Pune Rape And Murder Case

A week after a woman was allegedly raped by three men on Pune city's outskirts, police have made the first arrest, officials said on Friday, a breakthrough coming after nearly 700 cops worked on the case and scanned hours of CCTV footage.

A convict serving death sentence in a 2016 case of rape and murder of a minor girl at Kopardi in Maharashtra was found hanging in his cell at the Yerwada Central Jail in Pune on Sunday morning, police said.

The Bombay High Court on Monday commuted the death penalty of two convicts in the 2007 Pune BPO gang-rape and murder case to life imprisonment on the ground that there had been an inordinate delay in executing them.

President Pranab Mukherjee rejected two mercy petitions in the last week of May. The dismissal of the appeals comes just weeks before his term ends and takes the total number of mercy petitions rejected by him to 30. The cases involved the rape and murder of a four-year-old girl by three men in Indore in 2012, and a 22-year-old woman in Pune in 200...

Strongly reacting to the recent Supreme Court judgement which commuted death penalty of the convict, who brutally raped a 23-year-old pregnant woman and killed her mother-in-law in a case here in 2007, the victim's family today said the perpetrator of the crime had "no right to live".

When she was on her way home in Pune from the IT company where she worked, Nayana Pujari was raped and murdered, allegedly by four men.

Two men who kidnapped, raped and then murdered a 22-year-old woman working for a call centre in Pune have been given the death sentence by the Bombay High Court.

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence of two people accused of kidnapping, raping and murdering a 22-year-old BPO employee in Pune in 2007.

A Pune court has sentenced two men to death for raping and murdering a call centre employee in 2007. Jyoti Chowdhari, 22, was traveling in her company's pick-up cab on November 1, 2007, when the driver Purushottam Borate and his friend Pradeep Kokate allegedly raped and then brutally killed her. While sentencing the two men to death today, the ju...

A Pune court will today pronounce the quantum of punishment to be given to two convicts in the 2007 rape and murder of a 22-year-old girl employed with a BPO in Pune.

A cab driver and his accomplice, accused of rape and murder case of a 22-year-old BPO employee in Pune, were pronounced guilty of both charges by a Pune Court on Saturday. Jyoti Kumari Chowdhari, a BPO employee in a multinational company, was allegedly raped and murdered by the driver of company's pick-up car on November 1, 2007.

Yogesh Raut, the runaway prime accused in the Nayana Pujari rape and murder case, is giving the city police sleepless nights. Top police officials have expressed the fear that Raut may try to strike again if not arrested soon. Raut, who was arrested in connection with the rape and murder of software profession Nayana Pujari, was also arrested a yea...

Principal district judge Madan Joshi on Wednesday directed that the confession of Rajesh Pandurang Choudhari, one of the suspects in the Nayana Pujari gang rape and murder case be recorded on October 11. Choudhari has turned approver. The Bombay high court, on Monday, had dismissed a plea filed by Mahesh Balasaheb Thakur, the other suspect in the c...

A week after a woman was allegedly raped by three men on Pune city's outskirts, police have made the first arrest, officials said on Friday, a breakthrough coming after nearly 700 cops worked on the case and scanned hours of CCTV footage.

A convict serving death sentence in a 2016 case of rape and murder of a minor girl at Kopardi in Maharashtra was found hanging in his cell at the Yerwada Central Jail in Pune on Sunday morning, police said.

The Bombay High Court on Monday commuted the death penalty of two convicts in the 2007 Pune BPO gang-rape and murder case to life imprisonment on the ground that there had been an inordinate delay in executing them.

President Pranab Mukherjee rejected two mercy petitions in the last week of May. The dismissal of the appeals comes just weeks before his term ends and takes the total number of mercy petitions rejected by him to 30. The cases involved the rape and murder of a four-year-old girl by three men in Indore in 2012, and a 22-year-old woman in Pune in 200...

Strongly reacting to the recent Supreme Court judgement which commuted death penalty of the convict, who brutally raped a 23-year-old pregnant woman and killed her mother-in-law in a case here in 2007, the victim's family today said the perpetrator of the crime had "no right to live".

When she was on her way home in Pune from the IT company where she worked, Nayana Pujari was raped and murdered, allegedly by four men.

Two men who kidnapped, raped and then murdered a 22-year-old woman working for a call centre in Pune have been given the death sentence by the Bombay High Court.

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence of two people accused of kidnapping, raping and murdering a 22-year-old BPO employee in Pune in 2007.

A Pune court has sentenced two men to death for raping and murdering a call centre employee in 2007. Jyoti Chowdhari, 22, was traveling in her company's pick-up cab on November 1, 2007, when the driver Purushottam Borate and his friend Pradeep Kokate allegedly raped and then brutally killed her. While sentencing the two men to death today, the ju...

A Pune court will today pronounce the quantum of punishment to be given to two convicts in the 2007 rape and murder of a 22-year-old girl employed with a BPO in Pune.

A cab driver and his accomplice, accused of rape and murder case of a 22-year-old BPO employee in Pune, were pronounced guilty of both charges by a Pune Court on Saturday. Jyoti Kumari Chowdhari, a BPO employee in a multinational company, was allegedly raped and murdered by the driver of company's pick-up car on November 1, 2007.

Yogesh Raut, the runaway prime accused in the Nayana Pujari rape and murder case, is giving the city police sleepless nights. Top police officials have expressed the fear that Raut may try to strike again if not arrested soon. Raut, who was arrested in connection with the rape and murder of software profession Nayana Pujari, was also arrested a yea...

Principal district judge Madan Joshi on Wednesday directed that the confession of Rajesh Pandurang Choudhari, one of the suspects in the Nayana Pujari gang rape and murder case be recorded on October 11. Choudhari has turned approver. The Bombay high court, on Monday, had dismissed a plea filed by Mahesh Balasaheb Thakur, the other suspect in the c...