India, April 12 -- The family of late assistant police inspector Ashwini Bidre, who was killed in 2016, on Friday demanded the harshest punishment for Abhay Kurundkar, a former police inspector who has been found guilty of murdering her.

"It has been nine long years, and I believe the accused should be hanged. Such cruelty deserves no mercy," the late policewoman's daughter Suchi Gore told the sessions court at Panvel. "Such cruelty deserves no mercy. They should suffer as much as they made my mother suffer."

Bidre, posted at the protection of civil rights unit in Konkan Bhavan, Belapur, went missing on April 15, 2016. She was reportedly in an extramarital relationship with Kurundkar, then an officer with the Thane Rural police. Her bro...