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Stoneman
The Stoneman is a name given by the popular English-language print media of Calcutta, India to an unidentified serial killer who murdered at least 13 sleeping homeless people in Calcutta in 1989. The name is also given to the perpetrator of a similar series of murders in Mumbai from 1983 to 1988. It has been speculated that these were the work of the same person, who could have been responsible for as many as 26 murders. The Stoneman was blamed for thirteen murders over six months (the first in June 1983), but it was never established whether the crimes were committed by one person or a group of individuals. The Calcutta Police also failed to resolve whether any of the crimes were committed as a copycat murder. To date, no one has been charged with any of the crimes; all thirteen cases remain unsolved. Mumbai killings The first hint of a serial killer who was targeting homeless ragpickers and beggars in India came from Mumbai. Starting in 1985 and lasting well over two year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stoneman Murders
''The Stoneman Murders'' is a 2009 Indian neo-noir crime thriller film based on the real life Stoneman serial killings that made headlines in the early 1980s in Bombay. The helpless victims of the mystery killer, who was never caught, were Sidewalk, footpath dwellers in Bombay. They were stoned to death in their sleep. The movie weaves fiction around reality in an attempt to provide answers to the questions around the case. ''The Stoneman Murders'' was director Manish Gupta (director), Manish Gupta's first full-length feature film. Plot The serial killer dubbed 'Stoneman' by the media has just claimed his fifth victim and the case is still of little interest to the Mumbai Police, Bombay police. But to suspended sub-inspector Sanjay Shelar (for custodial death of a gangster) this killer poses an opportunity for reinstation. With the secret aid of his patronizing superior AIG Satam, Sanjay takes up the arduous process of tracking the murderer without any legal assistance. He asks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stoneman Murders (TV Series)
''The Stoneman Murders'' is an Indian Bengali language web series streaming on hoichoi. The story is basically inspired by true events, a serial killer who killed several people in the year of 1985 to 1989 in Mumbai and Calcutta and remained unidentified. The murderer is known as the Stoneman as he uses a stone to kill people. Rajatabha Dutta, Rupankar Bagchi and Swastika Mukherjee are the lead actors in the series. The Story starts with a train journey of journalist Sneha who finds the Stoneman's diary. This diary makes her curious to find out all the details about the Stoneman. Cast * Rajatava Dutta * Swastika Mukherjee as Sneha * Rupankar Bagchi Rupankar Bagchi, also known mononymously Rupankar, is a Bengali singer-songwriter, playback singer and actor from Kolkata, India. He has sung many famous songs in recent Bengali films like '' Chalo Let's Go'' (2008), '' Baishe Srabon'' (2011 ... * Pallab Kumar Das Episodes Season 1 (2019) Season 1 of The Stoneman Murder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manish Gupta (director)
Manish Gupta is a film director and writer in the Indian film industry. As a director, Manish has directed the movies '' One Friday Night'' (2023), '' 420 IPC'' (2021), ''Rahasya'' (2015), ''Hostel'' (2011), ''The Stoneman Murders'' (2009) and ''Darna Zaroori Hai'' (2006). As a writer, Manish has written the screenplay and dialogues for the movies ''Sarkar'' (2005) and ''Section 375'' (2019). Career Manish Gupta started his career as a screenwriter with Amitabh Bachchan-starrer ''Sarkar''. He received nominations for the screenplay and dialogues of ''Sarkar''. Manish debuted as a director with ''Darna Zaroori Hai'' (2006) in which there were six different stories and a separate director for each story. Manish directed the main story titled ‘Grandma narrates stories to five children’. Manish's next film as director was ''The Stoneman Murders'' (2009) starring Kay Kay Menon and Arbaaz Khan, based on the Stoneman killings that shook Bombay in 1983. After that, Manish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay Kay Menon
Krishna Kumar Menon (born 2 October 1966), known professionally as Kay Kay Menon, is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Hindi cinema, and occasionally in Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi and Telugu films. He is best known for his roles in films such as '' Black Friday'' (2004), '' Deewar'' (2004), '' Sarkar'' (2005), '' Shaurya'' (2008), '' Gulaal'' (2009), '' Haider'' (2014), ''Baby'' (2015). He has starred in web series such as ''Special Ops'', ''Farzi'', '' The Railway Men'' and '' Citadel: Honey Bunny''. Early life Menon was born into a Malayali family in Kozhikode, Kerala and raised in Ambarnath and Pune, Maharashtra, India. He studied at the St. Joseph High School in Khadki, Pune. He passed his 10th grade in 1981. He did his Bachelors (Physics) from Mumbai University and his MBA from Department of Management Sciences (PUMBA) at the University of Pune, graduating in 1988 with a major in Marketing. Menon's initial focus was working in the advertising industry, includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copycat Crimes
A copycat crime is a criminal act that is modeled after or inspired by a previous crime. It notably occurs after exposure to media content depicting said crimes, and/or a live criminal model. According to a study, copycat crime is a social phenomenon that persists and is prevalent enough to have an impact on the whole criminal landscape, primarily by influencing criminal tactics as opposed to criminal motive or the emergence of criminal traits. Copycat effect The copycat effect is the alleged tendency of sensational publicity about violent murders or suicides to result in more of the same through imitation. The term was first coined in the early 20th century, following crimes inspired by Jack the Ripper. Due to the increase of replicated crimes, criminologists soon began to believe that media coverage played a role in inspiring other criminals to commit crimes in a similar fashion, and even for non-criminals to begin committing crimes when they otherwise might not have done s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshi-Abhyankar Serial Murders
The Joshi-Abhyankar serial murders were ten murders committed by Rajendra Jakkal, Dilip Sutar, Shantaram Kanhoji Jagtap and Munawar Harun Shah of Pune, India, between January 1976 and March 1977. All the murderers were commercial art students at the Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya, Tilak Road, and were hanged for their crimes on 27 November 1983. The group had acquired a poor reputation on their college campus for robbery and drinking. Timeline 16 January 1976 – Prakash Hegde Prakash was a classmate of the killers at Abhinav. His father, Sundar Hegde, ran a small restaurant (Vishwa) behind Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya. The group hatched a plot to kidnap Prakash for ransom. On 15 January 1976, the foursome and classmate Suhas Chandak picked up Prakash under false pretence and took him to Jakkal's tin shed on Karve Road. They forced him to write a note to his father saying that he was leaving home. On the night of 16 January 1976, they gagged him, and took him to Peshwe Park, which is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anirban Bhattacharyya
Anirban Bhattacharyya is an Indian television producer, author, standup comedian, and actor. He is the creator and producer of the hit true crime TV series Savdhaan India and Ishq Kills. He studied at Dr. Graham's Homes School at Kalimpong. He is an alumnus of St. Xavier's College Kolkata graduating with English Literature as Major. He went on to earn a Master's Degree in Mass Communication Film & television from the A.J.K. Mass Communication Research Centre New Delhi. Author Bhattacharyya released his debut book entitled '' The Deadly Dozen: India's Most Notorious Serial Killers''. Bhattacharyya's true crime book, ''India's Money Heist: The Chelembra Bank Robbery'', was published by Penguin India. The book is about the Chelembra bank robbery. and it was launched by actor Mohanlal In 2023 he released his fifth book ''The Hills Are Burning'' which is a memoir of his friends and him growing up in a boarding school in Kalimpong set against the genesis and the subsequent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Noida Serial Murders
The 2006 Noida serial murders (also Nithari serial murders or Nithari case) occurred in the house of businessman Moninder Singh Pandher in Sector-31, Noida near Nithari village, Uttar Pradesh, India, between 2005 and 2006. Moninder Singh was convicted in two out of the five cases against him, and his servant Surinder Koli, who supposedly aided him, was convicted in 10 out of the 16 cases against him. Both were originally sentenced to death, however in 2023, Allahabad High Court acquitted them citing lack of evidence. Events leading to primary investigation In December 2006, two Nithari village residents reported they knew the location of the remains of children who had gone missing in the previous two years: the municipal water tank behind house D5, Sector-31, Noida. Both had daughters who were missing, and they suspected Surinder Koli, the domestic help at D5, was involved in the disappearances. The residents claimed they had been repeatedly ignored by local authorities; th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since 2023; and, since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations averag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 Murders In India
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a new agreement on fishing rights. * January 7 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches ''Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. * January 15 – Tancredo Neves is elected president of Brazil by the Congress, ending the 21-year military rule. * January 27 – The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is formed, in Tehran. * January 28 – The charity single record "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa. February * February 4 – The border between Gibraltar and Spain reopens for the first time since Francisco Franco closed it in 1969. * February 5 – Australia cancels its involvemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Murders In India
Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader Mohammad Najibullah says that Afghanistan's 1978 Communist revolution is "not reversible," and that any opposition parties will have to align with Communist goals. * January 4 – ** 1987 Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route from Washington, D.C. to Boston collides with Conrail engines at Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people. ** Televangelist Oral Roberts announces to his viewers that unless they donate $8 million to his ministry by March 31, God will "call [him] home." * January 15 – Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, is forced into retirement by political conservatives. * January 16 – León Febres Cordero, president of Ecuador, is kidnapped for 11 hours by followers of imprisoned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
