A court has sentenced a woman and her daughter to life imprisonment in the case involving the murder of an elderly woman, Sumita Ghosh, in Madhyamgram city in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.

The Barasat court, on Monday, also fined daughter Falguni Ghosh and her mother Aarti Ghosh one lakh rupees in addition to life imprisonment.

The judge has ordered a six-month imprisonment if they fail to pay the fine.

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Along with this, they have been sentenced to seven years in prison and fined Rs 50,000 for destroying evidence.

After the sentence was pronounced, the public prosecutor said, "An important aspect of this case is that the two will first have to spend seven years in prison. After that, their life imprisonment will start for both of them

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