Bhawanipatna: A woman and her three sons were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Additional District Judge (ADJ) of Dharmagarh in Kalahandi district for killing a peon posted at Revenue Inspector (RI) office at Atigaon over a land dispute in 2018.
The ADJ has also imposed fines of Rs 50,000 on the convicts. Failing to pay the fine, the minimum jail term of the convicts will be increased by a year.
The convicts are Kuchita Dandsena and her three sons Pita Dandsena, Radhu Dandsena and Jadu Dandsena.
In 2018, the victim, identified as peon Chayakanta Dandasena, was hacked to death by the three men after getting instructions from their mother.
A source said that Kuchita and her sons were trying to build a house on a piece of government land near the RI office. When the peon Dandasena objected to them, he was murdered.
Afterwards, police had registered a murder case and arrested all four of them.
PNN