Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Patiala House court on Monday sentenced Romesh Sharma — the alleged frontman of Dawood Ibrahim — and five others to life imprisonment in the Kunjum Budhiraja murder case.
The court has also slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 on Romesh Sharma, failing which Romesh will have to serve extra six months in jail.
On February 15, the court had convicted ex-Congress leader Romesh for murdering his girlfriend Kunjum, a fashion designer, nine years ago.
Romesh was accused of plotting the murder. Others held guilty for the murder of the 29-year-old fashion designer include Romesh's nephew Surinder Mishra, Tejinder Virdi alias Dolly and Hemchand.
Budhiraja had been stabbed to death on March 20, 1999, by a group of hired gangsters from Uttar Pradesh. According to the prosecution, the murder was carried out at the instance of Surinder Mishra, a co-accused and nephew of Romesh.
According to prosecution, Romesh had hatched the conspiracy to kill 29-year-old Budhiraja while he was in Tihar jail.
A chargesheet was filed in this matter on June 16, 1999. During the investigation, it was allegedly found that Surinder Mishra, Dolly and Sonu wanted to get rid of Kunjum as they felt that while they were taking care of Romesh and attending to his court cases, Romesh was giving away his property to Kunjum.
The prosecution said Romesh was also involved in the conspiracy of murdering Kunjum.
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