A Karnataka court docket has handed out the dying penalty to a few individuals and life phrases to 9 others for killing 5 members of a household, together with the dad and mom of the person who had married the daughter of two of the convicts in opposition to their needs, in Raichur district.
On July 11, 2020, Savitramma, 55; Shreedevi, 38; Hanumesh 35; Nagraj, 33; and Eerappa, 60—all residents of Sindhanur city in Raichur—had been overwhelmed to dying after the in-laws of Eerappa and Savitramma’s son Mounesh and different members of the family of his spouse Manjula had a heated argument with them at his dwelling. Hanumesh and Nagaraj had been Mounesh’s brothers and Shreedevi his sister.
Manjula’s members of the family went to Mounesh’s dwelling as they had been enraged by a police grievance he had lodged on the Sindhanur police station after that they had threatened to kill him and his relations. The risk got here when the couple, who belong to the Kuruba group, visited her dwelling six months after their marriage. As Manjula’s dad and mom refused to just accept their marriage, the couple had been residing in Gadag.
Superintendent of Police Putta Madaiah mentioned the court docket sentenced Sanna Fakirappa, Ambanna and Somashekar to dying and imposed a superb of Rs 47,000 on them on Tuesday. The lifers within the case are Rekha, Gangamma, Dhodda Fakirappa, Hanumantha, Honnurappa, Basalingappa, Amaresh, Shivaraj, and Parasappa. The convicts belong to Manjula’s household and embrace her dad and mom.
For the reason that incident, Mounesh and Manjula have been residing in Sindhanur and have police safety, an officer mentioned, including that the husband and spouse—then 21 and 18 years outdated, respectively—had been spared solely as a result of that they had gone to a police station when the murders passed off.
