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Keenan-Reuben murder case: Bombay HC upholds one conviction, acquits two 15 years after killings
Updated On: 05 November, 2026 05:12 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Keenan Santos and Reuben Fernandez were stabbed to death in Mumbai's Amboli in 2011 after allegedly confronting men harassing their female friends; main accused Jitendra Rana's life sentence was reduced to 20 years without remission

Keenan Santos and Reuben Fernandez were killed on October 20, 2011, outside an eatery in Mumbai's Amboli. File Pic
Fifteen years after the brutal killing of Keenan Santos (24) and Reuben Fernandez (29) in Mumbai, the Bombay High Court on Thursday upheld the murder conviction of one accused and acquitted two others of the charge of murder, reported the PTI.
A division bench of Justices M S Karnik and Sandesh Patil upheld the conviction of Jitendra Rana for murder but reduced his life sentence, awarded by a special court in 2016, to 20 years in prison without remission, the news agency reported.


