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Prathibha's murder on 13 December 2005 sent shock waves across the country. [4] It was a murder that made companies change their policies towards safety of working women, a crime that made police debate about night shifts for women employees and NGOs demanding nothing less than capital punishment for Shivakumar, the taxi driver charged with murdering Pratibha.
Umesh Reddy (born 1969) is a serial rapist and serial killer from India. He confessed to killing 18 women, [1] and was convicted in 9 cases. [2] The police believe that he raped at least 20 women in the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat.
Alongside him, the other suspects involved in the murder case of Renukaswamy were assigned subsequent prisoner numbers: Dhanaraj (6107), Vinay (6108), and Pradosh (6109). Initially, due to the high-profile nature of the case and security concerns, Darshan and the co-accused were placed in a high-security cell within the prison premises.
The third instalment of Indian Predator, titled Beast of Bangalore is a true crime series that revolves around the crimes committed by Umesh Reddy during the 1990s in Karnataka, India. Shockingly, Umesh was a former police officer. He admitted to the heinous acts of raping and murdering 18 women and was found guilty in nine of these cases.
Gauri Lankesh (29 January 1962 – 5 September 2017) was an Indian activist and journalist from Bangalore, Karnataka.She worked as an editor in Lankesh Patrike, a Kannada weekly started by her father P. Lankesh, and ran her own weekly called Gauri Lankesh Patrike.
News of Subhash's tragic death has also galvanised men's rights activists and started a wider debate around India's tough dowry law which was designed to protect women from harassment and even murder.
In 2010, she was given a death sentence for the murder of Muniyamma. [11] [12] In 2012, she was given another death sentence for the murder of Nagaveni. She was given the death penalty. [7] [3] [12] Kempamma was the first woman to be given the death penalty in Karnataka. [3] Her sentence for Nagaveni's murder was commuted into life in prison.
His first crime to be reported happened on 3 July 2009, when he attempted to rape and murder 45-year-old P. Shyamala in Perandahalli. [11] By August 2009, he had raped and murdered 12 women, and raped another six women. He always carried a black handbag with him. He kept a machete in this bag, and killed whomever resisted him.