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Convict who beheaded Gujarat trader, jumped parole, held after 12 years on run

Convict who beheaded Gujarat trader, jumped parole, held after 12 years on run

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In October 1994, Satish Himmatlal Rupa Relia and Rajan Panchal lured textile trader Arvind Shah from Ahmedabad’s Kalupur to Neelam Hotel in the city’s Shahibaug area on the pretext of a discounted silk deal, asking him to bring cash. The two took Shah to a room and tried to rob him of gold rings, a chain, and cash at knifepoint before stabbing him around 30 to 35 times and killing him when he resisted and tried to snatch their knife. Satish Himmatlal Rupa Relia, the convict, in police custody. (X) Relia and Panchal severed Shah’s head with a sharp weapon to prevent identification, put it in a bag, and disposed of it in Gandhinagar’s Adalaj area, leaving the headless body in the hotel room. Shah’s son would identify the body through clothes, ornaments, and a surgical scar. In April 2000, a sessions court convicted Relia of murder, robbery, and criminal conspiracy and sentenced him to death. The Gujarat high court commuted the sentence to life imprisonment in 2001. Relia, who was also sentenced to five …

Bollywood actor unmasked as murderer: How man starred in Aamir Khan, Ranveer Singh films while on the run for 12 years

Bollywood actor unmasked as murderer: How man starred in Aamir Khan, Ranveer Singh films while on the run for 12 years

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There have been many Bollywood protagonists who have led double lives, evaded the law, and built secret identities. But recently, an actor did that off-screen as well. When Hemant Modi, 53, was arrested in Ahmedabad on Wednesday, it unravelled a secret life in which he worked as an actor in Hindi cinema, rubbing shoulders with Aamir Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, and Ranveer Singh, to name a few. Hemant Modi worked in a variety of Hindi and Gujarati films for 12 years while evading arrest. Murder convict-turned-actor arrested On Wednesday, Gujarat Police arrested Hemant Modi, a murder convict who jumped parole in 2014. The Ahmedabad crime branch arrested the 53-year-old near a metro station. A case of murder and rioting was registered against Modi in Ahmedabad in 2005. But the police later found that Modi had been working as an actor in Hindi films, as well as in Gujarati web series and plays, in a very public-facing life. How Hemant Modi became an actor while on the run The police said that Hemant Modi evaded arrest by …

SC grants bail to murder convict after noting ‘disturbing order’ passed by Orissa HC

SC grants bail to murder convict after noting ‘disturbing order’ passed by Orissa HC

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New Delhi, Taking note of a “disturbing order” passed by the Orissa High Court, the Supreme Court has granted bail to a murder convict while voicing serious concern over its approach which junked his appeal on the ground of delay. SC grants bail to murder convict after noting ‘disturbing order’ passed by Orissa HC A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and Ujjal Bhuyan said the High Court should have taken a “practical and sympathetic” view of the matter and condoned the delay to give an opportunity to the convict to argue his appeal on merits. The top court noted that the convict has not been released even once on parole or furlough and said that sending the matter back to the high court to hear the criminal appeal on merits will be a futile exercise. “We are convinced that we should release the petitioner on bail in the peculiar facts and circumstances of this case. Thus, in exercise of our jurisdiction under Article 142 of the Constitution as an exceptional case, we order that …

Grew beard, reinvented identity: UP murder convict caught 36 years after jumping parole

Grew beard, reinvented identity: UP murder convict caught 36 years after jumping parole

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A 70-year-old murder convict who vanished from Uttar Pradesh nearly three decades ago, changing his name, appearance and even his religion to stay hidden, has finally been arrested, the Bareilly police said on Thursday. UP murder convict who lived under a new identity for 36 years finally arrested(X/@bareillypolice) Pradeep Kumar Saxena, convicted in 1989 for murdering his brother Sanjeev two years earlier, was picked up from Delapeer Mandi in Bareilly after a brief search operation. Police officials said Saxena had been living under the name Abdul Raheem in Moradabad district for years, working as a driver and keeping a low profile. A new identity in Moradabad According to the Prem Nagar police, Saxena had secured parole in 1989 but never returned to jail. “After jumping parole, he altered his appearance, kept a long beard, and even converted to Islam so he could not be traced,” an officer said, adding that Saxena deliberately created a new life for himself. The case resurfaced after the Allahabad High Court, while hearing Pradeep Kumar Saxena’s long-pending criminal appeal, directed …