This story is from February 6, 2019

Manipur man gets death for murdering his girlfriend

A sessions court on Tuesday awarded death penalty to a 29-year-old man for murdering a girl in last August. Senapati sessions judge A Noutuneshori Devi ordered that the convict, Yumkhhaibam Rohit aka Rajesh, a resident of Kshetrigao area in Imphal East, will be hanged till death.
Manipur man gets death for murdering his girlfriend
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IMPHAL: A sessions court on Tuesday awarded death penalty to a 29-year-old man for murdering a girl in last August. Senapati sessions judge A Noutuneshori Devi ordered that the convict, Yumkhhaibam Rohit aka Rajesh, a resident of Kshetrigao area in Imphal East, will be hanged till death.
The trial, which was completed in twenty days, was one of the fastest-ever in the history of the state.
On Monday, the court had convicted Rohit under Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (for causing disappearance of evidence) of the IPC.
The court also sentenced Rohit’s murder accomplice Md Farish Shah (18) to life imprisonment. The court also sent Rehana (50) to prison for three years and Farjina (23) to six months’ imprisonment for intentional omission of information. The court, however, acquitted one L Nungchanba in the case.
The body of the victim, Pukhrihongam Memi Chanu (26), a resident of Ekou Bazar in Imphal East, was found inside a gunny bag in Iril river at Arapti Khetukhong Awang Leikai on August 17 last year, case records state. The woman had gone missing on August 14.
All the four convicted along with the acquitted person were arrested after the police received a complaint from the woman’s father and her body was subsequently recovered.
During investigation, Rohit revealed that he had met the woman on Facebook. They later met on a number of occasions and the couple also shared a physical relationship, the case records said. On August 14, the duo met at Shah’s house and after Chanu proposed to Rohit that they should elope, the latter strangled her to death. Shah was an active accomplice in the murder and later helped Rohit dispose the body. Rehena and Farjina disclosed that they were present in the house when the murder took place .
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