Karnal sessions court to pronounce judgement against Khap Panchayat killers

KARNAL - A sessions court in Karnal will on Tuesday deliver its verdict against the six Khap Panchayat members, who have been charged for the murder of a newly married couple.

The Khap Panchayat members had killed the two for they married against their will.

The court had earlier on Monday after recording the statements of all the accused deferred the hearing for Tuesday.

Last week, in a historic judgement, the court had delivered a guilty verdict against the six members on charges of kidnapping and murdering Manoj and Babli.

Babli”s brother Suresh, her uncles, Rajender and Baru Ram, her cousins, Gurdev and Satish, and village strongman, Ganga Raj, were declared guilty of the murders that took place in June 2007. (ANI)