Mother gets lifer for killing newborn
Judgment comes 14 years after the incident;
mother-in-law had launched complaint
CUTTACK: Sanju Bhuyan, a 35-year-old married woman was awarded life imprisonment for killing her own newborn child just hours of her birth.
The judgment came 14 years after the incident that took place on October 13, 1993 in Kusumbi village under Salipur police station of this district, about 25 km from here.
A lower court here although, acknowledged the brutal killing to be “rarest of rare” but stopped short of sentencing the accused a death penalty.
“Social stigma was the overriding factor behind the motive of the brutal killing which by any means merits to be categorised as rarest of rare but considering the social factors, a simple life imprisonment would meet the justice”, said the district ad hoc additional sessions judge N.P.Rout in his judgment delivered on Thursday.Prosecution
The prosecution inter alia states that Sanju Bhuyan was married to one Akshya Bhuyan of Salipur on July 10, 1993.
Within a fortnight of the marriage, Akshaya left for Kolkata where he worked in a hotel.
But Sanju, who was staying with her mother-in-law and sister-in-law delivered a healthy baby girl on October 13 of the same year, exactly after three months of her marriage.
Fearing social banishment, Sanju killed her newborn just minutes after the birth and dumped it in their backyard. But her evil design could not escape the watchful eyes of her suspicious mother-in-law Oshi Dei.
Following complaints from Oshi Dei, the local police after registering a case retrieved the body of the child and sent for post mortem.
The post mortem report confirmed that the child had died from strangulation. Sanju, who was immediately arrested, also confessed during interrogation that she had mauled the baby and wanted to get rid of her child as the baby was born for an extramarital relationship she had before her marriage to Akshaya, the prosecution said.
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