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Dhananjoy Chatterjee (14 August 1965 – 15 August 2004) was the first person who was judicially executed in India in the 21st century for murder. The execution by hanging took place in Alipore Jail, Kolkata, on 15 August 2004.
Nov 18, 2021 · Dhananjoy Chatterjee was a security guard who was convicted for the rape and murder of an 18-year-old schoolgirl. The case was termed as a ‘rarest of rare’ case and capital punishment was issued against Dhananjoy Chatterjee.
Aug 24, 2017 · Was Dhananjoy Chatterjee Truly Guilty of Rape and Murder? Dhananjoy’s last words, according to his hangman Nata Mullick, were: “I am innocent. They are killing me”.
Jul 21, 2015 · Although bearing a Brahmin name, Dhananjay Chatterjee was far from being a member of the Kolkata bhadralok, or intellectual elite. He was an impoverished guard in a building where an...
Aug 26, 2004 · Dhananjoy Chatterjee, who worked as a lift operator in the building where Hetal Parekh and her family lived, raped and killed the girl when she returned to an empty flat from school. The Alipore...
Jul 4, 2017 · On his 42nd birthday, after spending nearly 14 years in prison, Dhananjoy Chatterjee was hanged to death. Convicted of raping and murdering a teenage girl in an apartment in South Kolkata in...
Aug 17, 2020 · 16 years ago on this day, a young man aged 39 (on his birthday) was hanged till death for the offence of rape and murder of a 14 year old girl, Hetal Parekh. This young man was Dhananjoy Chatterjee (the accused). On the 16th anniversary of his execution in the Alipore jail of Kolkata, this…
Dhananjoy Chatterjee (August 14, 1965 in Kuludihi, West Bengal, India - August 14, 2004 at Alipore Central Jail in Calcutta, India) was a security guard who was executed by hanging for the rape and murder of 14-year-old Hetal Parekh on March 5, 1990 at her apartment residence in Bhowanipur.
Jan 27, 1994 · Dhananjoy Chatterjee faces execution after the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence on 12 January. A private security guard, he was sentenced to death for rape and murder by the Calcutta High Court.
The Alipore Sessions Court awarded Dhananjoy Chatterjee life imprisonment for rape and death sentence for murder, terming the case as one of “the rarest of rare cases”.
