Indian actress sentenced over killing

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An Indian court sentenced an actress and her naval officer friend over the killing of TV executive.

01 July,2011 06:10 pm

Maria Susairaj was sentenced to three years in jail for destroying evidence. Emile Jerome got 10 years for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.Both had been charged with murder. But a judge in the Mumbai (Bombay) court ruled the killing was not planned.Mr Grover was stabbed and his body hacked to pieces, the court heard.Both defendants had been charged with murder, criminal conspiracy, common intent and causing disappearance of evidence.Susairaj, a model who has had some small television parts, confessed to her role in covering up the killing. But she said that Jerome had been responsible for Mr Grovers death.Her lawyers claimed that she was not party to the killing and that there had been no conspiracy. Her lawyer is quoted saying she was a victim of circumstance.According to the prosecution, Jerome, to whom Susairaj was engaged to be married, had a fight with Mr Grover when he found him at the actresss home.