An IT professional was sentenced to death and his woman colleague and lover to life term for killing her three-year-old daughter and mother-in-law and attempting to murder her husband in 2014 by a cou
An IT professional was sentenced to death and his woman colleague and lover to life term for killing her three-year-old daughter and mother-in-law and attempting to murder her husband in 2014 by a court here which said the woman’s conduct was an “insult to motherhood”.
Principal sessions judge V. Shersy also slapped a fine of over '50 lakh each on the accused — Nino Mathew and Anu Shanti — both software engineers.
Out of the fine amount, the court directed to pay '50 lakh to Anu Shanti’s husband, Lijesh, who lost his daughter, and '30 lakh to Thankappan Chettiyar, whose wife was murdered by Nino Mathew.
While delivering the sentence, the judge observed that it was “the rarest of the rare case” and termed the crime as a “brutal” and “heinous” one. The judge also said though Anu Shanti had actively participated in the crime, she was being exempted from the extreme punishment as she is a woman. However, the court said she was an “insult to motherhood”.
The court also said the killing of the three-year-old child and 60-year-old hapless woman was a cold-blooded murder just for lust. After pronouncement of the judgment, public prosecutor Vineet Kumar said he was fully satisfied with the verdict.
