Tutor gets life imprisonment in St Stephen's college girl murder cas

New Delhi, Mar 15 (UNI) A city court today awarded life imprisonment to a tutor for murdering a girl from capital's prestigious St Stephen's college in April 1999.

Additional Sessions Judge Bharat Parashar also imposed a fine of Rs five lakh on the convict.

Rs three lakh out of the fine amount would be given to the victim's family. And if the fine amount was not deposited then he would have to serve an additional term of five years.

Moved by the heinous act, the court also directed that a copy of the order should be send to the jail authorities, so that they could have it handy when the convict appealed against the sentence or sought bail.

The judge had earlier found him guilty, saying ''lust'' had driven him to the ''barbaric'' act.

20-year-old Priyanka was murdered in her Adarsh Nagar house in North Delhi. Uttam Kumar, who was a tutor to Priyanka's younger brother Vibhor, was said to be attracted to the second year college student, whom he used to teach earlier. He was angry that Priyanka had been engaged to someone else.

On April 19, 1999, when Priyanka and her mother returned from market, Kumar dragged her inside a bathroom and bolted the door. Her family tried to open the door, but in vain. Later, police was called which broke open the door only to find Priyanka dead with her neck slashed by a knife. Kumar was arrested shortly thereafter.

UNI