Death penalty to woman who poisoned boyfriend

A Kerala court on Monday sentenced to death 24-year-old Greeshma SS for poisoning her boyfriend in 2022, declining her prayer for leniency on account of her academic achievements, lack of prior criminal history, and the fact that she is an only daughter.

- HT Correspondent

KOCHI:

The sessions court at Neyyattinkara in Thiruvananthapuram district also sentenced her uncle, Nirmalakumaran Nair, the third accused in the murder case, to a three-year term, finding him guilty of destruction of evidence. The court acquitted Greeshma's mother Sindhu last week.

In the 586-page verdict, additional district sessions judge AM Basheer observed that there was no need to consider the convict's age and other circumstances given the gravity of the crime, terming it a "cold-blooded murder". The order said that Greeshma poisoned to death, 23-year-old Sharon Raj, with whom she was in a relationship, after her parents fixed her marriage with another person and the victim refused to end their relationship.