The crime branch officers Wednesday said Parvez Tak, along with the watchman of the Igatpuri farmhouse, hit all the six victims on their skulls causing multiple fractures.

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The crime branch officers Wednesday said Parvez Tak, along with the watchman of the Igatpuri farmhouse, hit all the six victims on their skulls causing multiple fractures.

Parvez Tak, accused of killing starlet Laila Khan and five members of her family, who had baffled the Jammu and Kashmir police that had his custody earlier by changing versions everyday, is also trying his tricks with the crime branch. Senior officers, however, said that he is doing this just to prove that the killings were a result of a momentary insanity and nor premeditated.
“Tak said that the family was on vacation at the Igatpuri farmhouse and were having a nice time by setting up a barbeque and dancing on February 7 last year. He said that they retired to sleep by 1 am and Tak went to the first floor with Selina, where he claimed to have had a heated argument. He said that the couple then came on the ground floor where they continued to fight, where in a fit of rage Tak hit her with a rod on her head,” said Himanshu Roy, joint commissioner, crime.
Mr Roy said that hearing Selina’s screams, the other five woke up and rushed to the spot when Tak summoned Shakir Hussain, the watchman and then killed the other five. “We doubt his claim that the act was not premeditated. Just two months before the incident, Tak had sacked the watchman of the farmhouse and brought in his driver Hussain, who is also
from Kishtwar and made him a watchman there,” he said.
Explaining why the duo set the farmhouse on fire, Mr Roy said, “They wanted to destroy evidence as there were a lot of blood stains in the farmhouse. The place did not have an electricity connection, but was equipped with a generator set and diesel. So they used the diesel to set the farmhouse on fire,” he said.

In two separate cases, the Gadchiroli police has arrested five persons including a member of the International Human Rights Federation for extorting money from prominent businessmen in the district.

Lashkar-e-Tayyaba’s Fasih Mahmood, who is likely to be deported from Saudi Arabia to India, doesn’t have a single case against him in Maharashtra, but senior officers of the crime branch are still keen oninterrogating him.

Lashkar-e-Tayyaba’s Fasih Mahmood, who is likely to be deported from Saudi Arabia to India, doesn’t have a single case against him in Maharashtra, but senior officers of the crime branch are still keen on interrogating him.

In May this year, commissioner of police Arup Patnaik issued a circular in which he asked for a list of long-serving orderlies (constables, sub-inspectors) of senior police officers.

Police sources on Thursday said that apart from interrogating alleged terrorist Abu Jundal on the cases registered against him, the authorities would also make him spill the beans on the sleeper cells

Police sources on Thursday said that apart from interrogating alleged terrorist Abu Jundal on the cases registered against him, the authorities would also make him spill the beans on the sleeper cells

Sources on Wednesday said that the investigating agencies are trying to find out whether Rahil Abdur Rahman Sheikh, one of the SIMI members who fled to Pakistan in 2006 after giving a slip to a police