A 65-year-old man and his two sons were sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday for burning alive their relative's wife who in her dying declaration said the convicts did not like her because she belonged to a different religion.
Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja sentenced Aslam and his two sons Sammi and Asraf on the basis of the dying declaration of victim Arti, who was married to Aslam’s nephew Javed. Asraf's daughter Huma, who had a quarrel with Arti on the day of the crime, was a co-accused in the case, but she absconded and was declared a proclaimed offender.
Dying declaration
In her dying declaration, Arti who was set on fire on October 16, 2010, and suffered 95 per cent burns, told the sub-divisional magistrate that she had married Javed over four years ago and the convicts would often pick up quarrels with her saying that she had humiliated them in society as she hailed from a different religion.
Arti’s husband and in-laws were not present at the time of the incident.
