Verdict tomorrow in 2 sensational murder cases
RANCHI: Ranchi’s two different courts have fixed December 20 to pronounce verdicts in sensational murder cases — Ranchi’s Nirbhaya case and killing of the then warden of Oxford Public School, Suchitra Mishra.
The court of special CBI judge AK Mishra on Wednesday fixed December 20 to pronounce verdict in Ranchi’s Nirbhaya case in which an engineering student was brutally raped and burnt to death on December 16, 2016.
The CBI, in June this year, had arrested a 23-year-old serial rape and murder offender Rahul Rai, who carries many pseudonym like Ankit, Aryan and others, in this case.
The court pronounced the date of verdict after hearing the arguments of both the parties. It heard the matter on day-to-day basis and concluded the trail within 30 working days. The court had framed charges in this case on October 25 and commenced the trial on November 8.
The accused, who hails from Bihar’s Nalanda district, was picked up by the CBI in June from a Uttar Pradesh jail where he was cooling his heels in a theft case. After committing the gory crime in Ranchi, Rahul reportedly fled to Lucknow where he had committed other rape and murder crimes in similar fashion.
The Ranchi’s 19-year-old Nirbhaya, a third-year student of the Ramtahal Chowdhary Institute of Technology, Ormanjhi, was brutally raped and murdered at her house in Booty Basti. The
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semi-naked half-charred body of the victim was found on December 16, 2016, morning inside her house at Booty.
Meanwhile, another Ranchi court has fixed December 20 to pronounce verdict in Suchitra’s murder case involving former director of Ranchi’s Oxford Public School and currently BJP’s Panki assembly constituency candidate Shashi Bhushan Prasad Mehta and five others as accused. Suchitra was murdered on May 11, 2012, and her body was found near Dhurwa Dam in the state capital. The other five accused who have faced the trail are Anuj Kumar, Satya Prakash Kumar, Rajnath Singh, Sandip Kumar Paswan and Dhanmendra Kumar Thakur. Mehta is currently out on bail in this case.