Samrala man gets life term for killing sister-in-law

The Court of Sessions Judge Harpreet Kaur Randhawa has sentenced Mohan Singh (56), a resident of Jallanpur village, Samrala, to rigorous life imprisonment for murdering his sister-in-law by repeatedly stabbing her with a knife.

“The ocular version of prosecution witnesses also finds corroboration from the medical evidence. More so, there is nothing on file proved in defence on the basis of which it can be held that the accused has been falsely implicated in the case,” says the judgment.

Public prosecutor Dinesh Verma apprised that the judgment was pronounced in a case registered on September 12, 2023, at the Samrala police station following the statement of Shamsher Singh, a carpenter and husband of the victim.

The complainant had stated to the police that he lived in a joint family with his brothers Mohan Singh and Hardam Singh. The accused frequently quarrelled with the complainant’s wife Karamjit Kaur over household expenses and had on several occasions threatened to kill her.

On the morning of September 12, 2023, when Karamjit Kaur was drying clothes at home, Mohan attacked her with a knife, inflicting multiple stab injuries on her abdomen, chest, arms and back. Shamsher Singh and his son Jaspreet Singh, who witnessed the incident, tried to intervene, but the accused fled the scene with the weapon.

The victim was rushed to the Civil Hospital, Khanna, but she succumbed to her injuries near Malakpur village while on the way.

During the trial, the prosecution examined 10 witnesses, including the complainant, who appeared as an eyewitness and fully supported the prosecution version. The court found the ocular evidence to be trustworthy and duly corroborated by medical and other documentary evidence.

Holding the accused guilty of committing a brutal murder within the family, the Sessions Judge awarded rigorous life imprisonment, observing that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.