KOZHIKODE: Thirty years after a girl child was brutally murdered by a woman and her lover in 1991, Kozhikode district and sessions court on Saturday sentenced the woman to life imprisonment and Rs 10,000 fine.
Second accused, Beena alias Haseena, 50, of Ernakulam, was sentenced by the court. The trial in the case got delayed for as the accused had gone into hiding after getting bail. The case pertains to the accused adopting a four-and-half year-old girl from Karnataka and torturing the child to death along with her partner. They had reportedly bought the child from a Karnataka-native woman. The first accused, Ganeshan, is still at large.
