Akku Yadav (1972-2004) was an Indian serial criminal involved in robberies, burglaries, kidnappings, rapes and murders. On August 13, 2004, hundreds of women stabbed him to death in the Nagpur District Court in Vidarbha, Maharashtra in retaliation.
Wiki/Biography
Akku Yadav, also known as Bharat Kalicharan Yadav, was born in 1972 in Nagpur, Maharashtra (32 years old; at the time of death). He grew up in a slum in Kasturba Nagar, Nagpur, Maharashtra. According to the Netflix series Indian Raiders (2022), he studied until grade 7, after which he left school.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′6″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
His father was a milkman. He has six brothers and six sisters. The names of his two brothers are Santosh and Yuvraj and his eldest brother is a government employee. Aku’s six brothers are all criminals.
wife
He was unmarried at the time of his death.
Akku Yadav – Serial Rapist
Akku Yadav once lived in a slum and started a small business in a Dalit area. Aku Yadav belongs to the general category and used to consider himself a person from a higher caste. After their father died, his brothers made a living selling cattle. Soon, they became very poor and Aku followed in his brother’s footsteps and started engaging in criminal activities. Initially, he started by stealing money and breaking into his home. Gradually, he began to commit heinous crimes such as murder, kidnapping, and rape. He carried out his criminal activities mainly in the slum areas where he lived. People in the slum area subsequently filed complaints against him, but he received support from local police and some politicians. He paid bribes to local police so they never arrested him. This gives him the freedom to conduct criminal activities in his area. There was a woman named Asha Bhagat in the Aku region and she was not afraid of him. She used to sell liquor in the area. Asha is very disturbed by Aku’s objectionable activities in the area. Asha and several others then plan to teach Aku a lesson. One night, Asha’s men sat drinking with Aku. After Aku got drunk, the men started beating him, but somehow Aku escaped. Aku was seriously injured, but his friend Avinash Tiwari saved his life by donating blood for him. Avinash has a good relationship with Asha, but Akku doesn’t like it. One day, Aku and Avinash had a dispute over Asha. Aku was so angry that he went home, took a knife and stabbed Avinash Tiwari. However, within 10 months, Aku was released from prison. Then he began to roam freely in the ghetto. Aku then plotted to murder Asha Bhagat. One day, Aku broke into her house and brutally killed her. He cut her body into several pieces. Aku Yadav was once full of ill will towards women in slum areas. He began molesting and raping women in his area. Over the past 10 years, he raped about 40 women in the slums. He even stabbed some women who complained about him. People in the slums were so afraid of him that whenever he walked around the slums, women and girls would hide in their homes and men in the slums would avoid eye contact with him. At one point, a woman named Pratibha Urkude and her husband Dattu revealed that they used to run a grocery store in the slum area where Akku once lived. Aku often harassed them by taking goods from stores without paying for them. He would also ask them for money. Aku never allowed people to talk in groups because he believed they would plot against him. On one occasion, he raped a 10-year-old girl. According to one of his neighbors,
Yadav is the “Gabbar Singh of Kastba Nagar”. We spent most of our time indoors when Aku was around. Yadav and his gang would invade the house at any time. Sometimes he wants a motorcycle, or snatches a cell phone, or extorts money. Yadav and his gang members would beat anyone who resisted them. He murdered a woman named Asha Bai, daughter of Anjana Bai Borkar, in front of her 16-year-old granddaughter. He chopped off a woman’s ear in exchange for her earrings and finger because he couldn’t get her ring. “
On one occasion, another female victim of Akku Yadav said,
He came to our house between 4:00 am and 5:00 am. Yadav knocked on the door aggressively, saying he was a policeman and asking us to open the door. Once inside, Yadav stabbed my husband in the thigh, locked him in the bathroom, and dragged me by my hair to where he raped me. After three or four hours, Yadav allowed me to return. “
In 1999, he was detained for a year under the Maharashtra Preventive Detention Act. He was even arrested more than 10 times by the local police, but due to his good relationship with the local police and a few politicians, he was released on bail every time. Aku then continued his criminal activity in the area. He once beat up an old man for not paying 100 rupees, raped a woman just after her marriage, and later stripped a man naked and burned him with a cigarette. He then forced the man to dance naked in front of his daughter. Aku even cut off the breasts of some women in his area. One woman even set herself on fire after being raped by Aku, but the local police failed to listen to her complaints. In 2004, there were about 300 families living in the Akku Yadav slum area, and one of them was Madhukar’s family. Madhukar has a daughter named Usha who studies hotel management in a college far away from the slums and lives in a hotel. During the university holidays, she came to her parents’ house for vacation. While she was at home, Akul Yadav’s goons attacked Usha’s neighbors because they complained about Akul Yadav. After hearing her neighbors screaming, she came out of her home and asked the thugs to leave the house or else she would file a police complaint against them. When Aku Yadav came to know about this, he and his group came to Usha’s house. Aku threw a bottle of acid at her door and warned her that if she complained about him, he would throw the acid in her face and rape her. Usha’s parents then opened the door but Usha was not frightened by Aku and replied that she would file a complaint against him. Later, Aku Yadav’s men forced their way into the room. Usha ran to the kitchen and turned on the gas knob, holding a matchbox in her hand. She said if they did anything to her parents or her, she would light a match. Akku Yadav was scared and went back with his men. This incident changed the lives of people in the ghetto.
Usha Narayane
The slum people who watched the incident through their windows saw for the first time that Aku Yadav was afraid of others. They then decided to join forces to get rid of Akul Yadav. The day after the incident, people from the slum gathered at Aku’s home. They set his home on fire, but Aku was not at his home.
Aku Yadav’s home
When Aku Yadav learned that people in the slums were looking for him, he ran away. He subsequently surrendered to the local police. He believed that the police station was the safest place for him to protect himself from the slum dwellers. He also knew that the local police were with him and that he would be released on bail soon. The people of the slums were very disturbed by this because they knew that Aku would be released on bail and would continue his criminal activities in the slum areas.
die
A hearing was held on August 13, 2004 at the Nagpur District Court in Vidarbha, Maharashtra after Akul Yadav surrendered to the local police. When the people in the ghetto heard about this, they knew he would be released on bail. So, the people of the slum decided to punish Aku Yadav personally. Later, about 200 women from the Aku Yadav slum area gathered at the court where Aku Yadav was taken by the police. As Aku walked toward the court, he saw in the crowd a woman he had raped previously. He loudly called her “Vaishya” (whore). The woman who was standing quietly became so angry with him that she took out her slippers and pushed the policeman and started beating Aku with the slippers. Then she shouted:
This time, either I kill you or you kill me. “
Within seconds, a group of women hiding red chilli powder and knives in their saris threw the chilli powder into the eyes of the police. When Akku Yadav was alone, the women sprinkled red chilli powder on him, then pulled out knives and stabbed him to death. A woman then cut off his genitals because Aku had previously cut off her breasts. He even begged for forgiveness while being lynched, but the women didn’t stop. Within five minutes, the courtroom was stained red with Aku’s blood.
The court where Aku Yadav was lynched
as a result of
After killing Aku Yadav, the blood-stained women walked proudly to the slums. After arriving in the ghetto, they proudly told the men that they had taken revenge. Celebrations are taking place in the ghetto. People cook mutton and distribute sweets in the area. Police speculated that the women were led by Usha, but she did not appear in court. Local police arrested Usha following an investigation into Aku’s men. When locals learned about Usha’s arrest, they started protesting in front of the local police station. Usha was later released due to lack of evidence against her. Later, in an interview with reporters, local police officials said,
The lynching was carried out by four men armed with sharp weapons and the women of Kasturba Nagar claimed responsibility for the lynching to protect the men. At least two rival gangs work in Basti and Eknath Chavan, who fell out with Akku, is a member of the rival gang. Eknath Chavan and his gang members manipulated the women to provide them with cover to kill Aku. “
Retired High Court Judge Bhau Vahane said about the incident,
Under the circumstances they experienced, they had no choice but to finish Aku. The women repeatedly pleaded with police for their safety. But the police failed to protect them. “
When reporters asked Jija More, one of Aku Yadav’s victims, about the lynching incident. she says,
I’m proud of what we did… If anyone has to be punished, we all are. We women have become fearless. We are protecting these people. “
The local police subsequently arrested 21 people in the lynching case, three of whom died during the court trial. All other defendants were subsequently released.
Facts/Trivia
- In 2011, a Hindi documentary titled Candle in the Wind was released, which was based on the lynching of Aku Yadav.
- On December 4, 2013, Akku Yadav’s nephew Mukri Chhotelal Yadav was stabbed by two teenagers for sexually molesting the grandmother of one of the teenagers.
- In 2015, the Telugu film Keechaka was released, based on the story of Akku Yadav and his lynching.
Kichaka(2015)
- In 2021, a Hindi film called 200 Halla Ho released on Zee5, telling the story of Akku Yadav and his lynching.
200 Halla Lake(2021)
- Various books and articles have been published on Akul Yadav’s lynching. These include Half the Sky: Transforming Oppression into Opportunity for Women Around the World, News of Infinite Wealth: Interrogation, Comparison, and the Mission of Reconstruction in the Age of Globalization, and Killing Justice: Vigilantism in Nagpur.
- In 2022, Netflix launches the Hindi series Indian Raiders: Murder in the Court.
Court Murder (2022)
Categories: Biography
Source: HIS Education