The court also found Anindita Pal guilty of “causing the disappearance of evidence” (Representational)
Calcutta:
A fast track court in the Paraganas district of North Bengal 24 sentenced a lawyer to life imprisonment for killing her husband with the cord of a mobile phone charger.
District and Additional Sessions Judge Sujit Kumar Jha convicted lawyer Anindita Pal on Monday of the murder of her husband, sentencing her to life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 10,000.
The court also found her guilty of “causing evidence to disappear” and sentenced her to one year in prison for doing so. Both sentences will be executed at the same time, the judge ordered.
Special counsel Bibhas Chatterjee prayed for capital punishment, claiming it was a premeditated murder.
However, the court sentenced her to life imprisonment for having a three-year-old son, and also because there are no eyewitnesses and the conviction was based on circumstantial evidence.
As she was taken to the prison van from the courtroom, Anindita Pal said she was being framed and that she will fight to the “last drop of blood.”
During the trial, the prosecution had stated that on the intervening night of November 24 and 25, 2018, Anindita Pal strangled her husband Rajat Dey, also a lawyer, with the cord of a mobile phone charger in their New Town apartment near from Calcutta.
The prosecution claimed that the couple had a strained relationship that led to the murder of Rajat Dey.
Anindita Pal’s attorney, Pinak Mitra, claimed that she was sleeping in another room when she heard a sound coming from her husband’s room and found him hanging up.
Mr. Dey’s father had filed an FIR alleging that Anindita Pal had killed his son and was arrested on November 29 by the police.
The trial and arguments in the case were completed in March of this year.
Both Anindita Pal and her husband practiced law in the Calcutta High Court.
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