Overview
- Additional District and Sessions Judge Sanjay Lal sentenced Kusuma Devi, Sunil Kumar and Dharamveer Singh to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on each.
- The court found the trio guilty under Indian Penal Code provisions for murder and for causing the disappearance of evidence.
- Prosecutors cited the sons’ depositions describing their mother’s affair with Sunil Kumar and the father’s objections as the motive for the killing.
- Investigators recovered a large stick alleged to have been used in the assault and a burnt phone, while the postmortem noted 12 injuries and death from ante-mortem trauma.
- Police said the body of Ramveer Singh was recovered from a village well in 2019, the arrests followed that February, and a chargesheet was filed on May 13 with the accused remaining in custody.