JAIPUR: Three individuals have been sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court for the murder of a 28-year-old businessman Dushyant Sharma, whom one of the accused had connected with on the dating app Tinder five years ago.The accused Priya Seth (27), Dishkant Kamra and Lakshya Walia killed Dushyant after his family failed to pay the ransom.Priya, the main accused met Seth online in February 2018.She befriended Dushyant on Tinder and later called him to a rented accommodation where she and her two accomplices held him hostage to demand ransom from his family.Shraddha Walkar's chilling murder: A year on, South Delhi locality tries to move on from horror killingLater, the perpetrators demanded a ransom of Rs 10 lakh from Sharma's father.

After the victim's father deposited Rs 3 lakh in his son's account, the accused used Sharma's debit card to withdraw Rs 20,000 from an ATM near Nehru Udhyan.Afraid that their actions would be discovered, the culprits murdered Sharma, dismembered his body, and placed the parts into a suitcase, which they discarded on the road to Delhi."In his order on Friday, Sessions Judge Ajit Kumar Hinger said the prosecution has presented adequate evidence to authenticate facts.Teen rape survivor hacked to death by accused brothers in UP's KaushambiProsecution counsel Sandeep Lohariya said the accused killed him by stabbing him multiple times and smothering him with a pillow."The prosecution has presented adequate evidence to authenticate these facts.

The evidence presented by the prosecution proved that the accused have committed the crime," Lohariya quoted the judge as saying.Priya, who has a criminal history, was earlier arrested thrice in 2014, 2016 and 2017 for breaking an ATM machine.(With agency inputs)