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Agra Court Hands Life Terms to Wife, Lover and Aide for Husband’s 2019 Murder

Magistrate-recorded testimony from the victim’s children proved decisive, bolstered by forensic findings.

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.