Murder of 6-year-old boy: Indore court sentences his father and stepmother to life imprisonment | Latest News India

Indore, A court in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore city in May 2023 sentenced the father and stepmother of a six-year-old child to life imprisonment for strangling the child to death. In an order passed in October, additional sessions court judge Jitendra Singh Kushwaha, 22, sentenced Shashipal Munde and his wife Mamta alias Payal to life imprisonment after convicting them under Sections 302 and 109 of the Indian Penal Code. The court also imposed a fine ₹One lakh for both the accused, a prosecution officer said on Wednesday. At the instigation of his third wife Payal, Munde strangled his 6-year-old son Pratik to death in the Tejaji Nagar area of ​​the city on the night of May 14, 2023, and recorded the incident on video and sent it to him. Payal. Munde’s first wife and Pratik’s mother died a few years ago, after which Pratik married another woman but she left him. After this he married Munde Payal. However, he said that Pratik, born to his first wife, was an eyesore for him. Payal said that she gave birth to a boy at her mother’s house but did not return to her mother-in-law’s house. According to the officer’s statement, Payal told her husband that she would return home only if he kicked Pratik out of the house or killed him. Police also found a video on Munde’s mobile phone, lasting four minutes and 47 seconds, showing him strangling his son Pratik to death, the officer said. When the court announced the sentence last week, the couple’s young son was in prison with his mother Payal. The district administration should make appropriate arrangements for the stay and education of this innocent child so that he can be made a responsible citizen and both criminals can be kept away from the “shadow of corrupt mentality” and can be linked, the additional sessions judge said. into the mainstream of society.