Murder: News

04 Nov 2023

Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh: BJP leader allegedly killed by Naxalites ahead of elections

In a shocking incident, a prominent leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Chattisgarh, Ratan Dubey, was allegedly hacked to death by Naxalites on Saturday.

23 Oct 2023

Delhi

Delhi Police probing human trafficking angle in Swiss woman's murder

The Delhi Police is reportedly exploring the "human trafficking angle" in the murder of 30-year-old Swiss woman Nina Berger, whose body was found in Delhi's Tilak Nagar area last week, NDTV reported.

18 Oct 2023

Delhi Police

Faking death for 19 years, ex-Navy man arrested for murder

The Delhi Police claimed to have arrested a 63-year-old former Indian Navy employee, Balesh Kumar, after nearly two decades for allegedly killing his friend and burning to death two laborers in 2004, the Hindustan Times reported on Wednesday.

15 Oct 2023

Iran

Iranian filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui (83), wife stabbed to death

Leading auteur director Dariush Mehrjui, revered globally for his contribution to Iranian cinema's New Wave movement, has been stabbed to death by an unknown assailant at his residence in Karaj, near Tehran, reported Iranian media.

14 Oct 2023

Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh: Uncle arrested for reportedly murdering 8-year-old niece

The dead body of an eight-year-old girl was reportedly recovered from a pond by the police in Uttar Pradesh's Balrampur district on Saturday.

02 Oct 2023

Punjab

Punjab: Dead bodies of 3 missing sisters found inside trunk

In a shocking development from Punjab, the dead bodies of three sisters were reportedly discovered at their home in Jalandhar's Maqsudan on Monday.

11 Sep 2023

Uttar Pradesh

Husband murders 61-year-old lawyer wife at Noida home, arrested

In a shocking incident in Uttar Pradesh, a lawyer named Renu Sinha was found dead in the bathroom of her Noida Sector 30 bungalow on Saturday, reports said on Monday.

04 Sep 2023

OTT releases

'Convicting a Murderer': Premiere date, plot, team behind—everything to know

Back in 2015, the Netflix documentary Making a Murderer attracted audiences worldwide—bringing the intriguing case of Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey to the forefront.

01 Sep 2023

Uttar Pradesh

Man shot dead at BJP leader's UP home, 3 detained

In a shocking development, a 28-year-old man was reportedly found shot dead at the residence of Union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kaushal Kishore in the Thakurganj area of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

31 Aug 2023

Delhi Police

18-year-old gangsters held for Amazon manager's murder

The Delhi Police has arrested Mohammad Sameer alias Maya and his associate Bilal Gani alias Mallu—both recently turned 18—for allegedly murdering Amazon manager Harpreet Gill (36) in Delhi's Bhajanpura.

28 Aug 2023

Bengaluru

Bengaluru: Engineer kills live-in partner using pressure cooker, arrested

A 24-year-old woman was reportedly killed by her live-in partner in Bengaluru, Karnataka, following an altercation over accusations of adultery on Saturday, NDTV reported, quoting police officials.

28 Aug 2023

West Bengal

Bengal: 3 held for kidnapping, murdering friend for gaming computer

Three teenage boys were arrested in West Bengal on Sunday after they confessed to having kidnapped and killed their 14-year-old friend in an attempt to get a ransom for buying a computer for gaming.

26 Aug 2023

OTT releases

UK production company to unravel 'worst child serial killer's investigation

A documentary delving into the case of nurse Lucy Letby—the United Kingdom's worst child serial killer—is reportedly in the works.

26 Aug 2023

Uttar Pradesh

UP woman arrested for allegedly slashing drunk husband's throat

In a shocking incident in Uttar Pradesh, a 40-year-old woman has been arrested in Budaun district's Bilsi town for slitting her husband's throat to stop him from sexually abusing their 19-year-old daughter-in-law.

Poet murder: Former UP minister Amarmani, wife get premature release

The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday refused to stay the release of former Uttar Pradesh minister Amarmani Tripathi and his wife Madhumani, who are serving life sentences for the murder of poet Madhumita Shukla.

21 Aug 2023

United Kingdom

Who is nurse Lucy Letby, UK's 'worst child serial killer'

After more than 10 months of trial, Lucy Letby, a neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital, was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for murdering seven newborn babies and attempting to kill six more. BBC termed it the longest-ever murder trial in the UK.

20 Aug 2023

Dharmendra Pradhan

'Not satisfactory': Centre on Jadavpur University's report over student's death

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday said the official report submitted by Jadavpur University (JU), Kolkata, to the University Grants Commission (UGC) on the tragic death of 17-year-old student Swapnadip Kundu was "not satisfactory," PTI reported.

20 Aug 2023

Bihar

Bihar: Retired teacher shot dead amid property dispute in Begusarai

In a shocking incident, a retired school teacher was murdered in broad daylight in Begusarai, Bihar, during his morning walk on Sunday, India Today reported.

19 Aug 2023

United Kingdom

UK nurse kills babies; prosecutors list potential motives behind murders

Lucy Letby, a neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital, United Kingdom (UK), convicted for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others on Friday, has stunned the world.

BJP leader Sana Khan murder: Husband arrested, body remains missing

Sana Khan, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader from Nagpur, Maharashtra, who went missing 10 days ago, has reportedly been murdered by her husband.

30 Jul 2023

Kerala

Kerala: 5-year-old girl raped, strangled in Kochi; accused arrested

In a horrifying incident, a five-year-old girl in Kochi, Kerala, was brutally raped and strangled to death by a migrant worker on Friday, PTI reported.

24 Jul 2023

Pune

Maharashtra: Top cop shoots wife, nephew dead; dies by suicide

In a shocking development in Maharashtra, an assistant commissioner of police (ACP) allegedly shot dead his wife and nephew with a gun before shooting himself at his residence in Pune on Monday.

19 Jul 2023

Celebrity

Tupac Shakur's murder case: Las Vegas police revive probe

The Las Vegas Police have found new leads in the unsolved murder case of West Coast rapper Tupac Shakur. Recently, the police executed a search warrant at a home in Las Vegas, in connection with Shakur's death.

12 Jul 2023

Delhi Police

Woman's chopped body found in Geeta Colony. Another Shraddha Walkar?

In a shocking incident, the Delhi Police on Wednesday recovered the dismembered body of a woman in the Geeta Colony neighborhood of the national capital Delhi.

10 Jul 2023

Gurugram

Caught on camera: Woman fatally stabbed by ex-fiance in Gurugram

In a shocking incident, a 19-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her 23-year-old former fiance in broad daylight in Gurugram's Palam Vihar on Monday morning.

10 Jul 2023

Bihar

Bihar: Woman beaten to death, private parts mutilated

In a shocking incident, a woman in the Khagaria district of Bihar was reportedly brutalized and beaten to death over an alleged land dispute.

10 Jul 2023

China

China: Children among 6 dead in shocking kindergarten stabbing incident

As many as six people, including three children, lost their lives, and another person was injured in a shocking stabbing incident at a kindergarten in Lianjiang city in south-eastern China, according to the news outlet BBC.

21 Jun 2023

World

41 women burned to death, shot, stabbed in Honduras prison

In a horrific tragedy in Honduras, at least 41 women inmates were reportedly killed in a prison riot on Tuesday.

18 Jun 2023

Delhi

Delhi: 2 sisters shot dead over loan argument, 2 arrested

Two sisters were reportedly shot dead by a group of unidentified individuals in Southwest Delhi in the early hours of Sunday over an alleged argument over a loan given by their brother.

18 Jun 2023

London

London: 38-year-old Indian stabbed to death—3rd incident in 4 days 

While the country is still in shock from the killing of a Hyderabad woman in London, United Kingdom, on Tuesday, another Indian-origin man has reportedly been stabbed to death outside his home in London's Camberwell.

10 Jun 2023

Mumbai

Mumbai murder: Accused searched internet for ways to dispose body

While investigating the murder of Sarawasti Vaidya—a 32-year-old woman who was allegedly killed and chopped into pieces by her live-in partner in Mumbai's Mira Road—the police found the main accused Manoj Ramesh Sane searched the internet to find ways to dispose of of the body.

09 Jun 2023

Mumbai

Mumbai murder: Accused claims 'daughter-like' victim was 'very possessive'

Manoj Ramesh Sane, accused of murdering his alleged live-in partner Saraswati Vaidya and then chopping her body into pieces in Mumbai's Mira Road, apparently informed the cops that the victim was "like his daughter."

08 Jun 2023

Mumbai

Mumbai murder: Police recovers 3 buckets of chopped body parts

The police recovered three buckets of dismembered body parts from the apartment of Manoj Sane, the accused who allegedly murdered his live-in partner Saraswati Vaidya in Mumbai's Mira Road.

01 Jun 2023

Delhi

Delhi murder: Sahil addicted to charas and ganja, reveals police

According to sources close to the Delhi Police, the main accused in the bone-chilling murder of 16-year-old Sakshi in Delhi's Shahbad Dairy area, was addicted to drugs like ganja and charas.

31 May 2023

Delhi

Delhi murder: Sahil 'planned' for 3 days to kill Sakshi

Days after the video of the gruesome murder of 16-year-old Sakshi in Delhi's Shahbad Dairy area shook the entire country, police revealed her killing was a "premeditated murder" not a "crime of passion."

30 May 2023

Delhi

Delhi: 22-year-old allegedly killed by flatmate hours after party

The body of a 22-year-old woman was found in a pool of blood on the terrace of a house in Majnu Ka Tilla in Delhi's Civil Lines on Tuesday, reported ANI.

30 May 2023

Delhi

Delhi murder: 16-year-old victim wanted to be lawyer, says father

Sakshi, the 16-year-old girl who was allegedly killed by 20-year-old Sahil in front of passersby in Delhi on Sunday, wanted to become a lawyer, her father, Janak Raj, told PTI.

29 May 2023

Arvind Kejriwal

Delhi: Man stabs 16-year-old girlfriend 20 times to death, arrested

A 16-year-old girl was allegedly stabbed to death by her boyfriend in Delhi's Rohini area on Sunday evening, reported The Indian Express.

28 May 2023

Rajasthan

Rajasthan: Man kills elderly woman, eats her flesh; arrested

The Rajasthan Police has reportedly arrested a man for allegedly murdering an elderly woman and eating her flesh in the state's Pali district.

20 May 2023

Uttar Pradesh

Affair, cancer: Video of Shiv Nadar University murder-suicide accused surfaces

In a major development in the Shiv Nadar University murder-suicide case, a 23-minute-long video has surfaced where the accused, Anuj Singh—who killed his alleged lover and died by suicide on Thursday—justified his actions.