Pune: A woman’s desire to safeguard her extra-marital affair and ensure her lover’s loyalty, ended in death, after she approached a eunuch who claimed to solve such problems with magic. Far from giving her her heart’s desire, however, the eunuch and a friend killed the woman and stole all her jewellery.

The accused: Manisha was murdered by her friend Lalita (extreme left) and the eunuch Laxmi who also stole her ornaments