4 get death in triple murder case

A special fast track SC/ST court here sentenced four persons to death in a case of triple murder that took place over a property dispute in Sahibabad 11 years ago.
Additional District and Sessions judge Arun Chandra Shrivastava (special judge) pronounced on Wednesday the death sentence against Arun, Pawan, Chandradev and Dwarika for killing Kaila Devi (50), her son Keshav (25) and their relative Hari (24) on February 10, 2004, said Additional district government counsel (ADGC) Rajiv Kumar.
Sahibabad police was informed on February 11, 2004 by a passerby Vikas Bajaj who noticed cloth-wrapped three beheaded bodies in a garbage dump in Shalimar Garden area.

Kumar said that after examining 12 witnesses, judge Srivastava termed the triple-murder as the "rarest of the rare" case in his 32-page ruling while pronouncing death penalty for the four killers convicting them under Section 302 (murder) and Section 201 (destruction of evidence) of Indian Penal Code. The judge also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on all of them.
Kaila Devi and her son Keshav, who belonged to Giridih district of Jharkhand, ran a roadside eatery in Sahibabad and were in possession of a flat built on a plot in Shalimar Garden extension area.
According to the prosecution, Pawan and Vinod also laid their claim on the same flat and to settle their dispute they planned to eliminate the mother-son duo.

Pawan and Vinod, along with their accomplices Chandra Dev and Dwarka, barged inside the flat and killed Kaila Devi, her son Keshav and Hari, the prosecution had argued.