Purulia needle murder case: Four years later, two convicts get death sentence

On Saturday, a speedy disposal court in Purulia convicted the two accused on charges of colluding and hatching a conspiracy to kill the girl. The verdict in the case was stayed on Monday at the request of the public prosecutor, who sought death penalty for the convicts as they were behind a “brutal and rare crime.”

On July 11, 2017, the woman admitted her three-and-a-half-year-old daughter to a hospital in Purulia, claiming that the child had fever, cold and cough. Doctors, however, found that the child had multiple wounds and scratch marks on the body, apart from bloodstains.

A medical panel was formed to ascertain the cause of the wounds and an X-ray showed seven needles inserted inside her body. She was later shifted to a hospital in Kolkata, where she died on July 21, 2017.