Telangana Awards Death Sentence For Honour Killing of Dalit Man in 2018

The Telangana sessions court on Monday pronounced death sentence to a man and awarded life in prison other of the six accused of ‘honour killing’ of a 30-year-old Dalit man in 2018. 

The killing of P Pranay Kumar occurred in the Miryalaguda region of the Nalgonda district. In the matter, the SC/ST sessions second additional court awarded death penalty to Subhash Sharma. The court also imposed a fine of ₹15,000 on Sharma and ₹10,000 each on the other six convicts.

Killing in 2018

The Nalgonda police filed a detailed chargesheet under the Indian Penal Code under Section 302 9murder), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 109 (abetment). The chargesheet also included mention of the Indian Arms Act and named eight accused in 2019.

Subhash Sharma was hacked to death by a contract killer in front of his pregnant wife, Amrutha. T Maruthi Rao, the father of the woman, allegedly hired a contract killer for rupees one crore to murder Pranay Premulla in September 2018. This crime was caught on CCTV cameras, which led to a public outrage.