A local court in Panvel in Maharashtra’s Raigad district Monday awarded life imprisonment to former police inspector Abhay Kurundkar for the murder of assistant inspector Ashwini Bidre-Gore in 2016.
On April 5, the court found Kurundkar guilty of murdering her, and two of his associates for helping him destroy the evidence.
Additional Sessions Judge K G Paldewar found Kurundkar guilty on charges including murder, destruction of evidence, forgery, and false entries in a police registrar to create an alibi. He was acquitted of charges of criminal conspiracy.
Judge Paldewar said the Supreme Court has set parameters for granting the death penalty only in the rarest of rare cases. Judge Paldewar said that while the manner in which the evidence was destroyed in the case, by the body being chopped, showed brutality, it did not fall in the rarest of rare cases. Judge Paldewar also said he was considering the age of the accused, and the chance of reformation.
“I have considered the accused’s age and the defence’s submissions that his reformation is possible. He is a family man, he lost his wife during the COVID-19 pandemic, and his children are in touch with him. This shows that he may have a chance at reformation,” said Judge Paldewar while pronouncing the judgment.
Two of his co-accused driver Kundan Bhandari and his friend Mahesh Falnikar were found guilty of destruction of evidence. The court sentenced them to seven years in jail, which they have already spent in jail as undertrials, and were ordered to be released.
On April 11, 2016, Bidre-Gore, who was posted in Navi Mumbai, went missing. She was estranged from her husband, Raju Gore, and was in a relationship with Kurundkar, who was also married and posted in Thane.
Written by Sadaf Modak
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ashwini bidre-gore murder caseJudge Paldewar said the Supreme Court has set parameters for granting the death penalty only in the rarest of rare cases. (File Photo)
A local court in Panvel in Maharashtra’s Raigad district Monday awarded life imprisonment to former police inspector Abhay Kurundkar for the murder of assistant inspector Ashwini Bidre-Gore in 2016.
On April 5, the court found Kurundkar guilty of murdering her, and two of his associates for helping him destroy the evidence.
Additional Sessions Judge K G Paldewar found Kurundkar guilty on charges including murder, destruction of evidence, forgery, and false entries in a police registrar to create an alibi. He was acquitted of charges of criminal conspiracy.
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