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Challenging his conviction for culpable homicide and the 10-year rigorous imprisonment handed to him for killing TV executive Neeraj Grover, former Navy officer Emile Jerome has turned against his girlfriend, Kannada starlet Maria Susairaj, and blamed her for the 2008 murder which shocked the country.

Seeking the reversal of the trial court’s July 1 order that held him guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, Jerome has said in his appeal in the Bombay High Court, “That motive, if any, was with the Original Accused No 1 for committing the offence and not with the Appellant/Original Accused No 2.” According to the chargesheet, Susairaj is accused No. 1 and Jerome, No. 2.

Susairaj was convicted and handed a three-year jail term for disappearance of evidence as she helped Jerome chop Grover’s body and dispose it in the jungles of Thane district. But since she had already spent more time in jail as an undertrial, she was freed a day after the sentencing.