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Grover killing: Maharashtra appeals for
stringent punishment
Wednesday October 05, 2011 10:18:40 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai:
Three months after a trial court acquitted starlet Maria Susairaj
and her fiancé Jerome Emile Mathew of murdering television
executive Neeraj Grover but convicted them on lesser charges, the
Maharashtra government Tuesday filed an appeal seeking enhancement
of punishment.
"The Bombay High Court has admitted the state's appeal in the
matter today (Tuesday) seeking more punishment for them (Maria and
Mathew)," Susairaj's lawyer Abdul Wahab Khan told IANS.
However, Khan said he was not aware when the appeal - admitted by
a division bench of Justice V.M. Kanade and Justice A.M. Thipsay -
would come up for further hearing.
The developments follow an assurance made by Home Minister R.R.
Patil that the state would challenge the July 1 lower court
verdict in the case, after a nationwide outrage.
Incidentally, both the accused have also moved the high court
challenging the sentences awarded to them by the trial court.
In the judgment, Mathew was slapped with a 10-year imprisonment
for "culpable homicide not amounting to murder," while Maria was
given three years and held guilty only for destruction of
evidence.
She was set free immediately thereafter since she had already
completed her sentence as an undertrial and returned to her native
Karnataka.
The trial court also held that the prosecution had failed to
establish the motives behind the brutal killing of Grover, at
Maria's residence in suburban Malad, north-west Mumbai, in the
early hours of May 7, 2008.
In its appeal, the state contended that the two accused had
conspired to kill Grover since Maria felt cheated by him for not
getting her a plum role in a teleserial as he had promised.
The state said that Mathew came to Mumbai a day before the
incident, as planned with Maria.
The police investigations revealed that Mathew flew into a rage
after finding Grover in Maria's bedroom, and brutally assaulted
him.
Later, he ran to the kitchen and got a knife with which he stabbed
Grover repeatedly.
Thereafter, Maria and Mathew cut the body into several pieces and
drove off to the thick forests of Manor, in adjoining Thane
district and burnt it there.
The crime came to light almost a fortnight later after Grover's
family lodged a missing complaint.
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