INDIA: DOMESTIC HELP GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDERING EMPLOYERS

in India, a Calcutta city court sentenced a domestic help to death for murdering his employer and his wife in 2005. "Domestic help Kebol Roy was found guilty of murdering his elderly employer Tarachand Banka and his wife Sarada April 18, 2005, in their apartment in Camac Street in south Calcutta," the City Sessions Court said. Roy, 23, smashed 68-year-old Tarachand’s head with a frying pan and slashed 56-year-old Sarada’s throat with a kitchen knife before fleeing with jewellery and cash worth Rs.2 million. Before fleeing Roy washed all the blood strains from the apartment and even wiped his fingerprints from everything he touched, except the ones on the knob of the locker from where he took out the valuables. That evidence helped the police to track him down in a month’s time from Ghorparan village of Bihar.