3 get death penalty for killing C'garh cop's wife, daughter
Raipur, Oct. 9 -- A Fast Track Court (FTC) in Surajpur district of Chhattisgarh on Thursday awarded death penalty to three men and life imprisonment to another for killing the wife and 11-year-old daughter of a police head constable in 2024, a government counsel said.
District and Additional Sessions Judge (FTC) Anand Prakash Wariyal convicted all four accused and awarded the death penalty to three of them-Kuldeep Sahu (32), Chandrakant Chaudhary (28) and Phool Singh alias Rinku (28), government counsel Suresh Sharma said.
Another accused, Aryan Vishwakarma alias Goldy (20), was sentenced to life imprisonment, he said.
According to police, Sahu, a repeat offender, killed the 35-year-old woman and her daughter at their home in Surajpur city on October 13, 2024, with the help of his associates.
The prosecution told the court that the woman was also sexually assaulted before she and her daughter were killed. The woman had 33 injury marks on her body while the child had 28, Sharma said.
The elder brother of the police head constable welcomed the verdict....
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