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Gujarat: Rajkot constable gets 25-year imprisonment for couple's murder

RAJKOT: A suspended constable with Rajkot B division police station was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment on Friday in a double murder case.


The Rajkot sessions court awarded the jail term to Kamlesh Mehta for stabbing Bhupat Teraiya (55) and his wife Gunvanti Teraiya (54) in Punit Nagar of Bajarangwadi locality on Jamnagar Road in Gujarat 's Rajkot in the evening of April 7, 2014.



“Mehta’s mother used to pick up fights with the Teraiya couple as she objected to them sitting near her house. On the evening of the crime, after she had a fight with the Teraiya couple, Mehta’s mother called up Mehta, who came armed with a knife and stabbed the Teraiya couple to death,” said Ruprajsinh Parmar, special public prosecutor.

“After the crime, Mehta went in search of the Teraiya couple’s son with the intention to kill him. Meanwhile, police came to know about the crime and nabbed Mehta from Jamnagar Road,” added Parmar.

Parmar had sought capital punishment for Mehta, terming the case as the rarest of the rare as the accused was a police constable and he had committed the crime in uniform while being on duty. However, the court turned down the appeal for the capital punishment and sentenced Mehta to 25 years' imprisonment.

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