Yamunanagar (Haryana), July 23: A
local court in Jagadhari in Haryana on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment to two
people in a case of rape and murder of an elderly woman.
Neha Nohria, Additional Sessions
Judge (ASJ), district court, Jagadhri, on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment
till death to two persons in connection with the rape and murder case of a
57-year-old woman, the court said in its judgment.
Public prosecutor Aman Kaushik said
that the ASJ has also imposed a fine of Rs 30,000 each on both the persons.
After about two months, the police
solved this murder mystery with the arrest of Rishipal and Vinod. Both persons
have a criminal background. Vinod was on bail from Punjab and Haryana High
Court in a murder and loot case at that time. Rishipal was also booked in four
separate cases of loot.
As per the police investigation,
Rishipal raped the woman and Vinod strangulated her, a media report said.
The ASJ had held Rishipal (54) and
Vinod (35) of Gulab Nagar, Jagadhri, guilty on July 16. The local media
reported that the 57-year-old woman was posted as a clerk in the office of
block development and panchayat office, Bilaspur, when she was murdered.
On the complaint of the deceased’s
brother, a case was registered against unidentified persons under Sections 376
and 460 at City police station, Jagadhri.
During interrogation, Rishipal and
Vinod told the police that they entered the house of the woman with an
intention to loot on the night of February 4, 2018.
They said that when they were conducting the loot in the house, the woman woke up. So they raped and murdered her. The woman was living alone in the house as her two daughters are married.