Court spells 7-year sentence for lawyer’s murder

PUNE: A Pune sessions court has convicted 39-year-old divorcee Anushree Kundra for the October 13, 2011 murder of Delhi lawyer Juhi Prasad. The crime was triggered by her soured live-in relationship with Juhi's fiancé Sinha, an employee of a software company in Pune.
The court also handed out a seven-year jail sentence to Anushree for attempting to kill Nimesh.
Juhi, a practising lawyer in Delhi high court, had died of 85% burns while Nimesh had sustained 18% burns after an enraged Anushree poured petrol over them and set them ablaze in the bedroom of the flat rented by Nimesh at New Market Plaza, Wanowrie.
Anushree, who has a son from her first marriage, had met Nimesh while the two were working in a company in Gurgaon in 2009. The two opted for a live-in relationship.
Later, Nimesh took up a job at Technovo, a software company in Pune and shifted to a flat at Wanowrie. Anushree too shifted with him and took up a job at a fitness firm.
However, things turned sour in 2010 when Nimesh's family strongly opposed Anushree's proposal to marry him and insisted that he should marry Juhi, whom the family had known for a long time as a family friend from Patna. Juhi's father, Abhaynand Prasad, is a lawyer at Patna high court.
The issue led to a quarrel between Anushree and Nimesh and she then left him and moved to Bangalore to work for a private firm there. She continued visiting Nimesh in a bid to convince him to marry her.
On October 7, 2011 Anushree came to Pune and visited Nimesh at his flat. Nimesh then informed his mother about the constant pestering by Anushree who insisted thay he should not marry Juhi.
Nimesh's mother then informed Juhi about this and asked her to go to Pune and convince Anushree to leave Nimesh.
On the evening of October 12, 2011 Juhi flew down to Pune from Delhi and reached Nimesh's flat. Throughout the night, Nimesh, Juhi and Anushree kept quarelling. The next morning, Anushree set them ablaze.