Aizawl: A district courtroom in Mizoram on Thursday sentenced a 39-year-old girl to life imprisonment for killing her husband in chilly blood.
Extra district and session choose of Aizawl Judicial District H.T.C. Lalrinchhana convicted Mary Zothansangi, a resident of Kulikawn in Aizawl, and sentenced her underneath two costs – Part 302 of the IPC (homicide) and Part 6 (2) r/w 5 (2) of Mizoram Liquor Prohibition (MLP) Act, 2019, to endure 5 months of imprisonment adopted by lifetime imprisonment for killing her husband with a knife on December 9 final yr.
The district courtroom additionally slapped a effective of Rs 1 lakh in opposition to the convict underneath Part 302 IPC, failing by which she would endure extra one yr of imprisonment.
Beneath the MLP Act, the convict was sentence to endure 5 months’ imprisonment with a effective of Rs 4,000 for consuming liquor with out licence on the time of prevalence of the crime.
She is going to endure one other two months imprisonment, if she fails to pay Rs 4000, the courtroom has dominated.
Zothansangi was arrested in December final yr after she murdered her husband Laltanpuia, who was a physician, of their bed room.
The incident occurred on the evening of December 9 when the husband-wife duo had a dispute over promoting of their plantations. In a match of rage, Zothansangi, who was underneath some alcoholic affect and armed with a knife, stabbed her husband to dying.
The duo has three youngsters.
Zothansangi will first serve the sentence (5 months imprisonment and Rs 4,000 effective) underneath the MLP Act earlier than present process life imprisonment underneath Part 302 of IPC , it stated.
Nonetheless, the interval of detention of the offender which she already undergone (if any) throughout investigation or trial shall be set off as enjoined by part 428 of Felony Process Code, it stated.
The courtroom added that regardless of the crime dedicated by the convict being very peculiar, dying sentence will not be appropriate to inflict for her reformation and revitalization when it comes to social, religious, emotion, and philanthropy, as she is a girl and of a younger age.
In the meantime, the district courtroom additionally requested the state authorities to present compensation to the authorized heirs (three minor youngsters) of the deceased as per the process laid down in Mizoram Victims of Crime Compensation Scheme, 2011.
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