On Monday, the Supreme Court granted bail to Shubha Shankaranarayan (32), who was prosecuted for hatching a conspiracy, along with three others, to kill her fiancé B V Girish in Bangalore in 2003.
The accused, Shubha Shankaranarayan, a law graduate was sentenced to life imprisonment by the trial court in 2010 after being held guilty in the murder case. The Karnataka High Court confirmed her conviction and sentence in 2010.
Taking up her bail plea, a bench of Justices V Gopala Gowda and Dipak Misra take note of the accused that she has been in custody for more than 52 months and would take more time to hear her appeal challenging the conviction and sentence, there was no point in putting her behind bars, the court said, while granting her bail.
As per the police reports, Shubha was the instigator and the prime accused in the murder of Girish, a software engineer, to whom she was engaged in November 2003.
Shubha alleged boyfriend Arun Verma, her junior in B M S College of Law, his cousin Dinakar alias Venkatesh and Dinesh are the co-accused. All of them were also sentenced to life term by the trial court.