India, Oct. 19 -- Two decades after an orthopedic surgeon from Pune was murdered for ransom and his body dismembered, Deepti Devasthali, a former student of medicine, who was convicted for abducting the man with her mother Leena, a lawyer, is set to walk out of the women's jail at the Yerwada central prison.

The Bombay High Court on Friday set aside an order of the state government that had categorised Deepti among life convicts required to serve 30 years in prison to qualify for premature release. The court said that Deepti, who had served 20 years in prison as on September 30, was not convicted for murder and hence her categorisation, requiring longer incarceration, was "not correct".

Justices MS Karnik and Sandesh Patil ordered her r...