Wife, paramour get life term for murder of Jagadhri man

Yamunanagar, October 6

Deepak Aggarwal, Sessions Judge, Yamunanagar, today sentenced four persons, including a woman, to a rigorous life imprisonment in a murder case.

Sanjeev Kumar, Deputy District Attorney, said the Sessions Judge also imposed a fine of Rs 60,000 on convict Priyanka Batra and a fine of Rs 53,000 each on convicts Rohit Kumar, alias Maddi, Satish Kumar and Shyam Sunder. He said the convicts would further undergo imprisonment for one year in case fine is not paid.

Businessman Yogesh Batra of Jagadhri died on May 27, 2016. His wife Priyanka told her father-in-law Subhash Chander Batra (who lived in another house) that Yogesh died of a heart attack and cremated the body.

However, a few months later, Yogesh’s father Subhash Chander Batra suspected it to be a murder and filed a police complaint. In his complaint, he had alleged that they came to know later that their son was killed by his wife and some other persons. An FIR was registered at the City Police Station, Jagadhri, on September 21, 2016.

Thereafter, the police arrested Priyanka, her paramour Rohit Kumar, Satish Kumar and Shyam Sunder.

The police said Yogesh’s wife Priyanka had an illicit relationship with her gym trainer Rohit Kumar. As Yogesh objected to their affair, Priyanka and Rohit wanted to get him eliminated and they killed him with the help of Satish and Shyam by gagging him. — TNS