Kozhikode
The Additional District and Sessions Court-I on Saturday sentenced a 50-year old woman, who was convicted of murdering a girl child she adopted in 1991, to life imprisonment. Beena, alias Haseena hailing from Devikulam, was also imposed a fine of ₹10,000 in the verdict pronounced by Judge K. Anil Kumar.
The incident leading to the arrest of the accused took place at a lodge in Kozhikode on November 21, 1991. She, along with the first accused, Ganeshan, tortured the four-and-a-half-year-old girl to death. The man involved in the incident went absconding after the incident.
