HYDERABAD: A local court has sentenced an accused to undergo life imprisonment for killing a four-year-old girl at Sanathnagar in 2015. Two other accused were sentenced to five years imprisonment in the same case.
The VIII Additional District Judge court of LB Nagar on Monday delivered the verdict in a murder case registered at the Sanathnagar police station in 2015.
Among the five accused in the murder case, U Laxmaiah and his wife Yadamma died during the course of trial and the court sentenced their daughter, Padma, 32, a private employee, to life imprisonment. Padma also has to pay Rs 1 lakh fine. Padma’s brother Narasimha and their neighbour Yadgiri were awarded five-year rigorous imprisonment and also directed to pay Rs 10,000 fine.
According to police, the accused bore a grudge against their neighbour’s family suspecting that they were spreading rumours maligning the character of Padma.