One gets death penalty, life term for mother and sister in 2017 murder case

A fast-track court in Guwahati on Saturday awarded death penalty to the main accused, Govind Singhal, for murdering his classmate Shweta Agarwal and setting her body on fire to destroy the evidence. The court also sentenced Govind’s mother Kamala Devi Singhal and sister Bhavani Singhal to life imprisonment for helping in the gruesome murder in 2017.