A Fast Track Court in Karnataka's Bangalore city convicted Shiva Kumar in Pratibha Srikanthamurthy rape and murder case on Wednesday. Pratibha, an employee of a private firm in Bangalore was raped and murdered by the cab driver Shiva Kumar five years ago. However, the quantum of sentence was not announced. The Fast Track Court had deferred its verdict in the case on September 27. The accused Shiva Kumar was the driver of the cab hired by the employers of the BPO company where Pratibha worked, and he raped her and then murdered. The cold blooded rape and murder of Pratibha in December 2005 had sent shocks waves through the BPO industry in the country's IT hub and forced many companies to re-examine