U’khand HC calls for records submitted in sessions court on appeal of man convicted of killing 5 of his family

Nainital: Reacting to an appeal filed by one Harmeet Singh of Dehradun, who was awarded death sentence for killing five members of his family on the night of Diwali in 2014, a division bench of Chief Justice RS Chauhan and Justice NS Dhanik has called for all the records submitted in the sessions court, while fixing the next date of hearing after four weeks.
It was on October 5, 2021, that district sessions judge (Pancham), Ashutosh Mishra, had pronounced the verdict.
Though the sessions court had sent the order to the HC on Tuesday, the latter summoned the entire record.
According to the case, on October 23, 2014, Harmeet brutally murdered his father Jai Singh, stepmother Kulwant Kaur, sister Harjeet Kaur, her unborn child as she was pregnant and three-year-old niece by stabbing them 85 times.
During investigation, police found that Harmeet feared that his father would transfer the property in the name of his stepsister, who had come there only a week ago and whose anniversary was on October 25.
The sole witness, five-year-old Kamaljeet, who was also present at that night, managed to survive.