Public Prosecutor Raghvendra Singh Bais told reporters that the sessions court had awarded capital punishment to Neha Verma (25), Manoj Atod (32) and Rahul Chowdhary (22) on December 13, last year, terming their offence as rarest of the rare.
Today, a division bench of the High Court comprising S K Seth and P K Jaiswal upheld the lower court's ruling and dismissed the appeals filed by the convicts, he said.
Neha and the two others had entered a house in Srinagar Main area here on June 19, 2011 and murdered Ashlesha Deshpande (21), her mother Megha Deshpande (42) and grandmother Rohini Phadke (70) in the course of a robbery.
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