Pratibha Murthy Murder

• Pratibha Murthy case: Life imprisonment for cab driver

  Eighty-year-old Gowramma broke down after she heard that the taxi driver who raped and killed her daughter had been sentenced to life in prison.Earlier this week, the judge of a fast-track court in Bangalore said that charges had been proved against Shiva Kumar."Where is the question of peace," asked Gowramma, who brought up Pratibha alone after he...

• Pratibha Murthy case: Life imprisonment for cab driver

  A Bangalore court has sentenced Shiva Kumar to life in prison for raping and murdering 28-year-old Pratibha Murthy, a BPO employee.Earlier this week, a judge accepted the evidence against Kumar, a cab driver.In 2005, Shiva Kumar showed up to collect Pratibha from her home in Bangalore for the night shift at the call centre where she worked.  H...

• BPO employee Prathibha Murthy case: Cab driver guilty, sentence on Friday

  The cab driver who collected BPO employee Pratibha Murthy for work on a December night years ago has been found guilty of raping and murdering her.The judge of a fast-track court in Bangalore who has been hearing the case said he will announce the driver's sentence on Friday.Her distraught mother, Gowramma, pleaded for Pratibha's rapist and murdere...

• Bangalore BPO employee murder: Verdict on Oct 6

  A fast track court will deliver its verdict in the Pratibha Murthy murder case on October 6.Pratibha Murthy, a BPO employee in Bangalore was raped and killed while on her way for night-shift duty in December 2005. The prime accused in the case is Shivu alias Shivakumar. He was the substitute cab driver who picked Pratibha up from home.Pratibha's un...