Mumbai:
Police have stopped Neeraj Grover's friends from holding a candle-light vigil in Malad, near Kannada actress Maria Susairaj's flat where Neeraj was killed.
Many people attending the vigil have been rounded up by the police.
Neeraj's friends were outraged when Maria Susairaj, convicted for destruction of evidence in the Neeraj Grover murder case, walked free on Saturday. They planned at least two vigils in Mumbai to seek justice for their deceased friend.
The first protest march, that was disrupted by the police, was organised by Neeraj's friends from the entertainment industry.
A second march is scheduled to take place in Lokhandwala.
Neeraj's friends hope this will help mobilise support for their campaign seeking justice for him.
Neeraj Grover was killed at Maria Susairaj's Mumbai suburb flat on May 7, 2008, by Maria's former fiancé Emile Jerome Mathew. Maria and Jerome have been found guilty of destroying evidence - Neeraj's body was cut in pieces with a knife purchased for the purpose, transported to another suburb in gunny bags, where the corpse was set on fire. Maria and Jerome were arrested soon after.
The judge accepted last week that Mr Mathew had killed Neeraj in a fit of jealousy after finding him at Ms Susairaj's flat. But it was not pre-planned murder, and so Mr Mathew was indicted for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and for destroying evidence. Jerome's two sentences will run concurrently - he has already spent three years in prison and will need to be in jail for another seven years.
A sessions court on Friday sentenced Ms Susairaj to a maximum three years' imprisonment for destroying evidence in the Neeraj Grover case. She has already served this sentence during trial. So, after all the paperwork and formalities were completed, she was released on Saturday. Neeraj 's friends will also draft an appeal against the judgement in the High Court.