India News | 2 Women Get Life Term, 5 Others Awarded 10 Yrs Jail in Dowry Killing Case in UP
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. A fast-track court here on Monday sentenced two women to life imprisonment and five others to 10 years of jail term in a case of dowry killing.
Muzaffarnagar (UP), Feb 14 (PTI) A fast-track court here on Monday sentenced two women to life imprisonment and five others to 10 years of jail term in a case of dowry killing.
Rizwan, Mehtab, Naushad, Ehsaan, his wife Tahira, Saira and Sanni had burnt their sister-in-law Gulista Begum to death at Hussainpur village under Budhana police station limits in 2013.
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While judge Sumit Panwar pronounced life term for Saira and Sanni, the others were awarded 10 years of imprisonment, public prosecutor Virendra Nagar said.
Begum's mother-in-law, too, was named as an accused. However, she died during the course of the hearing, the public prosecutor said.
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Judge Panwar also slapped a fine of Rs 4,000 each on all the convicts, he said.
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