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married Sushil Sharma. they checked it. They saw two men fanning
an unusually large fire coming from the
tandoor, but when the police saw them, they
Murder found a charred body with skin melted at the
lower part of the tandoor. According to the
On the night of July 2, 1995, when
police, when more personnel arrived, Sushil
Sushil returned home, he saw Naina
Kumar fled from the scene, but the manager
on the phone, which she hung up
of the restaurant was arrested immediately.
after seeing him, and she was
The crime was reconstructed based on
consuming alcohol. When Sushil
Keshav Kumar‘s confession.
redialed the number, he found that it
was Naina’s ex-classmate, Matloob,
on the other end of the call. Enraged,
Sushil shot Naina and took the body The case is called
to a restaurant called Bagiya. Taking Food the “Tandoor
the help of the manager of the Kand” because the
For murder victim’s
restaurant, Keshav Kumar, and
disposed of the body by burning it in body was burned
the Tandoor Kand (clay oven) of the in a clay oven
restaurant. Thought (tandoor)
Verdict
Sushil Sharma was given the death penalty
but later commuted to life imprisonment.
Image 1: The place where
the body was burnt
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Image 2: The victim and culprit
Source: https://www.scoopwhoop.com/inothernews/india-
sensational-murder-cases-convicts-current-status/
