Chandigarh, Dec. 12 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has ordered release of Sonia and her husband, Sanjeev Kumar, convicted for killing eight family members, including Sonia's father, on interim bail and directed the Haryana government to consider their premature release case within two months.

The duo had killed Relu Ram Punia (50), his wife Krishna Devi (41), daughter (14), son Sunil Kumar (23), daughter-in-law Shakuntala Devi (20), a four-year-old grandson and two granddaughters, including a two-month-old baby, at their farmhouse on the outskirts of Hisar on the night of August 23, 2001, while they were asleep. Punia had won assembly election from Barwala segment in Hisar in 1996 and was a millionaire.

Sonia was found unconscious...