Bihar man gets death for killing 9 in Telangana

A court in Telanganas Warangal district on Wednesday sentenced a man to death for killing nine migrant workers by throwing them into a well after mixing sedatives in their foodThe court verdict came five months after the shocking incident as First Additional District Court magistrate found 24yearold Sanjay Kumar Yadav guilty of the gruesome killings and sentenced him to deathThe police investigations had revealed that to hide the murder of a woman with whom the Bihar man had a livein relationship Sanjay Yadav committed nine more murders by throwing the victims into a well at Gorrekunta village near Warangal town on May 20Police on May 25 arrested Sanjay Yadav who confessed to killing the nine people including six members of one family by mixing sleeping pills in their food and then throwing them one by one into a nearby wellAs all the victims were sedated after having their food laced with sleeping pills the accused put each person in a gunny bag dragged them one by one and threw them into the well about 100 metres away from a godown of a gunny bag making unit where the family of a migrant worker from West Bengal and two Bihari youth were livingAnother migrant from Tripura who was also present in the building was also murderedPolice had recovered the bodies Mohammed Maqsood Alam 55 his wife Nisha 48 their sons Shabaaz Alam 20 and Sohail Alam 18 daughter Bushra Khatoon 22 Bushras threeyearold son all from West Bengal Sriram Kumar Shah 26 Shyam Kumar Shah 21 both from Bihar and Mohammed Shakeel 40 a native of TripuraYadav who was also working at the gunny bag unit developed a relationship with Nishas niece Rafiqa 37 who had come from West Bengal with three children after separation from her husband and was employed in the same factoryYadav had taken a room on rent and was living with her After Rafiqa admonished him for trying to sexually exploit her daughter he hatched a plan to kill RafiqaHe informed Maqsoods family that he is taking her to West Bengal to talk to her elders for marriage They boarded the Garib Rath train to Visakhapatnam on March 6 but during the journey he bought butter milk and after mixing sleeping pills served it to RafiqaAfter she fell asleep he strangulated her and threw the body from the train near Nidadavole in West Godavari district of Andhra PradeshThe accused got down from the train at Rajahmundry and returned to Warangal When Nisha and her husband enquired about Rafiqa he said she had reached her village and would come back laterWhen Maqsoods family threatened to approach the police he hatched a plan to eliminate all of themOn May 20 when Maqsoods family was celebrating Shabaazs birthday he came to their house and mixed sleeping pills in the food prepared at homeAs two Bihari youth living in the same building had seen him at Maqsoods house he went to their room and mixed sedatives in their food to wipe out the evidenceShakeel a native of Tripura who had come to Maqsoods house at the latters invitation too became Yadavs victimKeep scrolling to read more newsCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates MidDay is now on Telegram Click here to join our channel middayinfomedialtd and stay updated with the latest newsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever