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Two brothers sentenced to death

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Thursday sentenced two brothers to death, holding them guilty of gruesomely murdering a man who allegedly had an illicit relationship with the wife of one of them.

The prosecution's allegations against the convicts -- Zamil Ahmed and his brother Dilshad -- were that they had strangulated the victim, Gyani Ram, at their house at Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, cut the body into pieces, stuffed them into four bags and put them in a train headed for Old Delhi railway station.

A Delhi Police constable at Old Delhi railway station spotted the four abandoned bags with "Urea" written on each of them in a coach and informed the Station House Officer, the chargesheet said.

When the bags were opened, the policemen found dismembered body of a male. The body was sewn up and later shown to the children of the victim who identified their father. The police had called in the victim's children to identify the body on the basis of the descriptions they had given to the local police while lodging a missing report about their father.

Gyani Ram, a resident of Rithala, used to visit Zamil Ahmed, a para-medic, at Meerut for treatment of some ailment the chargesheet stated. When Zamil Ahmed suspected that his patient was having an affair with his wife, he conspired with his brother Dilshad and strangled the victim to death in their house.

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