In Nagaur, police registered two FIRs within six months in the murder case of a young man. In the first FIR, police named some people as accused, filed a chargesheet in court and sent them to jail.
Later, in the second FIR of the same murder case, the complainant himself was made an accused and was also sent to jail. At present, two separate trials are going on in court for the same murder case.
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In Khadkhali village of Khinvsar, Nagaur, cousins Ummedaram son of Hariram and Chunaram son of Tajuram were married to Saroj and Shobha, daughters of Mohanram from the same village.
Besides being cousins, Ummedaram and Chunaram were also brothers-in-law (husbands of sisters). Both brothers had two brothers-in-law (wives’ brothers), Durgaram and Kishanaram. Ummedaram worked in partnership with both brothers-in-law. However, Chunaram did not get along with both brothers-in-law.
On March 11, 2024, Tajuram reported to Panchaudi police station that on March 10, at 10 PM, Ummedaram’s wife Saroj was at her maternal home with her son Arjun. From there, she called her sister, Chunaram’s wife Shobha.
During this time, Saroj and Shobha’s brother Durgaram also arrived there. He took the phone from Saroj and spoke to Shobha, taunting her about her husband Chunaram. Chunaram was there at that time. He took the phone from Shobha.
After this, Chunaram and Durgaram had a heated argument over the phone. Durgaram reprimanded Chunaram for not keeping Shobha happy in her in-laws’ house. Both threatened each other.
Duragaram hung up the phone and, taking his younger brother Kishanaram with him, got into the trailer and set off towards Chunaram’s house. Seeing this, Saroj called her husband Ummedaram. She asked him to go to the spot and mediate. Ummedaram also went towards Chunaram’s house.
Meanwhile, Duragaram and Kishanaram arrived with the trailer and rammed it, breaking Chunaram’s house gate and railings. To reason with them, Ummedaram, Chunaram’s father Tajuram, and mother Chuki Devi arrived there. The two brothers attacked them with a wheel spanner and an iron rod, and drove the trailer over them. Chuki Devi and Tajuram survived, but Ummedaram died because the tire ran over him.
The trailer used in the incident.
Duragaram-Kishanaram arrested
After chaos erupted at the scene, people from the neighborhood arrived. They caught Durgaram and Kishanaram, who were fleeing on foot from there, and handed them over to the police.
In the matter, the police registered case number 25/2024 and arrested Durgaram and Kishanaram. The court sent them to judicial custody. The investigation of the case was assigned to the then Panchaudi SHO Khetaram.
After a long investigation, the police filed the charge sheet on June 1, 2024, with the statements of both accused and the testimonies of 27 people, along with all physical and technical evidence. The witnesses included the testimony of Ummedaram’s wife Saroj and Ummedaram’s brother Jagdish.
Deceased’s wife accused the complainant
After this, in August 2024, Saroj, the wife of the deceased Ummedaram and sister of the murder accused Duragaram and Kishanaram, filed a complaint in the Nagaur Court, stating that her uncle-in-law Tajuram and his two sons Chunaram and Mohanram held animosity towards her husband Ummedaram. There was also a land dispute between the two families.
Due to this, on the night of March 10, when she sent her husband Ummedaram to calm a fight between her brothers and Chunaram, Chunaram and his brother Mohanram, along with their father Tajuram, murdered her husband Ummedaram.
The murder was blamed on her brothers Duragaram and Kishanaram. Later, these very accused threatened her and her son Arjun with death and made her give false testimony against her brothers in the police.
Court sought information from Panchaudi SHO
These were new facts in the case of Ummedaram’s murder. Therefore, before ordering to register a new case in this matter, the Court sent a letter to Panchaudi SHO and asked whether any case related to Ummedaram’s murder was already registered.
The then Panchaudi SHO Khetaram, who had investigated the case and filed the charge sheet, informed the Court that no case had been registered previously in this regard by Saroj, wife of Ummedaram.
Consequently, the Nagaur Court orders the registration of an FIR and investigation in this matter. On September 12, a case was also registered at Panchaudi police station against Tajuram and his two sons Chunaram and Mohanram regarding Ummedaram’s murder.
The then Panchaudi SHO Khetaram told the court that no case had been registered by Saroj, wife of Ummedaram, in this regard previously.
Three cases merged, FR filed
On September 12, 2024, Jagdish, the real brother of the deceased Ummedaram, filed a complaint in court stating that Ummedaram’s arrival at Chunaram’s house for reconciliation was disliked by his father Tajuram, his sons Mohanram and Chunaram, and mother Chuki. The three together attacked him with sticks, iron rods, and clubs.
Ummedaram fell down due to a head injury. During this, Durgaram and Kishanaram, who arrived there, crushed Ummedaram with a trailer, leading to his death. Later, all of them conspired and fabricated a false story of murder, portraying themselves as victims.
Jagdish claimed that despite being cousins, no member other than Tajuram attended Ummedaram’s funeral or mourning meetings after his death. Citing a CCTV video, Jagdish claimed that Tajuram, Chunaram, Mohanram, and Chuki Devi were also involved in the murder of his brother Ummedaram.
Following this, Chunaram’s wife Shobha also filed a complaint (istgasa) against her husband and in-laws, alleging dowry harassment. On this, the court instructed the police to merge the complaints filed by Ummedaram’s brother Jagdish and Shobha with Saroj’s FIR registered on September 12, 2024, and investigate all three cases together.
Merging all three cases, the then Paanchodi SHO Harjiram investigated and, considering all these cases false, filed a Final Report (FR) in the matter.
This photo of Ummedaram and Duragaram is from the time when the trailer was purchased
SP ordered a re-investigation
After all this, on January 10, 2025, the then Nagaur SP Narayan Togas instructed Additional SP Pravendra Singh Mahla of the Nagaur Quick Investigation Disposal Team to re-investigate the matter.
Additional SP Pravendra Singh Mahla investigated the case and on April 6, 2025, arrested Chunnaram, Ummedaram’s brother-in-law and cousin, in connection with Ummedaram’s murder.
Meanwhile, after Chunaram’s arrest, his family members reached the police headquarters seeking justice and filed a complaint there. The then Rajasthan ADGP Crime, Dinesh MN, after conducting a departmental inquiry into the matter, issued an order to the Nagaur SP on June 26, 2025, stating that the FR report submitted after investigating the then SHO Harjiram and deeming the case false, in the FIR filed by the deceased’s wife Saroj, is correct. Submit this FR report to the court and send its compliance report to him by July 2, 2025.
Rajasthan ADGP Crime’s order dated June 26, 2025
The then ADGP Crime Dinesh MN’s orders were not followed
Meanwhile, 5 days before this charge sheet was presented in court, the then Rajasthan ADGP Crime Dinesh MN sent a new order to Nagaur SP Narayan Togas, stating that it came to light in the case that when 1 FIR was already registered, a new FIR should not have been registered later.
If any new facts had come to light, an investigation should have been conducted with the court’s permission and a supplementary charge sheet should have been presented in the same FIR.
Additionally, this order also instructed that, as per the previously sent order, an FR should be presented in this new case and action should be taken under 169 CrPC to ensure Chunaram’s release. Also, submit its compliance report to them by July 4, 2025.
Additional SP Pravendra Singh Mahla, defying the orders, presented a new charge sheet against Chunaram in court on July 7, 2025, instead of submitting an FR.
Order of Rajasthan ADGP Crime dated July 2, 2025
This story was revealed in the new charge sheet
It was stated in this charge sheet that when Ummedaram came to the spot for mediation, Tajuram, his wife Chuki Devi, his sons Chunaram, Mohanram, and Chunaram’s wife Shobha were already standing there, ready with sticks in their hands to fight Duragaram and Kishanaram.
Seeing Ummedaram there, Tajuram asked him, “Why have you come here?” To this, Ummedaram told them that he had come to stop Duragaram and Kishanaram from fighting here. Then Tajuram and his sons asked Ummedaram, “Why have Duragaram and Kishanaram brought a trailer here?” To this, Ummedaram told them, “Ask Chunaram about this.”
Meanwhile, Chunaram hit Ummedaram on the head with a stick, causing him to fall down. At that moment, Durgaram, who was in his trailer, in a fit of rage, drove his truck forward to run over Tajuram and Chuki Devi. The trailer ran over Ummedaram, who was already lying on the ground there.
Meanwhile, Kishanaram assaulted Chuki Devi and Tajuram. The charge sheet also referred to a CCTV footage, in which nothing is clearly visible, but some voices can be heard.
The first page of the charge sheet presented by the ASP in the second FIR, in which he admitted that the then SHO had prepared the charge sheet considering all three cases false during the investigation
The court considered the police investigation suspicious
After this, Chunaram’s family members reached the High Court for his bail. Here, Judge Sandeep Shah granted bail to Chunaram on October 30, 2025, and, calling the police investigation of this case suspicious, wrote in the order that Chunaram was the complainant in the first FIR, in which the police, after their investigation, considered Durgaram and Kishanaram as accused and filed a charge sheet against them.
Later, during the investigation, the fact that Durgaram ran over the deceased Ummedaram with a trailer came to light again. There is no mention of Chunaram driving the trailer in the CCTV transcript. Also, there is no injury on the head of the deceased Ummedaram in his post-mortem report. Thus, based on these facts, Chunaram was granted bail.
What everyone has to say in the matter
- Then Rajasthan ADGP Crime Dinesh MN stated that many complaints were received while he was ADG Crime Rajasthan. Currently, I am in ATS, so I don’t remember much about special cases. You should talk to someone in Crime, they will tell you.
- Then SHO of Panchaudi police station, Harjiram, said – I have retired and am currently busy with a night vigil.
- Khetaram, who was SHO at Panchaudi police station, said – I have been transferred from there. I am in the police line. I don’t remember anything about this case now.
- Bhaskar tried to talk to the then Nagaur SP Narayan Togas to know his side of the story, but as soon as the reporter mentioned being from Dainik Bhaskar, Togas hung up the phone.
Retired DGP said – Careless policemen should be charge-sheeted.
- Bhaskar spoke to Rajasthan’s retired DGP Ravi Prakash Mehrada about the entire matter. He said that registering two FIRs in the same murder case is not legally valid. In this case, even if new facts came before the police, they could have been presented in a supplementary charge sheet. Therefore, in this entire matter, all those officers who sent false reports to the court, showed negligence in the investigation, and disobeyed the orders of senior officers at police headquarters, should be charge-sheeted.
- Meanwhile, a retired RPS, an investigation and charge sheet expert at the Rajasthan Police Academy, stated on condition of anonymity that in this murder case, the police have conducted a completely tainted investigation so far. Rajasthan ADGP Crime Dinesh MN’s orders were absolutely correct, but they were also not followed.
