Maharashtra: Man gets life term for beating woman to death

Updated: 16 October, 2020 08:39 IST | PTI | Thane

The prosecution told the court that in March 2018, the accused beat the 34-year-old woman and her husband (40) at Jawhar in Palghar as a fallout of a land dispute

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A Thane court has sentenced a 37-year-old tribal man from neighbouring Palghar district to life imprisonment for killing a woman.

In the order passed on Wednesday, district and additional sessions judge R R Vaishnav also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the convict Sunil Laxman Kamadi.

The prosecution told the court that in March 2018, the accused beat the 34-year-old woman and her husband (40) at Jawhar in Palghar as a fallout of a land dispute.

The woman later succumbed to her injuries, following which the police had arrested the accused.

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First Published: 15 October, 2020 17:46 IST

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