Life term for wife killer

NEW DELHI: In a “rare” case, a trial court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment without any remission for 20 years for brutally killing his wife and chopping her body into pieces before dumping them near a rail line six years ago.
Holding Kaushal Singh guilty of murder, the court said the murder was executed in a “pre-planned” and “cold-blooded” manner and the sight of severed body parts strewn all over the ground that reflected the brutality of the crime must have given sleepless nights to those who witnessed the scene.“The extent of brutality is writ large,” additional sessions judge Kamini Lau said.
“The brutality reflected from the photographs is so gruesome that anybody who would have seen the scene or even the photographs of the severed portion of the body parts strewed all over the ground would not have slept for days,” the judge said.
Kaushal Singh, a resident of Bihar, was the second husband of the victim, Baby Devi, and they were residing in a rented house in Delhi. The two were having a discord and on September 24, 2005, Singh hit his wife on her face with a sword-like weapon, injuring her. Prosecution said Singh then strangulated her and chopped her body into several pieces. He dumped the body parts near a railway line in Nangloi in north-west Delhi and threw the weapon in the bushes. Although Singh’s case did not come under the category of “rarest of rare” warranting death sentence, the judge said it certainly fell in the category of “rare”.
ASJ Lau sentenced the convict to rigorous imprisonment for life with the directive that he should not be considered for grant of remission “till he undergoes an actual sentence of 20 years”.