Seema Gavit and Renuka Shinde

Seema Mohan Gavit (born 1975) and her elder sister Renuka Kiran Shinde (born 1973) are Indian serial killers convicted of kidnapping and killing five children.[1] They were charged with thirteen kidnaps and nine murders and the Sessions court found them guilty of kidnapping and murder of six children. The High Court has given a verdict that the prosecution proved five of the cases and confirmed the death sentence.

The Supreme Court of India rejected their appeal and sentenced them to death. Their mercy plea to the President of India was also rejected.

Trial sequence

  • 19 November 1996: Arrested
  • 29 June 2001: Sessions court convicts of kidnapping 13 children and killing 6 — Santosh, Anjali, Raja, Shraddha, Gauri, Pankaj.
  • 9 September 2004: High Court upholds the conviction but acquits her of the kidnapping and murder of Raja.
  • 31 August 2006: Supreme Court confirms death sentence.
  • 14 August 2014: President Pranab Mukherjee rejects mercy petition.

References

  1. ↑ "Thieves who kidnapped, used and killed babies". The Indian Express. 18 August 2014.
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