A famed journalist of India Express, Shivani Bhatnagar, was murdered 23rd January, 1999 in her apartment flat in New Delhi. Ravi Kant Sharma, an IPS of 1976 batch was charged with the murder. It is said that Ravi Kant Sharma and Shivani Bhatnagar had intimate relations. Sharma allegedly killed Shivani, as he feared she would expose their intimate relations. After absconding for more than three years, Sharma surrendered to the police in 2002, however, he was later acquitted due to lack of evidences by the Delhi High Court.
Chandrashekhar Prasad
An iconic student leader and an upcoming politician of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) was shot dead along with his companion Shyam Narain Yadav on 31st March 1997 in broad day light by unidentified assassinators, while he was addressing a street corner meeting in his hometowns. Though the reasons behind the murder of this Popular student of Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University are unknown, this case led to large student protests across the country
Rizwanur Rahman
A 30 year old computer graphics trainer, Rizwanur Rehman belonged to a middle class family who fell in love with the industrialist Ashok TOdi's daughter Priyanka Todi. The couple got married secretly. Unhappy by Priyanka's decision of marrying Rizwanur, Rizwanur was compelled to send his wife to her father's home and was refused permission to talk to her. On September 21, 2007, Rahman's body was discovered beside a railway track in Kolkata, but the police brushed aside the case and termed it as just another case of suicide. After the mainstream media jumped in it suspecting the role of local authorities and other political big shots, this case was handed over to the CBI for further investigations.
