A Jaipur court has sentenced three individuals to life imprisonment for the murder of a 28-year-old businessman, whom one of the accused had met on the dating app Tinder, five years ago.
Sessions Judge Ajit Kumar Hinger stated that the prosecution has presented sufficient evidence to establish the facts.
The main accused, Priya Seth (27), befriended Dushyant Sharma on Tinder and later lured him to a rented accommodation where she, along with her two accomplices, Dishkant Kamra and Lakshya Walia, held him hostage to demand ransom from his family.
When Dushyant’s family failed to pay the ransom, the accused killed him by stabbing him multiple times and smothering him with a pillow, said prosecution counsel Sandeep Lohariya on Saturday.
“The prosecution has presented sufficient evidence to authenticate these facts. The evidence presented by the prosecution proved that the accused have committed the crime,” quoted Lohariya, referring to the judge’s statement.
Based on the evidence, the court convicted the three accused under sections 342 (wrongful confinement), 302 (murder), 201 (causing the disappearance of evidence of the offence), and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced them to life imprisonment, he said.
Sharma met Seth online in February 2018. In May 2018, Seth and her associates planned to demand ransom from Sharma’s family.
They demanded a ransom of Rs 10 lakh from Sharma’s father. After the victim’s father deposited Rs 3 lakh in his son’s account, the accused used Sharma’s debit card to withdraw Rs 20,000 from an ATM near Nehru Udhyan here. Fearing that their crime would come to light, the accused killed Sharma, cut his body into pieces, and stuffed them into a suitcase, which they dumped on the Delhi road.
Seth and Kamra have a criminal history. She was arrested thrice in 2014, 2016, and 2017 for breaking an ATM machine, while Kamra was arrested once in Mumbai.
