Bombay HC confirms death sentence for five in Ahmednagar triple murder case

MUMBAI: Bombay high court on Monday confirmed death sentence for five of the six convicted last January by a trial court in a triple murder case in Ahmednagar in Maharashtra.
Only one accused Ashoke Navgire was acquitted by the HC for lack of evidence.
A bench of Justices BP Dharmadhikari and SK Shinde confirmed the capital punishment after considering the heinous crime and finding that it fell in the rarest of rare category for the five against whom the conviction stands.
Unless set aside by the Supreme Court or the President in case it is upheld by the apex court, they face death by hanging.
Nashik additional sessions judge RR Vaishnav had sentenced the six accused to death sentence in a case called the Sonali triple murder.
The police had charged them with a pre-planned, cold-blooded murder of three men from a community, one of whom was in love with one of the daughter of a convict.
The murder occurred on 1 January 2013 in Sonai village of Nevasa tehsil of Ahmednagar.
The convicted were Raghunath Darandale (48), Prakash Darandale (34), Ramesh Darandale, Ganesh alias Praveen Darandale (19), Sandeep Madhav Kurhe (33), and Ashok Navgire (28).
The seventh accused Ashok Rohidas Phalke was acquitted by the trial court .
The victims were Sachin Gharu, Sandeep Dnanwar and Tilak Kandare.
Sachin was in love with Popat’s daughter, who was studying for BEd in a college. Sachin was a sweeper in the same college. The duo had decided to get married and the Darandale family came to know about it. So a plot was accordingly hatched. As the deceased were cleaners, Popat sent a relative Navgire to call Sandeep to clean a septic tank.