The Joshi-Abhyankar serial murders were 10 murders committed by Dilip Sutar, Rajendra Jakkal, Munawar Harun Shah and Shantaram Kanhoji Jagtap, all art students of Pune, between January 1976 and March 1977. The used to frequently robbed two wheelers for money, and indulged in drinking alcohol.
On January 16, 1976, they picked up a classmate on a fake party, and took him to Jakkal’s house where they forced him to write a letter to his father saying that he was leaving on his free will.
They then strangulated him with a nylon rope, put the body in an iron barrel and dumped it into a lake. They then sent a ransom note to the father. On October 31, 1976, the four targeted the family of Achyut Joshi in Pune. They killed the couple and their teenaged son, and then ran away with the loot – a mangalsutra and a few thousand rupees.
On December 1, 1976, the group attacked noted Sanskrit scholar Kashinath Shastri Abhyankar, and killed him with his four family members, and took off with the valuables and money. On March 23,1977, they killed the younger brother of college friend, and dumped his body in the river mula-mutha.
The killers were apprehended on 30 March 1977. After both the high court and Supreme Courts turned down their appeals, the accused approached the President for a his bail. The bail was not granted, and the four were hanged at the Yerwada Central Jail on 27 November 1983.
The below cut out has date 25 oct. But later hangings were postponed to 27 November.
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