She cut the doctor’s body into pieces and threw them away. Deepti Devasthali was an MBBS student who wanted to pursue modeling. Along with her lawyer mother, Leena Devasthali, she kidnapped her distant relative, the doctor. She administered anesthesia to render him unconscious and demanded a ransom of ₹25 lakh so that she could use the money to pursue modeling. Later, the doctor’s body was cut into pieces and dumped at different locations. In December 2007, the Pune Sessions Court convicted both of them of murder and kidnapping and sentenced them to death. In 2009, the Bombay High Court acquitted them of the murder charge (because the complete body was not recovered, so the murder could not be proved beyond reasonable doubt). However, it convicted them of kidnapping for ransom (Section 364A), criminal conspiracy, cheating, and other offences, and sentenced them to life imprisonment. Mother Leena Devasthali was released in 2025, and Deepti was released on 30 September. Do you think victims will get justice in this country…? They were acquitted of the murder charge because all the pieces of the deceased’s body were not found. What kind of joke is this? The police had recovered the body parts — how was the murder not proved from them? Should the deceased have come back to life and testified that these mother and daughter had murdered him?