New Delhi/Hyderabad, October 28, 2020: In one of the fastest trials and that too amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a 24-year old man was on Wednesday sentenced to death by a District Court in Telangana in the sensational case of murder of nine people, including six members of a family, in Warangal in May this year.

The judgement was delivered in five months and six days since the date of the offence and as many as 67 prosecution witnesses were examined during the trial held physically as per the lockdown guidelines in view of COVID-19, public prosecutor M Satyanarayana Goud said.

According to police, Warangal First Additional District and Sessions Judge K. Jayakumar awarded capital punishment to Sanjay Kumar Yadav after holding him guilty under Section 302 of the IPC (murder) and other relevant provisions. Yadav, a native of Bihar, killed nine people on May 20 by mixing sleeping pills in their food and then dumped them in a well to cover up the murder of a woman with whom he was having a live-in relationship.

Pronouncing the verdict, the judge observed that the convict committed a heinous crime and termed the case as rarest of the rare and therefore, imposed the capital punishment, Goud said.

The chargesheet in the case was filed within a month of the killings and the trial was conducted with the presence of just five people — the Judge, the public prosecutor, defence counsel, bench clerk and the accused on most days besides the witnesses as and when their presence was required, he said.

According to police, Mystery had shrouded the recovery of the nine bodies from the well on the premises of a gunny bag manufacturing unit in Gorrekunta village of Warangal, sending shock waves in the town.

The bodies of the four people — the head of the family, 48- year-old Maqsood from West Bengal who had migrated to Warangal over 20 years ago, his wife, daughter and three-year-old grandson — were retrieved from the well on May 21.

According to police, Yadav who told them that he had murdered the nine as Maqsood’s wife threatened to complain to the police about her missing niece whom he had killed on March 6 this year.

He had killed the woman after she came to know about him getting closer to her daughter, the prosecution had said. Later, he returned to Warangal and told the woman’s children that she had gone to her relatives house in West Bengal.

However, Maqsood’s wife did not believe it and threatened to complain to the police. Fearing that he might be caught, he planned to eliminate the couple.

After coming to know that May 20 was the birthday of one of Maqsood’s sons, he reached their residence and gave food mixed with sleeping pills to the family members and the three others present. He subsequently threw them into the well once they were fast asleep.

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