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Ring Road Shuba Case: Cabinet Rejects Clemency Plea, Deceased Girish's Sister Reacts
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News18•15-10-2026, 23:02
Ring Road Shuba Case: Cabinet Rejects Clemency Plea, Deceased Girish's Sister Reacts
- •The Karnataka state cabinet has rejected the clemency petition of Ring Road Shuba and other convicts serving life imprisonment.
- •Sunitha, the sister of deceased software engineer Girish, welcomed the decision and stated that clemency should not be granted under any circumstances.
- •Sunitha expressed deep anguish, stating that the tragedy could have been avoided if Shuba had simply stated her dislike in one word.
- •She revealed that their father died of grief and their 80-year-old mother wishes to see justice served before her passing after a 23-year-long fight.
- •Girish was murdered in December 2003, just three days after his engagement to law student Shuba, in a premeditated conspiracy.
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The Karnataka cabinet rejected the clemency plea submitted by Shubha Shankar and D. Arun Verma, who are serving life imprisonment for the 2003 murder of software engineer Girish.
Law student Shuba Shankaranarayan, who was engaged to software engineer Girish in November 2003, conspired with her lover Arun Varma and accomplices to murder him just three days after their engagement because she did not want to marry him.
On December 3, 2003, Shuba asked Girish to take her to the HAL airport area to watch flights, where Arun Varma and his gang attacked Girish with a motorcycle shock absorber, fatally injuring him. Police subsequently uncovered the plot by checking mobile call detail records (CDR).
