India, July 20 -- A court in Kerala's Palakkad district has sentenced 61-year-old Chenthamara to death in the sensational Nenmara double murder case, describing the crime as one of the "rarest of rare" cases. The Additional Sessions Court found him guilty of murdering Sudhakaran and his elderly mother, Lakshmi, at Pothundi near Nenmara in January 2025. The verdict comes a week after the court convicted him in the high-profile case.

According to the prosecution, Chenthamara had earlier been convicted in the 2019 murder of Sudhakaran's wife, Sajitha. After being released on bail in that case, he allegedly carried out the brutal killings of Sudhakaran and Lakshmi in what investigators described as a premeditated act of revenge. During the t...