Man gets death for killing two children

Tribune News Service

Ropar, May 10

Ropar District and Sessions Judge BS Sandhu on Thursday awarded death penalty to a 28-year-old man for killing two children.

Convict Ashok Kumar alias Pintu, a native of Baveta village in Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh, had killed two brothers Manav (10) and Shivam (6) on September 25 last year.

He was in a live-in relationship with Rajni, the mother of the children, at Uchha Khera mohalla of Ropar town. Both victims were students of Sanatan Dharam Secondary School at Ropar.

Rajni had informed the police that her children had left home for school in the morning on September 25, but they did not reach the school. So, a case of kidnapping was registered.

Prosecution lawyer Mohit Dhupar said that Rajni had got married three times in the past. Her first two husbands had died and she got a separation from her third husband. The children were from her second and third marriages.

Following the separation from her third husband, she started living with Pintu, who was putting pressure on her to have his children. As Rajni did not want more children, she refused, said Dhupar.

On September 25 last year, he took a motorcycle of one of his friends and took the children near Sutlej river at Katli village.

There, Pintu threw them into ditches filled with water. During the search for the children, Pintu — in an attempt to misguide the police — even tried to implicate some Manoj, who had been stalking Rajni in the past.

But a neighbour had spotted him with the children near Katli village. Later, Pintu’s phone location was also found to be at that spot. Following these, the police nabbed him and recovered the bodies on September 28.

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