{"id":276586,"date":"2026-01-17T00:23:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=276586"},"modified":"2026-01-17T00:23:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:53:01","slug":"double-murder-convict-gets-life-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/double-murder-convict-gets-life-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Double murder convict gets life term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SEPPA, 16 Jan:<\/strong> The sessions court here in East Kameng district recently sentenced a convict, identified as Vijay Bumich, to life imprisonment in connection with a twin murder case that occurred in Passa Camp in Pakke-Kessang district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bumich (31), a resident of Harmuti in Assam, who was working as a labourer, allegedly killed one Singkap Techi (45) and Mema Gyadi (50), and inflicted grievous injury on Chuma Techi on 3 December, 2024, using an axe. The Pakke-Kessang police arrested Bumich on 4 December, 2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pronouncing the quantum of judgement, Sessions Judge Tage Halley ruled that, upon hearing the parties and keeping all the aggravating and mitigating factors in view, &#8220;the accused-convict is hereby sentenced to suffer for life imprisonment with a fine of Rs 1,500, and in default (by not paying the fine), he shall further undergo for another three months of imprisonment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The judge further said that the convict will undergo 10 years of imprisonment with a fine of Rs 1,000 U\/S 109(1) of the BNS, and in default, he shall further undergo for another two months of imprisonment. He further sentenced the convict to seven years of imprisonment with a fine of Rs 700 U\/S 118 (2) of the BNS, and in default, the convict shall undergo further imprisonment for another one month. Besides, Bumich will undergo three years of imprisonment with a fine of Rs 500 U\/S238 (a &amp; b) of the BNS and in default, he shall further undergo jail term for another 15 days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sentences shall run concurrently, the judge ruled. He further ruled that the accused be remanded back to judicial custody in Seppa to serve out the sentence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The public prosecutor had sought death penalty U\/S 103(1) of the BNS in particular, and had submitted that appropriate sentences may be awarded under remaining penal sections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakke-Kessang SP Tasi Darang hailed investigating officer Tage Kapa for his swift investigation and timely filing of chargesheet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter SEPPA, 16 Jan: The sessions court here in East Kameng district recently sentenced a convict, identified as Vijay Bumich, to life imprisonment in connection with a twin murder case that occurred in Passa Camp in Pakke-Kessang district. Bumich (31), a resident of Harmuti in Assam, who was working as a labourer, allegedly killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}