Driver gets life imprisonment for killing employer’s father in 2009

A Delhi court awarded life term to a 34-year-old man for murdering his former employer’s father in 2009.

Mukesh Kumar, a driver on daily wages, was convicted of killing 68-year-old Devender Marwah with an iron rod in west Delhi’s Rajouri Garden.

Marwah was found dead with wounds on his head on the first floor of his house in Rajouri Garden on December 4, 2009. There were blood stains all over the room.

While his hearing aid was around his neck, the victim’s gold chain and five of his six gold rings were missing. His son, who lived with his wife and children on the ground floor of the house, informed the police. Based on his statement, a case of murder was registered at Rajouri Garden police station.

The incident came to light when Marwah’s son had sent his maid to serve dinner to the victim. When the elderly man did not open the door, the family members sensed that something was wrong, broke open the door and found him lying in a pool of blood.

Police arrested Kumar in Kirti Nagar on December 12, 2009. Marwah’s gold chain and rings were recovered from Kumar’s house. The weapon of offence, an iron rod, which was allegedly used to attack Marwar and was later thrown in a drain by Kumar, was also recovered.

She recalled the contributions of Nehru and the Congress in the historic event of August 9, 1942.

At this point, BJP member Kirron Kher shouted “travesty, travesty” but was signalled to remain quiet by the treasury benches as the Prime Minister keenly listened to Gandhi’s speech.

The BJP steers clear of mentioning Nehru’s contributions to the country, while the Congress often accuses the RSS of doing little for India’s independence, a charge denied by the organisation.

The Prime Minister said from 2017 to 2022, when India turns 75, there is a need to create the same spirit that existed between 1942 and 1947.

He lamented that corruption has adversely affected the country’s growth and eaten the polity from inside.

Modi implored parliamentarians to rise above differences and join a common effort in the next five years to create an India that the freedom fighters had dreamt of. He said the way political par-

“Heartiest congratulations on your victory in Rajya Sabha election in spite of toughest hurdles. Wish you all success in your career,” JD (U) co-founder Sharad Yadav tweeted.

“Thank you for your support Sharad ji,” responded Patel in a telling message.

Yadav is unhappy with party president and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s decision to go back to the BJP after snapping ties with the Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal.

A Yadav loyalist, Vasava told news channels he was angry with Kumar’s decision.

But, there were more claimants to Patel’s victory.

Nationalist Congress Party Gujarat chief Jayant Patel said he stuck to the party whip and foiled Shah and former chief minister Shankersinh Vaghela’s plan to scuttle the Congress leader’s bid to the Rajya Sabha through crossvoting.

Of the 51 Congress MLAs, eight, including Vaghela, who quit in party in late July, and six of his loyalists, didn’t vote for Patel. Karmshi Patel, too, joined them though he was one of the 44 MLAs the Congress had herded to Bengaluru to keep them away from the BJP. The eight were expelled by the Congress a day later.

The cross-voting brought down the number of Congress votes to 43, one short of the magic 44-mark. “As per the party whip, I and our second MLA Kandhal Jadeja were supposed to vote for the Congress. The whip arrived on Tuesday morning but Jadeja cross-voted,” Jayant Patel told