Mangalore: Sentencing of Cyanide Mohan postponed to Dec 21
Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (DV)
Mangalore, Dec 20: The sentencing of Mohan Kumar (Cyanide Mohan) in the one of the three murder cases he was convicted in has been postponed to Saturday December 21.
On Thursday December 19, the fourth additional district and session court, after hearing arguments from both sides, had scheduled the pronouncement of the quantum of punishment for Friday December 20. However, on Friday, judge B K Naik said that the verdict will now be passed on Saturday at 11 am.
As the case has generated much interest and debate, the court was brimming with people who were eagerly waiting for the sentencing.
Mohan was convicted in three cases of murder - those of Anitha from Barimar, Leelavathi from Vamadapadavu and Sunanda from Peruvaje, Sullia over the past three days. On Thursday, the judge heard the arugments pertaining to quantum of punishment in Anitha murder case, wherein Mohan pleaded for leniency citing poverty and responsibility of looking after a family, while the prosecution pressed for death penalty.
Mohan faces murder charges in 17 other cases. The modus operandi was the same in all. He would lure unmarried girls with promise of job interviews, rape them, loot their gold and then murder them in the bus stand by giving them cyanide pills. He was arrested in October 2009 during investigation of the missing case of Anitha from Barimar.
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