A court on January 22 (Monday) awarded life sentence to a 26-year-old woman for murdering her seven-year-old stepdaughter in Kakinada in November 2019.
According to an official release, the court convicted Soorada Santa Kumari of strangling her stepdaughter S. Deepthi with a scarf to death.
Santa Kumari picked up her stepmother from school and murdered her. Later, she packed the body in a bag and dumped it in Upputeru Canal in Kakinada. The girl’s father lodged a missing complaint with the Kakinada police.
The court also imposed a fine of ₹10,000 on the convict.