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  • Techie Tape Suicide Or Brutal Murder.

    A young man was found in the plush suburb of Bangalore inside his car.

    His body was taped all around and his face was covered with four layers of plastic covers.

    The story put out by the Police is that the boy, who was a Software engineer had an Online affair with a girl and as she informed him that she would be getting married, she had asked him not to trouble her.

    Distressed the boy is supposed to have committed suicide, by preparing meticulously after texting the girl that she would know of his fate through the Media.

    A bottle of water laced with 50  Gardenal( a quick acting sedative, normally given to Horses) tablets was found half empty by his side.

    Few questions.

    The sedative is very quick in acting.

    In no way it is possible for a human being to consume 50 tablets of the same and yet have the time to tape himself around and wrap four plastic covers over his head.

    Two to three tablets of even a tranquilizer like Restyl .5 mg. puts you to sleep in about 15 minutes.

    To believe that 50 tablets of Gardenal was ineffective for nearly 15 minutes( the minimum time required to tape yourself as the boy was reported to have done) is naive or criminal or both.

    Again the boy’s room-mate seems to have stated that the deceased had taken scotch tape and covers from his room.

    The boy is reported to have spent  a long time conversing with his relatives in person and his mother over phone just prior to his fate.

    A suicide is the result of instantaneous decision and does not require this much time , as the individual spends more time especially with his relatives, the desire to commit suicide recedes.

    It is imperative that the case is  re-investigated thoroughly as the motive is also suspect.

    A separate blog follows on Onine Relationship and the motive factor of the murder follows.

    A 24-year-old software engineer was on Tuesday morning found murdered in a gruesome manner – his body was swathed in 50 metres of duct tape and strapped to the rear seat of his Volkswagen Polo at Brookefield, near Whitefield.

    The youth’s head was shrouded in four plastic covers sealed with a duct tape wound 20 times around his neck. The body was swaddled in 12 layers of duct tape at eight places below the waist. His hands and legs, too, were tied using duct tape.

    The victim is Sreeraj S, a resident of 6th cross, AECS Layout, Brookefield, and native of Kozhikode in Kerala. He worked with HP as a software engineer. The body was found in his car next to a lakeside park in ‘D’ block, Maruthi Layout, AECS Layout, about a kilometre from his house. A one-litre plastic bottle half-filled with water laced with sleeping tablets was found in the boot of the car.

    In the morning, ragpickers spotted the car parked next to a waste dump. They thought a man lying on the back seat was asleep. A closer look revealed his head was shrouded in plastic covers. Police were informed by 8 pm. They took 15 minutes to remove the tapes from the body.

    Police ruled out the murder-for-gain angle. The victim’s wallet and costly cellphone handset were intact. Investigators suspect an affair might have resulted in the killing. The victim sported a jeans and grey T-shirt . Police suspect the involvement of more than one person . The victim’s dust-free shoes indicated that he might have been killed either in his car or at a house close by.

    Killers weren’t professionals

    The gruesome murder of Sreeraj S on Tuesday proved only one thing: the killers were not professionals and the layers of tape pointed to their nervousness and desperation , according to forensic experts. Alerted by passersby and ragpickers about a youth’s body lying on the backseat of a car, police rushed in and force-opened the car doors. The victim showed no signs of life. Forensic experts took the fingerprints on the car and the body. Around 1pm, the police took the body out of the car and ripped off the duct tapes.

    The outermost cover was of a drycleaner’s outlet from Marathahalli, the second one of a designer cloth chain, the third of a fast-food chain and the innermost of a supermarket. Underneath the layers of plastic, a yellow cloth had been stuffed into his mouth and duct-taped.

    “Preliminary investigation pointed to the possibility of him being sedated using water laced with sleeping tablets. A bottle was found in the car’s boot. After Sreeraj was sedated, they put the plastic covers on his head and wrapped him up in layers of duct tape . He appears to have suffocated to death,” a forensic officer said.

    Police have taken Sreeraj’s mobile phone and are examining its call records. A postmortem was conducted at Bowring hospital. His parents arrived in the city late in the night.

    http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-23/bangalore/31826089_1_duct-tape-software-engineer-forensic-experts

  • Brazilians Cannibals,Ate Pastas made of Human Flesh Video

    Revolting and any plea on the fictitious ground that they are Schizophrenic  should not be entertained.

    Police have arrested three people for allegedly killing at least two women, eating parts of their bodies and using their flesh to make stuffed pastries known as empanadas that they sold to neighbors in their northeastern Brazil city.

    The three suspects — a man, his wife and his mistress — belonged to a sect that preached “the purification of the world and the reduction of its population,” police inspector Wesley Fernandes in the city of Garanhuns told the Globo TV network Friday.

    “The newspaper Estado de S.Paulo said the man, Jorge Beltrao Negromonte, wrote a 50-page book titled “Revelations of a Schizophrenic” in which he says he hears voices and is obsessed with the killing of women.


    Fernandes said the three were arrested Wednesday and had confessed to the crimes. The three allegedly lured women to their house by promising them a job as a nanny. They were tracked down after one of the arrested women used a credit card belonging to a victim who disappeared last month.”

    – The trio that allegedly killed at least two women and ate parts of their bodies may have murdered another five people in northeastern Brazil, police said Thursday.

    Police spokesman Carlos Leite said by telephone that investigators suspect the trio murdered four other women in the state of Pernambuco and one in neighboring Paraiba.

    He said police have information indicating that the five “suffered the same fate” as the two women whose remains were discovered last week in the city of Garanhuns.

    A man and two women were arrested last week for allegedly killing two women, eating parts of their bodies and using their flesh to make stuffed pastries known as empanadas that they sold to neighbors. Police hope they will show where the additional bodies are buried.

    Leite declined to provide more details.

    Police have identified the three as Jorge Beltrao Negromonte, his wife Isabel Cristina Pires and his mistress, Bruna Oliveira da Silva.

    Police inspector Wesley Fernandes said last week that they belonged to a sect that preached “the purification of the world and the reduction of its population.”

    Police said they found a 50-page book titled “Revelations of a Schizophrenic” that Negromonte wrote. In it, he says he hears voices and is obsessed with the killing of women.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/19/brazil-cannibal-empanadas-cannibalism-murder_n_1438612.html

  • US Authorised Credit Card Hacking

    In a surprise development the accused ,who had been awarded 20 years term in prison for 130 Million Credit Card Numbers,   declared before the Court that he was authorized by US Government to do so.

    This can not be dismissed as untrue as the Government has admitted that the accused was an employee of the Secret Service.

    Probably the reason for the Government asking him to hack credit card accounts for some reason they can not disclose.

    COuld be that they were some specific Card numbers and the accused got caught.

    Story:

    Mug shot of Albert Gonzalez taken by the U.S. ...
    Mug shot of Albert Gonzalez taken by the U.S. Secret Service and handed out the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey as part of the August 19, 2009, announcement of his indictment (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    Albert Gonzalez, the hacker who masterminded the largest credit card heists in U.S. history, is asking a federal judge to throw out his earlier guilty pleas and lift his record-breaking 20-year prison sentence, on allegations that the government authorized his years-long crime spree.

    Gonzalez, 29, admitted last year that he and accomplices hacked into TJX, Office Max, Dave & Busters, Heartland Payment Systems and other companies to steal more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers, in what the government deemed the biggest computer crime case ever prosecuted in the United States. He’s currently serving time at the Milan low-security federal prison in southeastern Michigan, with a release date in the year 2025.

    The government has acknowledged that Gonzalez was a key undercover Secret Service informant at the time of the breaches. Now, in a March 24 habeas corpus petition filed in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, Gonzalez asserts that the Secret Service authorized him to commit the crimes.

    “I still believe that I was acting on behalf of the United States Secret Service and that I was authorized and directed to engage in the conduct I committed as part of my assignment to gather intelligence and seek out international cyber criminals,” he wrote. “I now know and understand that I have been used as a scapegoat to cover someone’s mistakes.”

    In his 25-page petition, he faults one of his attorneys for failing to prepare a “Public Authority” defense, by which someone who commits a crime argues that he did so with the approval of government authorities.

    He says his attorneys never discussed a Public Authority defense with him. Had he known the option existed, he would never have pleaded guilty.

    Habeas motions, known as 2255 motions, can be used by convicted prisoners to assert defective counsel or other jurisdictional and constitutional issues outside of a direct appeal. Gonzalez is acting as his own attorney in the petition.

    Gonzalez became a confidential informant for the Secret Service when he was arrested in New York in 2003 after withdrawing cash from ATMs using stolen card numbers. While working closely with agents for more than four years to put other carders behind bars, he was simultaneously running a criminal enterprise he dubbed “Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin’,” according to court documents.

    http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/in_surprise_appeal_tjx_hacker_claims_u_s_authorized_his_crimes

  • China Telecasts Death Row Interviews to Stem Crime Rate.

    A good attempt to reduce crime rate.

    Unfortunately people seem to think it is an entertainment!

    Prime time: Chinese television's Interviews Before Execution has become a hit with viewers Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2109756/The-Execution-Factor-It-designed-propaganda-deter-criminals-Instead-interviews-death-row-Chinas-new-TV-hit.html#ixzz1o8AcaOPy
    Interview of criminals before execution in China.

    “In one scene, a prisoner in his 20s falls to his knees before his parents, who have been allowed to see him. He pleads: ‘Father, I was wrong. I’m sorry.’

    Moments later, his parents see him about to be led away to his death. His distraught mother apologises for beating him once as a child and implores her son: ‘Go peacefully. It’s following government’s orders.’

    Prison officers then push her aside and drag him away.

    In another scene, a firing squad of about 20 men is briefed by a senior officer before executing condemned prisoners. ‘Some criminals will be very tough and difficult. That means they’ll be dangerous,’ the officer tells them.

    Officials in the ruling Communist Party regard the series as a propaganda tool to warn citizens of the  consequences of crime.

    Inmates are selected for Ms Ding by judiciary officials who pick out what they consider suitable cases to ‘educate the public’. So far, the show’s makers claim, only five condemned prisoners who were asked have refused to be interviewed.

    Convicted criminals in China can be put to death for 55 capital crimes, ranging from theft to crimes against the state. However, the show focuses exclusively on murder cases, conspicuously avoiding any crimes that might have political elements.

    The case that has drawn the largest number of viewers so far is that of Bao Rongting, an openly gay man who was condemned to death for murdering his mother and then violating her dead body.

    Three extra episodes were devoted to his story as viewing figures soared. Homosexuality is still regarded as taboo in most of China, and the sensational trailers described his interviews as ‘shining a light on a mysterious group of people in our country’.

    When Bao was executed, no family members turned up to say farewell. His final conversation before being led to his death was on camera with a decidedly wary Ms Ding, who admitted to being unsettled by his sexuality. In a remarkable scene, he asks if she will do him a last favour by shaking his hand before he dies. She hesitates, before lightly touching his hand with her finger and then pulling it away.

    She later confessed to being unsure if she should have shaken his hand, saying with obvious distaste: ‘There was a lot of dirt under his nails. For a long time there was a feeling in this finger. I can’t describe that feeling.’

    The series has made a household name of Ms Ding, who is married and has a young son. She is often recognised in the street while doing her shopping with her family.

    Denying her show is exploitative, she said: ‘Some viewers might consider it cruel to ask a criminal to do an interview when they are about to be executed. On the contrary, they want to be heard.

    ‘When I am face-to-face with them I feel sorry and regretful for them. But I don’t sympathise with them, for they should pay a heavy price for their wrongdoing. They deserve it.’

    However, she admits to being haunted by those she has interviewed. She once woke on a train in the middle of the night and, looking out of her  window, saw a vision of the executed prisoners she had interviewed standing in a line beside her carriage.

    ‘Their faces were so real and all of them were standing there looking at me,’ she said. ‘I was horrified – I have heard so many cases. It is really not good for me at all. I have too much rubbish in my heart.’

    Lu Peijin, the boss of TV Legal Channel in Henan province, said Ms Ding came up with the concept for the show and he agreed immediately, but that getting approval from officials was a long process.

    ‘I thought it was a great idea right away,’ said Mr Lu, who said that the stated aim of the show was not to entertain but to ‘inform and educate according to government policy’.

    ‘We want the audience to be warned,’ he said. ‘If they are warned, tragedies might be averted. That is good for society.’

    Mr Lu said Ms Ding’s feminine image endears her to both audiences and the prisoners she interviews. ‘We say she is the beauty with the beasts,’ he said.

     

    China is believed to kill more prisoners every year than the rest of the world combined, and the communist state has been widely criticised over its use of the death penalty.

    There is no presumption of innocence under Chinese law. The condemned are often put to death as little as seven days after their convictions are confirmed by the Supreme Court.

    The exact number of executions is a state secret, but it has been estimated that about 2,000 prisoners a year are executed in China, although rates are believed to have fallen in recent years.

    Haunted: Miss Ding, who also conceived of the programme, has had visions of the executed people she has interviewed

    China is concerned that the BBC documentary will damage the country’s image overseas and lead to fresh accusations of human rights abuses. Ms Ding and her colleagues have been banned from giving any further interviews.

    Officials are particularly upset because next week’s BBC broadcast comes at a politically sensitive time – only days after China’s pseudo-parliament, the National People’s Congress, begins its annual session in the capital Beijing.

    A Chinese TV executive who works on Interviews Before Execution said: ‘When the party officials realised the extent of the footage the BBC would use, they were very concerned about it.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2109756/The-Execution-Factor-It-designed-propaganda-deter-criminals-Instead-interviews-death-row-Chinas-new-TV-hit.html

  • Man Killed in Encounter Tamil Nadu Alive!

    One of the gunned down robbers involved in Bank Robberies a couple of days ago in Chennai was found to be alive and there seems to be inaccuracies in the Police version of the encounter.

    There were no signs of forced entry by the Police in the premises.

    Body of the man killed in Chennai by Police operation..
    Slain Robber being carried in a stretcher.

     

    Two bullet marks were found in the window at the same height!

    The TV which was in the direct line fire was undamaged.

    While gunning down may be questioned I feel that the law Enforcement authorities might have had sufficient information of the Robbers before shooting them down in what seems to be a well prepared move.

    Hope the Policemen got their information correct.

    The NHRC should also look into the facts of the case before jumping the gun by going to the Press and calling for a CBI enquiry.

    This will paralyse the Law Enforcing Agencies.

    ”

    After a lull in 2011, the first case of death in police encounter returned with a bang on Thursday with the Chennai Police gunning down five men suspected to be involved in two bank robberies.

    Suspects getting killed in encounters at the hands of the Tamil Nadu police is not uncommon and there have been many in recent years, including those involving the death of dreaded forest brigand Veerappan in 2004, Al-Umma activist Imam Ali and his associates in Bangalore and some Maoist cadres.

    Though human rights activists raise a hue and cry in every such case and there have been judicial enquiries, statistics reveal an average of four encounter deaths each year since 2006. Thursday’s case is unique as it is the largest encounter in terms of the number of people killed.

    http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article2925423.ece

    “The National Human Rights Commission on Friday, Feb 24 issued notices to Tamil Nadu Director General of Police and Chennai District Magistrate seeking detailed report of the encounter and questioned the authenticity of the same, where Tamil Nadu police shot dead five people suspected to be involved in robberies at two suburban bank branches on Feb 22 late night.Moreover, the Bihar government also asked Tamil Nadu government to probe the killing of the five.According to a Headlines Today report,…

    The Bihar government on Friday, Feb 24 demanded Tamil Nadu to probe the killing of five men, including four from Bihar, who were shot dead Tamil Nadu police suspected to be involved in robberies at two suburban bank branches on Feb 22 late night.

    Reacting to the matter, Bihar Animal Husbandry Minister Griraj Singh said that the state government has taken up the issue seriously and asked the Tamil Nadu government to inquire into the killings.

    http://news.oneindia.in/2012/02/24/bihar-demands-tamil-nadu-to-probe-the-encounter.html

     

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