KOCHI: The court has awarded life imprisonment to Subramanian Namboothiri and Ramla Beegum alias Devika Antharjanam, father and stepmother of six-year-old Adithi S Namboothiri in Kozhikode, who died after brutal torture. The court also slapped a fine of Rs 2 lakh.

The high court had charged the two with murder. The high court had overturned the finding of the Kozhikode Additional Sessions Court that the murder charge against the accused could not be sustained. The trial court had sentenced the accused to two and three years in prison respectively. The government had appealed against this. The high court had also assessed that there was sufficient evidence to charge the accused with murder after considering the statement of the girl's brother. The verdict was passed by a bench of Justices

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