The Kerala High Court sentenced a man and his second wife to life imprisonment for the murder of his six-year-old daughter, overturning their earlier acquittal. The court found they inflicted prolonged torture, neglect, and starvation, leading to the child’s death

Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Thursday sentenced to life the father and stepmother of a minor girl for their “brutal and sustained acts of cruelty” towards her over a long period, which resulted in her death in 2013.

A bench of Justices Raja Vijayaraghavan V and K V Jayakumar had convicted the father — Subramanian Namboodiri — and the stepmother — Ramla Begum @ Devaki Antharjanam — for the offence of murder under section 302 of IPC.

The bench said that based on the postmortem evidence and the statement of the brother of the

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