Chandigarh, Sept. 15 -- Already serving life sentences for the rape and murder of an MBA student in 2010 and a 40-year-old woman in Maloya in 2022, serial killer cabbie Monu Kumar, 40, has been found guilty in a third case - the rape and murder of a 60-year-old woman whose body was found in a forested area near a government school in Sector 54 in February 2024.

A special fast-track court on Monday held Kumar guilty under Sections 302 (murder) and 376-E (punishment for repeat offenders) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The quantum of the sentence will be pronounced on Tuesday.

Woman had gone missing from Mohali home

According to the prosecution, the 60-year-old victim, a native of Uttar Pradesh, had come to the city just two months befor...