08 January 2006 :
the Mumbai High Court, India, sentenced a doctor to death for murdering two people after falsely promising to help them emigrate to the United States. According to the prosecution, Dr Ajay Pandit alias Jagdish Patel used to poison people after taking money from them, promising to help them emigrate to America.The medical practitioner was accused of murdering Jayashree Patel and Nilesh Patel in separate incidents and had been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Sessions Court in 1995. A division bench upheld the conviction handed down by the Sessions Court but enhanced the punishment from life imprisonment to capital punishment.
(Sources : Rediff, 29/12/2005)
