INDIA: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH, 1 TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR 2015 DOUBLE MURDER

May 3, 2022:

Five people were sentenced to death and one to life imprisonment on 25 April 2022 in the state of Uttar Pradesh, for murdering two persons over a land dispute in Aligarh, in 2015.
Additional district and sessions judge Rajesh Bhardwaj also imposed a fine of Rs 3000 each on Aehsan (32), Asif Thakur (38), and Rs 4000 each on Kafeel (28), Vakeel (28), and Bhura (30).
They were charged under section 302 (murder), 149 (Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC.
However, the court awarded life sentence to Gyassuddin Khan (75) as he was the one who gave the “supari” (contract) for killing two persons— Naushe and Chand. Additional District Government Council Krishna Murari Johri said that on 24 July 2015, Naushe and Chand had gone to attend a family function in Mamood Nagar, where the five accused had shot them and then crushed their head with bricks as they were given a contract by Khan.