The Bombay High Court upheld the death sentence of two people in the 2007 rape and murder case of a Pune BPO employee Jyotikumari Chaudhari. Chaudhari, 22, was raped and killed in November 2007 by her office cab driver Purshottam Borate and a friend of his, Pradip Kokatewhile they picked her up for a late night shift. Her body was found at Wadgaon, off the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, on the outskirts of Pune a day later. The men worked for a logistics company which used to supply vehicles to the call centre. Purushottam Dasharath Borate, 31, and his friend Pradeep Yashwant Kakade, 26 - both residents of Gahunje in Maval tehsil of Pune district - had filed appeals challenging their conviction. According to the prosecution case, the duo hatched a conspiracy and abducted, gang-raped and brutally killed a BPO employee working with Wipro BPO Company at Hinjewadi in Pune. Borate was the driver of the car that picked up the victim, working in night shift, from her residence around 10.15pm on November 1, 2007. However, instead of dropping her at the office, the duo took her to a secluded place near their native village and raped her. They then slashed her wrist with a blade, strangulated her using her own dupatta, and thereafter smashed her head with a stone in order to make it difficult to identify her. Next day, a local spotted the blood-soaked body and informed the police, who arrested the duo two days later. On March 20, 2012, sessions judge AM Badar convicted the accused and handed down two counts each of death sentence and life imprisonment for conspiracy, murder, gang-rape and kidnapping.