India, Dec. 30 -- In a major breakthrough for Chandigarh Police, two sensational murder cases stretching for years were solved. On November 28, a Chandigarh court convicted taxi driver Monu Kumar andsentenced him to life imprisonment after 14 years of investigation in the 2010 rape-murder of a 21-year-old MBA student in Sector 38 West. The case was filed as untraced by police in 2020 only to be reopened after the serial offender, a drug addict, was arrested in May 2024 for the 2022 murder of another woman in the same area. Investigators used DNA profiling to match with samples preserved from the MBAstudent's body and clothing. Before thisconviction, he had been acquitted in a 2009 child rape-murder case in Himachal Pradesh due to insufficient evidence. In another case, Panjab Universityprofessor Bharat Bhushan Goyal was arrested four years after his wife, Seema Goyal, 51, was found dead in mysteriouscircumstances at their residence on thevarsity campus. The senior faculty member of the University Business School was identified as the primary suspect after he was put through a brain electrical oscillation signature (BEOS) test in July that revealed "experiential knowledge" of the crime in his brain patterns,indicating he was present during the murder. The couple's daughter, Dr Parul Goyal, revealed that her parents had a strained relationship and a heated argument the night before the murder. She reportedlyconfronted her father after the murder on Diwali that year. Seema's limbs were bound with cloth, her mouth gagged, and she had been strangled in her ground-floor bedroom. Police recovered mobile evidence and secured extended remand for detailed interrogation. What it means: These breakthroughsdemonstrate the impact of sustainedprobe, persistence, forensic advances, and judicial support in cracking cold cases that once baffled investigators. What next: Trials continue against Monu in other linked cases; and further evidencecollection (weapon, phone data) in the PU professor's wife case may solidify charges and lead to eventual prosecution outcomes. After five days of police custody, Goyal was sent to 14-day judicial custody at Burail Jail on December 14. Goyal, who continued to teach and was even appointed UBS chairperson five months after the murder, has been suspended by PU following his arrest....