Nagpur girl murder: Two days on, no clue about killers

Nagpur: Nearly two days after Monica Kirnapure - a third-year engineering student - was murdered in broad daylight in Nagpur, police are still groping in the dark about her killers.

The investigation has been impeded by lack of assistance from the locals with just one eyewitness having come forward in the case. But, he too claims that he saw the killers from a distance.

"When I came out, she was lying on the road. The knife was sticking out and two young men were running. I could just see this much", said Harish Bora, a local resident.

The lack of public cooperation in Monica's case echoes a similar response to the murder of Radhika Tanwar, also a college student, who was shot in full public view in Delhi.

"It is frustrating when a crowd of 60 or 70 people mutely watches a murder and no one runs to help", said Madhukar Borade, Senior Inspector, Nandanwan Police Station.

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Meanwhile, cops are trying to gather clues about the killers from Monica's call records. They believe that the assailants knew Monica. Four police teams are, currently, working on the case but there has not been any significant headway.

Twenty-two-year-old Monica Kirnapure was walking from her hostel to class on Friday morning, when she was attacked by four men with knives outside KDK Engineering College in the eastern part of the city. They ran away, while Monica lay in a pool of blood for about ten minutes, a knife sticking out of her back, asking for water. Nobody offered her any help till Sumedh Wanjaari saw her.  

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He hired an auto rickshaw and took her to a hospital nearby but she died en route. Sumedh says Monica spent her last few minutes pointing to her wound. "It was an open wound, bleeding heavily. I tried to stop the blood with my hand, but it didn't work."