Serial killer ‘Cyanide Mohan’ gets life term untill death in seventh case
Mangaluru, Feb 23: The 6th additional district principal and sessions court on Saturday convicted serial killer Cyanide Mohan for life imprisonment untill death.
Date Of conviction
Under IPC Section 366, he has to undergo six years of imprisonment and pay Rs 3,000 penalty and if he failed to pay the penalty, he has to undergo further one month imprisonment. Under IPC Section 302, he was convicted for life imprisonment, under Section 376, seven years rigorous imprisonment and Rs 3,000 penalty, and if failed to pay the penalty, he has to serve one more month conviction. Under section 328, seven years imprisonment and Rs 3,000 penalty, under section 201, five years rigorous imprisonment and Rs 3,000 penalty, under section 392, five years rigorous imprisonment and Rs 3,000 penalty and under section 417 he has to undergo six months imprisonment. The court also said that the family members of the victim are eligible to get the compensation from the legal authority.
About incident
Mohan met a 25 year old lady of Mani gram Panchayat at Wenlock hospital saying that his name was Sadananda Nayak. Later, he proposed her to marry him and asked her to come to Puttur bus stand on January 2, 2008 wearing gold ornaments. When she came, they went to Madikeri and got a room at a lodge in the name of Ananda Nayak. In spite her opposition, he raped her on that night.
Plan for murder
Asking her to keep all her jewelry and money at room to go out, he took her to Madikeri bus stand and later, he forced her to take contraceptive pills in the form of cyanide. She went to a washroom at the bus stand and took the cyanide and collapsed there itself. Later, Mohan went to lodge and escaped after taking all gold ornaments and cash of her. Though she was taken to the hospital, she was declared brought dead. The case was handed over to COD which filed charge sheet to the court.
Judge DT Puttaranga Swamy heard the evidences of 40 people, verified 64 documents and considered 38 evidences before awarding the verdict. Now, the convicted could not go on parole. Public prosecutor Judith M Crasta argued against the convicted.
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Cash discovery row: SC grills Justice Yashwant Varma over his petition
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Monday questioned Justice Yashwant Varma over his plea to invalidate an in-house inquiry panel report indicting him over the discovery of huge cache of burnt cash from his official residence during his tenure as a Delhi High Court judge.
"Why did you appear before the inquiry committee? Did you come to the court that the video be removed? Why did you wait for the inquiry to be completed and the report be released? Did you take a chance of a favourable order there first," a bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and A G Masih asked senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who was representing Justice Varma.
The top court further quizzed Justice Varma over the parties he had made in his plea and said he should have filed the in-house inquiry report with his plea.
Sibal submitted there was a process under Article 124 (the Establishment and constitution of the Supreme Court), and a judge couldn't be a subject matter of public debate.
"The release of video on SC website, public furore, media accusations against judges are prohibited as per constitutional scheme," Sibal added.
The top court asked Sibal to come with one page bullet points and correct the memo of parties.
The matter was posted for July 30.
Justice Varma has sought quashing of the May 8 recommendation by then chief justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, urging Parliament to initiate impeachment proceedings against him.
His plea said the inquiry "reversed the burden of proof", requiring him to investigate and disprove the charges levelled against him.
Alleging that the panel's findings were based on a preconceived narrative, Justice Varma said the inquiry timelines were driven solely by the urge to conclude proceedings swiftly, even at the expense of "procedural fairness".
The petition contended that the inquiry panel drew adverse findings without affording him a full and fair hearing.
A report of the inquiry panel probing the incident had said Justice Varma and his family members had covert or active control over the store room where a huge cache of half-burnt cash was found following a fire incident, proving his misconduct which is serious enough to seek his removal.
The three-judge panel headed by Chief Justice Sheel Nagu of the Punjab and Haryana High Court conducted the inquiry for 10 days, examined 55 witnesses and visited the scene of the accidental fire that started at around 11.35 pm on March 14 at the official residence of Justice Varma, then a sitting judge of the Delhi High Court and now in the Allahabad High Court.
Acting on the report, then CJI Khanna wrote to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi recommending the judge's impeachment.
