{"id":42562,"date":"2016-04-19T09:32:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T04:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=42562"},"modified":"2016-04-19T09:32:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T04:02:16","slug":"8-murder-accused-hanged-1-sentenced-life-wb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/8-murder-accused-hanged-1-sentenced-life-wb","title":{"rendered":"8 murder accused to be hanged, 1 sentenced to life in WB"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37926\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37926\" style=\"width: 262px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/death.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37926\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/death-sentence-to-husband-for-murdering-wife\/death-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/death.jpg?fit=262%2C192&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"262,192\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"death\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/death.jpg?fit=262%2C192&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/death.jpg?fit=262%2C192&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-37926 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/death.jpg?resize=262%2C192&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"8 murder accused to be hanged, 1 sentenced to life in WB\" width=\"262\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">8 murder accused to be hanged, 1 sentenced to life in WB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A district court today sentenced eight persons to death and awarded life term to another convict for murdering a college student in 2014 in North 24-Parganas in West Bengal.<\/p>\n<p>Pronouncing the judgement, Seventh Additional District Judge, Barasat, Daman Prasad Biswas, also awarded five year jail terms to three persons, including a woman, for the murder of the student Sourav Chowdhury at Bamungachi in the district on July 5, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Those sentenced to death are Shyamal Karmakar, Suman Sarkar, Suman Das, Amal Barui, Somnath Sardar, Tapas Biswas, Ratan Samaddar and Tarak Das.<\/p>\n<p>Rakesh Burman has been awarded life sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Three others who were awarded 5-year jail terms were Poly Maity, Sisir Mukherjee and Ratan Das.<\/p>\n<p>Chowdhury in his 20s was at the forefront of a crusade against anti-social activities in the area. He was killed and his body recovered from near the railway line on July 5, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, 12 of the accused had been convicted in the case. Another accused named in the FIR was however, acquitted for lack of evidence on April 15<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A district court today sentenced eight persons to death and awarded life term to another convict for murdering a college student in 2014 in North 24-Parganas in West Bengal. 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