Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 28: A Jammu court on Friday awarded life imprisonment to two brothers for murdering their cousin over land dispute in 2011.
Principal Sessions Judge Jammu, Vinod Chatterji Koul, awarded lifer and fine of Rs 50,000 to Harbans Lal and Surinder Kumar, sons of Tara Chand, for killing their cousin Madan Lal.
According to the police, the accused on 30.01.2011 attacked Madan Lal with sharp edged weapons due to which he suffered fatal injuries, leading to his death.
"There is sufficient evidence on the record that the accused had committed the crime when they killed Madan Lal and inflicted injuries upon Subash Chander while they were on their way to their home where accused intercepted and attacked them," the court observed.
The court after hearing CPO Irshad Ahmed for the State, observed that considering the manner in which the offence was committed and taking over all impression of the nature of occurrence and the prosecution evidence, "the case falls in the category of the murder in which life imprisonment and not the death is appropriate sentence."
The court clarified that all the substantive sentences of the imprisonments shall run concurrently. The period of detention undergone, if any, by the convicts during investigation or as under trial shall be set off under rules. |
