Medininagar: Eight people were sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Jharkhand’s Palamu district on Thursday, for raping and murdering a woman six years ago. Convicting them in the case, district and sessions judge Santosh Kumar also slapped a fine of Rs one lakh on each of them, failing which they will have to serve two more years of imprisonment.
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They had entered the victim’s house in a village under Patan police station area on March 16, 2016, took her to a secluded place on a motorcycle and took turns in raping her. Later, they strangled her to death and buried the body on the bank of a river. The body was recovered four days after the incident. The accused people were subsequently arrested.
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