A Fast Track Court (FTC) in Chhattisgarh’s Surajpur district on Thursday awarded death penalty to three men and life imprisonment to another for killing the wife and 11-year-old daughter of a police head constable in 2024, a government counsel said.
The elder brother of the police head constable welcomed the verdict. District and Additional Sessions Judge (FTC) Anand Prakash Wariyal convicted all four accused and awarded the death penalty to three of them—Kuldeep Sahu (32), Chandrakant Chaudhary (28) and Phool Singh alias Rinku (28), government counsel Suresh Sharma said. Sahu, a repeat offender, killed the 35-year-old woman and her daughter at their home in Surajpur city on October 13, 2024, with the help of his associates, according to police. The woman had 33 injury marks on her body while the child had 28, Sharma said.
The prosecution told the court that the woman was also sexually assaulted before she and her daughter were killed. “The gravity of the offence was very serious and it was committed without any provocation,” Sharma said, adding that he cited Supreme Court judgments to argue that punishment to the accused should serve as a deterrent and prevent similar crimes.
Sahu and the three other accused were later arrested and tried before the Fast Track Court.
“It is a good decision. We were expecting such a verdict. This decision will help us cope with the grief. Our family has suffered immensely.
We are satisfied with the verdict,” he said.
