Kakkad Murder

• Palande had coaxed Anuj Tikku to pen down suicide note: Police

  In a major breakthrough, police today claimed to have collected evidence to show that Vijay Palande, gangster and key accused in sensational murder cases, had coaxed Bollywood actor Anuj Tikku to pen down a suicide note after drugging him in a bid to eliminate him and then stage it as a suicide.

• "Stockbroker Gautam Vora was on my hitlist": Report

  In what could be his most shocking revelation yet, Vijay Palande, accused in the murder cases of Arun Tikku and Karan Kakkad, has confessed to the Crime Branch that Gautam Vora featured prominently on his hitlist, and that he planned to murder the stockbroker after eliminating actor Anuj Tikku.

• Who wrote Viveka Babajee's 'suicide letter'?

  The mysterious and suggestive note allegedly penned by supermodel Viveka Babajee in her personal diary before her June 2010 suicide will come under fresh scrutiny now. Khar police revealed yesterday that they would analyse samples of handwriting from Vijay Palande, Gautam Vora and Simrin Sud, all three arrested in connection with the double murders...

• 1,700 calls between stockbroker and gangster

  There were about 1,700 calls exchanged between stock broker Gautam Vora who was arrested on Monday for allegedly giving shelter to gangster Vijay Palande and Palande's wife Simran Sood, police said. Palande, a key accused in the murder of Delhi-based businessman 67-year-old Arunkumar Tikoo and aspiring producer Karan Kumar Kakkad, had escaped on Ap...

• How Gautam Vora helped prime accused in Tikku murder case

  Why did stockbroker Gautam Vora go out of his way to allegedly provide material and logistical support to a murder accused on the run? After Vora's arrest yesterday, Crime Branch officers are now investigating to determine if he is in any way connected to Karan Kakkad's murder. Cops have not ruled out the theory that Vora may have instigated the pr...

• Small-time model may have been behind Viveka Babajee's suicide

  Cops now have reason to believe that late international model Viveka Babajee, who took her own life in 2010, may have been driven to suicide over Simrin Sud's growing closeness to her then boyfriend, financial stockbroker and socialite Gautam Vora. Police sources suspect that Simrin, an accused in the murder of bookie and film producer Karan Kakkad...

• Probe against cops investigating film producer's murder

  Amboli police officers may soon have some explaining to do. The deputy commissioner of police (Zone IX) yesterday ordered an enquiry against them to determine if they were negligent in their investigations of Karan Kakkad's murder case.

• Mystery politician helped bookies fix cricket matches

  A shocking revelation made by the accused Vijay Palande in the sensational Karan Kakkad murder case points to a mystery politician, who was liaising with the two in a match-fixing racket. According to anonymous police sources, the relationship shared by Kakkad and Palande turned sour when the two turned from being co-partners in the racket to compe...