India, March 10 -- A special court in Telangana's Nalgonda on Monday sentenced a contract killer to death and six others to life imprisonment in the 2018 hate murder of a Dalit man in Miryalaguda town.

The victim, 23-year-old Pranay Kumar, was hacked to death with a machete in broad day light on September 14, 2018, when he was coming out of a government hospital at Miryalaguda town after a medical checkup of his pregnant wife Amrutha Varshini (20) along with his mother. He died on the spot, and the incident was captured on CCTV cameras, causing public outrage.

The second additional sessions court dealing with the cases of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, in its judgement, concluded that the murder was carried out at the behest of ...