West Bengal court awards death penalty to 3 for killing 3 of a same family

A district and sessions court at Barasat awarded death sentence to three persons, including primary accused Probhas Dhali and two others- Sujit Dhali and Samir Mondal, after found them guilty under IPC sections 302 (Murder), 449 (House-trespass in order to commit offence punishable with death) and 120B (Criminal conspiracy).

Besides these IPC sections, main accused in the case, Probhas Dhali, was also charged under sections 25 and 27 of Arms Act.

Earlier on Apr 10 midnight in 2012, few miscreants shot and stabbed local Trinamool Congress (TMC) activist Binay Biswas to death over a property dispute at Kemia-Khamarpara village's Nopara area under Madhyamgram Police Station limits (Now under Barasat PS) in North 24 Parganas district.

When Binay Biswas's family members tried to save him, his mother- Tapasi Biswas- was also shot dead and miscreants shot bullets aiming at his father- Amrito Biswas- and wife- Shiuli Biswas.

Sustaining bullet injuries, local TMC activist's wife and father were rushed to a local hospital, where his father- Amrito Biswas- died on the next day.

Few months after the incident, five suspects- Probhas Dhali, Sujit Dhali, Samir Mondal, Gautam Dhali and Manindra Adhikary- were nabbed from separate areas of the state.

Two of the five arrested- Gautam Dhali and Manindra Adhikary- were granted bail later from the Calcutta High Court.

Few months after getting bail, Manindra Adhikary committed suicide and Gautam Dhali went untraceable.

However, four years eight months after the crime was committed, three persons, directly involved in the case, were awarded death sentence on Monday.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)