Ludhiana woman gets life term for killing 2 daughters

LUDHIANA: A 27-year-old woman, Manjinder Kaur, on Thursday was sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court for killing her two minor daughters in May 2016.

The court of additional district and sessions judge Virinder Aggarwal convicted the woman, a resident of Ludhiana’s Gill Colony, of murder under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

The case had rocked the city almost two years ago when Manjinder had attempted to commit suicide after killing her two daughters — five-year-old Leeza and two -year-old Aksra.

As per the prosecution case, an FIR was registered on May 20, 2016 by the Daba police on the statement of Manjinder’s husband Jagtar Masih, a truck driver.

He had stated that he married Manjinder Kaur of Phagwara seven years ago (2009) and they had two minor daughters. As per his complaint, on returning home after three days on May 20, he found the main door of his residence locked. When he entered the house after breaking the lock, he found bodies of his daughters wrapped in a quilt, and his wife was nowhere to be found. The postmortem report had revealed that the girls were strangulated. Manjinder tried to end her life by jumping into a canal. She was, however, rescued by a passerby, who also informed the police.

PLEADED NOT GUILTY

Though she had earlier told the police in her extra-judicial confession that she killed her daughters, Manjinder later pleaded not guilty in the court. However, strong circumstantial evidence led to the conviction.