Ahmedabad: An engaged couple, a 17-year-old girl and an 18-year-old youth, died by suicide after jumping into the Narmada Canal, police said. Though the body of the boy, identified as Himesh Bharatadi, has been found, Adalaj police said the body of the girl, Abha Bharatadi, was not found till late evening. Eyewitnesses told police that…
Sanjay Thakkar, whose real name was Satish Ruparelia, beheaded a textile trader 31 years back Ahmedabad: For more than a decade, neighbours in New Ranip allegedly knew him as a soft-spoken spiritual speaker and worked as a financial consultant. Few suspected that the man living quietly under the name Sanjay Thakkar was actually Satish Ruparelia,…
Ahmedabad: Convicted murderer Satish Ruparelia pulled off a feat few fugitives ever manage: After jumping parole twice —remaining undetected for 13 years the second time — he built an entirely new public life under the nose of the law, just 4km from the Sabarmati Central Jail he fled. Sentenced to life for the sensational 1994…
