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A court in Jharkhand’s Palamu district on Friday sentenced two people to life imprisonment for hacking a man to death with an ax and burning his body. The accused had carried out this incident 23 years ago.
On November 11, 1999, four accused had hacked a person named Lakhan Bhuiyan to death with an ax in Chhatarpur police station area of Palamu district. After this, the dead body was taken to the nearby forest for disposal and burnt. 23 years after the incident, the court of District and Sessions Judge Abhimanyu Kumar on Friday sentenced two accused Rama Bhuiyan and Kalua Bhuiyan to rigorous life imprisonment in this case. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 each on both the convicts.
One accused absconding, one has died
One of the four accused has died, while one is absconding. Rama Bhuiyan and Kalua Bhuiyan, the two murderers arrested in the case, were tried in the court and both were convicted. In case of non-payment of the fine, both will have to undergo one more year in jail.