Kolkata: Contract killing to hide illicit affair 10-05-2015
KOLKATA: The gruesome murder that took life of education department employee Kartick Saha, was masterminded by his wife Sujata and her lover Kuntal.
During interrogation, the duo have confessed engaging contract killers for the gruesome murder.
During interrogation Sujata broke down and confessed planning out Kartick's murder. Sujata, who came to know Kartick seven-eight month back, came very close to him. Since Kartick was resisting their extra-marital affair, Sujata and Kuntal decided to finish him off. The plan to kill Kartick was chalked out around 15 days back when Sujata secretly went to meet Kuntal at the Bidhannagar Station. They decided that the work had to be done in a way that they get scot free. The duo decided to engage two contract killers for that.
"We have also arrested Sujata following complaint against her. Duo have confessed that they masterminded the murder," said DC DD Kankar Prasad Barui. Kuntal, already in custody, had some connections in the underworld. He had already been following Kartick for long and knew his way back home. After the duo zeroed in on the date, they informed the killers the plan accordingly. Kuntal did not return home on Wednesday evening and accompanied the killers at a guest house in FD block of Salt Lake. Sujata's family members had already told police that she has been talking to Kuntal over phone till late in the night. In the morning Sujata informed Kuntal once Kartick was out for the morning walk.
Kuntal came out with the killers from the FD block guesthouse early in the morning. During interrogation Kuntal has told police that he hated Kartick and wanted to see him die. But Kuntal was aware that his mobile phone tower locations could trace him back to the spot once police starts investigation. In a bid to hoodwink police he changed the sim card of his mobile phone. The killers were carrying an axe to kill Kartick. While 5
coming back from his walk Kartick had taken the route through CJ block. Finding the area deserted, killers decided to hit him there. They hit him with the axe from behind. To ensure that he dies they hit him twice again while Kuntal watched the entire episode.
Bidhannagar police had already arrested Kuntal following a complaint by Kartick's brother Narayan Saha. Later police arrested Sujata too. During face to face interrogation of Sujata and Kuntal, police found that they were talking about their affair over months. According to police sources, they were talking about different incidents of their love life.
A metropolitan magistrate court on Saturday had sent Sujata to five days'
police custody. Police is now looking for the two killers.
Charges in Ghaziabad gang-rape case 'false', woman hatched plot to frame accused, say cops
2022-10-21
Days after Ghaziabad police detained four people for allegedly abducting and gang-raping a 40-year-old woman from Delhi, a new twist has emerged in the case. Police on Thursday dismissed the allegations made by the woman as false and said that the entire conspiracy was hatched as the woman and the accused have a running dispute over property.
Truth finally comes out': Brothers exonerated after 20 years in prison 2022-11-11
If you did nothing wrong, you've got nothing to worry about.
The words swirled around Quinton Cook's head as he sat in the Jefferson County Jail. He figured the attorneys and judge were right, so he believed them. His brother Frank Meadows, also in the jail, believed them, too. Those words reassured them 6
that their innocence would come out at trial.
What happened next was a nightmare.
"From believing that, I winded up being in prison for 20 years of my life," Cook said.
Cook and Meadows were convicted in 1994 of first-degree rape and sentenced to 20 years in an Alabama prison without any physical evidence linking them to the crime. They served the entirety of their sentences.
On Oct. 25, a Jefferson County judge exonerated them.
A police report and blood — collected from the scene never presented at trial
— re-emerged by chance nearly 30 years later and showed that they were innocent.
"Since the police report contained exculpatory evidence that was recklessly not provided to the defense, petitioner is entitled to relief," wrote Jefferson County Circuit Judge Shanta Owens.
The bad dream they thought they'd never wake from is finally over, but having their innocence recognized feels just as surreal, Cook said.
"When the truth finally comes out, it takes a moment for you to realize that it really just came out," Meadows said. "When you done walked with your head down so long, it gets hard to hold it up at times."
Perhaps most striking about Cook and Meadows now, men who spent their 20s and 30s in prison for a crime a judge ruled they did not commit, is the grace with which they speak about their conviction. They aren't resentful toward those responsible for the injustice, from the district attorney to the judge. "I can't say I was angry," Cook said. "I will say I was scared, and I was disappointed.
"I've kind of justified it with saying that God does everything for a reason," he said. "I came to the conclusion, understanding that, well, if I'm going to be mad, I've got to be mad at God because he allowed the devil to do this. I couldn't walk around mad and angry."