11-year-old girl's testimony sends mom, 4 others to life for killing dad

AGRA: A local court in Aligarh has sentenced a woman, her mother, and three siblings to life imprisonment for the 2022 murder of her husband, after the victim's 11-year-old daughter testified that she saw them kill him following a domestic dispute.

The body was kept hidden in the house for two days before it was wrapped in a blanket and dumped near a water tank.Juli, 32; her mother Munni, 65; and siblings Shama, Shahrukh, and Nannu, all in their late 30s, were convicted of murdering Juli's husband, Shafiq, in Aligarh's Qarsi area. Additional sessions judge Nawal Kishore awarded life sentences and imposed a fine of Rs 45,000 on each convict on Saturday, additional district govt counsel Swaran Lata said.The girl, Class 3 student, told the court, "My mother hit him with a brick while my uncles and grandmother pinned him to the ground and strangled him. They later poured some liquid on him. He wasn't screaming anymore, so he was probably dead. His body was kept at home for two days, and I was threatened to stay quiet."After the incident, Shafiq's brother, Farid, filed a police complaint at Quarsi police station.