Woman, paramour get life term for husband's murder

A Delhi court has awarded life imprisonment to a woman and her paramour for killing her husband, who objected to their illicit relationship.
Additional Sessions Judge N K Malhotra handed down the jail term to Poonam, wife of the victim, and her paramour Rajiv, for offences of murder read with criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence under IPC while relying on circumstantial evidence.
"Inthepresentcase,thechainofcircumstanceis complete and indicatesthatboththeaccusedpersons are held guiltywithout anyhypothesisoftheirinnocence," the court said.
The court imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on Rajiv and Rs 7,000 on Poonam with a direction that out of the total amount, Rs 15,000 be paid to the victim's father.

It also directed West District Service Legal Authority to award appropriate compensation to legal heirs of the victim underthe CompensationScheme2011 of Delhi.
While holding the accused guilty, the court relied on victim's postmortem report, as per which he suffered six injuries, saying, "Alltheinjuries wereantemortemin nature. Thus, deceaseddiedhomicidaldeath."

According to the prosecution, Rajiv was arrested on September 5, 2013 after a missing complaint of victim Sanjay was lodged by his father.
It said that Poonam, Sanjay's wife, had abducted him with Rajiv's help as the victim did not like their closeness to each other, which was the motive of the murder.

The police said that in his confession, Rajiv, a security guard by profession, had said he had illicit relations with Poonam and they wanted to kill her husband as he was suspicious and would quarrel with her.
It said that they took Sanjay to a godown in west Delhi where they slit his throat and threw the body in a borewell.
However, both the convicts had denied the allegations in their statement recorded under CrPC saying they were falsely implicated by the police which made them sign on a blank papers.