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Maha: 2 men get double life sentences for minor's murder

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Press Trust of India Aurangabad

A court in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district Friday sentenced two men to double life sentences for kidnapping and killing a 10-year-old boy in February last year.

Abhilash Mohanpurkar and Shyam Magre, both residents of Tilaknagar, had abducted Wardhan Vivek Ghode and demanded a ransom of Rs 5 crore from his parents on February 27, 2017.

They then throttled the minor in Daulatabad village and disposed of his body in a nullah in Shreynagar.

District and Session Judge V V Patil Friday pronounced both guilty of murder under IPC 302 (murder) and IPC 120 (B) (Criminal conspiracy) and gave them double life sentences running concurrently and also slapped a fine of Rs 2.5 lakh each.

 

The Jawahar Nagar Police, which investigated the incident, had filed a 750-page charge sheet in the case.

A total of 40 witnesses deposed and CCTV footage and DNA reports were examined during the trial.

Special public prosecutor Ajay Misar had termed the case as a "rarest of rare" one and had asked the court to sentence the two men to death.

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First Published: Dec 14 2018 | 3:20 PM IST

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