Mumbai, Dec.20 (ANI): The Bombay High Court on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of former Indian Navy officer Emile Jerome Mathew in connection with the murder of television executive Neeraj Grover.
Observing that there was circumstantial evidence against Jerome, the high court had said last week that it was not inclined to grant him bail.
"We are not inclined to grant bail. There is circumstantial evidence. But we can expedite the hearing of the appeal filed by Jerome against the conviction," a division bench of Justices V M Kanade and M L Tahalayani had said while hearing the bail plea of Jerome.
Jerome, who was sentenced to ten years imprisonment by a sessions court for culpable homicide, has sought to be released on bail pending hearing of his appeal against conviction.
The state government's appeal challenging the trial court order convicting him of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and his fiancee Maria Susairaj, a small-time Kannada actress, of destruction of evidence, are also pending with the court. The prosecution wants them both convicted of murder.
The trial court had, on July 1, acquitted the duo of the charge of murder but convicted the naval officer of culpable homicide and Susairaj on charges of destruction of evidence and sentenced her to three years in jail. Since she had spent more time in jail as an undertrial, she was freed a few days after the verdict.
According to the police, Neeraj was stabbed to death by Jerome and Susairaj after the victim got into a scuffle with the naval officer on May 7, 2008. The alleged murder took place at the residence of Susairaj. The two accused had allegedly cut the body into several pieces before disposing it of at Manor jungles on city outskirts. (ANI)
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