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Rajkot: Seven members of a family including two women were awarded life imprisonment by a sessions court in Khambhaliya town of Devbhoomi Dwarka district on Tuesday for ‘honour killing’ of a married couple in 2014.Additional sessions judge A M Sheikh convicted the accused for murder of Puri Chauhan and her husband Govind Chauhan on March 17, 2014. She is being raised by her uncle Hemant, who is also the complainant and witness in the case.According to the case details, Puri and Govind were residents of Jam Gadhda village in Kalyanpur taluka of Devbhumi Dwarka. She died two days later during treatment. They were distant relatives. Police registered a double murder case at Kalyanpur police station and arrested seven accused.Lakhabhai Chavda, assistant public prosecutor in the case, told TOI, “We had produced 31 witnesses and other documentary evidence during the trial and demanded highest punishment for the accused.”After the hearing both the sides of the argument, assistant sessions Judge A M Shaikh convicted the seven accused under IPC Sections 302 (murder) and 447 (trespassing)..