Ex-naval officer Jerome Mathew was sentenced to 10 years in jail for the 2008 murder of TV executive Neeraj Grover for allegedly having an affair with his girlfriend Maria Monica Susairaj. The actress got a three-year term for destroying evidence, but would walk free for time done as an undertrial.

Mathew and Susairaj were sentenced by a Mumbai court Friday and ordered to pay Rs.100,000 and Rs.50,000 respectively, to the victim's family as compensation, said advocate Sharif Sheikh, the counsel for the Kannada actress.