Indian woman gets life imprisonment for killing mother in-law

PATNA: An Indian woman, who killed her mother in-law in the Bihar province about a year-and-a-half ago, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court here on Saturday.

According to sources, the incident occurred on December 27, 2010 in Patalakuda village. The convict Priyanka is the wife of Rajesh Jha, who was working as a tax collector in Odisha-Jharkhand border and has been residing in Patalakuda village with his wife and mother Sita Devi.

Priyanka murdered her mother-in-law with a knife after which she was arrested along with the knife.

She told the court that she killed her mother-in-law in self-defense.