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dressed in her clothes, lying on a Shradhananda, on being asked multiple
mattress. One of her hands was times by Sabah, lied once again by saying
clenched, as if she had tried to fight that Shakereh was pregnant and needed to
her way out. A DNA test confirmed stay away from her family due to the weird
it was Shakereh. family dynamics between them. Sabah was
It was the first time DNA evidence told she could meet Shakereh after her
was used in a murder trial, and the supposed delivery. However, when Sabah
entire exhumation was captured on went to their house on the instructed date,
video and shown in court, a first for she found the house empty.
the country. Later on, it was
discovered that Shradhananda had
inserted sleeping pills into Shakereh's
Trial & Conviction
tea, causing her to be drugged. She
was trapped inside a wooden box,
After Shakereh’s body was found,
buried deep beneath stone and
Shradhananda was finally arrested. The
concrete, when the effects subsided
truth about what he had done shocked
and she woke up. She must have been
everyone. He had killed the woman who
in a panic, trying to move and
trusted and loved him, all for money and
scream, but no one could hear her.
control.
Buried alive by someone she had once
In 2005, the court sentenced him to death for
trusted, Shakereh was alone, terrified,
the brutal way he murdered her. But a few
and completely defenseless in her last
years later, in 2008, the Supreme Court
moments.
changed that to life in prison with no chance
of getting out. He’s still in prison today,
serving the punishment for what he did.
References
Bhattacharyya, A. (2023, May 12). Love,
deceit, and murder: A notorious case that is
too chilling for India to forget.
@Mathrubhumi.
https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/s
pecials/love-deceit-and-murder-a-notorious-
case-that-is-too-chilling-for-india-to-forget-
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