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Ram Khokhar

No Photo Name: Ram Swaroop Khokhar.
Died: December 8, 2019.
Age at death: 55.
Cause of death: Asphyxia due to strangulation.
Location: Lalpura Pachar, Rajasthan, India.
Disability: Unspecified.

Details:
Ram’s son called police and allegedly admitted to killing his father. Police found Ram’s body at his house.

Case Status:
Manoj Kumar Khokhar (Son), charged with murder.

Sources:
‘Cryptic and Casual’: SC sets aside HC bail order in disabled man’s murder
Manoj Kumar Khokhar vs The State Of Rajasthan on 11 January, 2022

Syamala

No Photo Name: Syamala.
Died: July 7, 2019.
Age at death: Adult.
Cause of death: Traumatic injury.
Location: Pedha Kothapalli, Nagarkurnool, India.
Disability: Mental illness.

Details:
Syamala was a married woman, but when she became mentally ill, her husband left her and she had to move back in with her parents. One night, her father allegedly killed her with a sickle.

Case status:
Eranna (Father), arrested.

Source:
Man hacks disabled daughter to death at Nagarkurnool

Ashamati

No Photo Name: Ashamati.
Died: July 6, 2019.
Age at death: 75.
Cause of death: Burns.
Location: Balangir, Odisha, India.
Disability: Unspecified; bedridden.

Details:
Witnesses reported to police that Ashamati’s son was arguing with her husband, and when her son picked up a piece of wood and started hitting her husband, Ashamati demanded he stop. According to the police, her son then poured kerosene on her and set her on fire. She died from her injuries.

Case status:
Santosh Kharsel (Son), charged with murder.

Source:
Man burns mother to death in Balangir
Man burns bedridden mother to death
Man sets bed-ridden mom on fire, arrested

Kushal

No Photo Name: Kushal.
Died: July 4, 2019.
Age at death: 2.
Cause of death: Head injury.
Location: Aswal, Hunsur taluk, Karnataka, India.
Disability: Epilepsy.

Details:
Kushal’s parents tried to conduct an exorcism to cure him of his epilepsy. Police say they beat him severely with a banana stem. He died of severe head injuries.

Case status:
Parimala and Shashikumar (Parents), arrested.

Source:
Kid beaten to death by parents in exorcism

Shabhana

Photo of an Indian woman with light-brown skin and neatly parted black hair, wearing a white headscarf. Name: Shabhana.
Died: June 23, 2019.
Age at death: Adult.
Cause of death: Blunt injury.
Location: Narol, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
Disability: Unspecified.

Details:
Shabhana’s husband was arrested on suspicion of bludgeoning her to death. Her family suspects him of killing two of his previous wives as well and reports that he used to suspect her of having an affair.

Shabhana was the oldest of three sisters.

Case status:
Abdul Razak Shaikh (Husband), charged with murder.

Source:
Man murders disabled wife in Narol

Vivek Kakadiya

No Photo Name: Vivek Kakadiya.
Died: March 28, 2019.
Age at death: 22.
Cause of death: Strangulation.
Location: Khijaria village, Visavadar taluka, Junagadh district, Gujarat, India.
Disability: Intellectual disability.

Details:
Vivek’s sister-in-law allegedly strangled him because she believed he was “a burden… she would have to carry for the rest of her life”.

Case status:
Daya Kakadiya (Sister-in-law), charged with murder.

Source:
Gujarat: Woman held for killing brother-in-law with learning disability

Kashaiah P

No Photo Name: Kashaiah P.
Died: March 20, 2019.
Age at death: 40.
Cause of death: Strangulation.
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Disability: Physical disability.

Details:
According to the police, Kashaiah’s wife and her boyfriend conspired to kill Kashaiah; they got him drunk and strangled him in the middle of the night, then tried to make it look like a suicide.

He worked as a watchman.

Case status:
P Nagalaxmi (Wife), arrested on suspicion of murder.
K Saidulu (Wife’s boyfriend), arrested on suspicion of murder.

Source:
Physically handicapped killed by wife, paramour
Hyderabad: Woman, lover held for husband’s murder

Harish and Santosh

Name: Harish.
Age at death: 28.

Name: Santosh.
Age at death: 25.

Died: March 16, 2019.
Cause of death: Poisoning.
Location: Doddathoguru, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Disability: Unspecified; bedridden.

Details:
Harish and Santosh’s mother fed them poisoned food and killed them; she also ate some herself and died.

Case status:
Radhamma (Mother), deceased.

Source:
Woman poisons disabled sons, takes her own life
Bengaluru: Woman poisons differently abled sons, ends life

Sudesh Gupta

No Photo Name: Sudesh Gupta.
Died: January 9, 2019.
Age at death: 67.
Cause of death: Strangulation.
Location: Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Disability: Paralysis.

Details:
Sudesh’s wife told police that masked assailants had killed her husband. However, police say that when they questioned her further, she told them she had been frustrated at the expense of medical treatment and the effort of caring for him and strangled him.

Case status:
Subash Kumari (Wife), charged with murder.

Source:
Murder Mystery solved in Jammu : Wife killed Bed-ridden Husband
Elderly woman strangulates bedridden husband to death: Police
Gandhi Nagar police solved murder case; accused apprehended

Baby Boy

No Photo Name Unknown.
Died: December 21, 2018.
Age at death: 29 days.
Cause of death: Asphyxiation.
Location: Neelasandra, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Disability: Unknown congenital defect.

Details:
This little boy was born one of a pair of twins. He was weak at birth and had to spend ten days in the hospital after birth, and needed continued medical attention after he came home.

With the baby’s mother feeding his twin in another room and his father out buying medicine, the baby’s grandmother allegedly strangled and smothered the baby to death.

Case status:
Vijayalakshmi (Grandmother), arrested.

Source:
Days after month-old infant found dead in Bengaluru, grandmom arrested for murder
Grandmother held for infant’s murder