100. Did India Hang an Innocent Man? Dhananjoy Chatterjee - India

Where do you feel the safest in the world? For most of us, the safest place on Earth will be within the four corners of our home. It is the certainty of intimately knowing your surroundings, with its many variables, that makes us feel safe at home. I know that the ringing of the doorbell at 10 PM is the guard asking me to move my car, or tapping sounds are from a pipe I have procrastinated to get fixed. The chances of something going wrong in my own home is minimal, almost impossible. That’s why when Yashomati Parekh left her daughter home alone in Kolkata, she wasn’t expecting to return to a scene that changed the city forever. This is the story behind India’s first execution post Independence. This is the story of Hetal Parekh.

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Writer: Harsh Jain

Sources

1. https://www.india-hanged-innocent.org/court - all court documents.
2. https://pudr.org/sites/default/files/2019-01/Dhananjay_Report.pdff - PUDR report on the Dhananjoy Chaterjee case.
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXJ5q9I7HxY - P39A podcast with Prof. Probal Chaudhari who reinvestigated the Dhananjoy Chaterjee case and published a book based on his findings. 
4. https://www.thequint.com/opinion/dhananjoy-chatterjee-rape-murder-case-14-years-innocent-or-guilty - Quint article on the case.
5. https://www.india-hanged-innocent.org/articles - collection of news articles on the Dhananjoy Chaterjee case. 
6. https://scroll.in/article/741784/how-india-hanged-a-poor-watchman-whose-guilt-was-far-from-established - Scroll article on the case. 
7. https://www.thenewsminute.com/news/rapist-murderer-dhananjoys-story-comes-screen-look-case-shook-india-64644 - News Minute article on the casse 
8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfkWAY-82gA&t=5s - ‘The Right to Live’ documentary. 
9. https://india-hanged-innocent.org/how - summary of the findings by Profs. Probal Chaudhari and Debasis Sengupta.
10. https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/wife-adds-tears-to-buddha-s-hang-him-cry-meera-bhattacharjee-joins-campaign-to-ensure-condemned-rapist-gets-what-he-deserves/cid/737798 - The Telegraph article on the case.
11. https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/homage-with-favourite-hymn/cid/721840# - another Telegraph article on the case.