<h1>TCS techie murder: perpetrators convicted for killing during attempted robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment and fines.</h1> Two accused were convicted for killing a young software engineer during an attempted robbery of his SUV and for related offences including criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence. The court found the crime, committed in broad daylight on a public highway, involved aggravating circumstances that outweighed mitigating factors; it held the case did not fall within the rarest of rare category but warranted the maximum prescribed term, imposing life imprisonment and separate monetary fines on the convicts.