Thane: A court in neighbouring Palghar
district has awarded life imprisonment to a 30-year-old man
for killing a housewife after robbing her of her valuables in
2013.
Additional Sessions Judge M P Divate of the Vasai court
yesterday awarded the punishment to Devendra Ramchandar
Mishra, a plumber, after pronouncing him guilty under IPC
sections 302 (murder), 396 (dacoity with murder) and 201
(causing disappearance of evidence of offence).