New Delhi, January 11: A son who killed his father to appease a deity to overcome the problem he had with his wife has been sentenced to death by a court on Monday.
According to prosecution, 25-year-old Jitender killed his father Kartar Singh by chopping his body into parts in 2008.
Additional sessions judge RK Gauba awarded capital punishment to Jitender terming his crime as the “rarest of the rare” warranting nothing less than gallows.
“The manner in which the convict butchered his father and hacked off his head and organs for no conceivable fault of the victim is figuratively speaking, the gravest case of breach of trust.”
Jitender bought a knife on March 12, 2008 and killed his father the next day in order to appease the deity.
He defended his crime saying he had a dream in which the deity asked him for a human sacrifice to ward off the problems with his wife.
—-Agencies