India, May 18 -- Three persons have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of advocate Meenakshi Jaiswal, former chairperson of the Maharashtra State Commission for the Protection of Child Rights, more than a decade ago. The verdict was pronounced by additional sessions judge SS Shinde of the Panvel sessions court on Saturday.

The three individuals sentenced are Jaiswal's driver Vinayak Thavra Chavan, and his accomplices Maninder Singh Bajwa alias Mithu and Suraj Rambhavan Jaiswal. A fourth accused, Surendrakumar Chamanlal Batra, died during the course of the trial. Chavan, Bajwa and Jaisawal were found guilty of conspiring to rob and ultimately murdering Meenakshi Jaiswal in her home in Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, on December 19,...