Two arrested for kidnap, murder of city lawyer Vinnakota Seetarama Kalyan

Two men involved in the kidnap and murder of city lawyer Vinnakota Seetarama Kalyan were arrested.
The superintendent of police, Mr Y. Nagi Reddy, told newsmen here on Saturday that Siva Kumar and his wife Rupa Surya Sri were having some family disputes. As lawyer Kalyan was coming in the way for sorting out the disputes with the family elders, Siva Kumar and his father Kanakaiah conspired to eliminate the lawyer.
Accordingly, Siva Kumar sought the help of his friends including Pranay Kumar, Kalesh, Polameti Pavan Kalyan alias Bablu and Vinay Kranti to arrive in Rajahmundry from Hyderabad and threaten the lawyer not to interfere in the issue. Siva Kumar came to Rajahmundry some 15 days ago and stayed in a lodge to watch the moments of the lawyer.
On February 22, when Kalyan was riding on a motorcycle at Prakash Nagar, he was abducted in a car belonging to Kalesh while Pavan Kalyan and Vinay Kranti trailed them on the bike.
While going in the car, Kalyan was put on sedation with chloroform and as they were on their way to Maredumilli forests, Siva Kumar hit Kalyan with an iron rod on his head and even when Kalyan was struggling, Siva Kumar, with his friend Pranay Kumar, put a belt around his neck as a noose and they also strangulated him with the banian.
As Kalyan died, they dumped the body in a valley at Maredumilli tiger forest. The superintendent of police said that crime circle-inspector Ch V. Rama Rao arrested Siva Kumar’s friends including S. Pranay Kumar and K. Kalesh involved in the murder in Hyderabad in the early hours on Friday and added that for killing Kalyan, Siva Kumar and his father Kanakaiah spent Rs 60,000.
Mr Nagi Reddy also said that they were on the look out for the main culprit Siva Kumar and his father Kanakaiah.

Two years on, Goa victim rests in morgue

Even two years after her tragic death, the body of a teenager is yet to be handed over to her mother by the British authorities as paperwork by the Government of India is pending.

In an e-mail interview, the victim’s mother said the coroner in Exeter, U.K., was awaiting the completion of paperwork from the Indian departments concerned. The body was flown to the U.K. in March 2008.

On February 18, 2008, the girl’s battered, semi-nude body was found on Goa’s Anjuna beach. Two locals, Placido Carvalho and Samson D’Souza, are held accused in the case.

The Goa police, after the initial goof-up, cracked the case. It was revealed that the girl was drugged and left to die on the beach. The case was finally handed over to the CBI after consistent distrust in the State police expressed by the victim’s mother.

The lawyer for the mother slammed investigating agencies for watering down the charges, from rape and murder to culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Police replicate Nitin Garg's final moments to nab his killers

The Australian police have retraced slain Indian student Nitin Garg’s final moments in a bid to nab his killers who stabbed him to death at West Foorscray, Melbourne, on January 2, while he was on his way to work.

Victorian homicide squad detectives returned to Yarraville to retrace the 21-year-old’s last steps. Garg, a permanent Australian resident, staggered into the outlet with stab wounds before collapsing.

On Saturday, a man wearing similar jacket as Garg retraced his movements walking from the Yarraville Railway Station and cut across CJ Cruickshank Park along a metre-wide dirt path on the eastern side of the park to the Hungry Jack’s restaurant to replicate Garg’s last known movements over a 24-minute period.

"It might just jog the memory of anyone (there) that evening over anything that may be significant,” the Herald Sun quoted Detective Senior Sergeant David Snare, as saying.

Snare described progress in the investigation as steady.

He appealed to anyone in the area of the park on January 2 between 9.30 p.m. and 10.30 p.m. to contact police.

However, Mr. Snare said it was inappropriate and premature to suggest the attack may have been racially motivated.

He said operational matters were behind the decision to wait three weeks before re-enacting Garg’s final moments.

Garg’s murder follows recent attacks on Indians in Melbourne that have put Australia’s multi-billion-dollar international student sector at risk.

Indian student enrolments have fallen 46 per cent across the country in recent months, while international student enrolments are down by 20 per cent overall.