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Pune Man Gets Life Sentence for Sister's Murder After 16 Years
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News18•29-09-2026, 09:35
Pune Man Gets Life Sentence for Sister's Murder After 16 Years
- •A sessions court in Pune has delivered a verdict in a 16-year-old murder case from the Bavdhan area.
- •Subhojit Sadhan Basu (43) was sentenced to life imprisonment and fined Rs 10,000 for strangling his younger sister, Priyadarshini Basu (23), to death due to family and mental stress.
- •The incident occurred on April 14, 2010, when Subhojit killed his sister and then attempted suicide by slitting his wrist and drinking phenyl.
- •Subhojit informed an IIT Kharagpur professor about the incident, who then alerted the police, leading to the discovery of the crime.
- •The court rejected the accused's claim of severe depression, noting his intellectual capacity was intact based on his actions post-incident.
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The sessions court sentenced Subhojit Sadhan Basu to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 for strangling his younger sister to death.
After committing the crime, Subhojit called a professor at IIT Kharagpur to confess, and the professor immediately notified the police control room. The Hinjewadi police team arrived, forced open the door, and found the victim dead while the accused lay injured inside.
The court noted that following the incident, Subhojit made phone calls to inform professors of his actions, spoke of surrendering to the police, and later expressed remorse. These actions proved that his intellectual capacity remained intact during and after the crime.
