3 get death sentence in Chhattisgarh for rape, murder of policeman’s wife, minor daughter

Chhattisgarh's trial court has sentenced three individuals to death for the brutal rape and murder of a police officer's wife and her 12-year-old daughter. The Additional Sessions Judge Surajpur Anand Prakash Variyal described the crime as "exceptionally brutal, barbaric and diabolical," noting the victims were a woman and an innocent child.

Kuldeep Sahu, Phool Singh, and Chandrakanth Chaudhary committed the heinous act, with Kuldeep Sahu inflicting the cold-blooded double murder due to a desire to teach the police a lesson. The court deemed this a "rarest of the rare" case, categorising it as the most brutal and inhumane crime possible. The prosecution alleged that the convicts had planned the crime to commit gang rape and murder as revenge against the police.