With a sign put up by the Archaeological Survey of India prohibiting visitors post-sundown, the 17th-century Bhangarh Fort stands tall, unbeaten and grim in Rajasthan’s Alwar district. While it was once a grand architectural marvel—built by local ruler Raja Bhagwant Das—today, the sprawling fort and its immediate premises are known as the most haunted site in India.  The history of the fort dates back to centuries. Built-in the 17th Century in Rajasthan, the Bhangarh Fort is an ancient...

On July 16, 2003, Mishra, who was posted as Land Acquisition Officer with Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA) disappeared following which his wife Rekha Mishra filed missing persons report with the local police. However, acting on a tip-off police quizzed his wife, who reportedly had remarried and changed her name to Shabnam, her husband Sayyed Sahab Ali and his brother Karamat Ali following which they admitted to killing Prassna Mishra and also revealed the place where they buried...

Shanti Devi was born on December 11, 1926, in a little known town of Delhi. She did not speak much until she reached the age of 4 but otherwise she was just a normal girl like any other in the locality. At the age of four, the little girl started claiming that the home where she lived was not her real home and that her parents were not her real parents and began to claim to remember details of her past life. Discouraged by her parents, she ran away from home at age six, trying to reach...

Soumya and Reema Sahu had married on 18 February. Five days later, they received a parcel as a wedding gift. The parcel exploded when it was opened on 23 February. Soumya and his grandmother Jemamani were killed in the blast while Reema suffered grievous burn injuries. Sources:...

The Punjab National Bank Kapda Mill branch that was breached by burglars was not an easy target. The burglars are suspected to have conducted a recce of the entire area to plan the ‘perfect’ heist. The locker owners say there was no steel plate on the room's floor and the lockers were over 60-70 years old. There were no CCTV cameras in the locker room either. The thieves stole cash, jewellery and other valuables worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from a branch of the Punjab National...

A haunted hospital in the pristine environs of Abbott Mount in the Champawat district of Uttarakhand, India is the stuff of spooky stories and films. Local myth has it that a derelict hospital building is haunted. A Dr Morris is said to have done bizarre experiments there and his patients or victims now haunt the place.  It is believed that the Morris Hospital was established in early 1900s. The place has all the ingredients — a haunted hospital, a neglected church and a graveyard — to...

Parida had killed his wife Ushasree Samal with a steel torch in a fit of rage in June 2013. He cut her body into 300 pieces and stashed them in small tiffin carriers. He then hacked her body into six-inch pieces using a surgeon’s scalpel, scissor, saw and a kitchen knife and stashed the body parts in 22 small tiffin containers at his posh residence in Bhubaneswar. He poured phenyl on the body parts to kill the stench. The murder came to light on June 22, 2013, after Ranjan Samal, his wife’s...

Would love to hear from your side via Insta, https://www.instagram.com/nascent_carbon/        Among the many brutal and gruesome murder cases that have rocked Chennai in its recent history, none comes close to the multiple murder cases by ‘Auto’ Shankar and his group between 1987 and 1988. Born Gowri Shankar in 1955 at Kangeyanallur village in Vellore district, Shankar settled down at Periyar Nagar. Starting out as a painter, Shankar later started driving autorickshaws, transporting illicit...

Would love to hear from your side via Insta, https://www.instagram.com/nascent_carbon/        Two Pakistani brothers have been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment after the skull of a young boy they exhumed and devoured was discovered in their home. An antiterrorism court in the state of Punjab found Mohammad Farman Ali, 30, and Mohammad Arif Ali, 35, guilty of defiling a grave, destroying property and disseminating fear. No laws specifically against cannibalism currently exist in the...

Would love to hear from your side via Insta, https://www.instagram.com/nascent_carbon/            In 1983, four convicts in the sensational "Joshi- Abhyankar" killings in Pune were executed together at the Yerwada Central Jail here. Rajendra Jakkal, Dilip Sutar, Shantaram Kanhoji Jagtap and Munawar Harun Shah were hanged on October 25, 1983. The Joshi-Abhyankar serial killings were 10 murders committed by them between January 1976 and March 1977. Suhas Chandak, an accused in the case, had...

Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/nascent_carbon/            The convict Raja Kalander alias Ram Niranjan (50), has been found guilty of killing a journalist Dhirendra Singh and several others. Dhirendra Singh was killed and his body was cut into several pieces and thrown into a river and a jungle. The trial in the case against Raja Kalander went on for more than 12 years. The court, while convicting Kalandar, had observed that the murder of Dhirendra Singh was the rarest of rare...

Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/nascent_carbon/            2006 Noida serial murders The Noida serial murders (also Nithari serial murders, Nithari Kand) occurred in the house of businessman Moninder Singh Pandher in Nithari, India in 2005 and 2006. Moninder Singh was convicted in two out of the five cases against him and his servant who aided him was convicted in 13 out of the 16 cases against him. Both were sentenced to death.  29 December 2006: Nithari killings came to light...

Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/nascent_carbon/           On an October morning in 2006, on a foot overbridge close to Mumbai’s Marine Lines station, a lifeless body was found. The deceased, later identified as a taxi driver named Vijay Gaud, had been beaten to death. The incident didn’t get much notice. It was mentioned in a few newspapers, a vague investigation was carried out, and it was forgotten before long. A little more than two months later, on the morning of 14 December,...

Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/nascent_carbon/             On 23 August 2009, Jaishankar raped and murdered a 39-year-old police constable, M. Jayamani. Originally stationed at the Kangeyam all-women police station, Jayamani was on temporary duty at Perumanallur, during the visit of deputy chief minister M. K. Stalin. Jaishankar kidnapped her, and raped her several times before killing her. The police recovered Jayamani's body a month later, on 19 September. The Tiruppur police...

Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/nascent_carbon/          Horror wears many faces. But perhaps the most chilling of them all is the mask of ordinariness. When cruelty comes calling dressed in the robes of banality, its power to inflict pain and cause fear is enhanced. There is nothing striking about either Seema Mohan Gavit or her sister Renuka Shinde to set them apart. Here are two sisters who could have been just another face in the crowd, but their horrific past has shaped their...

Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/nascent_carbon/                    Psychopath killer Udayan Das from Bhopal not only killed his parents but also girlfriend. the only son of PK Das and Indrani Das, Udayan Das confessed killing his parents in Raipur in 2010 and buried their bodies in front garden of their home and then sold the house to an advocate through forged land documents. These murders were unregistered till February 2017 and came on surface only when he was arrested as...

Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/nascent_carbon/          Prakash Shukla was born in Mamkhor village, near hata bazar Gorakhpur. He was a good student . In 1993, Shukla killed a man called Rakesh Tiwari, because he had whistled at Shukla's sister. This was Shukla's first criminal record. Following the murder, Shukla escaped to Bangkok. He returned and became associated with Suraj Bhan of Mokama, Bihar. He was once the most dreaded and ruthless gangster of Uttar Pradesh and North...

Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/nascent_carbon/ A Delhi court on Friday framed charges of abetment of suicide and conspiracy against former Haryana Home Minister Gopal Kanda and paved the way for his trial in the ex-air hostess Geetika Sharma suicide case. Along with 46-year-old Kanda, his close aide and employee Aruna Chadha, 40, will also face trial for similar charges. The court also on its own framed charges under section 376 (rape) and 377 (unnatural sex) of IPC against...

Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/nascent_carbon/      vicious thieve have been sitting on the judge's chair for two months.  It is said that Dhani Ram Mittal had also studied LLB. Besides, he had also obtained handwriting specialist and graphology degree. He had obtained these degrees to carry out his theft incident. He used to steal the car and used to prepare his fake papers and sell them. The most interesting and strange act of Dhani Ram is that he sat in the judge's chair for...

Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/nascent_carbon/       Wanted in over 100 criminal cases in eight states and sentenced for an incredible 113 years by various courts, Natwarlal had made eight daring escapes from various jails and was the ultimate confidence trickster. He was last seen in 1979, when he audaciously escaped while being taken for a trial in Bombay and since then had been believed dead. Natwarlal's modus operandi has hardly changed from his heyday. Only the yarn he spins...

Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/nascent_carbon/               Devender Singh - Bunty Chor This guy didn't restrict himself to one particular city. From Delhi to Bangalore, Chennai to Mumbai, this guy has been there and done that. Hardly the most picky thief, Bunty did have a particular weakness for fancy cars and luxury watches. And he was a master escape artist as well. He was able to escape his captors with as much ease as he whisked away with people's belongings. With over 500...

Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/nascent_carbon/     In a bizarre turn of events, a 37-year-old electrical engineer dug a hole in the terrace of a bank on the outskirts of Delhi, intending a robbery, but ended up struggling for three days before getting nabbed by the police. The man, identified as Deepak, works for a Gurgaon-based company and had to reportedly pay a Rs 35 lakh loan. Deepak broke into the bank at around 9.30 pm on August 14 by digging a hole into the terrace of the...

Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/nascent_carbon/         Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated at 9:29 a.m. on 31 October 1984 at her residence in Safdarjung Road, New Delhi. She was killed by her Sikh bodyguards Satwant Singh and Beant Singh in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star. Operation Bluestar was an Indian military massacre carried out between 1 and 8 June 1984, ordered by Indira Gandhi to remove the Sikh leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his armed...

Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/nascent_carbon/      Divya Bharti (25 February 1974 – 5 April 1993) was an Indian film actress who starred in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil movies in the early 1990s. Known for her acting versatility, vivacity and beauty, she was regarded as one of the most popular and highest paid Indian actresses of her time.[3][4] Bharti aspired to a film career at the age of 14, while she was doing some modelling assignments. She made her debut with a lead role in the...

Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/nascent_carbon/ Kuldhara is an abandoned village in the Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan, India. Established around the 13th century, it was once a prosperous village inhabited by Paliwal Brahmins. It was abandoned by the early 19th century for unknown reasons, possibly because of dwindling water supply, or as a local legend claims, because of persecution by the Jaisalmer State's minister Salim Singh. A 2017 study suggests that Kuldhara and other...