AGRA, Aug. 20 -- A Delhi couple have been sentenced to life in prison for killing their daughter and dumping her body alongside the Yamuna Expressway in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district in 2022. They were angry with their 21-year-old daughter for marrying a man of her choice. A case was registered at Raya police station of Mathura in connection with the incident.

Arvind Kumar Yadav, additional district judge at the special court (EC Act) in Mathura, delivered the verdict on Wednesday (August 19) sentencing Nitesh Yadav and Brajbala for life imprisonment with a penalty of Rs.5,000 each for offence under section 302 IPC read with section 34 (murder with common intention) and held the couple guilty also for crime under section 201 (destruct...