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BANGALORE, APRIL 7. The VI Fast Track Court on Wednesday convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment Ramamurthy alias Upendra (30), an accused in the murder of a woman and her child in the Peenya Police Station limits in 2001. The Magistrate, Rama Reddy, sentenced Ramamurthy for conspiring and abetting the crime. The Peenya Police filed the charge sheet in the court stating that Ramamurthy had conspired with Muniraju (22) and Nataraj (23), who had raped Lakshmi Devi and murdered her and her eight-year-old son, Gautham, on November 23, 2001. The Peenya Police had arrested the three on December 5, 2001 on the charge of committing four murders, including that of eight-year-old Deepika, who was raped and set on fire at Mallasandra. A few days after they were arrested, on December 14, Muniraju and Nataraj were shot dead in an encounter by the police at Pampanagar in the Yeshwanthpur Police Station limits. Addressing a press conference on December 6, 2001, the then Commissioner of Police, H.T. Sangliana, said Ramamurthy, who owned an electrical shop, was in financial trouble and had instigated Muniraju and Nataraj, who were working in his shop, to select houses of rich people, kill them, and loot the valuables. Muniraju, who had earlier worked as cable television boy, and Nataraj went to Lakshmi Devi's house and told the unsuspecting housewife that television cables needed repair. After working for some time, the two smothered the woman, and as she fell unconscious, raped her. Later they slit her throat. Lakshmi Devi's son, who was playing on the terrace, came in as the two were about to leave. Fearing that he would identify them, they hanged him from a ceiling fan with a sari. They made away with gold ornaments and LIC bonds from the house. Ramamurthy had sheltered Muniraju and Nataraj and disposed of the gold ornaments stolen from Lakshmi Devi's house. Recently, a city court sentenced Ramamurthy to six years imprisonment in the murder of Mahadevan (79), a native of Madurai, who was murdered at his son's house at Chokkasandra in Peenya in October 2001.
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