11 Most Mysterious And

Sensational Cases Of Murder In

India
It’s always exciting to watch or read a murder mystery, but what’s your take
on true crime? Recently, the entire nation was left biting their nails and
glued to their couches when the Arushi verdict came out.

And a similar something happened a couple of months ago, during the

Sheena Bora murder mystery. Well, could we ever forget questioning who
killed the innocent Pradyumn Thakur? I guess not! There’s nothing more
chilling than an unsolved murder case – and India has quite a few. Even
when in some of the cases the court has ruled their decision, deep down it
is hard for us to accept it.

Let’s have a look at some of the most sensational murder cases of India:

1. Arushi Murder Mystery

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Arushi Talwar and Hemraj Banjade are two names that shook India on
16th May, 2008. The then 14-year-old Arushi was murdered along with 45-
year-old Hemraj and a lot of names appeared on the accused list. The
case aroused a lot of public interest and received incredible amounts of
media coverage.

For the longest time, the nation kept on conjecturing who the murderer
was: was it her father or her mother? Could it be the other two servants?
We don’t know. What we now know is that the parents have been acquitted
and as of now, no one really killed Arushi.
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2. Pradyumn Thakur, Ryan International School

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Back in September, a Class II student was found dead in the washroom of

Gurgaon’s Ryan International School. The innocent kid, who apparently
caused no harm to anyone was initially thought to have been killed over a
sexual-assault situation, following which a bus conductor was arrested.

However, just recently, a report has come out that claims a Class XI
student killed him to postpone the exams. As the picture gets murkier,
many are questioning how the bus conductor came into the picture in the
first place?

3. Jessica Lal

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Anyone who grew up or lived in Delhi in the 90s remembers the Jessica Lal
case. Back in 1999, the headlines on most newspaper read ‘no one killed
Jessica’. Eyewitnesses had amnesia and very few came forward to give an
account of how the aspiring model was shot dead. Finally, it emerged that
businessman Manu Sharma had shot Jessica after she refused to serve
him liquor.
4. Sheena Bora

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The gory death of Sheena Bora shocked the nation. Even more shocking
was the arrest of her mother Indrani Mukerjea for deliberately plotting her
murder. Mukerjea had never admitted to having two children and even
claimed Sheena was her sister. The murder brought the spotlight onto the
murky financial dealings of Indrani and her husband Peter Mukerjea.
5. Amar Singh Chamkila

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A popular Punjabi singer, songwriter, musician, and composer, Chamkila

was killed on 8th March 1988 along with his wife and two members of the
band, allegedly by a gang of unknown youths. Despite being killed in broad
daylight and in front of many people, no one was arrested.

A lot of his associates complained that Chamkila was receiving because of

his work, but where exactly those threats came from is still a mystery to
many. Most of his compositions were on extra-marital affairs, coming of
age, drinking, and drug use.
6. Sunanda Pushkar

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A renowned businesswoman and the wife of a former Indian diplomat and

politician Shashi Tharoor, Pushkar was killed in a hotel room in Delhi's
Leela Palace. Reports suggest that her husband Shashi discovered her
body and just assumed that she was asleep. It was only when Pushkar did
not wake up that he informed the police of the death.

She allegedly died a day after she accused Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar
of stalking her husband on Twitter. When Pushkar’s body was sent for
post-mortem, the conclusion was that she had committed suicide.
However, a report from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences doctors
claimed injury marks, followed by the death of drug overdose.
7. Chacko

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Chacko’s fault was that he resembled a man named Sukumara Kurup. The
latter killed him in order to claim an insurance amount of Rs 8,00,000. As
per reports, Chacko was strangled and his body was burnt inside
Sukumara Kurup’s car.

Sukumara, who is now one of the most wanted criminals in Kerala is said
to have fled abroad and his whereabouts are still unknown. This murder
mystery is officially one of Kerala’s oldest unsolved cases.
8. Adnan Patarwala

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Son of a businessperson from Mumbai, Adnan was killed on 18 August

2007. From what we know, he was initially kidnapped for Rs 2 crore
ransom but was murdered the next day when the information became
public. Five people were accused of murdering him, but on 30 Jan 2012,
four out of five people were acquitted.
9. Neeraj Grover murder

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This case received a lot of attention because of how gruesome it was.

Neeraj Grover’s body was chopped into pieces and stuffed in three
garbage bags and set ablaze in the forest.

One of his friends, Maria Susairaj, who even filed a complaint with the
police that he went missing was later found to be involved in the killing. It
was then discovered that Maria’s boyfriend killed Neeraj in a fit of rage,
suspecting that his wife was having an affair. If you want to have a hang of
the movie, you might want to check Not a Love Story – an adaptation that
closely reflects what really happened then.
10. Pramod Mahajan

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We all know Mahajan from his flamboyant life and his son who lately
became part of several TV shows, but have we made our peace with his
murder mystery? The Bharatiya Janata Party politician was killed in broad
daylight inside his house. Pramod was shot dead by his younger brother,
Pravin on April 2006, who immediately walked to the nearest police station
and confessed. I am Pravin… I shot Pramod.” he said. His brother’s open
declaration on the murder surprised a lot of people. Pravin was given life
imprisonment and died in in March 2010 of a suspected brain
haemorrhage.
11. Sharath

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In what looks like a kidnapping case gone wrong, a 19-year-old son of an

Income Tax officer in Bangalore was murdered. His body was found near
Ramohalli lake on the outskirts of the city with his hands were tied
together. As it turns out, the kidnappers strangled him to death and
dumped his body the same day he was kidnapped.

But the real twist in the story came when the police found out that
kidnappers were his friends. A really close friend of the victim, Vishal was
the mastermind behind the murder and abduction. 19-year-old Sharath was
an engineering student and was killed by his friends because they wanted
to clear off a loan.