In a landmark judgement, district court here on Friday awarded death sentence to all the three accused, including a woman in a triple murder case which rocked the city two years back. This is first time in history when a woman convict has been awarded death sentence in a murder case.
Additional district judgement DN Mishra here in a jam-packed court room found all the three accused Neha Verma, Rahul and Manoj Choudhary guilty in the triple murder case rocked the city on June 19, 2011 and accordingly awarded death sentence to them.
The main accused of the case Neha Verma along with her accomplices Rahul and Manoj Choudhary falling prey to lucre of easy money, had hacked to death Megha Deshpande (45), Ashlesha Deshpande (23) and Rohini Fatke (70), wife, daughter and mother-in-law of a senior official of Bank of India, Niranjay Deshpande at his residence in Sri Nagar in broad-day light on June 19, 2011.
Incident triggered panic in city with police arresting the main accused Neha Verma and her accomplices Rahul and Manoj. Neha who was pursuing her B Com degree had planned the loot seeing the deceased Megha a day before the incident. They barged into the house of the deceased on the day of incident with a view to looting the family members but they ended up killing all the three victims at their residence.