Panchkula, Sept. 27 -- A 70-year-old man who stabbed his two stepdaughters to death in Pinjore in May 2019 has been awarded life imprisonment by a local court.

The court of additional sessions judge Bikramjit Arora also imposed a fine of Rs.50,000 on the convict, who was found guilty under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

The man, originally from Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, was residing in a Pinjore village at the time of the crime. The case was registered based on the complaint of his wife and mother of the victims, who stated she had married the accused in 2007, a year after her first husband's death.

The brutal crime took place on May 14, 2019, when the victims' mother (the complainant) was away on an errand. Accordin...