The Gory Godown
Mirroring the grisly find in Nithari, four decomposed bodies of children were recovered on January 9 from an abandoned godown in Muktsar, Punjab. The godown is owned by Congress leader Jagmit Singh Brar.
The Hyderabad Trio
Pavan, Ramulu and Venkatesh were arrested on January 2 for sexually assaulting young men and then torturing and killing them. The three confessed to nine murders.
In Cold Blood
The murder of Professor Papiya Ghosh of Patna University and her domestic help on December 2, 2006, rocked Bihar. The killing, in a posh colony in Patna, was attributed to a gang of robbers.
Gurgaon’s taxi gang killed 35 people
The Killer Cabbies
A gang of nine taxi drivers from Gurgaon operated on National Highway 8. They offered lifts and robbed and killed their passengers. The young men arrested on Nov 8-9, 2006, said that they had lost count of the number of people they killed but confessed to at least 35 murders.
Death Of A Teacher
On August 26, 2006, Professor H.S. Sabharwal was beaten to death allegedly byABVP activists and his own students outside Madhav Post Graduate College, Ujjain. Sabharwal invited the wrath of the students when he announced the cancellation of student body elections.
All In The Family
On July 31, 2006, Sanjay Babu killed his uncle, aunt and their five children at their house in Inderlok, Delhi. The motive: the nephew felt he and his family were being humiliated by his uncle. The alleged killer committed suicide on November 10 in Tihar Jail.
Call Centre Rage
On July 26, 2006, call centre worker Tania Bannerjee was murdered by her colleague near Bangalore. She was killed because she refused to marry him. Tania's body bore 30 stab wounds.
Sleaze And Murder
Kavita Rani, lecturer at Meerut's Chaudhary Charan Singh University, was killed on October 24, 2006. She was apparently involved in a sex and blackmail racket to which senior UP politicians were linked.
