While Keenan, stabbed in the stomach, died on the day of the incident, Reuben died on October 31 that year. (File photo)

The Bombay High Court on Thursday, November 5, reduced the life sentence of the key convict in the 2011 Keenan-Reuben murder case and also acquitted two others of murder charges, partly allowing the appeals by three men who challenged a May 2016 conviction by the sessions court. All three had been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the murder case.

During the hearing, the High Court upheld the conviction of key accused Jitendra Fakirchand Rana, but modified his sentence from life imprisonment to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment, without statutory remission, citing his age and other factors.…