Actress Maria Susairaj gets 3 yrs imprisonment in Grover murder case!



Kannada film industry actress Maria Susairaj



Kannada film industry actress Maria Susairaj

Kannada film industry actress Maria Susairaj

Kannada film industry actress Maria Susairaj

Victim Neeraj Grover

Maria Susairaj's boyfriend and former Navy officer Emile Jerome got

Kannada film industry actress Maria Susairaj was today awarded a maximum three years'' sentence while her boyfriend and former Navy officer Emile Jerome got a 10-year jail term in the brutal killing of Neeraj Grover, a day after they were absolved of murder charge.

Maria can walk free anytime and Jerome will have to be behind bars only for seven more years since they have already been in jail for three years during the trial.

She was convicted of demolishing evidence while Jerome was held guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder prompting angry reactions from the victim’s family and a section of the legal fraternity.

Sessions court Judge N W Chandwani yesterday acquitted the two of the charge of murder of the TV executive three years back and convicted of a lesser offence.

The sentence was well-defined after the judge heard arguments by the prosecution and defense on the quantum of punishment. The prosecution had sought a life sentence for Jerome.

In a gruesome crime, Neeraj was killed and his body hacked into several pieces and disposed off in a forest in neighboring Thane.

Neeraj's brokenhearted father Amarnath Grover described the sentence as an acquittal for Maria. "Why were Jerome and Maria given different sentences, when both were there when Neeraj was killed and his body brutally disposed of," he questioned.

Jerome was convicted on the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder under section 304 (part I) IPC which attracts life term in jail or imprisonment up to ten years. Both he and Maria were also found guilty of trying to destroy evidence under section 201 IPC which provides for a maximum three years in jail.

Both the accused had been charged by the prosecution with murder, criminal conspiracy, common objective and causing vanishing of evidence.