West Bengal: Seven sentenced to death for lynching three women
Earlier on Friday, Ghatal Sub-Divisional Court in West Midnapore district found fourteen accused of total 20 arrested guilty for committing the murder and acquitted the remaining six.
Besides giving death penalty to seven accused, the court awarded life imprisonment sentences to six others. The court also imposed a penalty of rupees 60,000 on each of them. The remaining one, however, was sentenced to nine years in prison.
On Oct 16 in 2012, three adivasi women of same family were beaten to death by local villagers at Dubrajpur village under Daspur block area in West Midnapore district, after being branded as witches. Their bodies were recovered from a riverside area nearby. As many as twenty persons were arrested in the case.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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