Ludhiana court awards death penalty to woman for burying alive toddler

 A Ludhiana court in Punjab on Thursday awarded a death sentence to a woman for the horrific murder of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl by burying her alive.

Sessions judge Munish Singal convicted the 35-year-old woman, Neelam, a resident of the Shimlapuri area,



last week for killing the child. The court held her guilty on the charges of kidnapping and brutal murder of the child on November 28, 2021. The accused had buried the child alive and she died due to suffocation.

The quantum of the sentence was pronounced on Thursday.