Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADJ) Prasant Nayak sentenced four members of a family to life imprisonment in a dowry death case on Friday.
They were found guilty of murdering Kusamalata Sahoo for dowry on November 14, 2014. They are the victim’s husband Akshaya Pal (34) , father-in-law Laxmidhar Pal (65), mother-in-law Subhadra Pal (59) and sister-in-law Priyatama Pal (24) of village Solapate under the Panikoili police station.
Kusamalata Sahoo had married Akshay on June 20, 2014. However, she was constantly tortured and subsequently killed by all the convicts on November 14, 2014 for her failure to meet her in-laws’ demand for Rs 50,000 as dowry. After killing, the in-laws dumped the body in a pond in the village.
After an investigation, police arrested four convicts, said Additional Public Prosecutor Rajendra Kumar Nayak.