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Driver convicted for rape, murder of techie Anuhya
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A special women\'s court in Mumbai on Tuesday convicted a 29-year-old driver for the rape and murder of a techie from Machilipatnam town of Andhra Pradesh in suburban Kurla here last year.
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Mumbai: A special women's court in Mumbai on Tuesday convicted a 29-year-old driver for the rape and murder of a techie from Machilipatnam town of Andhra Pradesh in suburban Kurla here last year.
Special Judge Vrushali Joshi convicted accused Chandrabhan Sanap after agreeing with the prosecution, which examined 39 witnesses in the case. Sanap was convicted under IPC Section 302 (murder), Section 376 (rape) and Section 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence). The court is likely to hear the arguments on sentencing on Wednesday.
Mumbai Police spokesperson Dhananjay Kulkarni said the prosecution successfully secured the conviction under all sections of the law under which Sanap was tried. The victim was Esther Anuhya, 23 who had arrived from Vijayawada to Lokmanya Tilak Terminus after a Christmas break to rejoin work at the Tata Consultancy Services, Goregaon.
As the train arrived early around 5 am, Sanap, posing as a cabbie, offered to drop her to her hostel in south Mumbai. They negotiated an amount of Rs 300 for the commute. However, when Anuhya walked out of the terminus with her luggage, she found Sanap had neither a taxi nor an autorickshaw but a motorcycle.
When she refused to go, he asked her to inform her family about his details and the vehicle registration number. As there was no other transport available at that hour and though Anuhya did not have any balance in her mobile, she pretended to make a call to her family before accepting the motorbike ride.
En route, Sanap stopped the bike on the service road on the Eastern Express Highway near Kanjurmarg suburb, on the excuse that petrol was exhausted, and in the foggy wintry morning on the deserted highway, dragged Esther into the bushes and attempted to rape her, but she strongly resisted.
Enraged, Sanap banged her head repeatedly with a stone and even strangled her with her dupatta. He then took some petrol from his motorbike and attempted to burn the body in the thick bushes beside the highway.
He fled the scene after grabbing her bag and a trolley which contained her laptop and other belongings.
Meanwhile, unable to communicate with Anuhya, her anxious father Jonathan Prasad lodged a missing person with Vijayawada railway police before coming to Mumbai and lodging another complaint with Kurla railway police.
After painstaking investigations, examining CCTV records at the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus and the mobile phone record which showed the last signal at Bhandup, the Mumbai police finally recovered a charred and decomposed body in Kanjurmarg on January 16.
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