India, Feb. 4 -- Two days after a Mumbai sessions court sentenced 26-year-old Shree Jogdhankar to life imprisonment for the murder of his friend, 19-year-old Jhanvi Kukreja, the prosecution said it was not just forensic and circumstantial evidence but the accused's conduct after the crime that proved decisive in securing the conviction.

Jogdhankar was found guilty of killing Jhanvi in the early hours of January 1, 2021, following a New Year's Eve party at a multi-storeyed building in Khar. The court, however, acquitted the co-accused and the victim's childhood friend, Diya Padalkar, 24, citing lack of cogent evidence.

While delivering the verdict, additional sessions judge Satyanarayan Navander underscored that Jogdhankar's behaviour af...