"I'm happy with the order," Keenan Santos's father Valerian Santos said moments after a Mumbai Sessions Court handed out a life imprisonment for the four men found guilty of murdering Keenan and Reuben Fernandez.


"They (the four men) should spend every moment thinking of Keenan and Reuben like the way we are.

"I want them to know the suffering the family is going through and for how many years we have been suffering missing our son," said Valerian Santos.

"I'm very happy with the sentence. This is what I wanted. We have got justice."

Valerain told news channels that the going was tough. "I had to attend the hearings repeatedly for the last four and a half years, leaving work. It pricked my conscience as I had to do justice to my job. . Sometimes the accused were not brought, the judges were also changed. It was very difiicult. We were made beggars for justice.

"We are thankful it was transferred to the Sessions court. Why does the victims' family have to go through this?"


Keenan's brother said it had been a long journey. "We had lost hope in the middle. But my dad ensured we saw this case to the end. I'm happy."

Valerian Santos said that he had not asked for capital punishment because he knew it was not possible.

Keenan Santos, 24, and Reuben Fernandez, 29, were attacked outside a popular eatery at Amboli in Mumbai's Andheri on October 20, 2011. A crowd watched even as the youngsters were assaulted in full public view.

After retreating initially, the group came back to the spot with over 10 aides and repeatedly stabbed the duo. Keenan died on the same day, Reuben died 10 days later.