AGRA: A fast-track court docket in Mainpuri sentenced a person to life imprisonment for murdering his 15-year-old cousin after she rejected his advances six years in the past. Choose Bhoola Ram additionally imposed a effective of Rs 55,000 on Jitendra Kumar, 25, who was convicted of pouring kerosene on the lady and setting her alight whereas she was at house in Nagla Dumbar village beneath Karhal police station space in Agra on Could 30, 2018.
Regardless of her determined screams attracting neighbours to the scene, Jitendra managed to flee, leaving her with extreme burns.She was taken to district hospital and later shifted to a medical faculty in Saifai, the place she succumbed. Earlier than her demise, she supplied an announcement to police, figuring out Jitendra as her attacker, which performed an important function in his conviction.
Police had filed an FIR beneath IPC sections, together with 302 (homicide). 9 witnesses, together with the plaintiff, investigator, and physician, testified in opposition to Jitendra.
In the course of the trial, govt counsel Manoj Kumar Verma mentioned, “Accused has been in jail since his arrest shortly after the crime. Motive behind the homicide was his evil eye on his cousin. On the day of the crime, he approached the sufferer and expressed his wishes which she rejected. Enraged, he dedicated the heinous act.”
