Hyderabad: Bidar ATM robbers narrowly escape while police attempt to arrest accused
Hyderabad: Two suspects involved in the shooting and burglary at Bidar ATM narrowly escaped capture by the police in Hyderabad on Thursday evening. The gang of two men who allegedly shot at an SBI security guard who had come to fill an ATM in Bidar and fled with Rs 93 lakh in cash were traced down to a travelling agency in Hyderabad.
According to reports, the two assailants, who arrived in Hyderabad, which is about 150 km from Bidar, at around 3-4 pm, booked a bus ticket to Raipur under the identity of Amit Kumar at Roshan Travels, a traveling agency in Masjid Chaman area of Afzal Ganj, owned by Riyaz.
Acting on the tip-off, the Bidar police reached Hyderabad, and joined the same bus towards Raipur at 7:00 PM to apprehend the robbers.
As part of a routine security check, passengers were transferred from a small bus near Savera Palace to a larger vehicle. During this transfer, travel agency staff became suspicious of the two passengers carrying oversized bags. Ticket manager Jahangir attempted to inspect their luggage when the suspects offered him a wad of cash to dissuade him.
When Jahangir persisted, the robbers pulled out a gun, fired two shots, and fled the scene. Jahangir was hit and is currently receiving treatment in the intensive care unit of a local hospital.
Sources indicate that the accused were from North India.
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UP man gets life term for electrocuting mentally challenged wife to death in Bareilly
Bareilly (UP) (PTI): A local court here has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering his mentally challenged wife by repeatedly electrocuting her while she was tied to a cot, lawyers said on Thursday.
Additional district government counsel Harendra Singh Rathore said Additional Sessions Judge Avinash Kumar Singh on Wednesday convicted Vinod Kumar (45) for killing his wife, Satyavati, in Chaina village of Bareilly district and imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on him.
According to the prosecution, he was allegedly frustrated with his wife Satyavati's mental illness and often assaulted her.
Rathore said the prosecution examined nine witnesses to establish the charges against him.
As per court records, on the night of May 1-2, 2022, when Satyavati was asleep, Vinod tied her hands and legs to a cot using ropes and then connected an aluminium cable to an electric board to repeatedly administer electric shocks to her.
"She writhed in pain, but the accused continued to electrocute her until she died," the prosecution said.
The court observed that the murder was carried out in an inhuman manner.
After committing the crime, the accused threw the rope and cable on the roof and left for work at a brick kiln around 2 am to create a false alibi.
He later tried to mislead the police and the victim's family by claiming that Satyavati, whose mental condition was unstable, had accidentally died by suicide after grabbing a live electric wire.
However, the victim's brother, Sanjeev, a resident of Shahjahanpur district, suspected foul play and lodged an FIR under sections 498A (husband subjecting wife to cruelty) and 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code at Nawabganj police station.
During the trial, the prosecution relied on the post-mortem report prepared by Dr Faraz Anwar, who stated that multiple electrocution marks found on different parts of the victim's body could not have been self-inflicted.
The police also recovered the rope and electric wire used in the crime on the accused's identification, officials said.
