Bhawanipatna: A woman and her three sons were awarded life imprisonment after being convicted by the Additional District and Sessions Judge, Dharamgarh, in a case of murder.
The convicts, Kuchita Dandasena, and her three sons were facing trial in the murder case of one Chayakanta Dandasena who was killed in 2018 over a land dispute.
Chayakanta was an employee at the Revenue Inspector’s (RI) office at Atigaon in Dharamgarh. He had objected to an illegal construction near the RI office which was carried out by the mother and her three sons.
The family of Kuchita nursed a grudge against Chayakanta and murdered him brutally. Following the incident local police had registered a case and arrested Kuchita and her three sons on charges of murder.