Some crimes are so barbaric that they have the effect of sending shivers down our spines. It is impossible to just glimpse through headlines and come to terms with these realities and go about one's day. Sometimes, the plot unfolds to be of such heinous nature that our instant unfiltered reaction is one of disbelief for it makes one wonder, "how could someone do such a thing?"?
Last week, the national capital was shaken by the horrific murder of of a 27 year old woman, Shraddha Walkar, by her live-in boyfriend Aaftab Poonawala who not only killed her in cold blood, but chopped her corpse into 35 pieces, stored her remains in his house for months, and dumped them around the city.
And, hers is only one of the many such real-life horrific stories that are hard to believe.?Here's a list of 5 extremely shocking crimes that took place in the year 2022. Take a look:
Punjab singer-politician Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, aka Sidhu Moose Wala, was shot dead on the evening of May 29, 2022, a day after his security was scaled down by the state police.Police said that the Lawrence Bishnoi gang and a Canada-based gangster have claimed responsibility for the attack.
But, the gruesome nature of the crime made headlines for months after the murder.?At a press conference, HS Dhaliwal, commissioner of Delhi police's special cell investigating the killing, said that the rapper was hit by 24 bullets and died on his way to hospital.
But, the autopsy report later found out that his body had 25 bullet wounds.?The bullets had hit his kidneys, liver, lungs and spine.?His right elbow had been broken due to bullet injuries. He sustained maximum bullets on chest and abdomen while two bullets on right leg.?The autopsy report also found out that the singer died within 15 minutes of being shot.
The cause of death was "hemorrhagic shock which is due to ante mortem fire arm injuries described and sufficient to cause death in ordinary course of nature", the autopsy report said.The singer, who had also contested the Punjab elections earlier this year on a Congress ticket, was travelling in his Mahindra Thar SUV to visit his aunt in Barnala village when he was shot with an automatic assault rifle by about eight to 10 men.
Bullets found at the spot of the killing in Punjab's Mansa district indicate that AN 94 Russian assault rifle was also used in the attack.
In September 2022, two sisters in Uttar Pradesh were found raped, murdered and hanging from a tree in a case of sexual violence that shocked India.The bodies of the girls, aged 15 and 17, were found suspended from a tree by their shawls near their home in Lakhimpur district.
They belonged to the Dalit caste, the lowest in India¡¯s hierarchical and discriminatory Hindu caste system, which used to deem Dalits as ¡°untouchables¡±.
Police said the postmortem examination confirmed both sisters were raped after being dragged into a sugarcane field and then strangled to death, before being hung from the tree to make their deaths look like suicide.
Six men, including a neighbour of the family, were arrested and charged with crimes including rape, murder and helping to abet and cover up the murder.
In October, two women were ¡°brutally¡± murdered and buried as a human sacrifice in black magic rituals in Kerala¡¯s Pathanamthitta within 24 hours after they went missing, a police official had said.?The arrested persons were identified as one Shafi, and the husband-wife pair of Bhagaval Singh and Laila.
In a press meet, Kochi commissioner CH Nagraju said that Shafi, the main accused, had a criminal past and trapped the couple who made these sacrifices to be wealthy and prosperous.
Calling Shafi a psychopath, the commissioner said one victim was cut into 56 pieces.The victims were killed in the most brutal way, the commissioner said and the body parts were buried at different parts of the compound of Bhagaval Singh's house.?The victims were also injured in their private parts, the commissioner said adding that Shafi took sadistic pleasure in torturing the victims.
Laila, one of the accused, had confessed that they (the three of them) consumed a portion of the victims' body parts after cooking. "There is a possibility that the accused ate parts of body after killing the victims," he added.
On November 14, an 18-year-old girl was found dead at her residence with injuries in her private parts and some of her clothes removed. Unnao police then arrested a local youth for rape and murder. The postmortem concluded that the girl died from excessive bleeding from her private parts, shock and hemorrhage.
The 25-year-old raped the 2nd year college student when she was alone at home.?During investigation, the?man claimed to have taken a performance enhancing pill?before the act.
Despite the victim's protest, he continued to rape her till she fainted and started bleeding from her private parts, police said.?Seeing this, Gautam got scared and ran away leaving her bleeding.
Later, her younger sister returned home to find the victim, a second-year college student, unconscious on the bed. She was?taken to the hospital where doctors declared her dead, police said. The post-mortem confirmed rape.?Excessive bleeding owing to serious injury in her private parts caused her death, the police said.?
Police said the arrested man, who is pursuing post-graduation and stays in a hostel, was known to the girl.?Police also claimed that they have found a chat between the accused and the victim but her mother denied her daughter having an affair with anyone.
On November 22,?a 21-year-old woman's body was found stuffed in a trolley bag near Yamuna Expressway in Mathura and her parents were arrested with the police suspecting it to be case of honour killing.
It turns out that the family was not happy since she got married without their approval. She was allegedly killed by her father and her mother helped him pack her body and dispose off the corpse, police said, adding that Ayushi¡¯s Yadav¡¯s brother also knew about the murder. The murder weapon has also been recovered, they said.?
¡°Ayushi had a fight with her father on November 17. She had got married to a man of her choice because of which her family was unhappy. Enraged over this, her father had shot her twice on November 17 after the argument," acting Senior Superintendent of Police Martand Prakash Singh said.
The victim, Ayushi Yadav, had gone out for a few days without informing her parents. This enraged her father, who allegedly shot her dead at their house in Modband village in Delhi¡¯s Badarpur on November 17, the day she came back.
The same night, he and his wife packed her body in a trolley bag and threw it near Raya cut on the Yamuna Expressway.
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