Two months on, Gujarat man gets life in jail for killing partner at bus station

The Indian Express · Express News Service · 2026-11-06 00:16 UTC

Chargesheet was submitted in court on October 4, a month after the incident on September 3; trial was completed in a month

A court in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar on Thursday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for thrashing his 40-year-old partner at a bus station, which caused her death, just a month after the chargesheet was filed in the case.

Principal Sessions Judge Rizwana Bukhari convicted Faisal alias Khatki Rafik Lakhani for the murder of Kajal Baraiya, who lived with him on a footpath for the last eight years as his partner.

The brutal assault on the woman in the busy bus station in the city had caused a public outcry, prompting the police to constitute a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by DySP R R Singhal.

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