Four members of family get seven years RI for murder

Coimbatore: A woman, her two daughters and her son were sentenced to seven years rigorous imprisonment on Thursday for murdering her son-in-law over a family dispute in 2017.
They were identified as Pandiammal, 64, her son Asaipandi, 37, daughters Mallika, 49 and Pandimeena, 38. They were staying at KM Nagar at Velliankadu in Tirupur with Pandiammal’s daughter Thavamani, 32 and her two children. Thavamani had separated from her husband Saravanan, who often visited the children. On October 27, 2017, Saravanan reached the house to meet his children. However, the family stopped him and fought with him. Pandiammal, Asaipandi, Mallika and Pandimeena threw chilli powder on Saravanan’s face and strangled him to death using a sari. They dumped the body at an isolated place.
The Tirupur south police registered a murder case and arrested the four people. The second additional district sessions judge court pronounced the verdict on Thursday and also slapped a fine of Rs 8,000 each on Pandiammal and her two daughters and Rs 10,000 on Asaipandi.