#since the results won't come till January

[summertimemusician]

*kicks down door, cackling maniacally and grinning like a maniac much like when I saw the end of TOTK for the first time, feeling like I could take Hylia, win and get the chance to feast on the heart and bones of a dead goddess* I LIVE.

[truecrimesstuff]

The only judge in India who was hanged:

This heinous crime dates back to the early 70s and in its entirety jolted the whole of Assam, India. Upendra Nath Rajkhowa was posted as a District and Sessions Judge in Dhuburi, Assam in 1969. Due to his rank and service, he was given many facilities and even a bungalow for accommodation. His family consisted of his wife Mrs. Putuli Rajkhowa and three daughters namely Miss Nirmali Rajkhowa, Miss Jonali Rajkhowa, and Miss Rupali Rajkhowa.

Upendra Nath Rajkhowa and his family.

Rajkhowa initially arrived alone in Dhuburi and stayed up in the Circuit House and later on shifted to the bungalow given by the government. Around October 1969 during the Durga Puja holidays his family arrived in Dhuburi and started staying with him. After the holidays were over his youngest daughters Jonali Rajkhowa and Rupali Rajkhowa went back to resume their college studies in Guwahati.

In January 1970, Rajkhowa told Bigan Prosad Rout, a helper in his court to uproot a stump that was standing near his bathroom. Rout did what was asked of him with the help of another helper in the court Md. Sahid Ali and the gardener Radha Nath Mali. As the stump was removed a pit was left behind in the same location. Rajkhowa didn't allow the helpers to fill up the pit stating that he wanted to grow some flowers there. He again advised Md. Sahid Ali to dig up another pit at the East side of the compound where he said he would plant some lotuses which will be brought from Coochbehar.

Rajkhowa retired from his services on 2nd February, 1970, but he didn't immediately vacate the bungalow. 10th February being Saraswati Puja, Rajkhowa sent all his house helps to go out and celebrate. Bigan later recalled that at about 8:30 P.M when he returned he saw Rajkhowa coming back from somewhere with his wife and eldest daughter Nirmali and all three were seen sitting around the fire and talking. Sadly, it was the last day Putuli Rajkhowa and Nirmali Rajkhowa were seen alive.

On 11th February, when Bigan came to the Rajkhowa residence he was shocked to learn from Mr. Rajkhowa that his wife and eldest daughter had gone back to Guwahati, Assam and that Mr.Rajkhowa had himself gone to drop them at the bus stop. When he further questioned about why they had gone back since there were no plans even till the previous evening Rajkhowa told him that they had decided on moving back as he was already retired. Rajkhowa then sent Bigan to the market and when he returned he saw Rajkhowa washing some clothes in the bathroom and the disposal water coming out had a red tinge. Later, that day a plumber who had come to the Rajkhowa residence to repair a water pump saw Rajkhowa leveling a pit near the kitchen. When Rajkhowa saw the plumber he ran away inside and instead sent a helper to tell the plumber that the owner of the house wasn't there.

Upendra Nath Rajkhowa's two younger daughters Jonali and Rupali were studying in Guwahati at that time and were staying in the house of Barada Charan Sarma, the brother-in-law of Upendra Nath Rajkhowa. On 14th February 1970 Rajkhowa gave a call to Sarma asking him to send Jonali and Rupali to Dhuburi as he had planned a Darjeeling trip with the family. Sarma informed Rajkhowa about their impending exams but Rajkhowa was adamant so, he sent Jonali and Rupali to Dhuburi by the afternoon bus that day itself. Rajkhowa himself went to the bus stand to pick them up and when they asked about the whereabouts of their mother and elder sister they were informed by Rajkhowa to be visiting a relative name Lakhi Goswami in Kokrajhar. Jonali and Rupali were last seen alive by Bigan on 25th February 1970 at about 10:00 A.M. At 2:30 P.M Bigan saw Rajkhowa talking to a man in a black car and at about 4:30 P.M when Rajkhowa came back into the house he instead told Bigan that he had sent back his two daughters to Guwahati in a friend's car as they were having some study issues. On 26th February, Rajkhowa got the second pit which was dug in the East side of his compound filled up by his accomplice in the crime Umesh Baishya, who was also the house help. The pit was later leveled up by an unaware Md. Sahid Ali.

Rajkhowa's accomplice in the crime, Umesh Baishya.

On 13th April 1970 Rajkhowa sent two letters to Barada Sarma stating that his wife hasn't come back, that he received a phone call on Saturday and he would be traveling to Delhi on Tuesday night. He also informed him that Jonali and Rupali won't be appearing for the exams and would return to Guwahati in June. On 15th April, he left Dhuburi by the Siliguri Express after leaving some of his belongings in the hands of Mr. Golok Sarma and Mr. Joy Prakash Chakravarty. His accomplice in the crime Umesh Baishya stayed in the bungalow after he left, until June 1970.

After his departure, his further whereabouts were unknown until June 1970 when Rajkhowa visited Mr. Satya Prakash Chakravarty, father in Gauripur where he ended up staying for three days. He was asked about his family members but he said they were in Delhi. When he was getting ready to leave, Rajkhowa pleaded with the Chakravarty's to keep his visit and his further plan to go to Siliguri a secret. After this visit, Rajkhowa departed to Savoy Hotel in Siliguri.

In June, when after repeated attempts to contact Upendra Nath Rajkhowa failed, Barada Sarma started a frenzied search to get hold of him to enquire about his sister and nieces. Barada came to Dhuburi and was informed by Joy Prakash Chakravarty and Golok Sarma, who were close friends of Rajkhowa that he was at Room no 3 in Savoy Hotel, Siliguri. On 25th July 1970 Barada Sarma left with Apurba Barua, brother-in-law of Rajkhowa and D.N Kahali, the then officer-in-charge of Dhuburi Police Station, to Siliguri Savoy Hotel. They got hold of Rajkhowa in the aforementioned location. The men started questioning Rajkhowa who later told them that the whereabouts of his wife and daughters can be said only in writing. He was given a piece of paper whete ajkhowa wrote in Assamese that Putuli, Nirmali, Jonali, and Rupali weren't anymore in this world. When further pressed about their exact whereabouts, he later said that his wife had one evening seriously injured herself in a fall that led to her death and that Nirmali had also died due to an overdose of sleeping tablets. On their tragic death he wasn't in a sane mind and didn't know what to do so he called some people who disposed of the bodies by throwing them in the Brahmaputra river for a sum of Rs. 500. Rajkhowa further stated that the news of their mother and elder sister's death was too much to handle for his younger daughters and they committed suicide one evening by jumping into the Brahmaputra river. After he wrote this statement, Barada Sarma told him to accompany them to the police station to issue the same statement. They then went out of the room so that Rajkhowa can change his clothes. After some time they heard a sound and all of them barged inside and found that Rajkhowa attempted suicide by assaulting himself with a knife.

Rajkhowa was immediately taken to the hospital and a case was registered by Apurba Barua in the Siliguri police station. But when Barada didn't receive any additional information from the Siliguri police station he registered a case in Dhuburi Police Station on 4th August, 1970 and atlast on 9th August after twodays of continuous questioning, Rajkhowa confessed to killing his wife and daughters and burying their bodies within the official compound of the district judge with the help of the house help Umesh Baishya. He also further stated that that the crimes were committed on the nights of 10th February and 25th February, 1970. The Police then examined the pits where Rajkhowa had confessed burying the bodies of his family members. A pair of skeletons was found in both the pits and as a result Umesh Baishya was arrested immediately in 11th August, 1970, for helping Rajkhowa in committing the crime and in 13th August Upendra Nath Rajkhowa was arrested from Siliguri Hospital.

The then District and Sessions Judge's residence in Dhuburi where Rajkhowa buried his wife and daughters. This house is now infamously known in Assam as "Bhoot-Bangla" or "Ghosthouse".

Soon, the trial began and it went on for a year and the lower court sentenced Upendra Nath Rajkhowa to death and his accomplice in the crime Umesh Baishya to lifetime imprisonment. Upendra Nath Rajkhowa further appealed at the High Court against the death sentence, but the High Court upheld the decision of the Lower Court. Rajkhowa again appealed at the Supreme Court, but here too the previous sentences of the High Court and Lower Court were upheld. Rajkhowa also appealed to the President for mercy petition, but it was turned down. On 14 February 1976, the former judge Upendra Nath Rajkhowa was hanged in Jorhat jail for the murder of his four family members. But one big mystery still surrounds the case, Rajkhowa never told anyone even after numerous questioning the reason behind murdering his own wife and daughters and it still to this day remains a mystery.

Note: As this case dates back to the 70s I didn't find any good pictures of the victims and the criminals. The above given pictures are screenshots taken from some old youtube videos.

[meditating-dog-lover]

Health and Fitness Updates (04/03/2021)

11 weeks into my health and fitness journey.

I have some great news - my family is buying a house! That's amazing given that we were never able to live in a permanent home before, and I haven't lived in an actual "cozy house"since 2009. I am definitely looking forward to this.

I've been working out every week, never skipping a workout and pushing myself as hard as I can (without injuring myself of course). I am doing HIIT and lifting weights, the usual.

I've gotten great results even after just 7 weeks. It's incredible. I am on week 11 into my health and fitness journey and I am waiting until week 16 to take more photos and compare my before and afters to assess my progress. I really hope to see more changes. I know it takes several months to reach a goal but I'm here eating healthy and working out for however long needed. I'll keep it up for the entire year (till December probably haha). For the next 5 weeks I'm going to be focusing on challenging myself with weight lifting. I want to push myself without hurting myself of course.

Outside of exercise, I have a very very very busy academic schedule. I am working several hours a day (feels like 6 hours or more a day). That is being combined with my fat loss and my intense workout routine. So of course, I'm getting pretty hungry!! I'm eating more than I did last month or 2 ago. I'm not binging or eating to the point of sickness. I don't have cravings and I am not eating unhealthy. I just have an increased appetite. I am eating more but I am trying to keep it healthy of course. I know I am naturally craving more food so I know that won't deter my progress. Keeping it clean and whole won't do that. If I ended up binging on junk food and lots of processed sugars and processed carbs, I know that will be stored as fat.

Good and healthy food is a source of fuel. So I should definitely eat if I'm hungry. I'm so busy with school and I graduate this year. I just want to get as much academic work done each day as I possibly can do.

I feel like my schedule will be lighter by next Friday. Really my schedule will be much much lighter by mid May. But April is a month where I have to keep working and keep pushing.

My mom and brother have been vaccinated. My dad is coming to visit us (after not seeing him for 2 years because of COVID) and he will get vaccinated. I am so happy I get to see him. We are all going to have a great time here together. I do plan on getting vaccinated in the future but I am skeptical of the vaccine because it is so new. No I'm not an anti-vaxxer, there's a difference. I want to do my research and see how it affects my family before I take it.

An old friend I knew since 2007 reached out to me recently, which was really nice. I never really had many close friends who I can speak to about anything about, but she was one of them. I definitely want to socialize more but there are people you can be good friends with. But not close best friends with. I don't have many close friends but I have a lot of acquaintances.

Eventually I will start driving again. I will have to if I want to go to work and get groceries when I move. I can drive and I am a good driver, but I don't drive much and I do have mild anxiety. But I'll get the hang of it.

Since January, I've been taking really good care of myself. I've been eating better, exercising more holistically, drinking lots of water and cutting out tea and coffee (I haven't had a cup of coffee since December), taking vitamins, taking care of my teeth, skin and hair. I feel healthy and I look very healthy. My hair is shiny, my teeth are super white, and my skin is rosy and glowing. I feel my multivitamin supplement really helped with this. Though my sleep schedule is a mess. But you can't blame me for that given that I have to work from home so my schedule is super messy. It will get better once I can work in person (hopefully by the summer and fall).

I'm in the process of achieving a lot of the goals I set for myself in December. Though to be honest I do want to be in a serious and committed long-term relationship soon. I'm intimidated by dating and men in general but I should be able to find a good person to be with. I don't appreciate being perved on and harassed frequently by creepy men so I hope to find someone good in the future. But I'll definitely stand up for myself whenever I have to (and I have before).

I stopped indulging in history, literature, and movies (sad face) because I really had to focus on my health (mental, emotional and physical) and my academics. I'll go back to that stuff this summer hopefully.

I hope everyone has a great week.

~HEALTH IS WEALTH~