Manwath is a taluka in #Maharashtra's #Parbhani district. It is located around 500-km from #Mumbai. This obscure place was rocked by a series of 10 gruesome ritualistic murders in the 1970s. These killings were the result of #superstition.
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Five girls who were about ten years old, an year-old child and four women in their mid-thirties were murdered between 14 November 1972 and 4 January, 1974. These murders had a similar modus operandi and pattern. They were committed at night. These incidents shocked #Maharashtra
The time and location of the crime,use of women as victims, nature of injuries caused to them, pvt parts of some of the victims being cut to extract blood, the absence of motive for the killings, the attempt to dodge the police and the extreme brutality made the case macabre
Eventually, the #Maharashtra #CID was asked to probe the case. N. M. Waghmare Superintendent of Police, State CID, Pune, Ramakant Kulkarni, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, CID, and Vinayak Vakatkar, Inspector of Police, Crime Branch, Mumbai started investigations. ImageImage
They soon made around 18 arrests. The principal accused in the case were Rukhmini Pardhi, Dagdu Pardhi and Devya Pardhi. A series of shocking revelations tumbled out.
Rukmini was into brewing illicit liquor. She was in her 30s and had no children. She had also reached premature menopause. A black magician/ tantrik told Rukmini that she would have to please a spirit on a peepul tree by committing a series of human sacrifices.
More repulsively, the blood from the pvt parts of virgins would have to be sprinkled on the offerings. Thus, these victims were killed due to blind faith and superstition.

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This is a thread on Phiroz Rustomji Daruwala, a cold-blooded serial killer who brutally killed an elderly family in a #murder case that rocked #Mumbai and #Maharashtra 50 years ago. The criminal also planned to abduct matka king Ratan Khatri!
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