Five awarded life imprisonment in a honour killing case

  • | Tuesday | 21st March, 2017

FIROZABAD: A local court on Tuesday sentenced five persons including a woman to life imprisonment in an honour killing case. Additional district and session judge R P Singh after hearing the arguments from both sides found the five persons guilty of the crime and awarded them life sentences. The case was filed on the complaint of one Arvind Kumar, a resident of Mohanpur village under Eka police station. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 12,000 on each of them. Pushpendra was hacked into several pieces with an axe and thrown in a field.

FIROZABAD: A local court on Tuesday sentenced five persons including a woman to life imprisonment in an honour killing case. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 12,000 on each of them. The crime had taken place four and half years back. The case was filed on the complaint of one Arvind Kumar, a resident of Mohanpur village under Eka police station. Kumar in his complaint to police on June 18, 2012 had alleged that five people - Dinesh , his wife Maharani, Sadanand, Umshankar and Gaju - had killed his brother Pushpendra , who was a milk seller.He had claimed that Pushpendra used to buy milk from Dinesh and used to visit his home in Rajpur. Puspendra and Dinesh's daughter fell in love and when the girl's father came to know about it, he along with his wife and three other persons hatched a plan to kill both of them. Pushpendra was hacked into several pieces with an axe and thrown in a field. The girl was also burnt to death. Additional district and session judge R P Singh after hearing the arguments from both sides found the five persons guilty of the crime and awarded them life sentences.

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