Indore : Upholding judgement of a local court, the Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday approved death penalty to all the three convicts of the sensational triple murder case took place in Srinagar here wherein three women members of a family were killed in cold blood.
The convicts include a girl.
The district court had awarded gallows to Neha Verma (23), Rahul Choudhary (24) and Manoj Atodh (32) after finding them guilty under Section 302, 397 and 449 of the IPC.
Besides, Manoj was also held guilty under Section 25 of the Arms Act.
The trio had murdered Ashlesha Deshpande (21), her mother Megha (42) and grand-mother Rohini Phadke (70) in a gruesome attack in Srinagar on June 19, 2011. After a few days of incident, all the three accused were arrested and a pistol and two knives, the booty and two ATM cards were recovered from their possession.
Mastermind of the murder was Neha Verma, who along with her boyfriend, Rahul and Manoj hatched the plan of loot and murder. Neha, a salesgirl for beauty products, had met Megha Deshpande (42) in Orbit Masll two days before the killings.
The accused noticed that Megha was wearing expensive jewellery and befriended her on the pretext of being a company agent.
She took Megha’s phone number and address and later that night hatched a plot to rob the Deshpande household with Rahul and Manoj.
On June 19, 2011 Neha along with two of her accomplices went to the residence of the Deshpande at Srinagar Colony and murdered all the three inmates of the house.
Her accomplices shot at and stabbed inmates of the house before decamping with cash and valuables worth Rs 1.5 lakh. The police got a lead after they learnt that Rahul, who accidentally fired at his foot while committing the crime, got himself admitted to a local hospital.
Advocate Raghvendra Singh Bais said the HC after going through all the aspects of the case upheld death penalty awarded by lower court to the convicts.
