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Fri, 07/01/2011 - 14:51
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Maria gets 3 yrs, boyfriend Jerome 10 in Grover murder case
Mumbai, July 1 (PTI) Former Navy officer Emile Jerome
and his girlfriend Maria Susairaj, who is a south Indian
actress, were Friday awarded rigorous imprisonment of 10 years
and three years respectively by a Mumbai court in the
sensational murder of TV executive Neeraj Grover.
Sessions court Judge N W Chandwani, who had Thursday
convicted the struggling actress and her fiance Jerome in the
case, pronounced the sentence after hearing arguments by the
prosecution and defence on the quantum of punishment.
Three years after Neeraj Grover was killed and his
body hacked into pieces and disposed of in a forest in
adjoining Thane, the court had absolved Maria and Jerome of
murder charges after holding them guilty of lesser offences.
Jerome was convicted on the charge of culpable
homicide not amounting to murder under section 304 (part I)
Indian Penal Code (IPC) which attracts life term in jail or
imprisonment up to ten years. Both he and Maria were also
found guilty of trying to destroy evidence under section 201
IPC which provides for a maximum three years in jail.
Since Maria has already served more than three years
in prison, she can now walk free.
Judge Chandwani, while delivering the verdict, held
that Jerome had acted on the spur of the moment and that the
killing was not premeditated.
"When he entered the room he was calm. This showed he
did not have intention (to murder). Obviously for a fiance,
in a situation where he finds a stranger with his partner,
would upset a prudent man and he would lose control," the
judge had remarked, while convicting them under lighter
charges.
According to the prosecution, Jerome had gone to
Maria's residence in suburban Malad on May 7, 2008 where he
got into a fight with Grover (26) during which the naval
officer stabbed the TV executive to death. Susairaj and Jerome
later cut Grover's body into pieces and disposed it in Manor
forest in Thane.
Both the accused had been charged by the prosecution
with murder, criminal conspiracy, common intention and causing
disappearance of evidence. PTI VI
KAP
and his girlfriend Maria Susairaj, who is a south Indian
actress, were Friday awarded rigorous imprisonment of 10 years
and three years respectively by a Mumbai court in the
sensational murder of TV executive Neeraj Grover.
Sessions court Judge N W Chandwani, who had Thursday
convicted the struggling actress and her fiance Jerome in the
case, pronounced the sentence after hearing arguments by the
prosecution and defence on the quantum of punishment.
Three years after Neeraj Grover was killed and his
body hacked into pieces and disposed of in a forest in
adjoining Thane, the court had absolved Maria and Jerome of
murder charges after holding them guilty of lesser offences.
Jerome was convicted on the charge of culpable
homicide not amounting to murder under section 304 (part I)
Indian Penal Code (IPC) which attracts life term in jail or
imprisonment up to ten years. Both he and Maria were also
found guilty of trying to destroy evidence under section 201
IPC which provides for a maximum three years in jail.
Since Maria has already served more than three years
in prison, she can now walk free.
Judge Chandwani, while delivering the verdict, held
that Jerome had acted on the spur of the moment and that the
killing was not premeditated.
"When he entered the room he was calm. This showed he
did not have intention (to murder). Obviously for a fiance,
in a situation where he finds a stranger with his partner,
would upset a prudent man and he would lose control," the
judge had remarked, while convicting them under lighter
charges.
According to the prosecution, Jerome had gone to
Maria's residence in suburban Malad on May 7, 2008 where he
got into a fight with Grover (26) during which the naval
officer stabbed the TV executive to death. Susairaj and Jerome
later cut Grover's body into pieces and disposed it in Manor
forest in Thane.
Both the accused had been charged by the prosecution
with murder, criminal conspiracy, common intention and causing
disappearance of evidence. PTI VI
KAP
