Ludhiana: The court of Additional Sessions Judge Dr. Rajneesh has sentenced three people to life imprisonment in a double murder case involving a woman and her son. The convicts have been identified as Gopichand alias Gopi, a resident of Satjot Nagar, Ahmed Ansari, a resident of Jagdishpur in Bettiah district, Bihar, and his wife, Kiran Devi. The court found them guilty of the murder of Ravi Shah and his mother, Noorjahan, and sentenced them to life imprisonment. According to the prosecution, the case was registered at the Sadar police station on September 20, 2022, based on the statement of the deceased Ravi Shah’s wife, Rubina. The complainant told the court that she had five children and lived in a rented house with her family. The three accused also lived in separate rooms in the same house.
Rubina explained that on the night of September 16, 2022, she and her husband were sleeping outside their room after dinner. Late at night, when her husband went to the bathroom, he heard someone arguing. She arrived at the scene and saw the three accused arguing with her husband. She managed to calm them down and bring her husband back to sleep, after which they went back to sleep. At around 12:30 a.m., the three accused allegedly returned with hammers and repeatedly attacked her husband on the head, seriously injuring him. Hearing the noise, the complainant’s mother, Noor Jehan, came to intervene. The accused also attacked her with the hammer, causing serious injuries. Both victims were taken to Ludhiana Civil Hospital, where they died during treatment.
