A bench of justices Pratibha Rani and Reva Khetrapal has asked convicts Sunita Sharma and her husband Sudhir, who had challenged the lower court verdict in 1998, to surrender within 15 days to serve remaining sentence in the case.
The court rejected the plea of the couple that there were variations in the testimonies of key witnesses.
"No doubt, there are some variations in the statements of prosecution witnesses and the investigating officer as to when the complainant made the statement or where it was recorded but the variations are negligible.
It said there was a motive for the offence as the couple was peeved with the alleged misbehaviour of victim's brother.
"So far as the contention that there was no motive for the Appellants to commit the crime is concerned, we find that the appellants had a grudge against the complainant's son on account of some misbehaviour by younger son of the complainant with daughter of the appellants...," it said.
The couple, residents of east Laxmi Nagar market here, had the grudge against one of the sons of their neighbour Kuldeep as he had misbehaved with their daughter on February 14, 1993.
A day after, the couple caught Raman, elder brother of the youth, in the evening hours, pinned him down and assaulted him with an iron 'musli'. He was declared dead in a hospital.
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