RI for convict in murder of 19-year-old girl

The Pathanamthitta Additional District Court (I) present connected Thursday sentenced a 24-year-old younker to beingness imprisonment and rigorous imprisonment for the brutal execution of 19-year-old Kavitha successful 2019.

Delivering helium quantum of punishment, the tribunal besides imposed a good of ₹5 lakh connected the convict, identified arsenic Ajin Reji Mathew. In lawsuit of a default successful paying this amount, it volition beryllium recovered from the convict’s property.

The verdict was pronounced by Additional District Judge G.P. Jayakrishnan. The tribunal had earlier recovered Ajin blameworthy of wrongful restraint and execution and hence sentenced an further word of 1 period imprisonment for wrongful restraint.

As per the prosecution case, the incidental took spot connected March 12, 2019, astir 9.10 a.m.near the Chilanka Junction connected the Railway Station Road successful Thiruvalla.

Ajin, enraged aft Kavitha rejected his romanticist advances, attacked her successful the mediate of the road. The accused and the unfortunate had studied unneurotic successful higher secondary school. Later, Kavitha had joined a backstage instauration successful Thiruvalla for an Lab technician course. On the time of the incident, she was connected her mode to people erstwhile Ajin confronted her.

Earlier that morning, helium had bought 3 bottles of petrol from a substance presumption astatine Pump Junction successful Thiruvalla. He followed Kavitha, stabbed her aggregate times and past poured petrol implicit her assemblage earlier mounting her connected fire.

Kavitha, who suffered 70 per cent pain injuries, was rushed to a backstage infirmary successful Thiruvalla and aboriginal shifted to a backstage infirmary successful Ernakulam, but succumbed to her injuries 8 days later.

The probe was led by past Thiruvalla Circle Inspector P. R. Santosh, who submitted the chargesheet connected the 89th time of the probe. Public Prosecutor Harishankar Prasad appeared for the prosecution. During the trail, 43 witnesses were examined and 94 documents were verified.

Kavitha’s parents, Usha and Vijayakumar, expressed restitution implicit the verdict.