mumbai the bombay high court on tuesday confirmed the death sentence given to pune resident vishwajeet masalkar for the coldblooded murder of his mother wife and twoandahalfyearold daughter in 2012 over his extramarital relationship with a colleague a division bench of justice bhushan dharmadhikari and justice swapna joshi upheld the 2016 judgment of the pune sessions court that masalkar was guilty of the triple murder and attempt to murder of an elderly neighbour the conduct of the accused and his act of killing his mother wife and daughter clearly indicate that he is unfit to revert to civilized society the accused may be even dangerous for the woman he was in love with and who was a prosecution witness as she is already married to someone else his conduct is beyond reproach ruled a division bench of justice bhushan dharmadhikari and justice swapna joshi the bench held that the crime was a rarest of rare case and deserving of the death penalty by finishing the family masalkar has tried to shatter the basic foundation of society the bench said masalkars mother shobha 50 wife archana 25 and daughter kimaya were found murdered and their neighbour madhusudhan kulkarni 76 was found seriously injured at their residence in champaratna apartment at b t kawade road maslakar said he had left home at 330pm and returned around 730pm to find the bodies he lodged a complaint with the police that unidentified persons had entered his home and committed theft attacked his family and killed them police probe and cctv footage from a neighbouring building showed him exit the house around 4pm nailing the lie the probe revealed that masalkar who worked in a construction company was in a relationship with a junior employee and wanted to marry her as his family opposed the illicit affair he murdered them according to the prosecution he first attacked archana with a hammer on her head and then strangled his daughter to death when his mother confronted him he attacked her with the hammer too their neighbour kulkarni who rushed to their residence on hearing the screams was also attacked with the hammer but survived masalkar then staged the crime scene to look like the family had been robbed additional public prosecutor arfan essac sait said the accused had killed his entire family without provocation and was a menace to society masalkars lawyers yug chaudhry and payoshi roy contended that the accused had no reason to kill his family and sought leniency on account of his young agehe was 25 years old at the time of the crime the court did not consider the cctv footage as it was not admissible as evidence since procedures were not followed by the police the bench referred to the incriminating evidence in the case masalakar had initially lodged a false fir the evidence of kulkarni the recovery of the stolen jewellery from the house itself and the hammer at the instance of the accused the court has stayed the judgment