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Failure to pay the fine would result in an additional six months of jail time, public prosecutor Pranab Kumar Panda said. (Representative image)
The incident occurred in August 2022, when the child was strangled to death by his father and stepmother due to his physical challenges
A local court in Odisha’s Balasore on Friday sentenced a couple to life imprisonment for killing their differently-abled boy in 2022.
Additional Sessions Judge Biswajit Das delivered the verdict, ordering Ganesh Jena and his second wife Pratima Jena, residents of Chandmaripadia under Sahadevkhunta police station limits in Balasore town, to undergo life imprisonment and pay a fine of Rs 5,000 each.
Failure to pay the fine would result in an additional six months of jail time, public prosecutor Pranab Kumar Panda said.
The incident occurred in August 2022, when the child was strangled to death by his father and stepmother due to his physical challenges. His body was dumped under Nuniajodi bridge, on the outskirts of the town, Panda said.
The grandmother of the deceased filed an FIR with Sahadevkhunta police after learning about the incident. The court convicted the couple under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including 302 (murder), 120B (party to a criminal conspiracy to commit an offence punishable with death), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen), and 34 (illegal acts in the pursuit of a similar goal), after examining 15 witnesses and 16 exhibits.
(With PTI inputs)
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