Worker gets life imprisonment for killing employer

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Press Trust of India Palghar (Maharashtra)
Last Updated : Dec 26 2017 | 10:35 PM IST
A local court today sentenced a 27-year-old contract worker to life imprisonment for killing his employer in 2013.
Additional Sessions Judge R N Manjgaonkar also slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 on the convict, Angad Shamsher Bahadur Singh.
Additional Public Prosecutor Deepak Tare told the court that Singh worked with the victim Kaildeo Vishwanath, then 28.
The two lived together in Boisar. There was a dispute between the two over Vishwanath failing to make the payment of around Rs 5,000 to Singh, added Tare.
On June 16, 2013, Singh decapitated Visawanth and killed him on the spot, the court was informed.
The judge relied on the eyewitness accounts and convicted Singh.

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First Published: Dec 26 2017 | 10:35 PM IST

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