We have heard a saying, To hide a lie we need to say 10 more. But, in Telangana a 24-year-old man had killed 9 people to hide the murder of his lover. The crime happened last week in Warangal has left everyone in shock.
Initially, the deaths of migrants during the Coronavirus lockdown and the nationwide migrant crisis led to an initial conclusion that it might be a case of mass suicide.
on May 21 and 22, the Warangal police had recovered nine bodies from an open well at Gorrekunta village near Warangal. Out of the nine bodies, six members are of one family. The murderer mixed sleeping pills in their food and the accused had thrown them one by one into a nearby well.
However, the police have successfully solved the murder case after 24-year-old Sanjay Kumar Yadav was arrested. He confessed to having murdered the family of six and three others to cover up the murder of a woman named Rafiqa with whom he had a live-in relationship.
The deceased are identified as Mohammad Maqsood (55), his wife Nisha (48), sons Shahabad Alam (21) and Sohail Alam (18), daughter Bushra (20) and her three years old son Shoaib. The other three are identified as Sriram (21) and Shyam (22) from Bihar, besides Shakil (30) from Tripura.
Yadav had taken a room on rent and was living with her. Police investigations revealed that Rafiqa had recently admonished him for trying to sexually exploit her daughter.
The accused hatched a plan to kill Rafiqa and informed Maqsood’s family that he is taking her to West Bengal to talk to her elders for marriage. They boarded the Garib Rath train to Visakhapatnam on March 6, but during the journey, he bought buttermilk.
He after mixing sleeping pills, served it to Rafiqa. After she fell asleep, he strangulated her and threw the body from the train near Nidadavole in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh.
The accused got down from the train at Rajahmundry and returned to Warangal. When Nisha and her husband enquired about Rafiqa, he said she had reached her village and would come back later.
When Maqsood’s family threatened to approach the police, he hatched a plan to eliminate all of them. As May 20 was Shabaaz”s birthday, he came to their house in the evening and mixed sleeping pills in the food prepared at home.
As two Bihari youth living in the same building had seen him at Maqsood’s house, he went to their room and mixed sedatives in their food to wipe out the evidence.
Shakeel, a native of Tripura who had come to Maqsood’s house at the latter’s invitation, too became Yadav”s victim.
The police commissioner said the CCTV footage of the accused leaving his house on the evening of May 20 and returning the next morning provided a vital clue to the investigating team.
“We have no evidence that there is any other person involved in the crime,” the police chief said, dismissing reports that four people were picked up in connection with the case
