The Bombay High Court has allowed the owner of the flat, in which TV executive Neeraj Grover was found murdered five years ago, to sell the property.

The flat, located in Dheeraj Solitaire in suburban Malad, was rented out to Kannada actor Maria Susairaj when the murder of Grover took place.

While Maria was convicted for destruction of evidence in June 2011, her boyfriend and Navy officer Emile Jerome was held guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and sentenced to ten years' rigorous imprisonment.

The police had sealed the flat after the murder. At the relevant time, the trial court had asked its owner Shivani Attri not to sell it or create any third party rights.

She then moved the High Court which allowed her in December last year to give the house on rent but restrained from selling the property without its permission.

Attri recently urged the court to allow her to sell the flat as the investigation in the case was over and the accused had been convicted. Her plea was granted yesterday.