IN AUROBINDO ASHRAM WIFE MURDERING HUSBAND IN CONSPIRACY WITH HER PARAMOUR"
Sonali Mukherjee, who belongs to Aurobindo Ashram of Pondicherry was a beauty queen. She belongs to West Bengal and she was followed by youth wherever she went. In the year 1984 she married Biswajit, who belongs to West Bengal. After marriage Sonali Mukherjee got acquainted with Ashatit Poddar, who was holding a high position in Aurobindo Ashram Publications Department.
This contact later turned into a love-affair and both Sonali Mukherjee and Ashatit Poddar started illicitly to live together as husband and wife. At this point Biswajit has warned his wife Sonali Mukherjee. At one point Sonali started ignoring her husband Biswajit and insulted him. Biswajit went to Calcutta and when he returned, Sonali Mukherjee and her illicit lover Ashatit Poddar went to Chennai railway station to receive him. While the three were returning to Pondicherry in the car, in the backseat, Sonali Mukherjee and Ashatit Poddar were sitting left and right whereas Biswajit was seated in the middle. At that moment Biswajit has questioned angrily about the behaviour of his wife. Sonali Mukherjee who was habituated to smoking and along with her illicit lover both have inflicted cigarette burns on the body of Biswajit.
Biswajit and his wife Sonali Mukherjee stayed that night in their house. On the same night joining hands with her illicit lover, had administered poison to her husband to death. One Subash, who was working in their house, attempted to prevent but the wife and her lover told him that this is a problem between them and told him not to interfere. They locked Subash in a room and threatened him that he will be killed if he tells the truth out.
The body of Biswajit, who was killed by poisoning, was taken to JIPMER Hospital and post-mortem was done there. In that post-mortem the marks of the cigarette burns and a wound caused by a weapon and scratches caused by the nails and also the death caused by poison had been found out. In this mysterious death, Pondicherry police booked Sonali Mukherjee and her lover Ashatit Poddar as prime accused and registered a case and investigated. The police who investigated the matter registered this as a mere assault and but not as a case of murder. The Chief Judicial Magistrate Judge fined both Rs.500/- as fine.
The servant, who escaped from Pondicherry, went to Calcutta and told the father of Biswajit, Dr. S. Bhattacharya, who is a well-known orthopaedist, about what has happened at Pondicherry. Dr. Bhattacharya came to Pondicherry, met the Inspector General of Police and told that he has suspicion about his son Biswajit's death and gave a petition urging for a proper enquiry. The police did not take any action and delayed. Subsequently Dr. S. Bhattacharya filed a private complaint in the court. On the basis of this complaint police registered a case and the court confirmed it as a murder and gave life-sentence and one month rigorous imprisonment to both the illicit lovers.
Both the accused appealed against this verdict in the High Court of Madras. In the appeal only was filed only against Police as the respondent. The learned Justices, who enquired this case, reduced the life sentence of Sonali Mukherjee to 9 years and released Ashatit Poddar.
Pondicherry police first filed an appeal in the Supreme Court of India. Subsequently the father of the deceased also appealed in the Supreme Court and so Pondicherry police withdrew its appeal. Sonali Mukherjee, who had been sentenced to 9 years by the High Court, also filed an appeal for cancelling her sentence and releasing her in this case.
The Division Bench of the Supreme Court, comprising of Justice M.B. Shah and Justice T.M. Dharmadhikari, had ordered for all the three cases of criminal appeala in Cr.A. Nos. 673/2001, 835/2002, 836/2002 to be heard together. For many years this case was continuing in the Supreme Court and it is going to be taken up after the current Supreme Court vacation. The Division Bench of Justice B.N. Agarwal, Justice Singhvi, Justice Aftab Alam, had issued orders to this effect.
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If anyone in the cabinet or politics get caught in criminal cases it is democratic tradition for them to step down. The spiritual organisation Aurobindo Ashram has no teacher after Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa and her President post is kept vacant. The Managing Trustee Manoj Das Gupta did not expel Ashatit Poddar from Ashram after the trial court convicted him in a murder case. One person who is caught in the controversy of murder continues to hold high position in the Publication Department of the Ashram. The people suspect that the influence of Aurobindo Ashram is behind Ravi Shah, who remains uncaught in the Parvathy Shah murder case till date. This illicit-affair murder case which had taken place years before Parvathy Shah murder is still pending in the Supreme Court and the people indicted in this case are shamelessly kept in higher positions without being expelled from the primary membership. This shows that the Ashram sewage-gutter is stinking more than the political sewage-gutter said Mr. Nandhivarman, General Secretary, Dravida Peravai.
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
Case Status PENDING
Status of : Appeal Criminal 673 Of 2001
SONALI MUKHERJEE .Vs. UNION OF INDIA
Pet. Adv. : MRS V.D. KHANNA Res. Adv. : MR. V.G. PRAGASAM
Crl. Appeal No. 673/2001 filed by Sonali Mukhejee
Crl. Apeal No. 835/2002 filed by Dr. S. Bhattacharya agaisnt Ashatit Poddar(A1)
Crl. Apeal No. 836/2002 filed by Dr. S. Bhattacharya against Sonali (A2)
All three case are clubbed and going to be heard together on 15/07/2008
Next Date of listing is : 15/07/2008
[English Translation of Story on Sri Aurobindo Ashram inmate "Ashatit Poddar" appeared in Tamil Weekly "Makkal Manasakshi" on 21.05.2008 ]
SENSATIONAL AUROBINDO ASHRAM MURDER CASE COMES BEFORE SUPREME COURT