Sikkim Youth kills woman for refusing sex in Goa

Panaji KTC Bus Stand

PANAJI: A day after 42-year-old Poornima Pednekar was murdered at the Panaji KTC bus stand, it has now come to light that the accused, Rohan Gurung, 26, killed her because he was upset with the victim for resisting his moves to have sex with her, the police said.

Gurung, a resident of Sikkim, was arrested for murdering Poornima during the wee hours of Monday. The Panaji police have registered the case under Section 302 of the IPC (murder). "Pednekar objected to being sexually abused by the accused and when he forced himself on the victim, she shouted out for help. Angry with this, he pushed her head to the ground and suffocated her to death," said a police officer.

The accused was arrested by the police after a watchman working at the bus stand called the Panaji police station Monday morning and informed them that a lady was lying motionless behind the bus stand's public toilet. The watchman informed the police that she was with a man and they were kissing each other.

Sikkim Resident arrested in Goa for Murder

PANAJI: A resident of Sikkim, Rohan Gurung, 26, was arrested by the Panaji police for the alleged murder of 42-year-old Poornima Pednekar at the KTC bus stand during the wee hours of Monday.

"We have registered the case under Section 302 of IPC (murder) at Panaji police station," said deputy superintendent of police Deu Banaulikar.

According to the police, the KTC bus stand watchman called the police station early Monday morning, informing them that a woman was lying motionless behind the bus stand`s public toilet. "The watchman also told us that earlier, he had seen Pednekar with a man and the couple was kissing each other," Banulikar said.

Later, the man in question was apprehended by the watchman and handed over to the patrolling police.

"The suspect involved in Pednekar`s death, who introduced himself as Rohan Gurung, a native of east Sikkim, Gangtok, said he has been working as a waiter at Foodicted bar and restaurant, Baga, since February 2011," Banaulikar added.

The police later sent the body to the Goa Medical College and hospital (GMC), Bambolim, for a postmortem. According to the report submitted by Dr Silvano Dias Sapeco and Dr Pannag Kumar of the GMC`s forensic department, the reason for death is: "Asphyxia as a result of smothering in soft soil, which was fatal in the ordinary course of nature in the person with injuries over the body which were ante-mortem and fresh at the time of death."

Banaulikar said that the accused has been placed under arrest and has been referred for a medical examination to ascertain if he sexually assaulted the deceased.

Tiff over sari claims 7-yr-old Kid

Gangtok, Nov. 5: An argument between two women over a sari has allegedly claimed a seven-year-old boy. The bludgeoned body of Arpit Sharma was recovered from a Sikkim jungle today.

Arpit had gone missing from Rangpo Junior High School on Monday. He used to live with his grandparents in Rangpo’s Lower Bazar, while his parents were in Bihar. Police said the family was engaged in the carpentry and masonry.

Investigations revealed that the school authorities had told Arpit’s grandparents that a woman posing as his mother had taken away the boy from the institution to the Singtam hospital around 10.30am on Monday on the pretext of visiting a doctor.

The next day the boy’s guardians filed a missing person’s diary.

Asked whether the family suspected anyone, Arpit’s aunt told the police an incident involving a neighbour, Bina Devi Sharma, 24, whom the boy had seen stealing a sari from their home.

“The boy’s aunt embroiders saris and one such item strung out in the balcony of the house was stolen during Diwali. Arpit had seen Bina Devi wearing the sari a few days later. This led to an argument between the boy’s aunt and the accused woman,” an officer of the Rangpo police station said.

The investigations zeroed in on Bina Devi as a prime suspect and she was interrogated today by the Rangpo police. “Even though she did not admit the crime initially, she gave us some clues that led us to search the Sawney jungle (near Singtam, about 35km from here) and we found the bludgeoned body,” the officer said. “The woman later confessed the crime saying that she had kidnapped and killed the boy to take revenge.”

The police also recovered the school shirt and the bag of the boy near a stream. The body was handed over to the boy’s guardians after a post-mortem.

Rangpo’s kidnapped child brutally murdered

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05 Nov, Rangpo: A case has been registered against a women who allegedly killed a child after kidnapping. The child named Arpit Sharma aged 07 years doing his schooling at Rangpo Government School was missing since Monday 10:00 am on his way to school, a search operation was conducted by Sikkim Police after a missing report was filed at Rangpo PS. Today Rangpo police conducted a interrogation with a suspect women who is a neighbour of said child’s family. A partial decompoed body of a child was recovered from Sawney Busty, Singtam some few kilometers from Rangpo.
A women Bina Devi Sharma finally confessed that she killed a child because few months earlier there was a domestic dispute between herself and the family of child. She confessed that she killed a child in verge to pacify her anger. Sikkim Police has filed a charge against the said women under IPC. Further information is awaited on this report.

HUSBAND MURDERS WIFE IN SICHEY,GANGTOK

GANGTOK, August 20: In a gruesome incident, a decomposed body of a young woman was discovered from a house at Middle Sichey here today.
The dead body, as identified by the owner of the house and the local residents, is that of Pritra Maya Tamang (20), wife of Karma Singh Tamang age around 53 to 60 years both residents of Soreng West Sikkim.
The Tamang couples were working as labourers and were staying at the rented house at Middle Sichey.
According to the landlord, the couple was seen in their house till the evening of August 16. The next morning, he saw the house locked from outside and presumed that the couple had gone somewhere.
Two days after, residents of the area detected a foul smell coming from the room, which got unbearable after a while. Suspecting that something was amiss, the landlord peeped in from the house of the house and saw body inside the room. The Police was immediately informed.
A team from Sadar Police broke inside the room and discovered the decomposed body. A synthetic rope measuring about 11 feet was also found wound around the neck of the victim.
An autopsy on the body was conducted and later handed over to the legal guardians.
The landlord, who identified the body to be that of Pritra Maya, said that the couple would often fight and there were several instances when the victim was regularly beaten up by her husband. About three months ago, he husband had physically abused his wife after which the landowner had called the Police and handed him to the Sadar Police Station.
According to the victim’s elder sister, her sister had come to her house very depressed on the evening of August 15. “When I asked her about her problems, she refused to divulge the reason and left for her house,” she said.
Pritra Maya Tamang was married her own maternal uncle couple of years ago when she was about 14 years old. The couple has a four year old daughter.
The victim is the second wife of Karma Singh Tamang. He had left his first wife in Soreng and had abandoned her since 2004.
A case has been registered against the accused Karma Singh Tamang under section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code. The case is under investigation. Karma Singh Tamang is absconding.
All Police Stations and Out Posts throughout the State have been alerted and a look-out has been ordered for the accused.