Updated On: 08 October, 2023 07:38 AM IST | Mumbai | Samiullah Khan
Artist, convicted in wife’s murder case, tells judge he has committed no crime, even as arguments over his sentence begin

Artist Chintan Upadhyay, convicted in connection with his wife Hema and her lawyer Haresh Bhambhani’s murder, being escorted into court, even as friends and relatives rally around him. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi
Two days after he was convicted in connection with the murder of his wife and her lawyer, artist Chintan Upadhyay on Saturday told the trial court that he had done nothing wrong and was not going to “beg for mercy”.
Upadhyay and his fellow convicts Vijay Rajbhar, Pradeep Rajbhar and Shivkumar Rajbhar were produced before Additional Sessions Judge SY Bhosale in the Dindoshi Sessions Court on Saturday, where arguments on their quantum of sentence commenced. Upadhyay was visibly stoic as he was led from the police van into the court premises, even as his friends and family members rallied around him amidst tight police cover.