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Court hands out life terms to MBA students who poisoned classmate
A Pune court on Thursday sentenced two management students to life imprisonment for poisoning their classmate in April last year, in what seemed to be a classic love triangle gone horribly wrong.
- IANS
- Published: 00:03 June 13, 2008
Pune: A Pune court on Thursday sentenced two management students to life imprisonment for poisoning their classmate in April last year, in what seemed to be a classic love triangle gone horribly wrong.
Additional Sessions Judge S.S. Phansalkar Joshi sentenced Aditi Basu Deo Sharma from Jammu and her boyfriend Praveen Khandelwal to imprisonment for life for murdering Udit Bharati on April 22 by giving him "prasad" (temple offering) laced with poison.
Aditi, Praveen and Udit were all students of the IIHM MBA institute in Pune's Wakad locality and aged 25 at the time.
The judge, who passed the verdict on Wednesday, held Aditi and Praveen guilty of murder and criminal conspiracy. They were also fined Rs10,000 (Dh857).
Aditi and Udit came to Pune from Jammu where they had studied together in an engineering college. They planned to get married after finishing their MBA degree. At the MBA institute, Aditi met Praveen and fell in love with him. She then started thinking about ending her relationship with Udit.
"Aditi and Praveen found a job in Gurgaon but Udit continued to pester Aditi. So both Aditi and Praveen connived to eliminate Udit. On April 22, she came to a Pune lodge and called Udit. When Udit arrived, she offered him prasad mixed with arsenic," said additional public prosecutor Neelima Vartak.
Udit went back to his apartment after eating the prasad and was later taken to hospital where he died.
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