SC sentences ex-MLA's daughter to death

New Delhi, Feb 15: The Supreme Court today sentenced to death Sonia, the daughter of former Haryana MLA Relu Ram Punia, and her husband Sanjiv Kumar, for murdering Punia and six members of the family in 1999.

Justices B N Agarwal and P P Naolekar set aside the Haryana and Punjab High Court verdict reducing the death sentence given in May 2004 by a Faridabad trial court in the case.

The motive behind the killings was stated to be a property dispute.

The victims of the accused besides the former MLA were her mother, brother, sister-in-law, two of their children and her own sister.

UNI