Meerut, Feb. 23 -- In the gruesome murder case of a 10-year-old girl, a Bareilly court awarded life imprisonment to her parents and one of her aunts, an additional district government counsel (ADGC) said.

The minor girl was murdered and buried in her own house by her father Ravi Babu Sharma, stepmother Ritu and aunt Radha Devi on August 17, 2020 .

The sentences were announced by the court of additional district and sessions judge Arvind Kumar Yadav, which also imposed a fine of Rs.90,000 on each of the three convicts.

According to ADGC Sachin Kumar Jaiswal, the crime came to light when Radha Devi's 17-year-old son Suraj Sharma told police that he witnessed the trio digging a pit to bury her cousin three days after the incident.

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