HC confirms death for two in kidnapping and murder case

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court today upheld the death sentence for two men for the kidnapping and murder of an eight-year-old boy in 2014.
A division bench of Justices Bushan Gavai and Swapna Joshi upheld the judgement delivered by Principal District and Sessions Judge Kishore Sonowane (now elevated to the High Court) on February 4.
Rajesh Dhanalal Daware (19) and his friend Arvind Abhilash Singh (23) were convicted under IPC sections 364 (a) (kidnapping for ransom) and 302 (murder) for the murder of Yug Chandak, their employer's son.
Apart from death, the trial court also awarded them life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 for conspiracy. They were also awarded seven year's rigorous imprisonemnt and a fine of Rs 5,000 each for destroying evidence.

The convicts smashed the boy's face with stones before burying the body.
Daware's 17-year-old brother, who helped them commit the crime, has been referred to the Juvenile Remand Home.

Daware and Singh, first-year B Com students at PWS College here, used to work at the nursing home run by Yug's father, Dr Mukesh Chandak.
Daware, according to the prosecution, had hatched the conspiracy to take revenge for the alleged humiliating treatment given to them by Dr Chandak.
Yug was abducted and subsequently strangled by the duo on September 1, 2014. They buried the body near a culvert on an isolated stretch of Gumthi-Gumthala road near Patansawangi village, 27 kms from Nagpur.

They were arrested after the Chandak family suspected Daware's invovlement.
The lower court relied on the testimonies of 50 witnesses, including Daware's girlfriend, the CCTV footage at a petrol pump where the accused filled up their bike's tank after kidnapping the child and the phone call records, etc.