramesh was working at a fast food centre near Mallikarjuna theatre in Kukatpally and moved to the present residence two months ago. On Monday afternoon, Ramesh borrowed Rs 2,500 from his landlord Shyam saying that his wife had suddenly fallen ill and needed the money for her treatment. Since then Ramesh did not return home and the house remained locked. 

On Tuesday, with foul smell emanating from the house, the neighbours alerted Shyam. Later, they broke the door open and found the decomposed body of Kavita stuffed in a gunny bag in a corner of the room. Police reached the spot and sent the body for a post-mortem. After examining the body, police suspect Kavita might have been strangled to death a few days ago. 

"Ramesh had stopped going to the house since November 1, but his employer said he worked till Sunday. So, we suspect that Ramesh killed his wife on November 1, but left the city only after borrowing money from his landlord on Monday," assistant commissioner of police (ACP), Balanagar, S Damodar said. 

Police booked a case under section 302 (Murder) of the IPC and launched a man-hunt for him.
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Oct 18, 2012: Honour killing: Man strangles daughter

PTI | Oct 18, 2012, 06.25PM IST

ROHTAK: In yet another case of suspected honour killing in Haryana, a man allegedly strangled his 21-year-old daughter to death in Jhajjar, 35km from here, suspecting her to be in an affair with an unidentified man, a police official said today. The deceased, identified as Pooja, was a student Lord Shiva College in Sirsa, Jhajjar City Police Post Incharge and Investigating Officer Baljeet Singh said. In his complaint lodged with the police, Pooja's elder brother Manish Kumar said his father was thrashing Pooja black and blue in a room in their house at Jatiya mohalla near Ambedkar Chowk in Jhajjar on Wednesday night when he reached there at around 11 pm on Wednesday night. 

Manish said he tried to open the door but did not succeed as it was bolted from inside. "Thereafter, I broke open a window of the room. When I entered the room, my father was strangulating Pooja by tightening a data cable of mobile phone around her neck. She died before I intervened," said Manish in the complaint. Later, he informed the police about the incident. 

A team of forensic experts also visited the scene of the crime and collected some samples from there. Ramesh was arrested after police registered a case under section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on the complaint of Manish Kumar. 

The body of the girl was handed over to her brother by the police after getting the postmortem done from civil hospital here today. "Ramesh has been arrested following a raid at his hideout this evening. During interrogation, he has confessed to his crime during interrogation and will be produced before a local court tomorrow," said Baljeet Singh. He maintained that Manish had said in the complaint that Ramesh had suspected his daughter's character which turned out to be a reason behind her killing. Police, however, did not identify with whom the deceased had an affair not did Manish's complaint mention anything about it.
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Oct 8, 2012: Man murders wife for smoking, arrested

TNN | Oct 8, 2012, 04.29AM IST

JAIPUR: A drunken man strangulated his wife to death in the Sikar district when she did not quit smoking despite repeated warnings. The man escaped his village and was hiding in Jaipur's Mansarovar area from where the police arrested him on Saturday night.

According to the police, the man, identified as Tarachand, is a resident of Meran village of Sikar. He is a petrol pump employee. "His wife Geeta Devi (30) was addicted to smoking. The couple used to have fights over this," said a police officer.

The officer added that Tarachand consumed alcohol after work on Thursday evening after which he returned home. "He found his wife smoking in the kitchen which made him furious and he verbally abused her. But, when the woman did not stop smoking, he took a piece of cloth and strangulated her to death," said the officer.

Tarachand then fled from his village and reached Jaipur. However, his mobile phone was on. "He was constantly in touch with some villagers and taking updates over police action. We put his mobile phone under surveillance and he was traced in Jaipur. A team was immediately rushed there and he was found in the Mansarovar area," said the officer. The officer added that he has been taken to Sikar and is being interrogated.
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Oct 1, 2012: Woman strangulated to death for giving birth to girl

PTI | Oct 1, 2012, 10.21PM IST

BEED: A 27-year-old woman from Maharashtra's Beed district, infamous for high incidence of female feticide, was allegedly strangulated to death by her in-laws for giving birth to a girl for the third time, police said today. 

The incident took place last night around 11 PM in Malikpura area of Parli tehsil following a quarrel among them, they said. The victim, Shaikh Taslima, mother of two girls and a boy delivered the baby last month after which she was allegedly tortured by her husband Shaikh Navab and family, according to a police complaint filed by her brother Shaikh Shaukat. Also, Taslima, who was married for seven years, was being harassed for dowry for quite some time now, the complaint said. 

Last night, an altercation among the family members took an ugly turn and the woman was strangulated to death. Following this, a case has been registered against Shaikh Navab (husband), Shaikh Mukram (brother in law) and Anwar Bi Shaikh (mother in law) under section 302, 498 (A) and 34 of IPC, police said. Navab and his mother have been arrested, police said adding investigations are on.
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Sep 25, 2012: Man commits suicide after strangling wife

Purusharth Aradhak, TNN | Sep 25, 2012, 01.10AM IST

GHAZIABAD: A man strangled his wife to death and then committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan in Loni area in Ghaziabad. Police said prima facie it seems to be a case of property dispute. A suicide note has been recovered from the scene in which the man has held his in-laws responsible for taking the extreme step.

Police said the matter came to notice when the couple did not open the doors of their room in Anjali Vihar colony. Family members entered the room through the window and were shocked to find the couple dead. The deceased have been identified as Shamsher and Gulshama. Loni police station in-charge, Brijmohan Yadav, said a case has been registered under Section 302 of IPC.

Shamsher lived with his father Mohammed Umar, a native of Baghpat, and brother Sarfaraz.

Umar said that on Sunday late night the couple went to their room on the first floor. The family got up on Monday morning at 7am. "I called Shamsher twice from the ground floor but he did not respond. Then I went to the first floor and knocked, but no response was received. I then climbed in through the window and found Gulshama's body on the bed while Shamsher's was hanging from the ceiling fan," said Umar.

Shamsher got married to Gulshama on November 10, 2011. "Later, I fixed Sarfaraz's marriage to a girl whose family lives in Jheel Khureji in Delhi. However, Gulshama's father Hakimuddin did not see eye to eye with Sarfaraz's father-in-law due to some dispute and used to intervene in personal issues," Umar said.

"Hakimuddin wanted the entire property to be given to his daughter," Umar further alleged. Refuting this allegation, Hakimuddin said, "Shamsher's family is levelling baseless allegations and instead used to demand dowry from me."
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Sep 19, 2012: Teen rapes, kills six-year-old girl

TNN | Sep 19, 2012, 11.08PM IST

VADODARA: A 17-year-old boy allegedly raped and murdered a six-year-old girl in Sayajigunj area in early hours of Wednesday. The incident happened when the girl was sleeping with her family by the roadside near Sayajigunj police station on Tuesday night.

The accused kidnapped Payal and then took her to a ravine behind M S University's commerce faculty main building. According to the police, he sexually assaulted her and strangled her to death in the ravine that is covered with thick vegetation.

The police arrested the boy on Wednesday morning after the Payal's father got suspicious of his activities. "We have arrested the boy who is originally from Uttar Pradesh. The boy told us that he is not from the city and he was wandering in Sayajigunj late on Tuesday night when he saw the girl sleeping by the roadside," said Sayajigunj police inspector, P Saiyyad.

The girl was sleeping with her parents and elder sister Bharati, 7. Her father Bharat is a daily wage labourer. Late on Tuesday night, the victim's parents noticed that she was missing and immediately started looking for her. When they couldn't find Payal, the police was informed. "The girl's body was found from the ravine opposite Revival Hotel. Initial investigations showed that the girl was sexually assaulted. Medical examinations confirmed that she was raped," Saiyyad added.

"The accused was loitering in Sayajigunj and he happened to see the Payal. He simply picked her up and started walking towards Kalaghoda Circle and then to the ravine. On Wednesday morning, the accused approached the wailing parents and told them that his brother has taken the girl. He made lot of stories but the Payal's father got suspicious and brought him to the police station," said a police official. The cops questioned him and he admitted to have committed the rape.

The police have summoned his brother who stays in Surat for further investigations.

Second incident in the area

The incident brought back memories of a similar rape and murder case registered in Sayajigunj in May, 2009. A 10-year-old girl was raped and murdered when she was sleeping with her two sisters by roadside in Sayajigunj. The girl's parents had gone for work when an unidentified person kidnapped her and then took her to Priyalaxmi Mills premise nearby.

The girl's parents had lodged complaint with Sayajigunj police station. A day after the kidnapping, security guard of the mills informed the police about a dead body lying in the premises. The victim's father Vasant Makwana identified her body. Her body was found in mutilated condition and post-mortem report confirmed that she was raped before being murdered. The police suspected that the accused may have been known to the victim and he had lured her to the mill compound.
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Sep 10, 2012: Woman refuses physical relationship, murdered

PTI | Sep 10, 2012, 09.46PM IST

NEW DELHI: One person was arrested for allegedly murdering a married woman after she refused to get physical with him, police said here today. 

Surender Kumar Sharma, the relative of the victim Dipty whose husband Rajesh Kumar is a junior engineer in discom BSES, was arrested yesterday, they said. 

According to police, on September 4, when Kumar returned home from office, he found his wife dead and articles stolen from his house. 

During investigation, it was found that Sharma had visited the house on the day of murder and had been absconding since then. 

Acting on a tip-off, Sharma was arrested. During interrogation, he confessed to have murdered Dipty, police said. 

"Sharma told police that last week both the families had gone on a joint tour to Agra. He developed liking towards her and on the fateful day he came to her house and tried to develop physical relations. But Dipty refused and warned him that she would reveal the incident to her husband, following which he strangulated her," Additional Commissioner of Police(South-West district) A K Ojha said. 

"In order to dodge the police he staged a false scene of robbery and ransacked the house," he said.
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Jul 26, 2012: Woman's body found near lake

TNN | Jul 26, 2012, 02.53AM IST

BANGALORE: The body of Chitra Shekhar, 32, was found in a bush near a dry lake in Seetarampalya, Mahadevapura on Wednesday morning. She was a resident of Kundalahalli. Passersby alerted police when they saw the body.

Preliminary investigations revealed she was strangled to death.

"Chitra was the second wife of Shekhar, a JCB driver. They were married for 10 years and had two daughters. They were from Dankanikote in Tamil Nadu but had settled down in Bangalore long ago. She was on the housekeeping staff at a software company in ITPB," police said.

Police found a towel near the body and there were injury marks on her neck. The assailants may have strangled her with the towel, police said.
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Jul 22, 2012: Man strangulates his pregnant wife to h

PTI | Jul 22, 2012, 06.59PM IST

INDORE: A man was arrested for allegedly killing pregnant his wife on due to suspicion of her character last night, police said here on Sunday. 

The accused identified as Sarfaraz Khan (40), allegedly killed his wife last night when she informed him after coming from her parents' house nearly after five months, that she was pregnant. 

Khan, who had two wives, had been suspicious about Rehana's (32) character for quite sometime. When she informed him about her pregnancy after returning from her parent's home it appeared to be a confirmation of his fears, after which he killed her by strangulating her with a piece of cloth (dupatta), city superintendent of police, Shailendra Singh told reporters. 

After committing the crime he tried to escape, but the police managed to nab him after getting information about the incident, he added.
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Jun 28, 2012: Man kills wife and daughter for dowry

PTI | Jun 27, 2012, 05.29PM IST

MUZAFFARPUR: A man strangulated to death his wife and five year-old daughter today in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district after his in-laws reportedly refused to meet his dowry demands. Police said the man killed his daughter and 30 year-old wife at his house in Budhauli village after his in-laws reportedly refused to give in to his demand for Rs one lakh dowry. 

A case has been registered against the man and five other members of his family, the police said adding all of them are absconding.
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