KOLHAPUR: Additional and sessions judge B D Shelke has sentenced a man and a woman to life imprisonment, holding them guilty for murder and destroying evidence.
The court held Santosh Pundlik Kapse and Damyanti Raju Yadav guilty under sections 302 (murder) and 201 (destroying evidence) of the Indian Penal Code. As many as 17 witnesses appeared during the hearing.
According to the prosecution, Yadav was in a relationship with Sushant Datta More. Yadav had shifted to Satara when Santosh Pundlik Kapse started a new hotel in Satara. She developed a relationship with Kapse, which More strongly objected to.
The trio used to have a serious quarrel over the issue. On June 25, 2014, Kapse and Yadav severely hit More with a cricket bat, resulting in his death. The duo kept the body under the kitchen in the rented house. The body was later thrown in a sugar cane field.