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MUMBAI: Nine months after a chargesheet was filed in Byculla women’s jail inmate, Manjula Shettye (45), death in custody case, a trial court on Tuesday framed charges of murder and criminal conspiracy against all six accused. The accused are all police officials and prison guards.This would be the second major case in Mumbai where police guards will face a murder trial for a death of a person in custody. The maximum punishment attracted for the crimes is death by hanging.One of the accused, almost was in tears, later outside the court. In court one accused said that, she was just a “trainee’” at the time. After hearing public prosecutor Vidya Kasle, the court framed charges under sections 302 (murder), 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 201 (disappearance of evidence) and 506 (criminal intimidation)..