More Over the Wires: Grim Reapings
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Bangalore, Karnātaka, India
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Death By Auto
Jamnagar, Nov 19: Eleven people, including seven women, were killed when a Mumbai-bound express train slammed into an auto-rickshaw at a railway crossing in Gujarat.
The dead were passengers of the auto which had broken down on the tracks. Only the auto driver survived. Auto rickshaws are designed to carry a maximum of about five people, which makes this and the next story so incredible.
Varanasi, Nov 17: A schoolboy was killed and 15 others sustained injuries when the auto rickshaw in which they were traveling overturned in Uttar Pradesh
Muslim Cemetary, Nandidurga Rd
. The injured received treatment but Shishir died in hospital. No questions reported about how the rick was so impossibly overloaded.Ultimate Frenemies
New Delhi, Nov 19: Five youths were arrested for killing an acquaintance who stole a mobile phone from one of them. The young men confronted Vinod in his home and bludgeoned the suspected thief to death with clubs and a pipe. Police found the stolen phone and murder weapons at the scene.
New Delhi, Nov 18: An argument over five rupees in a game of cards turned to murder when two men beat a 29-year-old rickshaw driver to death. The three friends had been drinking heavily and playing cards when Aslam won a hand and refused to give back his winnings. His mates, one of whom was a known gangster, smashed his head in with stones and left his body by a public toilet.
Patiala, Nov 17: A young boy was killed by his friend for playing badly at cricket. According to police, their team lost a friendly cricket match, leading to a fight between Raman and his teammate, Sunny, who hit the other in the head with his cricket bat
5 Man Band
. Raman was rushed unconscious to a hospital where he died. Moga, Nov 16: A man in the Punjab was "done to death" using sharp-edged weapons by his two brothers and a nephew. Police said Sohan Singh was attacked by his brothers, Karamjit and Malkiat, nephew Lovi and another man during a dispute over a piece of land. The four accused were still at large.
Random Acts of Vileness
Mathura, Nov 16: A Border Security Force soldier was killed and his brother seriously injured when they were hit in a drive-by shooting in Uttar Pradesh. Police concluded that since they had no known enemies the duo were shot by mistake. "Probably the assailants had mistook their target," said Superintendent of Rural Police, Aditya Verma.
New Delhi, Nov 16: A 25-year-old man was lynched while looking for his friend's stolen rickshaw, police said. Street vendor Kumar and his friend Dilip, whose rickshaw (what's with rickshaw?!) was stolen a few days back, asked a group of youths if they knew anything about it. In the ensuing argument the duo were beaten with iron rods, and Kumar died on the way to hospital
Coffin Shop Owners, Shivajinagar
. Kanpur, Nov 16: A university student was shot dead by unknown assailants in Uttar Pradesh. According to police, Gyan was at a video shop when a fight started between two groups of students. The young man was shot in the melee and died in hospital. "No arrests have been made so far and investigations are on."
Dehra Dun, Nov 19: A woman whose husband had a child with his second wife killed the offending newborn in Uttarakhand. Upon hearing of the birth, Sumitra went to the village of her rival Geeta, picked up the infant and repeated threw him to the ground. Police have arrested Sumitra and her husband Pushya. No mention of why the husband got picked up as well.
New Delhi (what's with Delhi?!), Nov 17: A man was arrested for murdering a teenage boy who refused his sexual advances. Nitin and his associate Poras, who were under the influence of alcohol, tried to have sex with the teenager and when the boy refused they stabbed him to death. "After the murder, they cut the private parts of the dead body and threw it away," Inspector Katiyar said. Under interogation Nitin told police where they had hidden the murder weapon, blood stained clothes and private parts of teenager's body, "which was later recovered."
Varanasi, Nov 17: A college principal was arrested for severely beating a boy who later died in hospital
Stache, Shivajinagar
. The boy's death sparked violent local protests and prompted staff at the college to close the institution and flee. Principal Sunil was caught at a railway station trying to evade arrest and mob justice. WTF?
Dehra Dun, Nov 19: A 77-year-old man who had gone to a hospital to recover the body of his grandson died when a tree fell on him. Sukkar had called for a postmortem on his grandson Pinku, who had died in mysterious circumstances the day before. While he was waiting to collect the body, Sukkar was felled by an old tree and killed instantly.
