A court of District and Sessions Judge here on Thursday awarded capital punishment to a girl and her lover for killing seven members of her family in Kabulpur village around four-and-half year ago. The court while dubbing the case as ‘rarest of the rare’ also sentenced their accomplice-Jaiveer- to life imprisonment.
Though the court had convicted the trio in the case on March 4 but had fixed Thursday as date for pronouncing the quantum of punishment to them. As per the prosecution, Sonam Dagar, a teenage girl of Kabulpur village, was in love with Naveen Dagar of the same village and clan. Apprehensive of her family rejecting the relationship, Sonam allegedly served food laced with poison to her parents, brother, grandmother and three cousins in September, 2009. later, Sonam allegedly strangled her family members with the help of Naveen and Jaiveer. To mislead the investigators, the girl was found lying unconscious in a bathroom by the police but failed to do so for a long time.
Finally, the police cracked the case after some days and arrested the trio after registering a criminal under various sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC). Since ever the case was pending before the court which awarded them punishment.
The third accused, Jaivir, had allegedly arranged the sleeping pills and poison for executing the crime. Omvir, the chemist from whom the pills were procured, was also the fourth accused in the case but was acquitted by the court.