Woman Gets Life Term For Poisoning Brother, His 14-Month-Old Daughter With Dhatura Seeds, Cyanide

The court fined the accused Rs 50,000 and suggested that the victim's wife Bhumi Patel be remunerated under the state's victim's compensation scheme.

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New Delhi: The court in Gujarat, while hearing a case on Monday, sentenced Dr. Kinnari Patel to life imprisonment for poisoning her brother and his 14-month-old daughter. The incident took place in Patan city of Gujarat.

AK Shah, an Additional sessions judge, sentenced Kinnari Patel for the murders of her elder brother and his 14-month-old girl using drinks bound with 'dhatura' seed (thornapple or jimsonweeds) and a tablet filled with cyanide powder in May 2019.

Declining to consider this a "rarest of rare" case and granting the death penalty as looked for by the indictment, the court said it actually needs to make an impression on individuals with a criminal mindset so they do not take such an action lightly.

The court likewise fined the accused Rs 50,000 and suggested that the victim's wife Bhumi Patel be remunerated under the state's victim's compensation scheme.

The convict, who is the daughter of an industrialist and a dental specialist by profession, hatched a conspiracy to kill her 32-year-old sibling Jigar Patel by poisoning him using a concoction of dhatura seed, which impacted his psychological and physical well being.

On May 5, 2019, when they were headed to their local town, she likewise offered Jigar a beverage bound with dhatura seed extract, and when he became sick, she forced a pill loaded up with cyanide powder into his mouth.

At the point when he attempted to reach out for his car key so he could hurry to a doctor, she hid it purposely, prompting his death. She later dumped the vehicle key in Ahmedabad.

On May 25, she similarly offered glucose water mixed with dhatura seed paste to her sister-in-law, after which she became sick and rushed to the doctor. While she was away, the convict used the chance to put cyanide powder into the mouth of her baby niece, killing her similarly.

"Her sister-in-law was the same age as she and was also a dentist. She was jealous of her sister-in-law, which prompted her to take revenge like this. Her greed for her father's property also played a role in the murders," said public prosecutor MD Pandya.

Later police recovered her laptop and mobile, and a legal assessment of the PC showed she had searched for ways of setting up a toxic beverage using dhatura seed.

She had likewise approached jewellers in Ahmedabad to obtain cyanide powder on the pretext of using it in preparing tooth caps

(WIth PTI inputs)