Overview
- The Mumbai sessions court, which ruled Wednesday, convicted Nitin Karbhari Pathare, 44, of murder and ordered life in prison.
- Judge Mahesh K. Jadhav said Pathare acted with intent after the boy broke a teacup and then strangled and slammed him to the floor.
- The court found the child’s sister, then five, to be a credible eyewitness, and the autopsy reported death from strangulation with a head injury.
- Police tied Pathare to the cover-up by recovering digging tools and matching soil on them to a grave near Haji Malang.
- The court refused a death sentence, added five years for destroying evidence and one year for causing hurt, and set all terms to run together.