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On December 20, 2003, the then superintendent of police (SP) received anonymous letters and phone calls informing him about villagers spotting decomposed bodies on the hillocks and adjoining agricultural lands of Nandos village.
From changing his name to moving to a new place, Atahar Beig Riyaz Beig evaded arrest for nearly three decades – until August 2022 when the police caught on.
Odisha natives Pratima Kispatta and Askar Barla met while returning home from Mumbai during the COVID-19 lockdown. While they returned to Mumbai in July, their relationship soured after Barla suspected Kispatta of having an affair.
As the long road from detection to conviction is full of challenges and involves a team of unsung heroes, the current Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar came up with this idea to reward them.
The police said that Khan’s wife Salma, mother-in-law Bilkis Shaikh and sister-in-law Tajunia Haseena strangled him and then killed him by repeatedly banging his head against the wall.