A Mumbai sessions court on Thursday held small-time Kannada actress Maria Susairaj and her boyfriend Emile Jerome Mathew, a Navy Lieutenant, guilty in the murder case of television executive Neeraj Grover
A Mumbai sessions court on Thursday held small-time Kannada actress Maria Susairaj and her boyfriend Emile Jerome Mathew, a Navy Lieutenant, guilty in the murder case of television executive Neeraj Grover.u00a0
Susairaj has been convicted for destruction of evidence under Indian Penal Code Section 201 in the Grover murder case, while Jerome has been convicted for culpable homicide not amounting to murder under Section 304 (Part 1).
The prosecution, however, failed to prove intent to murder for Jerome.
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According to the public prosecutor, the quantum of punishment in the case will be given tomorrow.
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Susairaj may walk free tomorrow, as the maximum sentence for destruction of evidence is three years and she has been in jail for the last three years.
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The duo was arrested in May 2008 for Grover's brutal murder.
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Matthew allegedly killed Grover, as he suspected Maria Susairaj of having an affair with him. Grover was murdered in Maria's apartment in suburban Mumbai on May 7.
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Maria and Jerome allegedly chopped his body into several pieces, put into two bags and drove to Manor in neighbouring Thane district, where they burnt the body to dispose it.
