The media chased the story breathlessly. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Congratulations! Matthew was enraged to see Grover there and bitter arguments had started between both of them which ended up in a physical tussle. I am going to get my money back, its hard-earned money, Ghosh says. One of her uncles is a former corporator in the local municipal body. Paromita too has violated her bail condition, while Anita is out on bail, he said. Movies. Maria was at that time engaged to naval officer Emile Jerome Mathew. In Delhi, Neeraj's friends held a candlelight vigil at Jantar Mantar. Susairaj was ambitious enough to move out of a small town for her showbiz dreams, but never driven enough to do the usual strugglers rounds of the offices of directors and producers. They said they could organise up to Rs. Kannada starlet Maria Susairaj, 35, has been arrested for an alleged fraud of Rs 2.11 crore by the Ahmedabad Crime Branch. Paromita and Susairaj are very smart people. The statements of the watchman of her society, and the petrol pump attendee from whom the couple bought petrol, cleared the way of suspicion and testified for the collected proofs. The verdict of the case was delivered earlier this year and Susairaj was sentenced to three years in jail. "The forensic report submitted by the prosecution clearly says that the bone samples ( of Neeraj) do not show that it was burnt," Sharif said later. The cellphone records showed that an SMS was received by Neerajs phone on the evening of May 7, the day he was murdered in the morning. Maria was sent to three years imprisonment but later walked out of jail as she had spent three years' time as an under trial, while Jerome was imprisoned for 10 years. They gave him a demand draft worth Rs 30 crore, and he paid them Rs 3 crore as interest. And when he persisted, a man dressed as a policeman showed up at his office and threatened him. They wore expensive clothes, stayed in a fancy hotel and went to grand restaurants, and spent so much money on shopping, says the La Raib partner. Maria Susairaj. They are like best friends, very close to each other. These are motivated allegations made by a group of seasoned blackmailers, he said. Jerome faces life term or 10 years, while Maria faces three-year term, Kinni added. This, and another fine of Rs 100,000 slapped on Mathew, will be awarded as compensation to Grover's family members. (From left) Suraj Jaiswal, Amit Sharma, Sandhya Mishra and Mansi Pandit have filed complaints against Maria, Paromita and Anita (Photo by Raju Shinde). According to him, Susairajs name has been dragged into a series of such fraud cases by a Mumbai-based former TV journalist, Iqbal, who had been a friend of theirs and even had financial dealings with the two before he fell out with them. The actress referred to her prison term as " blessed" and said activities such as "painting and prayers" kept her busy in jail. The debit card records showed that she bought the upholstery stuff, a chopper, and a couple of duffel bags from a mall adjacent to her apartment on the morning of May 7. I later found out that it was all a carefully thought out plant to fool gullible people, said Mansi. So what kind of financial deals were these? They alleged that this murder was a result of the criminal conspiracy between Maria and Matthew. The hotel was never built and all its investors appeared to have lost their money. Neeraj's father Amarnath Grover told Headlines Today, "The verdict is very disappointing. Sharif had kicked off proceedings rather dramatically. Mahesh Bhatt describes Ram Gopal Varma as a "man who has audacity", and should be given a standing ovation. On the night of May 6,2008,Grover,an executive in a TV production company,dropped in at Susairaj s newly rented,one-room flat at Dheeraj Solitaire,a lavish building in Malad, Mumbai. Though Matthew killed Grover with the intention of causing his death, he was not held guilty of murder. "You lady are my number one suspect" commented Rakesh Maria the former Head of Mumbai Crime Branch to Maria Susairaj the now infamous Kannada starlet and a key player in what turned out to be one of the most gruesome and intriguing murder cases that India has ever witnessed i.e. Neeraj had moved to Mumbai from Kanpur, where he had completed a course in Mass Communications. The 30-year-old Kannada actress' sensational tryst with law - she was released . Much of its shock value was in the details: the initially misreported fact that Grovers body had been chopped up into 300 pieces (it was far fewer); the fact that after Susairaj and Jerome had sex twice after the killing, once in the same room as the corpse, and then after the body had been dismembered; the calm manner in which they went about disposing of it, shopping for knives and suchlike at a nearby mall, using shopping bags for body parts. Though immediate confirmation was not available, Susairaj is expected to leave for Bangalore later in the day. Vadodara court remands Maria Susairaj to 4-day police custody October 10, 2015 9:04 am He flew from the Kochi naval base to Mumbai early morning on May 7 and arrived at Maria's flat between 7 and 7.30am. Writes Baghel: Had she and Emile already planned something, as the prosecution alleged, or was it, as Emile later told Vasanth (a friend of his), that he had to go to Mumbai because Maria had given him an ultimatum? We are looking for Maria. India, Around the world and many more.. Delhi Police investigation should settle wrestling allegations quickly. Television executive Grover was killed on May 7, 2008. Maria Susairaj, an accused in one of Mumbais most sensational murder cases, is now a con artist, Lhendup G Bhutia Bags packed with parts of his corpse were taken by the couple in a friend's car to another suburb where they were set on fire. However, he sensed the fact that he would spend the night at her house which was not at all acceptable to Matthew. "Maria Susairaj wanted to become famous as an actress and she became famous as a murderess," Varma wrote on his Twitter page. Ujjwal Nikam to fight Neeraj Grover case? It felt that Jerome committed the crime in the heat of the moment. La Raib, a Vadodara-based travel agency that focuses on the Hajj pilgrimage, was one of the earliest to lodge a complaint against the duo. Meanwhile, Police Inspector Rajkumar Kothimare, who is attached to the Thane Anti-Extortion Cell, said a separate team has been set up to investigate the allegations against the three. Maria changes furnishings at her apartment and also applies a fresh coat of paint to a part of wall which got bloodstained. Cutting down the dead remains of the deceased in order to make it easy to dump it is a spine-tingling hideous act. She was released after serving a jail sentence of three years. An act done where the victim himself consented to such an act. Neeraj Grover Murder Case That Shocked Everybody, Actress Maria Susairaj Was Got 3 Years Jail Imprison, , 300 . In 2008, she was an aspiring Kannada starlet in her late twenties looking for a break in the Hindi entertainment industry. We lost a total of nearly Rs 5 crore.. A person has been killed and cut into pieces and you are convicting him for throwing the knife away." Nearly a decade later, she had reappeared in Mumbai, reborn as a con artist. The Bombay High Court had rejected the anticipatory bail of Maria in one of the cases in January this year and she has been on the run ever since. Matthew, who was found guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, is currently serving a 10-year sentence in jail. Kannada actor Maria Susairaj, who served jail term in Mumbai's high-profile Neeraj Grover murder case, was on Thursday arrested by Ahmedabad police for allegedly duping Haj pilgrims to the tune of Rs 2.68 crore in Vadodara. Mysuru: It is nearly 11 years since the sensational murder case of Television Executive Neeraj Grover in which the Mysurus former Kannada starlet Maria Monica Susairaj was an accused. Her co-accused and fiance,ex-naval officer Emile Jerome Mathew was sentenced to 10 years' jail term. In the backdrop, the family and friends of Neeraj kept on trying to contact him since he was found missing, i.e., from the evening of May 6 itself. Maria Susairaj and Emile Jerome the key player's in the brutal murder of TV executive Neeraj Grover. The city of Mumbai is said to be Indias nerve centre for finding career opportunities in television and films. This article further explains what exactly happened that it became one of the most gruesome murder cases in India. They always tipped the waiters well, and if pleased with a meal, they would even request the chef to come over to their table for them to thank him, often with a monetary tokenif he was willingof their appreciation. Secondly, when Maria lodged a police complaint in Malad police station on May 9, she told the police that Neeraj was missing from the night of May 6 when he last met her at her apartment. He claimed that Maria was involved in a deep friendship with Neeraj. At a press conference, Maria was asked if she was still close to Jerome. The knowledge that the act is likely to cause death. The author talks of welts hidden by her bangles that run the length of her forearm, and describes how she once slit her wrist after her family pressured her to meet an older divorcee for marriage. By 9 pm, 28 minutes before Susairaj first called Grover asking him over, Jerome had phoned a friend asking for the latters credit card details so he could get onto a 3.45 am Air India flight to Mumbai. Soon, he befriended her, and since Maria also showed interest in him, they became good friends. After all these years, Maria Susairaj is in the news again, as she is said to be on the run from Mumbai and Thane Police in multiple cases of cheating, forgery and intimidation. If Emile did not make up his mind about marrying her, he would have to choose once and for all between her and his parents. They both changed the bedroom upholstery in order to destroy the evidence of murder. After all these years, Maria Susairaj is in the news again, as she is said to be on the run from Mumbai and Thane Police in multiple cases of cheating, forgery and intimidation. .. Advertisement .. Maria Susairaj, once a Kannada actress, was found at her Mumbai home in May, 2008 with Neeraj Grover, a young TV producer. Over the past 41 years, Star of Mysore has been the newspaper that Mysureans reach for every evening to know about the happenings in Mysuru city. Both drive to an isolated spot in Thane, pour petrol on the bags and set them ablaze. The two were very rich and sophisticated women, he says. It was a made-for-television story. As he began to ask around, Dodia discovered that Susairaj and Chakraborty had left a long trail of victims cheated out of their money in various cities of Gujarat and Maharashtra. Read 15 years of Mumbai Mirror's journalism here. The time I spent in jail was blessed, she said, I got close to God., But thats not the only one she got close to, quips a police officer now, requesting anonymity. Before the night he was killed, he had never met Jerome. Raised in a religious family, with church institutions on her fathers client roster, she was inclined to the performing arts even in school. As the level of suspicion rose, the police investigated the case more meticulously. ", Maria's lawyer Sharif Sheikh, meanwhile, told Headlines Today, "Everything was planted to implicate Maria. She and Maria would speak with each other in fluent English, but whenever Dodia was around, they would always politely switch to Hindi. Sanchari Bhattacharya speaks to Meenal Baghel, Mumbai Mirror editor and author of Death In Mumbai, about her account of the Neeraj Grover murder case and why she chose it to be the subject of her. Unlike the locals, however, Dodia wanted no part of it. According to some, she got back to studies and acquired a diploma in banking. Best responses by sexpert Dr Mahinder W Best responses by sexpert Dr Mahinder Watsa. Performance & security by Cloudflare. The actress along with her partners Anita Vedpathak and Paromita Chakraborty, have been accused of cheating, forgery and intimidation. However, one of the victims Mansi Pandit said that Police were reluctant to file an FIR against the three. Phone no. Her boyfriend Emile Jerome Matthew, a naval officer, has too got relief as he has been convicted of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. They were even staying together at one time, Chaumal says. Representing Susairaj, Chaumal does not deny the sequence of events in this case, but argues that she was not part of Parapan and was only accompanying Chakraborty on the Vadodara tour. Susairaj and her partner Emile Jerome were accused in the murder of young naval officer Grover in Mumbai. There are seven complaints registered against Maria and her partners in crime Paromita Chakraborty and Anita Vedpathak. At one point in the book, a former lover of Susairaj from Mysore recounts what she had once told him about herself: When everybody was walking, I was on a cycle, when people were on cycles, I was on a bike, and when people were on bikes, I was riding in a car.. However, Advocate Naveen Chomal, who represents Maria, Paromita and Anita, said his clients have no idea about these cheating cases. Facts of the case Maria Susairaj was engaged to a person named Emile Jerome Mathew who was a naval officer posted in Cochin. Jeet Gupta, a childhood friend said: "This is no justice. How is it that so many people are being taken in by them? Chandwani gave the decision in this appalling murder case. We will go into appeal. "I definitely sympathise (with Neeraj's family) losing somebody in your family is sad." On examining every corner, and the bedroom of the house, the team found that the upholstery of the room including the curtains, bedsheets, and everything was newly bought. Contacted by Open, Iqbal denies the lawyers version of what happened. The exercise of blood sampling was conducted and it turned out to be Neerajs blood. Earlier, Maria visited the Mahim church after being released from prison. She had even auditioned for a Balaji tv show that Grover claimed he had influence over. Act done without any premeditation in a sudden fight. And then they also offered a very good deal to us. 88 lakh. 0821 249 6520, To advertise on Star of Mysore, email us at. And television's queen bee Ekta Kapoor wanted to make it. Susairaj, after three years of imprisonment for destruction of evidence, was let off in 2011. She was arrested based on the complaint of Vadodara-based travel agency La-Raib Tours. After Susairaj and some alleged accomplices were arrested, Parapan reimbursed the money over the next few months, with only Rs 8.5 lakh now left pending. Neeraj Grover, a young man who hailed from Kishni, a small town in Uttar Pradesh was born in 1982. They now plan to challenge the judgment in the Bombay high court. They wanted that the murderer must be given the death penalty or at least the punishment of life imprisonment. The murder of Neeraj Grover was unfortunate enough to call it a monstrous act of Maria and Matthew. The actor says he then raped her. Contacted by me, Ghosh says that he had recommended a lawyer to Susairaj and lent the two women a sum of nearly Rs 20 lakhthrough Jaiswalthat hadnt been paid back. Irrespective of the anomalies he found in Marias character as an actress, he was impressed by her as a person. The exceptions are listed below : In Neeraj Grovers murder case, the Court observed that the act of murdering Neeraj was not a premeditated act. It was Maria Susairaj, he says, mimicking his shock when he first discovered her identity. In a bid to shield his client, Maria's counsel accused Jerome of forcing Maria to help dispose of Neeraj's body. The Ministry, however, told him that if he wanted to avail of his services, he had to pay Nikam's f Mahie Gill's supermarket scenes in RGV's upcoming film were shot on a high-end mobile phone. The three got along very well in jail and remained good friends after Marias term ended and the other two were released on bail. His friends and family suspected Maria Susairaj of his disappearance. Copyright Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. All rights reserved. It is also learnt that Maria and Paromita have a cheating case registered against them in Vododara Police Station, Gujarat, where they had accepted money from many people for Haj pilgrimage and vanished with the money. When he went to the bank, the draft turned out to be a forgery. Copyright 2019 Star of Mysore . They are really very smart, very smooth and charming, says a partner in La Raib Tours and Travels who claims to have been cheated by the duo. The forensic examination team went to the house of Maria Susairaj for the investigation as the acquaintances of Neeraj pointed the needle of suspicion towards her. The verdict of the sessions court, that has been hearing this sensational case for over two years now . For reprint rights:Times Syndication Service. One reporter landed up at her familys house in Bengaluru, where they had moved from Mysore after the case, and reported watching a delivery boy drop a food packet to the home with the door opening only partially to receive it. Maria M. Susairaj first met Neeraj in his office for the purpose of giving the audition for the television series mentioned above. The verdict came as a major setback to the police and prosecution which had claimed to have a strong case against both the accused. A senior Police Inspector G.D. Pingale of Chitalsar Police Station in Thane said that a case would be registered against Maria, Paromita and Anita in the Mansi Pandit case. .. Advertisement .. Kannada actress Maria Susairaj, who served jail term in Mumbai's Neeraj Grover murder case, was today arrested by Ahmedabad Police for allegedly duping Haj pilgrims to the tune of Rs 2.68 crore in Vadodara. "You all know that I have spent three years and 41 days in jail," she added. The ingredients of the same are as follows : The ingredients of culpable homicide amounting to murder have been pointed out above and are given under Section 300 of IPC. According to the complaint filed by Jain at the JJ Marg Police Station, Paromita and Anita bought jewellery from his shop many times in 2013. Copyright 2023 Living Media India Limited. HT Image Sporting a printed dress,. Maria doesnt work with Paromita. LawSikho has created a telegram group for exchanging legal knowledge, referrals, and various opportunities. Although she was in a relationship with Matthew, his parents disapproved of her and their marriage. The meetings took place in plush restaurants and they always arrived in big cars and spent freely. Today, he tweeted: Now that she has been released I want to sign Maria Susairaj for a film. Matthew in a fit of anger brought a knife from the kitchen and stabbed Neeraj repeatedly until he took his last breath. The Susairaj case was a media feeding frenzy. They were offering, like, Rs100 to Rs150 less on each ticket, compared to other agencies. As Baghel notes, Susairaj had phoned Grover the night before, at 9.28 pm and then again at 9.55 pm, asking him to come over. How can I be close to him?" Sign up to receive interesting long form stories of Politics, By Krishna Kumar: Emile Jerome Matthew must be a broken man. Dodia was impressed. Maria,who was sentenced to three years in jail by a Mumbai court for destroying evidence in the May 2008 killing of Grover,was released from jail last month.. He runs Rushabh Centering Accessories, a firm in Mumbai that makes and supplies construction material and equipment, and for several months, he had been unsuccessfully trying to procure a loan to expand his business. Had I known earlier, I would have never got into business with them.. Chaumal began defending Susairaj after she was referred to him by a Kolkata-based lawyer named Shyamal Ghosh, who, it turns out, was introduced to her and Chakraborty by Suraj Jaiswal, an acquaintance of theirs who some litigants allege is part of the fraud ring. She walked free for having served the time behind bars while the trial was on. Neeraj Grover was killed at Maria Susairaj's Mumbai suburb flat on May 7, 2008, by Jerome. The public was also enraged at the disgrace of humanity through this appalling act. On May 12, 2008, Susairaj goes to the police with elder brother and some others saying Grover has been missing. Moreover, a bloodstain could be seen on the latch of the door and a little bit of it at some other places too. When she came to her senses, Jerome threatened to kill her if she didn't help him get rid of Neeraj's body. Then, Matthew and Maria cut the dead body of Neeraj into small pieces, allegedly three hundred pieces, and put it together in those bags which she bought earlier. Maria Susairaj is known for Joot (2002). But when the passengers reached the airport, they found out that all the tickets had been cancelled just that morning, says the La Raib partner, We had to rebook tickets for them. In Delhi, Neeraj's friends held a candlelight vigil at Jantar Mantar. The agency partner says they first made acquaintance with the two women in early 2014, when the latter were on a visit to Vadodara posing as directors of another travel agency called Parapan Group Travels and Tours. D star comes clean on the mystery man in her life, getting bolder on screen, and more.. Neeraj Grover murder case: The Bombay High Court has admitted the appeal of Emile Jerome Mathew against his conviction in the Neeraj Grover murder case. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. 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The police initiated the inquiry against her the next day, and she stated that Neeraj did come to her place but he left her house at midnight to go to attend a party. Back in Khopoli, the situation wasnt any better. You have entered an incorrect email address! Since things went wrong, her dreams of becoming an actress went for a toss." And he added: "Now that she has been released I want to sign Maria Susairaj for a . Continue readingFor 24x7 updates on Mumbai and Maharashtra. It's a pre-meditated murder. She borrowed the car of her neighbour and after keeping the bags in the boot space, at around 4:30 P.M., the same day, Maria and Matthew drove out of the city. By Headlines Today Bureau: A Mumbai court on Thursday let off Kannada actor Maria Susairaj in the Neeraj Grover murder case, saying she's only guilty of destroying evidence. Hunt for Maria Susairaj in Neeraj Grover murder case April 19, 2018 2:21 am According to police, Susairaj, 35, had allegedly befriended two inmates, Paromita Chakravarti and Sneha aka Ankita Deshpande, in Byculla jail. They are attaching her name only because she is well known.. Gupta and other friends of Neeraj have planned a walk for justice on Sunday in Mumbai. It is pertinent to note here that there are certain exceptions given under Section 300, one of which has been applied to the present case. The court went by Maria's confession that she was not involved in the murder and had even tried to stop Jerome. Maria Susairaj was engaged to a person named Emile Jerome Mathew who was a naval officer posted in Cochin. On May 21, 2008, both Susairaj and Matthew are arrested. Both Susairaj and Jerome were acquitted of the murder charges. You know, business deals, replies Chaumal. Meanwhile, family members and friends of Grover flayed the 'special treatment' accorded to Susairaj as she was set free. Culpable homicide has been defined under Section 299 of the IPC. You can click on this link and join: Follow us onInstagramand subscribe to ourYouTubechannel for more amazing legal content. The two agencies then finalised a large deal of 1,200 Mumbai-Jeddah return tickets, all departures scheduled within three days of December. On the basis of the confession made by Maria Susairj, the police arrested her fiance, Matthew. Sporting a printed dress, Susairaj was quickly whisked into a waiting white Honda City car with tinted glasses. 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She pursued dancing and singing, and dreamt of a career in showbiz as she grew up. Maria Susairaj, once dubbed 'Lady Macbeth' by the press, was involved in one of Mumbai's most sensational cases of homicide, the Neeraj Grover murder case. When it comes to my personal life, I have left my past behind, I have still not realised what is happening with me right now," she said. Today's verdict awarding three years to Maria Susairaj and ten to Emile Jerome has the media frothing at the mouth. They called on his phone more than a hundred times but could not connect with him. Jerome was engaged to Susairaj at the time of the murder. He barged into the house and found Neeraj inside. See you there. She had reportedly borrowed the money from him claiming her bank accounts had been frozen because of the law suits. Reportedly, at 10 A.M., Maria went to purchase two duffel bags, bedsheets, curtains, and a knife. Many people, especially the acquaintances of Grover, were not happy with the decision of the Court. And there's no doubt as to where their sympathies lie. The Police have in their possession several of Maria and Paromitas photographs, some of them clicked on holidays across the country. In her defence, Susairaj claimed that she felt threatened by Mathew and destroyed evidence under pressure. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7c0ecd820c7c4288 In Neeraj Grovers murder case, the facts explicitly show that the arguments took place between both Neeraj and Matthew which further induced Matthew to take a knife and stab Neeraj.
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