Sajal Barui

Sajal Barui (Bengali: সজল বারুই) is a convicted criminal who is serving a life sentence in prison for the murder of his father, stepmother, and half-brother.

[1] The murders made headlines in the Kolkata press due to the gruesome nature of the crimes and because Barui and his accomplices were minors at the time.

[2] After committing the crimes, on Sajal's directions, his friends cleaned their weapons with mustard oil and neatly organised them on the table.

[2] Exhausted with the exertion, they ate a few Bengali sweets from the refrigerator, and left a few coins on the table as "payment" for the food, an idea that had occurred to Sajal from watching a television programme.

[5] In 2001, while serving his prison sentence, Sajal Barui showed signs of an alleged kidney ailment and was transferred to Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital for examination.

[4][6] On the night of his escape, Sajal Barui hosted a beer party to which he invited the two police constables that had been put on guard to watch him.

[4] As the search for Kamal intensified, Sajal Barui, migrated to Jamboni, in West Midnapore district, to work for Rajeev Meti, a local criminal.

[4] On 16 May 2003, after masquerading as Sheikh Raju for almost three months, this criminal was positively identified as Sajal Barui by a jailer who had met him earlier when he was serving his life sentence at the Alipore Central Jail in Kolkata.

[7][8] Soon after this criminal nexus was discovered, Sajal Barui was shifted back to the Alipore Central Jail.