Adnan Patrawala was the teenage son of a businessperson from Mumbai, India. On 18 August 2007, Adnan was kidnapped for ransom. He was murdered the next day when news of the kidnapping broke on national TV and print media.

Accused

Following are the accused and their age at the time of the incident;

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4 of them were released as they were innocent.

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Killing

By the time the kidnappers made a ransom call, the kidnapping made national news so Adnan's kidnappers strangled him and dumped his body in Palm Beach road, Navi Mumbai and took local trains home.

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Trial & verdict

On 30 Jan 2012, Mumbai sessions court acquitted four of the five accused. The prosecution failed to prove its case. Aslam Patrawala (father) said that he would appeal in a higher court. Being a juvenile, the fifth accused was tried by the Juvenile Justice Board.

See also

List of kidnappings

List of solved missing person cases

List of unsolved murders

Murder of Snehal Gaware

References

2000s missing person cases

2007 murders in India

Children's rights

Deaths by beating

Formerly missing people

Indian case law

Indian murder victims

Kidnappings in India

Male murder victims

Missing person cases in India

Murder in India

Murder in Mumbai

Trials in India

Unsolved murders in India

People murdered in Mumbai