Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 28: Principal Sessions Judge Jammu Vinod Chatterji Koul today awarded rigorous life-imprisonment and fine Rs 50,000 to Harbans Lal and Surinder Kumar, sons of Tara Chand for killing their real cousin Madan Lal over land dispute.
After hearing CPO Irshad Ahmed for the State, the court observed, “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 cases in which life imprisonment and not the death is appropriate sentence”.
Accordingly, both the convicts were awarded rigorous life imprisonment. However, the court clarified that period of detention undergone, if any, by the convicts during investigation or as under trial shall be set off under rules.
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