Srinagar, July 30 -- The Principal Sessions judge Kulgam on Tuesday sentenced a woman and her "paramour" to life imprisonment besides imposing a fine of Rs three lakh for killing her husband in Modergam Kulgam almost 12 years ago.

District Principal Sessions Judge Kulgam, Aijaz Ahmed Khan, while announcing the quantum of punishment observed "justice demands that courts should impose punishment befitting the crime, reflecting public abhorrence of the crime".

"The courts must not only keep in view the rights of the criminal but also the rights of the victim of crime and the society at large while considering imposition of appropriate punishment," the court said adding that undue sympathy to impose inadequate sentence would do more harm to...