Curated By: Sanstuti Nath
Last Updated: November 26, 2023, 11:01 IST
Now, 5 years after the crime, a courtroom in Jaipur sentenced Priya, Dishkant and Lakshya for killing Dushyant (Image: X)
When the abductors made the ransom name to the Dushyant household so as to demand Rs 10 lakh, Priya and her accomplices realised that the ‘Delhi businessman’ was not as wealthy as he claimed to be, and had put up a pretend id all this time
In a tragic saga of deception, lies, and an unlucky proper swipe on a courting app, 28-year-old Dushyant Sharma misplaced his life after his ‘date’ kidnapped and killed him in an extortion try in Rajasthan’s Jaipur. The sequence of unlucky occasions started in February 2018, when businessman Dushyant matched with 27-year-old Priya Seth on Tinder.
However, what appeared like a traditional meet-cute, was really constructed on an online of lies. Priya began interacting with Dushyant solely to kidnap and extort cash from him. Dushyant, then again, who was married, posed as a rich bachelor businessman from Delhi with a pretend identify–Vivan Kohli.
Tale Of Two Lies
After three months of speaking on the app, with each mendacity about their intentions, the 2 determined to satisfy in particular person in May 2018, when Priya invited Dushyant to his rented lodging.
Both their lies unraveled quickly after Dushyant walked into Priya’s home, and the girl, with the assistance of two accomplices – Dikshant Kamra and Lakshya Walia – kidnapped him.
When the abductors made the ransom name to the Dushyant household so as to demand Rs 10 lakh, Priya and her accomplices realised that the ‘Delhi businessman’ was not as wealthy as he claimed to be, and had put up a pretend id all this time.
After the ransom name, Dushyant’s father deposited Rs 3 lakh in his son’s account. From this quantity, the accused withdraw Rs 20,000 from an ATM close to Jaipur’s Nehru Udhyan utilizing the sufferer’s debit card.
Fearing that their crime will come to mild, the accused killed Dushyant by stabbing him a number of occasions and smothering him with a pillow. They then minimize his physique into items and stuffed them right into a suitcase, after which dumped it on the Delhi street.
Criminals Prosecuted
Now, 5 years after the crime, a courtroom in Jaipur sentenced Priya, Dishkant and Lakshya for killing Dushyant. In his order on Friday, Sessions Judge Ajit Kumar Hinger stated the prosecution has introduced satisfactory proof to authenticate info.
“The prosecution has presented adequate evidence to authenticate these facts. The evidence presented by the prosecution proved that the accused have committed the crime,” Lohariya quoted the choose as saying.
Based on the proof, the courtroom convicted the three accused beneath sections 342 (wrongful confinement), 302 (homicide), 201 (inflicting disappearance of proof of offence) and 120-B (prison conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced them to life imprisonment, he stated.
As per the police, Seth and Kamra have a prison historical past. She was arrested thrice in 2014, 2016 and 2017 for breaking an ATM machine whereas Kamra was arrested as soon as in Mumbai.
