Kolhapur sisters could be first women to be hanged in India

Renuka Kiran Shinde and Seema Mohan Gavit kidnapped children and forced them to beg, killing kids who were unproductive

Kolhapur sisters

MUMBAI: Two women from Kolhapur in Maharashtra could be the first female criminals ever to be hanged in India, Mumbai Mirror reports.

Renuka Kiran Shinde and her sister Seema Mohan Gavit's, whose mercy petitions were rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee last month, were sentenced to death in 2001 for kidnapping 13 kids and killing nine of them.
The modus operandi of the women was cold-blooded and cruel to the hilt. Along with their mother, Anjanabai Gavit, the sisters kidnapped kids and forced them into begging. If any kid stopped being productive, they would kill him or her.
When the two sisters were awarded the death sentence in 2001, Judge G L Yedke in Kolhapur had described their crime 'the most heinous'. He observed in his judgement that the two seemed to have enjoyed killing the children.
The two are currently lodged at the Yerwada jail in Pune. Anjanabai passed away during the trial.