The first additional district and sessions court of Warangal convicted Sanjay Kumar Yadav and awarded him death sentence for the murder of nine persons in March this year.Despite the constraints due to COVID-19, the investigators and the prosecutors got the trial of the case completed in less than five weeks in the First Additional District and Sessions Judge court of Warangal. Sanjay Kumar Yadav belonging to Bihar confessed to the killing of nine persons before the court. Public prosecutor Mokila Satyanarayana Goud proved the charges against the accused and sought capital punishment to the accused. Sanjay Kumar Yadav killed nine persons including a three-year-old boy. The nine victims were Maqsood Alam (50), his wife Nisha Alam (45), their sons Shabaz Alam (21), Sohail Alam (20), daughter Bushra Alam (22), her three-year-old son, and others Sriram (35), Shyam (40) and Shakeel (40).29/10/2020
Sanjay, a native of Bihar came to Warangal six years ago to earn a living and joined a gunny bag making unit where Maqsood worked and stayed with his family. In the meantime, Sanjay developed a relationship with Rafika, a relative of Maqsood’s wife. Rafika used to live with her three children separately.
Police stated that Sanjay promised to marry Rafika but eventually cast an eye on her teenage daughter. Suspecting that he had sexually assaulted her daughter, the woman questioned him. To get rid of her, Sanjay led her to believe that they had to meet his elders in Bengal.
Along with Rafika, he boarded a train in March third week. On reaching Tadepallygudem of Andhra Pradesh, he administered sleeping pills to her. When she fell unconscious, he threw her from the running train and returned to Warangal. When Sanjay returned single, Maqsood’s wife grew suspicious and threatened to tell police if she did not find Rafika. Fearing arrest, Sanjay decided to get rid of the whole family. He mixed sleeping pills in the food prepared for the birthday party and when all fell unconscious, he threw all the persons into the nearby agricultural well. The accused also killed Shyam, Sriram and Shakeel who were also working in the unit. Police found all dead bodies in a well, First, they suspected that it was a case of suicide later in the investigation, it was proved a mass murder.
