Bettiah: A Bagaha court on Wednesday awarded a woman and her two sons life imprisonment in murder of one Pintu Yadav who was killed in 2024.District and Additional Sessions Judge-IV Manvendra Mishra, while pronouncing judgment in Ramnagar police station case no, 596/2024 and sessions trial no. 415/2025, convicted 50-year-old Anita Devi and her two sons—22-year-old Golu Kumar Yadav and 23-year-old Kriti Yadav—for the murder of Pintu.The court awarded life imprisonment to all three convicts and imposed a fine of Rs1 lakh each for the murder. In the attempt to murder case, each was sentenced to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment along with an additional fine of Rs50,000.Each convict has thus been fined a total of Rs1.5 lakh. The court directed that both sentences would run concurrently. Failure to deposit the fine would attract additional imprisonment.In its judgment, the court observed that the prosecution had established the charges beyond reasonable doubt through eyewitness testimonies, medical evidence, the postmortem report, CCTV footage, electronic evidence and other documentary records.The court also referred to a Supreme Court principle, stating, “The fundamental objective of the judicial process is to discover the truth, and truth is the foundation of justice.”During the hearing on sentencing, Special Public Prosecutor Jitendra Bharti informed the court that the convicts had criminal antecedents. According to the prosecution, Golu Kumar Yadav has 10 criminal cases registered against him, Kriti Yadav faces five cases, while Anita Devi has three criminal cases to her name.The court further directed that the amount recovered as fine from the convicts be paid to the dependents of deceased Pintu Yadav as compensation.The case stems from a dispute over drain water in Mudila village under Ramnagar police station on Dec 26, 2024. A verbal altercation between two groups turned violent, leaving several people injured. Pintu Yadav was declared dead at the Ramnagar primary health centre, where the victim’s family alleged they were assaulted again by the accused. CCTV footage from the hospital was later produced in court as evidence.
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