Nino then waited for Lijeesh to arrive to “commit the third murder”. “All this for his satisfaction of lust,” she said.
The “heinous, brutal, coldblooded, gruesome, diabolic” crime shocked the collective consciousness of society. The acts of Nino come under the rarest of the rare category and the court had no other choice but to award extreme penalty. “All the perfumes of Arabia are inadequate to wash of A 1’s (Nino) bloody and tainted hands,” she said.
Ms. Shircy’s rejected Anushanthi’s plea that she be spared of the social stigma attached to filicide, the act of killing one’s own son or daughter. Her statement is “fallacious”. Anushanthi “had send Nino to finish off her child with her husband”. “She is shame for motherhood,” the judge said. Ms. Shircy profusely quoted Washington Irving in her judgment to extol how a mother’s love endures above all else. The judge spared Anushanthi of the death sentence since she had not physically participated in the crime. With a tinge of humour in her voice, Ms. Shircy said with due “apologies to feminists” Anushanthi was a woman and thus a member of the weaker section. She had also pleaded failing health. Special Prosecutor Vineet Kumar led the case.
