India, April 22 -- Former senor police inspector Abhay Shamsundar Kurundkar has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of assistant police inspector Ashwini Bidre nine years ago. The sentence was pronounced by the Panvel Sessions Court in a 410-page order on Monday.

Kurundkar, who was posted in Thane when he murdered and dismembered Bidre's body before disposing of it in the Vasai creek, was in a relationship with Bidre at the time. She was posted with the Navi Mumbai police when she was kidnapped and killed.

The court on Monday also directed the Navi Mumbai police commissioner to investigate the "deliberate lapses" by police personnel during the investigation of the initial complaint reporting the victim missing as well as ...