A Pune court on Tuesday handed over death sentence to the convicts in the 2007 rape and murder of a 22-year-old call centre employee.
The convicts are a cab driver and his aid, who were pronounced guilty of raping and murdering Jyoti Kumari Chowdhari on Saturday.
Principal district and sessions judge Anant Badar had named the accused Purshottam Borate (30) and his friend Pradeep Kokade (24), both residents of Dehu Road, guilty on charges of criminal conspiracy, rape, murder and misappropriating property then.
Terming the crime they committed as ‘brutal’, special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam pleaded that the accused be sentenced to death. According to Nikam, the accused cut Chowdhari’s nerves after raping her.
They also inflicted three injuries on her body with a sharp weapon and brutally strangled her to death.
The shocking crime took place on November 1, 2007.
Jyoti Kumari Chaudhari was picked up by the accused from her residence in a car to drop her to her in her office. But, the accused drove her to a remote spot where they raped and murdered her after conspiring.
Police had recovered her body near a field in Gahunje village on the Mumbai-Pune expressway on November 2. The accused were arrested on November 3.