New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed the death sentence of two women from Maharashtra for murdering nine children between the ages for two to seven years, whom they had used to commit theft and robbery.
A bench comprising Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice G P Mathur upheld the judgment of the Bombay High Court concurring with the trial court verdict awarding death penalty to Renuka Kiran Shinde and Seema Mohan Gavit.
These women had moved SC against Bombay HC order which had awarded them death penalty.
The Court also vacated the stay on the execution of the death sentence.
The two women were tried along with their mother for the offence, but the mother died during the trial.
Out of the 13 children murdered, the bodies of seven were recovered by the police.
Who are these women
Thirty-year-old Renuka Kiran Shinde and Seema Mohan Gavit are the daughters of Anjana Bai Gavit who was the kingpin in the children murder case.
They lived near Vanaj Engineering College in Kothrud area of Pune.
The duo was part of a gang that kidnapped children and used them for thefts.
When the trail got hot or if the children outlived their use, they were brutally killed.
The killings of children, aged between seven months and four years, had gone undetected for nearly six years.
Renuka Shinde has four children of her own while Seema was unmarried.
While there were no eyewitnesses in the case, the prosecution had relied on the testimony of Kiran Shinde, husband of Renuka, who turned an approver.
The sister duo had a bank balance of Rs 15 lakh in Pune's Shivaji Co-operative Bank and also owned a Fiat car.
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