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Ex-naval
officer found guilty of TV executive's killing
Thursday June 30, 2011 06:10:16 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: A Mumbai
court Thursday held a former naval officer guilty of culpable
homicide of television producer Neeraj Grover and his actress
girlfriend Mariah Monica Susairaj responsible for destroying
evidence in the sensational 2008 killing in the city.
Holding Emile Jerome Mathew guilty of homicide, Sessions Judge M.W.
Chandwani ruled it did not amount to murder. He will pronounce the
sentences Friday.
A convict of culpable homicide can be punished with imprisonment
for life or imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years.
Mathew's lawyer Abdul Wahab Khan told mediapersons that the court
ruled out the theory of conspiracy and rejected that the murder
was a pre-meditated act on the part of the accused.
Mariah's lawyer Sharif Shaikh told mediapersons that since she
could get only a maximum of three years jail - which she has
already served as an undertrial - she would walk free Friday.
He termed the outcome in Mariah's case as "a victory".
In one of the most gruesome crimes of passion in recent times,
Grover, a producer working with a private television company, was
killed by Mathew May 7, 2008, when he found him naked in Mariah's
apartment in Dheeraj Solitaire building in the northwest suburb of
Malad.
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