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Quaid Najmi

4 January 2025 at 8:56:24 pm

Man gets death for minor’s rape, murder

Mumbai | Nashik: A Nashik Special Fast Track Court has awarded the death sentence to a 25-year old man who was convicted last week for luring a 4-year-old girl with a chocolate, kidnapping, raping and murdering her, here on Friday. Terming the case as the ‘rarest of rare’ crimes, the Special Judge K. D. Paldewar – who had found Vijay Sanjay Khairnar guilty of kidnap, sexual assault and murdering the child on Sep. 30 but reserved the verdict after the final arguments on Oct. 7 – pronounced the...

Man gets death for minor’s rape, murder

Mumbai | Nashik: A Nashik Special Fast Track Court has awarded the death sentence to a 25-year old man who was convicted last week for luring a 4-year-old girl with a chocolate, kidnapping, raping and murdering her, here on Friday. Terming the case as the ‘rarest of rare’ crimes, the Special Judge K. D. Paldewar – who had found Vijay Sanjay Khairnar guilty of kidnap, sexual assault and murdering the child on Sep. 30 but reserved the verdict after the final arguments on Oct. 7 – pronounced the capital punishment today. He also slapped a fine of Rs 10 lakhs as compensation to the victim’s family, hailing from Dongrale village before a packed courtroom where the villagers, the victim’s family and others were present. Emerging from the courtroom after the verdict, Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam told the media that “the Court had considered the gravity of the crime and the circumstantial evidence establishing Khairnar’s involvement” while deciding the sentence. The Court did not take into account the convict’s poverty – he was a daily wager – or illiteracy as grounds for leniency, added the ace criminal lawyer. It was on Nov. 16, 2025 in Dongrale village of Malegaon taluka when Khairnar lured the little girl on the promise of giving her a chocolate and took her to a desolate spot to carry out his devious plans. Betraying the trust of the child who used to call him ‘dada’ (elder brother) due to their acquaintance, Khairnar sexually assaulted her, killed her and abandoned her before decamping from there. A few hours later, the child’s body was found dumped in a nullah and the police were summoned. As details of the gruesome crime tumbled out and spread, it ignited widespread public outrage all over the state. The police swung into action, formed several probe teams and managed to track down Khairnar from his hideout within a few hours. Considering the sensitivity of the crime, the strong emotions plus the mass furore it created, the state government assigned the case to a fast-track court, assigned Nikam as the SPP and the matter was heard speedily. The SPP aggressively led the prosecution, arguing in the court that in view of the gravity of the crime, the circumstances leading to it and other aspects, it warranted the severest punishment – death – for Khairnar, irrespective of his age or financial status. The Dongrale villagers stood in solidarity with the victim’s family and they raised a chorus for quick investigations, an expeditious trial and slapping the death penalty on the convict to serve as a strong deterrent to potential offenders. As per the Indian law, the trial court’s verdict will now go to the Bombay High Court for confirmation. Political leaders from different parties hailed the court verdict and said “justice has finally been done to the victim’s family”.

Kamra rattles Nirmala, economy

Quaid Najmi
Mar 26, 2025
1 min read

Mumbai: After sharp ‘gaddar’ barbs at MahaYuti ally Shiv Sena President and Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, followed by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s pet theme of ‘Viksit Bharat’, stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra on Wednesday trained guns on Nirmala Sitharaman and the Indian economy.


Releasing a new poetic video, Kamra musically lamented how the tax-payers’ money is going ‘hawa-hawai’ (frittered away) in schemes, and that the central government has come to ruin the roads.


The Metro is in their thoughts and they relax after digging up, leading to traffic congestion on the roads, crashing down bridges, and these are examples of ‘dictatorship’.


Kamra said it makes no difference to them if the peoples’ aspirations are binned, or if corporate employees pay more tax than the corporates, as is in the national interest

He rued that the huge inflation in the country has come with the Central government, and the ‘sariwali didi’ has come to loot peoples’ earnings and rob their salaries. The woman, Nirmala-tai is also crushing the middle-classes, feeding popcorn to the masses, he added.


In parting shot, Kamra declared: “She is the JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University) that the country deserves. It's Nehru’s mistake that she was educated there. If she had studied at the Benares Hindu University, she would have made a better Finance Minister.”


With the mileage of the raging controversy of the past four days, the new video quickly notched up almost six lakhs views, 30K likes and 6K-plus likes and comments.


Kamra, who is facing a political ire, several police complaints and summons from Mumbai Police, is presently in Puducherry.

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