A Sessions court today sentenced to life an elderly woman and her two daughters after they were convicted of burning to death the woman's daughter-in-law in Bankura district five years back.
Additional Sessions judge Sukumar Sutradhar awarded life sentence to Bularani Mishra (67), her two daughters Basanti Tewary and Nayana Hazra Mishra after they were convicted of torturing and murdering Chaitali Nayak in January 2011 under various sections of IPC.
The three were sentenced to life and fined Rs 5,000 each under section 302 of IPC, while another three-year arrest term was slapped on each three of them under section 498A (torture).
According to the prosecution, Chaitali earned the wrath of the Mishra family after she protested against the alleged first marriage of her husband Dipak Mishra in neighbouring Purulia district and moved the Purulia court to get her husband and father-in-law arrested in late 2010.
Shortly after her husband and father-in-law got released from the Purulia court for want of evidence, Chaitali was found with serious burn injuries at in-laws' home on January 25, 2011.
The woman in her dying statement to the police at Bankura Sammilani Medical College had accused her mother-in- law and two sisters-in-law of having set her ablaze and torturing her while the male members of the family were away.
Subsequently the three were arrested.
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