Keenan and Reuben were killed while defending friends from molesters
It noted that he was 25 at the time of the incident and was not a habitual offender. The fourth convict, Satish Dulgaj, died in November 2025 while his appeal was pending. All four had been in custody since 2011.
Victim’s dad got death threats from accused Special judge SV Joshi had earlier held that the killings were premeditated and that all four accused shared a common intention to murder.
A bench of Justices Makarand Karnik and Sandesh Patil upheld Rana’s murder conviction but reduced his sentence to 20 years’ RI without statutory remission. The court therefore acquitted them of murder but upheld their sentences for other offences.
The high court judges agreed, observing that “this is not a case where death was caused due to grave and sudden provocation but was pre-planned to commit murder”. MUMBAI: The Bombay high court has held in the infamous Amboli double murder case that while Jitendra Rana was guilty of murdering Keenan Santos, the prosecution had failed to prove that two other accused, Sunil Both and Deepak Piwal, shared common intention to kill.