NEW DELHI: Romesh Sharma, an alleged front-man of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim on Thursday moved Delhi High Court challenging the life sentence awarded to him by a city court for killing his fashion designer girlfriend Kunjum Budhiraja. On February 18, a Delhi court had awarded life imprisonment to Sharma and five others for murdering Kunjum on March 20, 1999. The court had acquitted another accused, Jaspreet Virdi alias Sonu, for want of evidence. The Court had also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on Sharma and Rs 5,000 each on his nephew Surinder Mishra and a woman convict Tejinder Virdi alias Dolly. Other convicts -- Hemchand, Santram and Ramesh -- were fined Rs 1,000 each. The court had on February 15 held all of them guilty under Section 302 (murder) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC. According to the prosecution, Sharma had hatched the conspiracy to kill 29-year-old Kunjum while he was in judicial custody in connection with several cases, including that of intimidation, property-grabbing and cheating. Kunjum was stabbed to death by a group of hired gangsters from Uttar Pradesh at the instance of Surinder Mishra, a co-accused and nephew of Sharma. Mishra had also met Sharma in the jail a day before the incident, the prosecution claimed.
24 Apr, 2008, 1953 hrs IST, PTI
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- Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)
- Lawyer Practising at Supreme Court of India. Court Experience: Criminal, Civil & PIL (related to Property, Tax, Custom & Duties, MVAC, insurance, I.P.R., Copyrights & Trademarks, Partnerships, Labour Disputes, etc.) Socio-Legal: Child Rights, Mid Day Meal Programme, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan, Women Rights, Against Female Foeticide, P.R.Is, Bonded Labour, Child labour, Child marriage, Domestic violence, Legal Literacy, HIV/AIDS, etc. Worked for Legal Aid/Advise/Awareness/Training/Empowerment/Interventions/Training & Sensitisation.
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