Sakereh Khallili Murder Case
Shakereh Khaleeli was murdered by her own second husband Murali Manohar Misra. Shakereh Khaleeli Namaizi was a socialite, real estate developer and philanthropist who was married to first with an Indian diplomat to Australia Mr. Akbar Mirza Khalleeli. After they both were divorced Shakereh Khaleeli got herself married to Murli Manohar Misra alias Swami Sharddhanand.
In 1991 her family noticed that she was missing and wasn't to be found anywhere. Her second daughter from her first marriage to Mr. Akbar Mirza Khalleeli, Saba Akbar Mirza Khalleeli found her mother missing so she kept inquiring about her to Swami Sharddhanand but he kept avoiding giving any straight answer about her disappearance. In 1992 Saba Akbar Mirza Khalleeli filed a habeas corpus police complaint about her being found missing with Karnataka police. For three years Swami Sharddhanand kept busy the Karnataka police busy with his tricks but finally he had to confess. He told to the police that he had drugged her, siffocated her and stuffed her in a coffin like box and had her buried under the floor tiles of his courtyard.
Shakereh Khaleeli Namaizi was murdered 28 April 1991, she was drugged and wraped in a mattress, and was put in coffin like box and was buried in a pit which was already dug in the courtyard. She was alive when buried because when the Karnataka police had recovered her skeleton it was found clutching the mattress in one of her hands.
The case went on trial and became a milestone in the Indian judicial system as it was for the first time in the Indian history that the police had recorded the exhumation and recovery of the skeleton as also it was for the first time that DNA report was accepted by the court as an evidence.
In a rare verdict the session court awarded Swami Sharddhanand death penalty subject to the ratification and approval from the high court. The high court upheld the death penalty. The verdict was challenged by Swami Sharddhanand in the supreme court which commuted the death sentence into a life sentence.
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