A Fast Track Court (FTC) in Chhattisgarh’s Surajpur district on Thursday awarded death penalty to three men and life imprisonment to another for killing the wife and 11-year-old daughter of a police head constable in 2024, a government counsel said.
Following the incident, the head constable and other personnel of Surajpur police station launched a search for Sahu. The elder brother of the police head constable welcomed the verdict. When they located him and tried to arrest him, he allegedly attempted to run them over with a car.
District and Additional Sessions Judge (FTC) Anand Prakash Wariyal convicted all four accused and awarded the death penalty to three of them—Kuldeep Sahu (32), Chandrakant Chaudhary (28) and Phool Singh alias Rinku (28), government counsel Suresh Sharma said. Sahu, a repeat offender, killed the 35-year-old woman and her daughter at their home in Surajpur city on October 13, 2024, with the help of his associates, according to police. Sahu had been externed from Surajpur by an order of the district magistrate but was present in the city on October 13, 2024, according to police.
Police said Chaudhary, who was then president of the Surajpur district unit of NSUI, along with Vishwakarma and Singh, was also present at the spot.
“It is a good decision. We were expecting such a verdict. This decision will help us cope with the grief. Our family has suffered immensely.
We are satisfied with the verdict,” he said.
