THANE: A 29-year-old Mumbra resident has been sentenced to 35 years in prison following his conviction in the double murder of a three-month pregnant woman and her brother and for assaulting her husband in November 2012. When they tried to pacify him, he attacked them with a knife.Ajij was stabbed in his left ribs and head, a pregnant Zakira in her stomach and chest, and Qureshi on his right hand, head and chest. Kulkarni argued that Zakira was three months pregnant and the attack was pre-planned as Shaikh had carried a knife with him. The murder was committed in front of Zakira's 14-year-old daughter and neighbours. Merely because two persons died in the assault, the case cannot be termed as falling under the category of rarest of rare cases.

Source: Times of India January 26, 2017 02:28 UTC