Representative image. MANGALURU: The sixth additional district and sessions court judge Sayeedunnisa has sentenced Cyanide Mohan to life imprisonment in the murder of a victim from Kasargod on Wednesday.
Public prosecutor Jayarama Shetty told TOI, that the court pronounced Mohan to life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 25,000 for murder (IPC section 302). The serial killer has been convicted for 10 years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5,000 for kidnapping (IPC Section 366), one-year imprisonment for cheating (IPC section 417), seven years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5,000 for rape (IPC Section 376), 10 years imprisonment and Rs 5,000 fine for causing hurt by means of poison (IPC section 328), five years Rigorous Imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5,000 for robbery (IPC section 392), 10 years of Rigorous Imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5,000 for voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery (IPC section 394) and seven years of imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5,000 for causing disappearance of evidence (IPC section 201).
The court has examined 46 witnesses and 89 documents and directed that the gold chain recovered will be handed over to the victim’s mother.
The 25-year-old victim from Kasargod was working as a cook in a ladies hostel and got in touch with Mohan Kumar, a teacher. On July 8, 2009, on the pretext of visiting a temple in Sullia, she left home, never to return. The next day Ramakrishna, a constable from Upparpete police station, Bengaluru, found a lady lying unconscious outside the bathroom and he immediately rushed her to a local hospital, where she was declared dead on arrival. After staying in a lodge and having sex with the victim, he took her to the KSRTC bus stand and asked her to consume a cyanide-laced tablet, stating it was a contraceptive pill.
The serial psychopath killer Mohan Kumar aka Anand was arrested on October 21, 2009, from Bantwal taluk for allegedly murdering about 20 innocent women. Out of the 20 cases filed against him, he was awarded the death sentence in five cases, of which one has been certified by the High Court and one converted into life imprisonment, said Jayarama Shetty.