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Yamunanagar, Dec 9 (UNI) A local court today sentenced a Nepali servant to life imprisonment for killing a 75-year-old woman in Khanpur village in the district.

District Sessions judge Vireder Singh also slapped a fine of Rs 6,000 on Prem Bahadur (20), who slit the throat of Saroj Devi, the mother of his employer, advocate B S Chauhan, on August 13 this year.

Bahadur, awarded the life term under section 302 (murder) IPC, was also convicted under section 457 IPC (criminal trespass) and sentenced for three-year concurrent imprisonment.

Bahadur, who reportedly worked for Maoists in Nepal, had slipped into India to escape the Nepali police.

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