Man gets death penalty for Sonepat triple murder

Had shot dead the husband and parents-in-law of his friend’s sister as she got married against her family’s wishes

ROHTAK: A local court in Sonepat on Tuesday awarded death penalty to a man for killing his friend’s sister’s husband, her father-in-law and mother-inlaw after the friend’s sister had an inter-caste marriage nearly five years ago.

District additional sessions judge RP Goyal convicted accused Harish to death penalty and framed charges against the woman’s brother Satender alias Monu, who is absconding, for shooting at his sister and her brother-in-law and killing her husband and his parents after the inter-caste marriage.

The court acquitted Satender’s brother Sonu and their father Om Prakash due to lack of evidence.

The court has given death penalty to Harish, of Hasanpur, after convicting him under Sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder) and 449 (house trespass in order to commit offence punishable with death) of Indian Penal Code, the Arms Act and the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

Harish is undergoing imprisonment in the district, while Satender is on the run.

Police have declared the latter a proclaimed offender.

In his complaint to police, Suraj, of Kharkhauda in Sonepat, said his brother Pradeep got married to Sushila, of Birdhana village, in Jhajjar in 2013 against the wishes of her family.

“On November 18, 2016, my sister-in-law Sushila’s brother Satender and his friend Harish entered our house and fired shots at our family in which my brother and our parents died. I and my sister-in-law received bullet injuries and she gave birth to a baby boy at Rohtak’s PGIMS the next night,” he added.