Jammu, Apr 16 (PTI) A local court has awarded death penalty to a 45-year-old man for beheading his mother in 2014 over a piece of land in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir.
“The offence of murder committed by the convict seems to be pre-meditated one. The convict has committed the offence of murder upon the old defenceless mother by first attacking her with a sickle on the neck and thereafter chopping off her head with an axe in a very inhuman and barbaric manner,” Principal Sessions Judge, Udhampur, Haq Nawaz Zargar said in his judgement on Saturday.
Jeet Singh, a resident of Ramnagar, murdered his mother Vaishno Devi on December 7, 2014 at their house. He also tried to kill his wife Santosh Devi when she tried to come to the rescue of her mother-in-law.
