The court of additional district and sessions judge here has sentenced a man to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 in connection with a 2023 triple murder case.

The sentence was pronounced against Rakesh Kumar, a resident of Kurukshetra, on Friday. Providing details of the case, the district public prosecutor said that on December 7, 2023, Jhansa Police received information that a man has allegedly hanged himself in Shantinagar Kurdi village and that his wife and two children have been found dead inside the house.

During inquiry, the complainant, Sanjeev Kumar from Nanheda village in Punjab's Patiala district, told police that his elder sister Reena was married to Rakesh Kumar and the couple had two children -- a four-year-old daughter and a one-and-a-half years old son.

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