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Priest, wife held guilty for killing man in 2017 case

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January 03, 2026

A Delhi court has convicted a priest and his wife for killing a man and burning his body inside a temple room in east Delhi's Kailash Nagar in 2017 over his alleged affair with the woman.

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Additional Sessions Judge Anurag Thakur held the priest Lakhan Dubey and his wife Kamlesh guilty of killing Chander Shekhar, whose body was found on September 27, 2017, inside the temple room where Dubey worked as a prie

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