The court said huge amount of gold and diamond jewellery of the victim was recovered from the possession of the four convicts who had entered the house on the pretext of taking away an old sofa sold by the woman to her maid, a co-convict.
"All the facts clearly show and point towards the guilt of the accused that they, along with one more accused who is not yet arrested, committed dacoity in the house owned by the deceased and while committing dacoity one old lady was murdered," Additional Sessions Judge V K Bansal said.
The court, which imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 each on the four convicts, said the amount should be given equally to both the daughters of the woman.
Victim Gurjeet Kaur, who was a former additional assistant commissioner with IT Department, lived alone when she was murdered on September 12, 2002 in her Sector-8 Rohini house.
Prosecution said on the day of incident, Sonia along with four men had come to Kaur's residential society and told the security guard that they had to take away an old sofa from the woman's house which she had sold to the maid.
Police had said the woman had employed Sonia as a part- time domestic help 15 days before the incident. During the trial, the accused denied the allegations and claimed they were falsely implicated.
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