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Granny to hang for killing boy, 12, for eating jaggery

When a 12-year-old boy raided his grandmother's honey pot and scooped fistfuls of jaggery, he had no idea that he had kicked off a series of events that would see the end of three generations of his family.

Four years later, the boy is dead and so is his father, while his 54-year-old grandmother has been sentenced to death. A fourth actor in the macabre family melodrama is a girl, who will forever live with the guilt of setting her own brother on fire.

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