Akku Yadav, The Nagpur Gangster Killed By The Women He Terrorised
\n\nOn the afternoon of 13 August 2004, Bharat Kalicharan Yadav, known across his neighbourhood as Akku, was brought into Nagpur District Court for a bail hearing. He had been arrested six days earlier. Within about 15 minutes, he lay dead on the courtroom floor, attacked by a crowd of women from Kasturba Nagar, the slum he had terrorised for more than a decade. Many of them had come carrying vegetable knives and chilli powder. When the police asked who was responsible, women across the locality gave the same answer: all of them.
\n\nAkku Yadav grew up in Kasturba Nagar and, from the early 1990s, led a gang that ran the area through extortion and fear. He was accused of raping more than 40 women and girls, the youngest reportedly just 10, and of murdering at least three people. He was arrested around 14 times, yet he kept returning.
\n\nInside The 2004 Nagpur Courtroom Killing That No Court Could Solve (Picture Credit – Praveen Mudholkar)
\n\nResidents alleged that the police took his money, ignored complaints and protected him. Many of his alleged victims were Dalit women, for whom justice had…
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