A Kottayam court recently awarded a death sentence to a man for murdering an elderly couple related to him in 2013.
The additional sessions court sentenced Arun Sasi to death for killing his relative Thankamma (68) and her husband, Bhaskaran Nair (71), with the intention to rob them.
The court, while awarding the death sentence, noted that the convict, who was supposed to protect the elderly couple as the latter’s daughters were abroad, committed a brutal murder that cannot be justified.
The court also imposed a fine of ₹2 lacks on the convict. It also sentenced him to 5-7 years of rigorous imprisonment for using a deadly weapon for robbing and house trespass in order to commit an offense punishable with death.
The incident took place on September 28, 2013.
Additional prosecutor K Jitheesh stated that the convict reached the house of the couple and brutally attacked Nair and his wife using a hammer. The additional prosecutor further said that Sasi was nabbed in a theft case following which his role in the murder was revealed.
